Does anyone else REFUSE to watch * on TV?

[GarySeven]

Ever since the election, I have absolutely REFUSED to watch the Smirk on TV. Whenever that simian mug comes on the screen I snap off the TV or quickly hit the channel. When I am at a friend's house and the news comes on I literally pitch a fit if that fucking idiot comes on and demand that they change the channel. I mean I pitch a real fit, like I am a deranged freeper. My friends think I am strange but I don't care. I completely lose my cool and I absolutely cannot STAND the sight or sound of that thug. I honestly fear what may happen someday when I am at the airport or some other place where it is impossible to avoid the bastard or socially impossible to pitch a fit and demand the channels be changed. Is this just me, or are there any kindred spirits out there?

[LostinRed]

1. I can't watch him

I can't even stand to hear his voice. It makes me sick to my stomach.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. absolutely. I can barely stand it when he is quoted on the radio

Fortunately for me most of the people I might watch TV with feel the same way, so I don't have to have a fit.

My husband turned off the car radio when the news bleep of the inaugural address came on

[Warpy]

3. I haven't watched TV news since 11/2

and the free ride that sack of shit has gotten from the press is the reason. Jon Stewart is right, they're HURTING us.

When I'm in a public place and that little bastard's ugly mug is on a screen, I manage to make some nasty remark as I turn away.

Most people mumble "Yeah, you got that right," and join me in turning their backs, but I live in a pretty lefty area.

[bobd]

4. I Haven't watched tv news (national news) ....

including cable and the networks since 9/11. I haven't watched the maximum leader on tv since his original selection in December of 2000.

I LOATHE the right wing press. As far as I'm concerned ANY national news program is slanted toward the neo-nazis.

Am I bitter? You bet. Have I utterly given up on this country? Absolutely. I see no silver lining. None. Nada.
Bob D.

[jdots]

5. couldn't watch him before the 2000 race (race ? )

it is best to not watch him or any of the crew.

[ak]

6. I try not to watch him

If he comes on the tv I just start cursing and flipping him off :mad:

[hector459]

7. You bet! Not him, not the cable news shows, not Condi, not Rumsfeld.

I can't stand to even see these people.

[Mr_Spock]

8. I even yell at people I know who watch him - flip the bird in public

at any display where his evil motherfucking NeoClan face is displayed. The only person who revulses me more is Condi, followed closely by Rummy and AssCraft (so glad his evil face is gone!)

[Mend]

9. actually the first time I heard him

was in F911....if his face appears, say on Jon Stewart whom I watch, I mute. If on another channel, I change. I think he is the anti-christ and don't want to get too close to the fire.

[NMDemDist2]

10. i can't listen or watch

it just makes my blood pressure skyrocket as I scream "LIAR LIAR!!!" at the TV

[ewagner]

70. Same here

thank God I'm on blood pressure meds or I'd probably stroke out....... and that's only when I ACCIDENTIALLY catch him on TV.....

I usually only get You lying Sonofa..... out of my mouth before my wife changes the channel to keep my blood pressure from spiking

[gizmo1979]

11. My daughter and I

watch him together and bet on how many words he'll mispronounce.It's pretty funny.

[Jokinomx]

12. I can't stand him.... I don't believe ONE word that comes out of his mouth

I get physically sick if I hear him speaking. I am really starting to think he is the anti-Christ. I am not a bible person... but I know that it says somewhere in there that the anti-Christ will mislead many and that if the days weren't cut short even the elite would be mislead. Arrggg he is disgusting.

[GarySeven]

16. Even some churchmen feel he is the anti-Christ

since the "anti-Christ" is supposed to preach a message that is opposite - thus anti - to that of Christ. To this bunch, Jesus Christ would be a traitor because he would have advocated peace over war. They would eviscerate Jesus for being what he truly was - the first Liberal. You can't get more anti-Christ than that.

[FreedomAngel82]

22. I don't know about that

but he is truly evil. Look in his eyes. He has no compassion for others. When he talks he tries to show something but there is nothing.

