OMFG...I'm in an Urgent Care waiting room,

[PCIntern]

Awaiting my family member’s treatment/ diagnosis (not in that order!) and FOX News is on. Laura I is complaining about the diversity of President Biden’s cabinet which includes the transportation secretary. Creating issues where there are none.

[Karadeniz]

1. Ask that the channel be changed. CNN might be a compromise.

[PatSeg]

16. Yeah, that can't be healthy for people

requiring "urgent care".

[SCantiGOP]

24. You can buy a remote on line

That will change channels on any TV you come across.
If no one is noticing, you can go to Parental
Controls and block FOX, Newsmax and any other objectionable outlets.

[SouthernDem4ever]

27. I just change the channel to something non news and non political

No one usually says anything and if they do I just tell them I can't watch a network that specializes in lying.

[Yavin4]

2. Conservatism has nothing to offer Americans other than pure racism.

That's it and that's all.

[elleng]

7. It is not 'conservatism.'

[barbaraann]

12. It's fascism. n/t

[Cha]

30. Exactly.. that long ass word has Nothing

To do with the Fascist magat Putin puppet party

[JHB]

61. Perhaps not objectively, but they've gathered their base of Ahabs under that banner for decades

Let the "True Conservatives" do the heavy lifting of digging the definition of conservatism out of the outhouse pit they put it in.

[elleng]

62. I object to 'the rest of us' ENABLING it, and I NEVER refer to it as such.

[riversedge]

3. I was in the densist office waiting area today-just a cleaning. Anyway the dentist was runnning

behind -they only have 3 in this office and fox rot was on the TV. I got up and shut it off. A few looked at me but said nothing.

[Rebl2]

45. My eye

doctors office only show HGTV or food network thank goodness.

[progressoid]

51. I overheard my dentist gloating about the defeat of Tom Daschle in 2004

I never went back to him.

[oasis]

4. "Diversity is our strength

unity is our power"--Nancy Pelosi

[irisblue]

5. Weather channel or a home improvement show.

[Marthe48]

14. My doctors' offices run a loop of health information

Like services available, treatments options, and other health news. I'd rather see an artist's conception of someone's colon than any of the liars on fox.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. The Food Network...

...is another option.
Everybody like food.

[Arne]

6. It seems to perversely pervade

in the background subliminally where ever you go.
It has hypnotized millions of unsuspecting Americans and
now they have shit for brains.

[harumph]

60. They had prodromal-shit-for-brains prior to conversion to acute shit-for-brains.

[lynintenn]

8. My husband changed the TV in his Doctor's office. They had security ask him to stop.

Turned it back of Fox.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. I'd find another doctor.

[JohnnyLib2]

9. Careful with your blood pressure!

[Diamond_Dog]

10. Is that their grievance du jour?

Utah lawmaker Phil Lyman today blamed the bridge collapse in Baltimore on …. “diversity.”

[Attilatheblond]

21. Some pols seem a might desperate lately. Gotta show the voters how racist & STUPID they are

Isn't that ship a foreign one, with a crew that no liberal pol had anything to do with hiring?

These clowns are getting weirder by the day.

[Diamond_Dog]

28. It's just so bizarre. Like they don't understand the meaning of the word.

[whopis01]

66. I would hardly call it "du jour"

Perhaps using the term “diversity” may be relatively recent thing for them. But the underlying grievance of claiming that we would be better off if everything were run by white males is hardly new.

Today the problem is diversity. It used to be affirmative action, or integration, or women’s suffrage, or ending slavery. The one thing that hasn’t changed is the bigotry and racism.

[Scrivener7]

11. I'd ask them to change it.

[shrike3]

13. Few years back we had a fight break out at a local ER over politics.

I've noticed that since then no medical office, hospital or practitioner, has news on in its waiting room. Our doctor has sort of this "for your health" channel, probably available to doctors, etc.

[ShazzieB]

20. I see HGTV a lot.

Fine by me. Anything is better than FoxNoise!

