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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on November 15, 2009, 07:31:26 AM
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Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-15-09 07:16 AM
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Can Fox News make you sick?
Not looking for humorous answers here. It's a serious question.
A woman at work came down with kidney failure and needs a transplant. She takes dialysis while she waits. She can lead a fairly normal life as she has a machine at home and plugs in at night. Now I find out that her husband got her started on Fox News. He listens to RW Hate radio at work.
So my question is: is it possible or even likely that somebody who cannot deal with hate effectively gets sick? Are there any statistics to back such an assertion?
The woman is a total sweetheart and maybe she just internalizes this garbage and it makes her sick.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7018663
The DUmp is full of hatred, and by their own admissions, most DUmmies are sick, both mentally and physically. However, by your own story, this woman only started watching Fox News after getting sick. :mental:
DFW (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-15-09 07:29 AM
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2. We don't get Fox "News" or National Hate Radio here
That kind of stuff is illegal in my neck of the woods (Germany--I'm here as much or more than I'm home).
Maybe that's why the strain on their health care system has not yet become intolerable?
No Free Speech in Germany, and that is what 0Bama wants here.
Turbineguy (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-15-09 08:05 AM
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5. Well the Germans
know a thing or two about fascist propaganda....
And prefer not to go there again.
They went overboard in limiting Free Speech, much like 0Bama and the left wants to do here.
RKP5637 (681 posts) Sun Nov-15-09 07:36 AM
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3. The role of the media is to make money. This, is the first line of
Edited on Sun Nov-15-09 08:09 AM by RKP5637
the agenda since the media outlets became p&l centers rather than cost. That said, high motivators are fear, anxiety and hatred toward the identified guilty.
Fox is very effective at this, grinding on and on 7x24 stoking the base instincts of humans. For many it creates compulsive viewing. Feeding on this hatred can be very anxiety provoking for some and others thrive on it... hence, we have tabloid news and to many, including myself, a tabloid nation.
Keeping ones body in a continuous state of anxiety/stress will eventually cause side effects, more prevalent in some than others. To me, I have absolutely no doubt there is a cause and effect relationship occurring in the parties you mentioned. In essence, Fox News is a form of psychological warfare and brainwashing.
Replace Fox with PMSNBC, CBS,NBC, ABC, CNN and you would be speaking truth to power. :)
zanne (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-15-09 07:47 AM
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4. Anger and stress have been proven to make you sick.
It raises your blood pressure and can really damage your heart.
And that is why you DUmmies need free medical care. Not much of a bonfire, but no DUmmie explains why they are so angry and full of hate since they never watch Fox News or listen to Rush.
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Fox is available on satellite TV in Germany (as it is in Britain). So it's not actually illegal in any sense outside of a DUmmies' fantasy.
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Yeah, the health of your kidneys are directly related to your political opinions. :whatever:
....... stinkin' idiot.
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This primitive has it right, but one wonders if the primitive's going to put that insight into action, Hating less:
zanne (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-15-09 07:47 AM
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4. Anger and stress have been proven to make you sick.
It raises your blood pressure and can really damage your heart.
Probably not.
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Fox is available on satellite TV in Germany (as it is in Britain). So it's not actually illegal in any sense outside of a DUmmies' fantasy.
I believe it's on AFRTS (aka AFN) there as well, or was anyway.
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And that is why you DUmmies need free medical care. Not much of a bonfire, but no DUmmie explains why they are so angry and full of hate since they never watch Fox News or listen to Rush.
Just knowing that Fox News, Rush, Hannity, et al even exists is enough to send them into unconditional rage....
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That DU thread is so stupid it can't even be a Street Cred one. :loser: :hammer:
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I wonder if they believe hateful moonbats like Keef and the bulldagger Munch are antidotes?
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Fox is available on satellite TV in Germany (as it is in Britain). So it's not actually illegal in any sense outside of a DUmmies' fantasy.
Same in Canada, just can't get it on cable.
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This from the biggest bunch of sickly people ever to come together on the Internet?
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This from the biggest bunch of sickly people ever to come together on the Internet?
I wonder if they really are that sickly, or just a bunch of pill-popping hypochondriacs....