About ****ing Time: Fox News Gets Blocked From Medical Center

[formerlurker]

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 06:54 PM

Grassy Knoll (4,593 posts)

About ****ing Time: Fox News Gets Blocked From Medical Center

[nonsense video]

Response to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 08:36 PM

Mr.Bill (1,848 posts)
7. I have been in waiting rooms with a TV served by the local cable company.

Tire stores, automotive shops, etc. If they had the cable co. remote sitting there, while no one was looking I went to parental controls and put a password on the Fox News channel just before I left.

Response to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 08:51 AM

StoneCarver (23 posts)
32. Just unplug it

Last Dec I was in an outpatient orthopedic surgery waiting room. They had Fox blaring before surgery. I asked the nurse running the waiting room to please turn the channel. I gave her a few minutes, and she didn't get to it- so I unplugged the TV. No one else in the waiting room said a word. When she finally got around to changing the channel she couldn't figure out why the remote wouldn't work! As a paying customer I got what I needed -no Fox before surgery! It promotes healing.

Response to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 12:09 PM

Dustlawyer (2,279 posts)

35. I raise a stink everytime! They usually say that they are not allowed to change it off of Fox, so I

complain, very loudly, that Fox News just spews lies and hate. I point out that Fox viewers score worse than people who do not watch the news at all on current events. I want the people in the waiting room to understand that the brainwashing they do is being reinforced by the doctors at the facility. I also make sure I voice my displeasure to the doctor. I tell them that I do not appreciate the attempted brainwashing. It makes me even less sympathetic to their concerns, not that I was very sympathetic in the 1st place. Being a physician is a profession, not a job, there is a difference. It means they must advocate treating the sick first, not just the ones who have insurance. As an attorney we are encouraged, and in some states, mandated, to do pro bono work. Under Obamacare they still get paid, but they worry they may not be able to make that 3rd vacation home mortgage!
This is working, it pays to make your objections heard! Now, one place I go took out the TVs and replaced them with local photography. The staff told me the doctors had an argument about it and decided that the complaints and loss of patients were not worth it. I have noticed that most of them have switched to CNN.

Response to Grassy Knoll (Original post)

Sat Feb 15, 2014, 04:28 PM

Alkene (206 posts)
57. I've had to endure 'The Factor' at a gas pump.

It was a few years ago that after I finished paying inside and started to fill, a screen on the pump lit up and started airing O'Reilly's bull crap, mid-program, with fairly loud audio. WTF?!

I wasn't in the mood, and marched immediately inside to demand it be turned off. The attendant was outraged that I would ask, and pretty much told me to piss off.

I never went there again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017175651#post22


So how many Fox News threads do you think there are on the island?  100?   10,000? 

[Carl]

Do they actually believe each other?

[Freeper]

What a bunch of children.

[Gern]

[dane]

Do they actually believe each other?

They probably do, but I think it's posturing for the other DUmmies, and has no basis in fact at all.

[Carl]

That is epic H5 

[I_B_Perky]

Dustlawyer (2,279 posts)

35. I raise a stink everytime! They usually say that they are not allowed to change it off of Fox, so I

complain, very loudly, that Fox News just spews lies and hate. I point out that Fox viewers score worse than people who do not watch the news at all on current events. I want the people in the waiting room to understand that the brainwashing they do is being reinforced by the doctors at the facility. I also make sure I voice my displeasure to the doctor. I tell them that I do not appreciate the attempted brainwashing. It makes me even less sympathetic to their concerns, not that I was very sympathetic in the 1st place. Being a physician is a profession, not a job, there is a difference. It means they must advocate treating the sick first, not just the ones who have insurance. As an attorney we are encouraged, and in some states, mandated, to do pro bono work. Under Obamacare they still get paid, but they worry they may not be able to make that 3rd vacation home mortgage!
This is working, it pays to make your objections heard! Now, one place I go took out the TVs and replaced them with local photography. The staff told me the doctors had an argument about it and decided that the complaints and loss of patients were not worth it. I have noticed that most of them have switched to CNN.

So this dummie is a lawyer and he pissed and moaned to his doctor?  I bet the doc is not exactly fond of attorneys to start with, dummie, and now you are pissing him off even more?  That's the ticket dummie.

Oh and one more thing dummie... around these parts if you happen to be pissing and moaning in a waiting room spouting your BS, you will get told to STFU and if you don't, you won't be in the waiting room anymore.

Assuming any of what the dummie said is true. Which I doubt.

[MrsSmith]

Just imagine an adult going into a waiting room and whining about CNN or MSNBC until someone changes them.   

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies want the cartoon channel.

[FlaGator]

Fox New to DUers is like sunlight to a vampire!