[Marthe48]

15. People who want democracy are a majority

and from a doctor's office to cable news, that single fact is ignored by ceos, elected officials and anyone who promotes traitor and his ilk. As a majority, how can we use our power to make the minority stop imposing their unwanted views on us?

I've turned channels on tvs in waiting rooms, but usually no one else is in there, and no one told me I couldn't

[Warpy]

18. There should be a gadget near the gurney

with buttons on it, some with arrows for changing the channels up and down. It would have been nice if they'd given it to you or your family member.

Don't blame the urrgent care staff, they learned a long time ago to tune TV out completely. The person in that room before you is the one who most likely liked getting lied to.

If you can't find the TV control, there might be a button on the front of the set so you can turn it off.

Good luck. There is nothing like Pox to make the sick sicker.

[erronis]

35. I think there are "agents" that go into waiting rooms and change the channels to RW/russian spigots

Sort of like those swarmy people that stick bible tracts everywhere - or gidiot's bible.

[Warpy]

57. You could be right

but I know how helath care people tune out TVs in rooms.

I can't imagine anyone in a busy UC who would bother with it.

[Hekate]

19. I hope you can get the channel changed. At a couple of locations I have asked the receptionist...

…if the tv was on FOX because the owner/manager required it, and when told no, I said it was really offensive and perhaps politics was not the best choice for a business engaging with the public. It worked once — and I’ll do it again.

Best of luck to you and your family member.

[ShazzieB]

23. Good thinking!

I'm going to remember that in case I need to use it!

[Attilatheblond]

37. Years ago, when this started everywhere, I read FOX gave TVs to businesses all over,

but said they had to tune them to their 'news' station.

The guys at the place I get my car serviced always have FOX on and always change it when I ask. One employee changed it and thanked me.

[Silent Type]

22. Live in a rube red area where over 70% voted for trump. So, FOX is on often.

Just tune it out and read DU.

[Evolve Dammit]

25. Nauseating. I was once at a car dealership and Faux News was on a TV bolted to the ceiling. I had to leave the building

Good luck with the family.

[Joinfortmill]

26. Wow! FoxNews in Urgent Care. That's dangerous for your health, man. HGTV might be a better choice.

[Diamond_Dog]

29. Why does there even have to be a TV in a waiting room?

You just can’t get any peace and quiet anywhere … someone has to always be yammering.

[erronis]

36. That's the right question. Is someone paying these places to have their programs broadcast?

[Orrex]

31. I hate that so many locations air Fux Noise

Restaurants, bars, doctors' offices, dentists' offices, oil change shops, the list goes on.

In principle, we might ask them to change the station, but in reality they're simply playing what they perceive the bulk of their clients/customers want to see.

[JoseBalow]

32. Wait, complaining about TOO MUCH diversity?

These racist assholes aren't even pretending to hide it anymore

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

44. yeah, it's the drum beat they are putting out for the Bride collapse story

[Island Blue]

33. Ask for non-news channel

Ask that it be changed to HGTV or The Food Network. Even if you’re not interested in those channels, the probably won’t raise your blood pressure.

[GopherGal]

52. HGTV

When I had a couple medical appointments (spread over a couple different providers) these past few months, they always had HGTV on in the waiting rooms. I didn't ask, but just presumed this choice was the result of a perceived attempt to avoid Fox/CNN/MSNBC disputes.

[AllaN01Bear]

34. tv b gone . fits in pocket. can turn off any tv. including jumbotrons .

https://www.tvbgone.com/

[spooky3]

39. Hope your family member is ok. Nt

[DoBW]

40. Take care

Hang in there

[Bluejeans]

41. My mother would call that...

... "Talking to hear a noise"

[SalviaBlue]

53. That's very close to what my mother would say:

“talking to hear the sound of your own voice.”

[stage left]

42. I'm a minority in South Carolina.

Most of the people of my Democratic political persausion here are from the North. Send more Yankees!

