August 4, 2007
Right-Wing Grammies
My grandmother never sleeps. Or always sleeps. I can't figure out which, because when she's not sleeping she keeps the FOX News channel blaring in the background and when she is sleeping she keeps the FOX News channel blaring in the background.
The last time we stayed at my parents' house, I slept in the living room adjacent to Gram's room. I woke up the next morning felling an inexplicable urge to interrupt people with accusatory monologues. I also kept accidentally calling people "fanatical leftists."
Avon Lady: Here's this week's catalogue, tell your mother I said hello!
Me: Why do you hate America?
By the third day, after I found myself calling the local quilt guild meeting an "orgy of left-wing nonsense," I realized that eight hours of nightly immersion FOX News was having an effect on me. I wondered what it was doing to my grandmother after years and years of indoctrination.
Gram loves Sean Hannity. Here's a taste of what she's watching:
Rick Perlstein has similar concerns about FOX teaching our grandparents how to hate diversity, debate and liberals.
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