I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria

[Wrong Element]

I don’t recall my father being so hostile when I was growing up. He was conservative, to be sure, but conventionally and thoughtfully so. He is a kind and generous man and a good father, but over the past five or 10 years, he’s become so conservative that I can’t even find a label for it.


Oh, this all sounds real familiar. Though strangely, my father never watched a lot of Fox; despite being the typical Fox viewer in every respect both demographically and psychologically, he just wasn't very interested in cable news. As he got older and less healthy, politics became less of a fixation for him rather than more. There's probably a lesson there.

 

[richard_daily]

Me too! Are we related???

Kissing cousins, I hope.

 

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[RobDownSouth]

Good Lord, there's a lot of liberal butt hurt in here.

I dunno, spanky, the first paragraph of this article seems to sum up your pathetic existence quite succinctly...
(except for the comment about "used to be brave", of course. You have always been, and always will be, a coward...specifically, a spineless gutless coward)

Old, white, wrinkled and angry, they are slipping from polite society in alarming numbers. We’re losing much of a generation. They often sport hats or other clothing, some marking their status as veterans, Tea Partyers or “patriots” of some kind or another. They have yellow flags, bumper stickers and an unquenchable rage. They used to be the brave men and women who took on America’s challenges, tackling the ’60s, the Cold War and the Reagan years — but now many are terrified by the idea of slightly more affordable healthcare and a very moderate Democrat in the White House.

Sadly, for some of the nation’s elderly, they seem to have no desire whatsoever to rethink the politics of fear and Fox News. It’s a criminal waste of retirement.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Joseph Goebbels is jealous of Rupert Murdoch.

Joseph Goebbels had a captive audience.

Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, and the other right wing bully boys sell their lies and demagoguery to people who have access to other points of view and to facts that are never mentioned by the Republican Hate Machine.

 

[The_Trouvere]

What happened to the sixties generation? Did most of them go over to the Dark Side?

 

[dan_c00000]

Joseph Goebbels had a captive audience.

Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, and the other right wing bully boys sell their lies and demagoguery to people who have access to other points of view and to facts that are never mentioned by the Republican Hate Machine.

The right's main problem is that all their information is coming from extremely rich white money who couldn't possibly have an agenda!

 

[KingOrfeo]

What happened to the sixties generation? Did most of them go over to the Dark Side?

Actually, most of them never left it, but those who did got all the press at the time.