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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Skul on November 27, 2013, 08:33:27 AM
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It seems we're not the only ones laughing at the primitives.
Which one of you is "Matt"? :-)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/26/far-left-democratic-underground-members-discuss-how-deal-menace-f
Far Left Democratic Underground Members Discuss How to Deal With Menace of Fox News in Public Places
By Matthew Sheffield | November 26, 2013 | 19:01
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It’s the end of the year which means for about the next two months, families will be getting together for holiday festivities. To most people, November and December are something to look forward to but to the perpetually unhappy souls over at Democratic Underground, the holidays are a time of torment.
Besides the sheer horror that Thanksgiving is to those of the vegan persuasion, many DUers have conservative-leaning relatives who aren’t afraid to speak their ideologically diverse opinions. Things are made even worse by the fact that many of the tender lambs might also be exposed to the propaganda filth machine that is Fox News Channel whether in a public space or in someone’s home. Whatever is an intolerant hyper-partisan Democrat to do?
One solution might be to click over to supposedly unbiased Washington Post writer Sarah Kliff’s “guide to surviving Obamacare debates at Thanksgiving.†Another, less intellectually taxing solution would be to come up with coping strategies on how to avoid the mind control rays emanating from Roger Ailes’s office.
While normal people are fine with simply ignoring a show they don’t like or just leaving the room, the denizens of Democratic Underground simply cannot stand for that. Instead, thanks to the efforts of a poster named “OmahaBlueDog,†they’ve decided to come up with ways to force their viewpoints on others who either disagree or would rather not talk politics at all.
“How do you handle it when FOX News is playing on TVs in businesses you frequent?†OmahaBlueDog wonders in the subject line before asking what his/her fellow DUers just what they recommend doing when they encounter the world’s second-greatest menace after Bush Family Evil Empire.
“So you walk into a fast food joint, a bar, a hotel, the dry cleaners, the quick lube shop, etc. and there is a TV and it plays FOX news perpetually. How do you handle it? Do you simply ignore it? Do you ask the manager to change the channel? Do you boycott the place?â€
The ensuing lengthy discussion is pretty entertaining to read. Here are a few highlights but please be advised of the inevitable profanity.
DUer Pretzel_Warrior appears to find encountering Fox News to be a psycologically difficult situation: “When I see Foxnews playing, I throw my phone down on the floor and yell: ‘NOOOO!!! **** no!!!’ And then start pacing back and forth saying ‘You people are being fed evil propaganda! Either leave this business immediately or force these goons to change the channel!!’â€
Apparently that is only what he would like to do, however: “Well, that’s what I do in my mind. Then I just give a cold glare at the TV monitor and shake my head in disgust.â€
Other DUers say they prefer a more aggressive approach.
“I have quietly asked for the manager or owner and told them that I was taking my dollars elsewhere, that I found their display an expression of their rights and my leaving was an expression of my rights.†replied poster JimboBillyBubbaBob.
Astonishingly, that convoluted sentence structure and censorial attitude has not proven very effective: “I have never had an argument back, always the look of ‘duh!’â€
Several DUers proclaimed that they huffily take their business elsewhere.
“I walk out and don’t come back,†sniffed poster TheCowsCameHome. “If they ask why, I politely tell them I want no part of Fox’s biased agenda.â€
Ditto for DUer SoCalDem: “I ask them to turn the propaganda off. If they do not, I shop elsewhere.â€
Poster InAbLuEsTaTe was even more emphatic: “I walk the **** out.â€
There are a few normal people in the discussion thread as well who correctly point out that a television in a public space really is not that significant. Poster pipi_k reacted with the sarcasm that the thread deserved:
Usually...I fall face first on the floor, kicking and screaming in full tantrum mode.
Then I jump up and call the owners/managers some real nasty names before slapping around an old lady or two.
Um, not really... I just ignore it.
Because I really don’t care and it’s not my place to tell other people what they should or should not be showing on their own TVs.
Yeah. Radical concept, I know...
DUer Codeine was even more emphatic about his/her opinion that such things really don’t matter.
“I don’t ****ing care what’s on someone else’s television,†he/she stated. “I’m not gong to change some old-ass right-winger into a progressive by forcing a channel change, and ten minutes of Faux Noise certainly isn’t going to turn me into a ’bagger, so why on Earth should I concern myself? Life is full of media I don’t care about -- should I boycott my grocery store because they carry tabloids with the Kardashians or the royals plastered across the covers, or should I go on about my day like a normal ****ing adult?â€
Several DUers such as sakabatou went for a less confrontational approach, stating that they prefer to simply listen to their personal music players and not cause a fuss.
