Posted on 01/14/2015 11:56:44 AM PST by TopDeadCenter
Ypsilanti Township residents Dave and Sue Weber argue a county-run facility is no place to be showing what they consider offensive, right-wing political propaganda.
They said they started going to the county's recreation center on Washtenaw Avenue last fall and were dismayed to see Fox News show up on four of the 12 television screens in the cardio area during election season.
"In September, when we toured the facility before joining, we didn't notice Fox on at all," Dave Weber said. "But now October comes around, pre-election time, that's when it multiplied onto four screens, four out of the 12 in the cardio room."
Though there's no volume on the TVs, they said, they got tired of seeing offensive closed-caption blocks with remarks such as "Young women aren't capable of voting" and "We have enough illegals here, we don't need more."
They also have been offended by attacks against President Barack Obama and Democrats, and they say there's no programming offering a counter viewpoint.
The couple complained to facility director Jon Keith, but they said asking him change the channel only resulted in a lecture on how the liberals at CNN are trying to take away his gun rights. They said Keith also has denied their requests to switch one of the TV screens to a more left-leaning news channel such as MSNBC.
"It felt to me like the Republican Party had an official of our public recreation facility working for them," Dave Weber said.
Keith declined to comment for this story.
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“Netherlands list the breeder as the fokker”
The planes too. I had a Dutch Latin teacher in Prep School. He was in the Dutch underground. We’d get him telling war stories, and we’d just crack up! See, they don’t pronounce “fokker” as “folker” or “fawker.” They pronounce it as, well,,,,, you can guess!
IOW, they want ONE network banned — what a surprise.
Party-of-the-Single-Party-State ping!
That little ol FOX News just freaks those liberals out. The ironic thing is most conservatives don’t even watch the network. I guess these two Michigan libs, as most libs everywhere, are not used to a TV network that isn’t in worship mode to the Democratic Party
Typical liberal here in that his taste/choices must be better than anyone else’s. As a side note, one of my doctors screens Fox News during the off season but changes to CNN during season. My guess is that he doesn’t want to run the risks of offending northern patients.
Total Viewers (Live +SD)
Total day: FNC: 1,265 | CNN: 528 | MSNBC: 350 | HLN: 277
Primetime: FNC: 1,502 | CNN: 452 | MSNBC: 488 | HLN: 298
Now they qualify for PTSD benefits.
I suppose they want the place like most major US airports sporting CNN and CNBC!
I usually watch FNC and have never seen nor can I imagine seeing/hearing "young women shouldn't vote!"
What is this couple smoking?
Nothing else ever worked on leftists.
Fox is the RINO network.
I abanded YpsiTucky when I Grauates from EMU. Berkly East (Ann Arbor and UofM) was getting to much back in 1972 and now, ....
DangNap fingers.
I live in “Jacksatucky” county as the oh so superior elites of Ann Arbor like to say.
I very much enjoy pointing out that I live in Jacksatucky when the power goes out in Ann Arbor about once per week.
Most of the Berkly East Folks belong in the “Old”, “Historic”, when it was tough”, “Jackson State Pen”.
4 out of 12? and they are soiling their carbon neutral underwear over it?
“They said Keith also has denied their requests to switch one of the TV screens to a more left-leaning news channel such as MSNBC. “
LEFT-LEANING! Give me a break!
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It has been called the “Y” for over 70 years.
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