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Fox News on command

JimmyHavok.

Posted to Diary on Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 04:56:10 AM EST. RSS.

My old roommate's mother is in the local military hospital, so he's staying with us and visiting her every day.  He says every single TV in the place is tuned to Fox News, no matter where you go.

 When he goes into his mother's room, she has him change the channel to something she prefers (she's an Olbermann fan), but every time he goes out for a smoke break, he comes back and it's back on Fox.  There's no remote, and he has to stand on a chair to change the channel manually.

He spent quite a bit of time in a waiting room when his mother first went into the hospital and was in isolation, and at that time, he asked a nurse if she could change the channel there, and was told that it wasn't possible.

I had heard about this all Fox, all the time situation from someone who works with the military a few years ago, but I was unable to find any documentation of it as an official policy.  Does anyone else have any experience with this sort of situation?

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Steve Urkel.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:04:39 PM EST

5.00 (funny)

"every time he goes out for a smoke break, he comes back and it's back on Fox"

Obviously his mom is fucking with him. Your friend needs to get a sense of humour.

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Re: Fox News on command

JimmyHavok.

Tue Sep 09, 2008 at 05:05:48 AM EST

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That's exactly the kind of joke his family would play.  If she hadn't just gotten out of open heart surgery, I'd suspect you were right.

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Maybe its in case The Chainsaw visits...

pO157.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 07:10:10 AM EST

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It's not the first time it happened, anyway.

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Re: Evidence

zyxwvutsr.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 08:04:41 AM EST

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I was unable to find any documentation of it as an official policy
The conspiracy runs deep. Follow the money, James.

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Jon Stewart said it best

Lou.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 11:10:37 AM EST

none

About Fox News: "Every country needs its own Al-Jeezera"

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

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Re: Jon Stewart said it best

JimmyHavok.

Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 04:33:10 PM EST

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"Every country needs its own Pravda" would have been more accurate.  Al-Jazeera is generally unpopular with the local regimes because it doesn't retransmit their memos as news.

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Shy Elf.

Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 11:13:07 PM EST

5.00 (interesting)

One of my schoolteachers was from Russia and had a at one point bought a Soviet-made encyclopedia.  Well, of course this mean that the Soviet Union had her US address along with the fact that she owned this encyclopedia.  At one point, the Soviet Union mailed her a letter with instructions to cut out the entry on Andropov with a razor blade, and gave her a few random pap entries to place elsewhere in the encyclopedia.  Apparently they wanted to pretend he had never existed.   He was back in the Soviet encyclopedias before too long, so apparently the next government didn't think the same way.

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magic

wetkarma.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 01:34:54 PM EST

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If there's no remote -- how is the channel being changed back?

Memory is a strange bell, jubilee and knell.

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JimmyHavok.

Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 04:23:58 PM EST

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Who said there was no remote?  Oh, that's right, it was the nurse...

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Damn

thefadd.

Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 03:20:15 PM EST

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I make them change the channel at the gym when it's on cnn. I think I'd break the TV if it were on fox. It's not that hard to make it look like an accident.

It is easy to buy small plaster models of what you think life is like.

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