Other posters related detailed stories on how they took a stand against Fox’s filth. DUer madamesilverspurs provided a great “bouncy†tale of outrage:
I have asked, politely, to change the channel. In most cases, they’ve been okay with the request. At one restaurant they balked, and all eight of us got up and headed for the door. The hostess, just coming out of the kitchen, asked if there was a problem, and we very politely explained that the propaganda was an appetite killer. She excused herself, walked across the dining room and turned the television off, then escorted us back to our table. No one in the very crowded restaurant objected to having the TV turned off.
Only place where complaining hasn’t worked -- our hospital, which seems to think that Fox is good medicine. Rotten way to treat sick people.
DUer Bennyboy told of several rage-filled encounters he’s had with Fox in public places. Apparently he has met with resistance he’s tried to protect people from the constant stream of lies about his Dear Leader:
At my local watering hole, of which I am a former regular, (not one now) I popped in on a weekday and FOX was on. I knew most people there, all older and very redneckish, including Judy the bartender. I can’t remember the story but the comments by the patrons of the bar led back to Ted Kennedy and Chappaquidick.
I asked the louder one if he know the story about Laura Bush running a stop sign, killing someone and not even getting a ticket. Not one person in the bar knew the story. I told them it was true and still they did not believe me. Ii went back n a couple of weeks later and not one of those people even tried to find that story.
Then there is a McDonalds near my former home that always has it on. I HATE TV being on everywhere, almost as much as I hate MUZAK. But FOX news in a teeny dining room? I asked them to turn it, they did not (Buncha geezers there) and then asked them to turn the TV off that I did not feel comfortable having that intrusion in my life....Again they did not.
So I contacted McD corporate and that Franchisee in particular and told them what I thought and they told me those geezzers were their customers and they win every time. So I have not spent one cent at McDonalds since and will never spend once cent there ever. (not that I spent much there anyway)
Then there is the Hotel that is in my town of Nevada City. Being eternally (apparently) single, I eat at the bar most nights when dining out. The Hotel has a steak and lobster deal (14.99) on Tuesday that I like to have. But lately the bar has had FOX news on. And a bunch of right wing older men that are glued to it. I can’t ask them to turn in it, and I sure as hell don’t want to sit there and watch it while eating, I would get in a fight in one second with the dumbasses at the bar. So after four straight weeks of this, for the last two tuesdays, I haven’t even bothered going there. Too bad, that deal was nice and the bar usually had sports on, but the last few times it has been FOX. I am in the process of writing them a letter explaining my feelings about this, but cannot seem to do it without talking about the idiot customers who are the bar’s patrons who would watch FOX news in the first place.....
DUer bhikkhu relates how he/she would be willing to make career choices just to get away from the monster that Ailes built:
I leave. Seriously, I might think about it a minute, but I’m all about voting with my wallet.
Life’s too short, and there’s always other options but to finance hate.
I live in a small city, in a red area of a blue state, so I listen to plenty of ridiculous conversation, but overall noplace I’ve been in a few years has had fox news on. The last time it was W-mart during the Iraq war, and I left. I haven’t shopped there for years since.
At the shop where I work they put on Fox news for a little while once last year, and I changed the channel, pointedly. They didn’t change it back and it hasn’t been a problem since, but if that were a regular thing I would go work somewhere else.
Stay tuned for more in this space as we follow the travails of DUers who are forced to be in the same room with Fox News at their family members’ houses during Thanksgiving.
About the Author
Matthew Sheffield is the creator of NewsBusters and president of Dialog New Media, an internet marketing and design firm. Click here to follow Matthew Sheffield on Twitter. .
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/26/far-left-democratic-underground-members-discuss-how-deal-menace-f#ixzz2lr9wIBZU
Thank you, Matt, for the article.
The DUmp, is our comedy central.
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Astonishingly, that convoluted sentence structure and censorial attitude has not proven very effective: “I have never had an argument back, always the look of ‘duh!’â€
:rofl:
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Matthew Sheffield is a member here, but hasn't been on for a while, because he has log-in problems.
A great and talented guy; I'm sure he manages to lurk.
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Matthew Sheffield is a member here, but hasn't been on for a while, because he has log-in problems.
A great and talented guy; I'm sure he manages to lurk.
I figured he had to be at least familiar with us or the old home, he used the term bouncy.
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Congratulations, DUmmies. You've made Newsbusters. This is a big ****in deal.
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:-)
Thanks, this was a fun read.
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http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/26/far-left-democratic-underground-members-discuss-how-deal-menace-f (http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/26/far-left-democratic-underground-members-discuss-how-deal-menace-f)
"Us" are the ones talking about the DUmmies.
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Sounds like Matthew Sheffield is mining this site for material for Newsbusters. Interesting to speculate as to which of out members is him.
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Doesn't have to be a member, although a hat tip would have been nice had he in fact garnered that material from here.
Meh. Wouldn't be the first time someone got an idea from a poster on an anonymous message board.