[GOP Congress]

Dustlawyer (2,279 posts)

35. I raise a stink everytime! They usually say that they are not allowed to change it off of Fox, so I

complain, very loudly, that Fox News just spews lies and hate. I point out that Fox viewers score worse than people who do not watch the news at all on current events. I want the people in the waiting room to understand that the brainwashing they do is being reinforced by the doctors at the facility. I also make sure I voice my displeasure to the doctor. I tell them that I do not appreciate the attempted brainwashing. It makes me even less sympathetic to their concerns, not that I was very sympathetic in the 1st place. Being a physician is a profession, not a job, there is a difference. It means they must advocate treating the sick first, not just the ones who have insurance. As an attorney we are encouraged, and in some states, mandated, to do pro bono work. Under Obamacare they still get paid, but they worry they may not be able to make that 3rd vacation home mortgage!
This is working, it pays to make your objections heard! Now, one place I go took out the TVs and replaced them with local photography. The staff told me the doctors had an argument about it and decided that the complaints and loss of patients were not worth it. I have noticed that most of them have switched to CNN.

Sounds like a rant that ol' Ban would have posted...

[Mike220]

Please come into my hospital and throw a tantrum DUmmies. You'll be asked nicely to leave... The first time. Then the cuffs come out...

[Splashdown]

lol.

So much of "open minded." "Tolerant." "Accepting."

Oh, and Hi-5, Gern.

[BlueStateSaint]

Have to H5 you for this.  Good one!

[Skul]

Bouncies are like yawns to primitives...throw one out and everybody does it.
Lying sack of poo. That was so stupid it hurt.

[Delmar]

Mr.Bill (1,848 posts)
7. I have been in waiting rooms with a TV served by the local cable company.

Tire stores, automotive shops, etc. If they had the cable co. remote sitting there, while no one was looking I went to parental controls and put a password on the Fox News channel just before I left.

MsPithy (778 posts)
12. That is very, very naughty.

Good for you.

Star Member Hissyspit (42,265 posts)
14. Hee.

BlancheSplanchnik (9,721 posts)
19. HAAAAHAHAHAHAHH…...

I need to learn how to put a password on Parental Controls…..for opportunities like yours!

I just go complain to management.

raven mad (248 posts)
38. {{blush}}

I've done this, too............

It's a big joke or a moral stand or some sort of pathetic victory when one of them pulls this off.  How do they react when somebody pulls the same stunt on them?

Mbrow (11 posts)
67. hotels without MSNBC

I stayed at a Holiday inn in Minnesota and a Quality inn in Portland that had blocked MSNBC, in both cases I let them know this would be the last time we would stay with them. I also made sure that the surveys were filled on line for the main chain offices. We have to let them know we are paying attention and some of us can vote with our pocketbook. I'm no longer going to shrug it off.

Not so funny when the shoe is on the other foot.  Hypocritical DUmmies can dish it out but they can't take it.

[Dori]

Assuming any of what the dummie said is true. Which I doubt.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/02/13/medical-center-wont-let-patients-watch-fox-news/?intcmp=latestnews

[Skul]

I'm waiting for the poet lauri-eat-us to chime in.
We could have another Doug Bulna moment. 

[HawkHogan]

The lawyer is lying.  Lawyers aren't mandated to do pro-bono work.  In one state, New York, law students applying for the bar have to do 50 hrs of pro bono work.  This is a one time requirement.  On top of it, you aren't required to do actual charity... you can do your 50 hrs promoting abortion at Planned Parenthood or NARAL.

I got into a huge argument in class because I said compelling someone to do charity defeats the purpose of charity.  And I'd much rather continue to volunteer doing non-legal stuff, which actually helps out the community, rather than some liberal douche who puts in 50 hrs helping women secure late term abortions.

[98ZJUSMC]

[thundley4]

The lawyer is lying.  Lawyers aren't mandated to do pro-bono work.  In one state, New York, law students applying for the bar have to do 50 hrs of pro bono work.  This is a one time requirement.  On top of it, you aren't required to do actual charity... you can do your 50 hrs promoting abortion at Planned Parenthood or NARAL.

I got into a huge argument in class because I said compelling someone to do charity defeats the purpose of charity.  And I'd much rather continue to volunteer doing non-legal stuff, which actually helps out the community, rather than some liberal douche who puts in 50 hrs helping women secure late term abortions.

The local liberal arts university requires volunteer work for graduation and some high schools are starting to require it too.

[HawkHogan]

The local liberal arts university requires volunteer work for graduation and some high schools are starting to require it too.

Liberals have to be compelled to do charity, so they want to compel others to do it as well.  Most conservatives I know do charity because of their moral compass. 

[Ptarmigan]

That is the first thing I thought.

FOX News does have leftists. Just saying.

[DUKOTA]

Didn't they learn from the brain damaged walrus not to touch the remote?

[CollectivismMustDie]

DUmmies want the cartoon channel.

The DUmmies are the cartoon channel. 

CMD