Ugh! My non-thinking co-worker says she's watching Fox News

[muntrv]

this Sunday at 6pm for some "special." I told her that Fox News has a right wing bias and how it gave $1 million to the RGA and she said "I don't know about that." I googled the article about News Corp giving $1 million to the RGA, which came from Fox News own web site and gave her a copy of it. I pointed that out to her and her response is still "I don't know about that."

[Ian David]

1. Reality has a well-known Liberal bias. n/t

[Kingofalldems]

2. She knows but chooses to ignore

Perfect Fox news watcher.

[hobbit709]

3. That kind of willfull ignorance isn'tpainful enough to the person involved.

If it was, there would be less of it.

[Stevenmarc]

4. Two words, Cognitive Dissonance

[DCKit]

5. Our opposites, in a nutshell.

That rigid (non)-thinking slays me.

[Hepburn]

6. You can lead an uninformed RW to the water of knowledge...

...but you cannot make them drink.

[HughMoran]

7. Too stupid to live

[B Calm]

8. Rachel Maddow last night explained this phenomenon. . .

[HopeHoops]

9. Tell her to try watching a NEWS station instead.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Rachel discussed this very sort of thing yesterday

Very interesting. Extremely disheartening..

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/40018314#40018314

[mimitabby]

11. simple. You are not a trusted news source. Faux is.

[gratuitous]

12. "I don't know about that"

The rallying cry of the Nitwit Brigade. It will be painful, but every now and then push her on something. Why does she think what she thinks? Or believe what she believes? If a solution were so simple, wouldn't it have been tried and the problem (whatever it is that's squirreling around in her brain this week) solved? You don't have to be mean or nasty, but see if you can't jog her out of her nice, comfortable rut where Fox says she has all the answers and everything is soothingly sweet.