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They discovered the Newsbuster story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024099493
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They discovered the Newsbuster story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024099493
Stalkers.
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Stalkers.
Well at least they finally acknowledge poor old Doug in the thread.
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They discovered the Newsbuster story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024099493
:nelson:
I love how the DUmmies claim to have never heard of Newsbusters.
(http://dipettamortgage.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/head_in_the_sand-461x307.jpg)
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Well at least they finally acknowledge poor old Doug in the thread.
Yes they did. :lmao: :rotf:
Response to TheMastersNemesis (Reply #4)
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:16 AM
Ichingcarpenter (29,279 posts)
5. They didn't claim it was you it was
Dain Bramaged
Unfortunately, Doug Bulna is never mentioned in the actual article. :rofl:
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They discovered the Newsbuster story.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024099493
I love the denial the DUmmies live in, some of them are trying to claim DU isn't a far left website.
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Sounds like Matthew Sheffield is mining this site for material for Newsbusters. Interesting to speculate as to which of out members is him.
Oh now.
The DUmpster exists as a public servce for the good of humanity, and anyone on our side is free to use whatever material shows up here.
"Which of our members" is he's registered under.....Matthew Sheffield.
All on the up-and-up,
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Yes they did. :lmao: :rotf:Unfortunately, Doug Bulna is never mentioned in the actual article. :rofl:
GOPCongress made mention of Doug in the comments section, you have to scroll down it's near the bottom.
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Congratulations, DUmmies. You've made Newsbusters. This is a big ****in deal.
My main mole has been quoted at newsbusters and even had whole threads featured before.
Watch out primitives! We lurk among you! :popcorn: :rotf: :tongue: :fuelfire: :panic:
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I didn't see this thread before posting the same story in breaking news. Sorry.
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I didn't see this thread before posting the same story in breaking news. Sorry.
+1
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You're kidding Battlehymn! :bow2:
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:yahoo:
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I love the denial the DUmmies live in, some of them are trying to claim DU isn't a far left website.
I saw that, and my jaw dropped.
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Anyone have a clue what got post #21 removed at the DUmp? :???:
This message was hidden by jury decision.
Name removed 8 hrs ago #21
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GOPCongress made mention of Doug in the comments section, you have to scroll down it's near the bottom.
Why I mentioned actual article, and not comments. It's all good. :-)
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KamaAina (48,593 posts)
28. There's ANOTHER Site That Shall Not Be Named?
Last edited Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:59 PM - Edit history (1)
"DUmmie FUnnies"?!
edit: Pitt gets some special love over there. They better be ready for some blowback!
"Blowback". Is that like a reacharound with extra backspatter?
Pitt swings both ways, so he is always up for a bit of blowback.
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KamaAina (48,593 posts)
28. There's ANOTHER Site That Shall Not Be Named?
Last edited Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:59 PM - Edit history (1)
"DUmmie FUnnies"?!
edit: Pitt gets some special love over there. They better be ready for some blowback!
Welcome to ten years ago. :whatever:
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Welcome to ten years ago. :whatever:
They do exist in their own time zone, that's why they still blame Bush for everything.
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They do exist in their own time zone, that's why they still blame Bush for everything.
Well, of course. That would be the educated thing to do. :rofl:
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Yes they did. :lmao: :rotf:Unfortunately, Doug Bulna is never mentioned in the actual article. :rofl:
I noticed that also. :rotf:
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Response to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)
Wed Nov 27, 2013, 03:48 PM
Star Member MineralMan (59,145 posts)
26. Since a comment at that link reveals the real name of a DUer,
this should not have been posted here. Please see the TOS for DU.
MineralMan is so sad. He sees himself as this Grand Poobah of DU but he just isn't.
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Welcome to ten years ago. :whatever:
It's coming in 24 business hours. Right after Rove is indicted.
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MineralMan is so sad. He sees himself as this Grand Poobah of DU but he just isn't.
I suspect MineralMan and humblegunner at Free Republic are the same person.
Think about it- have you ever seen them at the same place at the same time?
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I have adblock on but if you see a liberal type
ad be sure to click on it at the site .
GEE, I wonder where they got THAT idea?? :whistling:
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GEE, I wonder where they got THAT idea?? :whistling:
What would constitute a "liberal type ad"?
Anal Lube?
Bubba's 24-Hour Drive Thru, Pawn, Gun, Auto Parts, and Abortion Clinic?
Obamacare?
:confused:
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Palm lotion?
Gerbil habitats?
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Palm lotion?
Gerbil habitats?
Tailless gerbils.
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I suspect MineralMan and humblegunner at Free Republic are the same person.
Think about it- have you ever seen them at the same place at the same time?
I don't know if they are the same person, but MineralMan admits to being a former legit FReeper. Says he changed his beliefs or some such and now is a staunch DU member. :whistling: