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Offline Chris

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Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« on: September 25, 2009, 08:27:33 AM »
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Ann Geddes doesn't want a "fair and balanced" workout. But the 49-year-old worker for a nonprofit agency is having no luck getting the channel changed in front of her favorite rowing machine at a Columbia gym.

The television happens to be tuned permanently to Fox News. Geddes, a liberal Democrat and former legislative aide to a Howard County delegate, said she can't stomach the conservative lineup that appears nightly as she gets her exercise. Even though the sound is off, the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen infuriate her.

Befitting the democratic (with a small "d") pedigree of a planned community founded on the principle of races and classes living side by side, Geddes has taken her complaint up the chain of command, from the attendant at the gym run by the Columbia Association to the new president of the giant homeowners' group.

She's had no success. Now she's going public.

Columbia Association officials say they won't heed Geddes' request to remove Fox from the cable lineup. In order to provide choices and eliminate squabbling among patrons, they say that every gym monitor is tuned to a particular station and can't be changed. Of the 40 large-screen televisions in the general exercise rooms in Columbia's three gyms, three are set to receive Fox.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bal-md.ho.columbia25sep25,0,3749654.story

Maybe she should go here.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2009, 11:59:17 AM »
Or she could just, you know, grow the hell up.  Poor baby.   :bawl:
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2009, 12:06:23 PM »
effing fascist
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2009, 12:08:24 PM »
Quote from: Chris on September 25, 2009, 08:27:33 AM
Maybe she should go here.
:lmao:

Suck it up you whinny beyatch. Note the article says she works for a "non-profit". Read: Community organizer/rabblerouser/Obamatron.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2009, 12:10:18 PM »
Betcha conservative bumper stickers make her foam at the mouth.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2009, 12:17:38 PM »
Maybe she'll turn the rowing machine over one night and drown.










Hey, I thought she might be blond.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2009, 12:30:11 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 25, 2009, 12:17:38 PM
Maybe she'll turn the rowing machine over one night and drown.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2009, 12:45:50 PM »
It doesn't say the TV can't be turned off, so obviously her actual problem is that Fox News exists at all.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2009, 12:50:40 PM »
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The Fox screen is directly in front of the rowing machine Geddes prefers, though a second one two feet away faces a screen showing NBC. Others broadcast local stations, CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, the Food Network, Discovery Channel and HGTV.
If i were the manager of the gym i would probably gather all the tvs in the gym tuned to Fox and put one in front of each of the rowing machines if she demanded that from me! :-)
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2009, 01:58:04 PM »
I'm surprised no one has asked....what's her DU name?
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2009, 02:01:58 PM »
gee...if I'm on an exercise machine, and I don't like what's on the tv in front of me and the channel can't be changed....I would probably just switch to different machine or ignore it.

but then again....I guess I'm just too conservative to complain.... :innocent:
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2009, 04:40:07 PM »
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Even though the sound is off, the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen infuriate her.

If FOX really wanted to infuriate her they could just replace the talking heads with a photo that includes a cabbage, a cross, a US flag, a US soldier, and a newborn baby.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2009, 09:54:03 AM »
Quote from: ChuckJ on September 25, 2009, 04:40:07 PM
If FOX really wanted to infuriate her they could just replace the talking heads with a photo that includes a cabbage, a cross, a US flag, a US soldier, and a newborn baby.

Why a cabbage?
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2009, 10:01:15 AM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on September 26, 2009, 09:54:03 AM
Why a cabbage?

Cabbage is so much a part of the VRWC that a good while back one of the DUmmies admitted to being terrified of seeing it in the produce section.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2009, 06:59:59 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on September 26, 2009, 09:54:03 AM
Why a cabbage?

You HAVE to go read about the cabbage!  I can't find it though.  Maybe frank remembers who posted it.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #15 on: September 26, 2009, 07:06:35 PM »
Maybe el Lard-a$$ should do what normal people do for exercise. Go for a hike, go jogging, go bicycling...get outdoors dumb $hit.  :mental:
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #16 on: September 26, 2009, 07:15:40 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on September 26, 2009, 06:59:59 PM
You HAVE to go read about the cabbage!  I can't find it though.  Maybe frank remembers who posted it.

The Dummy, "Horse with no name".

Here is the thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2356972
« Last Edit: September 26, 2009, 07:18:05 PM by Odin's Hand »
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #17 on: September 27, 2009, 06:45:04 PM »
....um, why doesn't she just move to a rowing machine facing a different television screen?
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #18 on: September 27, 2009, 06:47:00 PM »
Quote from: Gratiot on September 27, 2009, 06:45:04 PM
....um, why doesn't she just move to a rowing machine facing a different television screen?

Because DUmmies like this believe the world revolves around them and every thing should be done the way they like demand.
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Re: Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News
« Reply #19 on: September 27, 2009, 10:09:57 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on September 26, 2009, 07:15:40 PM
The Dummy, "Horse with no name".

Here is the thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2356972

Holy horse crap!  That is an awesome thread!  Thanks for finding it and linking it again! :cheersmate:
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