I Also Lost My Father to Fox News
Salon has a wonderful piece up called “I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria,” and it’s just about the saddest thing you’ll read today.
My mother has to come to family dinners with a written list of topics that can’t be discussed, but it really doesn’t matter what’s on it because everything comes back to the cult mentality instilled by Fox News. Let’s consider this article and comments through that mentality below the twisted orange emotion of the children of Fox News viewer.
Cult mentality:
Cult members are “focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous, unquestioning commitment.”
Father Lost to Fox:
He defended with stridency his choices, citing his favorites, like Stuart Varney, “The Five” and the great Charles Krauthammer.
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In real life Archie Bunker isn’t that cute. If he’s Archie, that makes me either Meat Head or Sallie Struthers (the very definition of lose-lose).
I’m overeducated in the humanities, so I’m an imperfect ambassador for science. I respect scholarship, peer review and the scientific method. When I tell my dad he should believe the experts in climate science, he gets really mad.
“Global warming is your religion,” he says. Because I’m an atheist, calling me religious is the worst insult he can summon, so he uses it often.
My father sincerely believes that science is a political plot, Christians are America’s most persecuted minority and Barack Obama is a full-blown communist. He supports the use of force without question, as long as it’s aimed at foreigners. He thinks liberals are all stupid, ignorant fucks who hate America.