Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah for someone preaching the need to consider multiple viewpoints and the value of open mindedness, you sound like both a hypocrite and an a--hole.

Hey mom, get off DCUM. Fox is on.

Wanna bet that I'm smarter than you? We should have a contest.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My best friend (who my mother adores), was actually educated at an Ivy. Then went on to Columbia for a graduate degree in journalism. While she was there, we became great friends with someone who I consider to be a wickedly funny, thoughtful writer and observer of the world. He self identifies as a conservative liberal.

He took a job writing for FOX after graduation. We couldn't make sense of it, until he told us that he wanted to spend a year writing for an entertainment circus. He didn't believe anything he wrote for air, and said he approached it as if he was writing for the Onion. He was shocked that he was never challenged, but celebrated.

We told him he sold his soul to the devil.

I told my mom a sanitized version of this very real situation, and she didn't speak to me for three weeks.

Did it pay well at least?

So OP,

Do you think it could happen to you?

(Cue scary music.)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My best friend (who my mother adores), was actually educated at an Ivy. Then went on to Columbia for a graduate degree in journalism. While she was there, we became great friends with someone who I consider to be a wickedly funny, thoughtful writer and observer of the world. He self identifies as a conservative liberal.

He took a job writing for FOX after graduation. We couldn't make sense of it, until he told us that he wanted to spend a year writing for an entertainment circus. He didn't believe anything he wrote for air, and said he approached it as if he was writing for the Onion. He was shocked that he was never challenged, but celebrated.

We told him he sold his soul to the devil.

I told my mom a sanitized version of this very real situation, and she didn't speak to me for three weeks.

60% of what Fox News reports is inaccurate or made up. Now I see why. He did sell his soul.

He wrote what sells. Fox knew it, and didn't have the journalistic integrity to check sources. Once he didn't dance for the network, he was out. They could always find someone else to make up stories. That is their business.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah for someone preaching the need to consider multiple viewpoints and the value of open mindedness, you sound like both a hypocrite and an a--hole.

Hey mom, get off DCUM. Fox is on.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My best friend (who my mother adores), was actually educated at an Ivy. Then went on to Columbia for a graduate degree in journalism. While she was there, we became great friends with someone who I consider to be a wickedly funny, thoughtful writer and observer of the world. He self identifies as a conservative liberal.

He took a job writing for FOX after graduation. We couldn't make sense of it, until he told us that he wanted to spend a year writing for an entertainment circus. He didn't believe anything he wrote for air, and said he approached it as if he was writing for the Onion. He was shocked that he was never challenged, but celebrated.

We told him he sold his soul to the devil.

I told my mom a sanitized version of this very real situation, and she didn't speak to me for three weeks.

60% of what Fox News reports is inaccurate or made up. Now I see why. He did sell his soul.

Me too! I also went to W&M. My mom has now switched it OAN (I think it's "One America News" or something like that but it's no better. Glenn Beck got my dad.

They fully believe that college/DC/Jon Stewart has brainwashed me. It's me, not them.

OP here. My best friend (who my mother adores), was actually educated at an Ivy. Then went on to Columbia for a graduate degree in journalism. While she was there, we became great friends with someone who I consider to be a wickedly funny, thoughtful writer and observer of the world. He self identifies as a conservative liberal.

He took a job writing for FOX after graduation. We couldn't make sense of it, until he told us that he wanted to spend a year writing for an entertainment circus. He didn't believe anything he wrote for air, and said he approached it as if he was writing for the Onion. He was shocked that he was never challenged, but celebrated.

We told him he sold his soul to the devil.

I told my mom a sanitized version of this very real situation, and she didn't speak to me for three weeks.

Yeah for someone preaching the need to consider multiple viewpoints and the value of open mindedness, you sound like both a hypocrite and an a--hole.

Just be thankful that Glenn Beck didn't get her! My mom is totally off the reservation. I have given in and just change the subject whenever possible. When you think FoxNews is insufficiently pure...well, I don't know what else to say aside from please don't get me a subscription to The Blaze for my birthday next year! You are not alone...

I can't believe how breathtakingly superior and disrespectful you on this thread are to and of the people who raised you.

They took my Dad too... We used to be able to have interesting conversations (sounds really strange but I'm a conservative Democrat. He was a liberal Republican). Now if I don't agree with whatever the broadcast says, I'm uneducated and not paying attention to the "real world".

btw, this thread will probably be moved to the politics forum. I may actually follow it there just to see what happens.

Welcome to the club. We need to start a Fox-A-Non meeting, I think.

This is a common happening among older people who were formerly democrats.

Look up what schools the Fox people went to, and then look up their rankings. Next time she says "Well Nancy Grace says..." you can reply "Oh she's a crazy Republican advocating nonsense from her Ivory Tower aka Whatever College, which is ranked higher than William & Mary."

Shaking my head, as I get off the phone with my mom. She spouts ridiculous things she learns from FOX. She keeps it on all day, has it has her landing page on her computer, and buys books from all the pundits. In my opinion, she has literally lost her mind to them.

She is a Republican. Cool by that. But can't she at least be a smart one? Be a consumer of media sources beyond FOX? Read a fucking article that might offer another viewpoint?

No, she is completely brain washed. Won't consider anything that counters what she hears, and if I offer another viewpoint, I am dismissed as a crazy liberal advocating nonsense from my "Ivory Tower."

I went to a state school, William and Mary.

I need to find a way to navigate conversations with her, as she turns everything into something political, and the politics are just wrong. (Education taking center stage right now. My mother doesn't have a clue, but considers herself an expert on how we are screwing up our children.)

Deep breaths and changing the conversation aren't cutting it.