[aggiesal]

43. I have a great story about a community TV ...

I was working at a tech company in San Diego in the mid 2000's.

They had a lot of employees and a large cafeteria with about 6 large TVs connected to a DirecTV STB.
The person in charged was a retired Navy officer and a diehard GW McIdiot supporter, so he always had it on FOX.

I would watch where he would go to change the channel to Fox at lunch time.
It was a cabinet with glass doors and a lock, so nobody could change the channel or steal the video equipment.

So I purchased a cheap universal remote control.

One day me & my friends went to lunch and we sat right in front of that glass door cabinet.
They sat around me to make sure I was shielded.
I programmed the universal remote to work on the DirecTV unit and I changed the channel to CNN, back when it was CNN.

The retired Navy officer comes into the cafeteria and notices it's not on Fox, so he walks up to the cabinet, unlocks it, grabs the remote and changes the channel back to Fox. Replaces the remote, locks the cabinet and starts to walk away.

When he reaches the entrance to the cafeteria, I change the channel back to CNN.

You can see the puzzled look on his face. Turns around resets the channel back to Fox a 2nd time.

Again as he approached the entrance we changed the channel to ESPN.

At that point he threw is arms in the air and gave up.

We all started laughing.
From that day forward, if I wasn't going to the cafeteria, someone would ask if they can use the universal remote.

It was just too funny, watching that GW McIdiot supporter trying to figure out, how the channel kept on changing.

[Hope22]

47. Good one! 😁💗n/t

[ClimateHawk]

59. That was a great story!

Thanks for sharing. It brought a smile to my face.

[woodsprite]

46. Sorry to hear about your family member in the ER.

Will they change the channel if you said it offended you? Darned technology! When it was infrared, you could change the channels if you had a PA.

I hope your wait isn’t too long. Sending healing thoughts. My friend who’s an ER nurse at Christiana Care said the wait right now is 9 hours if it’s not a heart, stroke, or bleeding issue.

[Hope22]

48. Sending love to you and yours.

I hope you get answers soon and help for healing. Urgent care can be a stressful wait. I’m so sorry about the TV. It’s got to be nerve wracking! 💗💗🙏🏼

[John Farmer]

49. Change the channel!

[Raftergirl]

50. In the waiting room my dentist always has on NBC Today Show when I am there, Then in each exam room there is a tv that

the patient gets to control. I usually put on The Tennis Channel or don’t bother at all and just listen to a pod.

My PCP office has sone health crap always on as does my Ophthalmologist’s office and my OBGYN’s office. I always bring my earbuds to all my appointments so I can listen to what I want.

[live love laugh]

54. You're gonna need treatment if you keep watching.

[PCIntern]

55. Thank you for all your well-wishes

Everything turned out fine. All is Well!!

I moved so I couldn’t see or really distinctly hear the teevee. In my newish neck of the woods, we few Dems know enough to keep our mouths shut in public for the most part.

[niyad]

56. When a friend was in a coma in ICU, I came in the second morning,

and faux snooze was on. I looked at the ICU nurse and said, "Well, if anything could bring her out of her coma, having this garbage on would be it. Would you please find the remote, and a gardening or food channel., and leave it there." And they did.

[marble falls]

58. Within one year of TFG being elected, they turned Fox on all waiting at least Temple VA. There were ...

... too many fights among a population full people who have no never-minds about a fight.

I certainly noticed how much more neighborly the waiting rooms got once Temple was de-Foxed. Even if it meant watching 'Leave It to Beaver" and Perry Mason instead.

[dai13sy]

63. Not surprised

The entire Trump Klan likes to create drama and chaos wherever they go and she doesn't know what the hell she's doing and she can't stand to go unnoticed so she'll say anything that's stupid because she is

[Lars39]

64. Best channel ever for waiting rooms...Bob Ross!

Sorry you had to endure that PC.

[pstokely]

65. did you ask them to change the channel?

do they really need a TV?