5.08.2008:
I'm being held hostage!
10:06 AMI hate when I have to take my truck in for service.
Not because of the mechanics - the people at Merlin are freakin' awesome. They're honest, they treat younger people and women like they're actually human, and they do great work. But when I have to wait in the waiting room, and I can't leave since my truck's on a lift, I have no choice but to sit in the presence of the worst television programming ever devised.
I speak, of course, about the Fox News Channel.
As my friend Jeremy says, I'd rather watch a soap opera marathon on NBC than Fox News. I can literally feel myself growing stupider and angrier by just sitting in the same room as this television blaring the white-washed, bleached-out shills boasting about how America is constantly under attack by either terrorists, non-christians, or someone with a weather dominator sending tornadoes to obliterate the bible belt.
At least in the soaps, they have dudes who wear eye patches... And eye patches are entertaining to look at.
As I type this, these "news anchors" are hyping a live appearance by Rush Limbaugh who is appearing on the channel to discuss his involvement in Operation: Chaos and the loss for Obama in Indiana due to O:C's involvement.
This is news?
This needs to be covered? I mean...
Really?
And it's not like I'm going to give MSNBC, CNN or any other cable news network a free pass. They have their own issues (quite a few each, in fact), but right now, I'm not being affronted by them.
Just sitting here, I feel the need to go buy a gun. True, it's so I can storm the studios and blow these fucking shills away, but still, it's the need to buy a gun.
And holy shit, they just played that racist panda commercial for SalesGenie.com.
I HATE THIS STATION.
Labels: car problems, Fox News, whiny bullshit
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3 Comments:
Simple solution:
TV-B-Gone (http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php)
Then it's a *click* and blessed silence will replace the bleating of "journalists."
Of course you might have to deal with someone turning it back on again, but if you keep that sucker in your hand and quietly turn it off over and over again, perhaps they'll just think there's something wrong with the TV and give up.
Joe, I really love your book(s), and I must say that you are one of my favorite authors that puts his stuff on the web to read for free, but I hate coming to your journal and reading you bashing pretty much all of my beliefs and values... so please, start posting stories again so I can stop coming here for content.
Your friend in Christ 8-P
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You seriously went to get your car fixed and didn't bring a book?
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