[GarySeven]

31. I agree, but take a look at this ...

http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0449/041208_news_antichrist.php

Sure, it's alternative media but I think they are truly onto something here.

[Donailin]

54. totally agree

Christ came to preach the good news to the poor. Sell all you have and follow me, he said.

If Christ returned today, Bush and co. would have him crucified, I have no doubt about that.

But Jesus would still say, forgive them for they know not what they do.

[Cha]

59. I do know about that.

bush is the anti-Christ and using His name to further his treachery..it was predicted in the Bible that there would be those who would do this.

I don't read the Bible but I have read quotes that say this.

[GarySeven]

13. WOW - this is interesting ...

I thought I might have something wrong with me. I have never, ever reacted this way to anything any other Thuglican has done, not even during the right wing attempted coup that was the impeachment. I am usually a calm, sedate, and I hope rational person but I come absolutely fucking unglued when I see that motherfucker. I use words like motherfucker, which I never have applied to any other human being before. I can't believe how angry that face/voice/smirk makes me.

[smirkymonkey]

24. It's a measure of your sanity....

nothing wrong w/ you at all. I feel the same way. I go absolutely berserk at the sight of him.

I honestly don't know how people can look at him in awe and admiration. It makes me believe in Satanic posession.

[FreedomAngel82]

27. I'm the same way

as you GarySeven. I don't curse but I get very angry and I've never felt like this before about anybody. Sure, I've had my own enemies but this is like a personal enemy. x(

[AlCzervik]

14. I used to watch him, he was my photo-shop muse

but after the election i can't stand to look at him or hear his voice.

[Berserker]

23. They have the

V chip that parents can use to censor TV for their children. Why don't someone come up with a way to block all this repuke bullshit. I can't stand his voice or even to have his face on my TV. I think of it like it's scumware that gets on a computer only it gets on my TV and I have to keep fighting to keep it from showing up. And I will not get rid of cable I like sports, The discovery channel and The History channel so thats not and option.

[ooglymoogly]

15. indeed... puke retch.... yes indeed

[deacon]

17. I shut off TV news on Nov. 3, 2004 and I don't miss it at all

being that the white house pays journalists, it's for entertainment purposes only.

The internet provides me with tons of more real news which is most important, real news--not paid sponsors.

And no, I won't watch bush and his BS any longer.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. Only way I get news

is online and Jon Stewart. Thank God for him and the Daily Show!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

18. If he manages to get three words out before I can nail him with the

remote... I consider the day a disaster... a total disappointment....

A huge failure... a mortification, a shock and an awe,

he is a visual migraine, a finger banged with a hammer, an ill tempered dog, a leaky toilet, a noisy ceiling fan, a rattling muffler, a mad prophet, a loose screw, someone to be avoided, a curious noise, a sham leader, an enabler of corporate fraud, a creator of illegitimate war, a carnival worker, a shell game operator, a blackjack dealer, a used car salesman....

I keep the remote quite handy in case you haven't derived this fact from my prose.

[left is right]

29. Same here,

three or four words tops. I have been known to throw the headphones on my personal radio across the room inorder to get his voice out of my head. Can't look at him. Turn stations immediately if, I even think they are going to quote him.

[Digit]

47. remote at the ready, too

flip him off, then MUTE!

[FreedomAngel82]

19. I can't even look at photos of him

I get so pissed off. It's just not healthy for my blood pressur. Heh heh.

[DaveinMD]

20. I don't acknowledge his existence

Bartlett is my President.

[eternalburn]

21. We just mute him.......

...and replace his words with our own dialogue in goofy voices.

We try to exhibit as much disrespect as possible. It's quite fun :)

[T Roosevelt]

25. Not in 4 years, not in the next 4

I can barely tolerate him on the Daily Show - and that's when he's being made fun of...

[Greybnk48]

26. President Mute

My sister and her friend and I have been hitting the mute button for at least two years. I only listen if they are repeating something stupid he has said, like on Olberman. We have been clling him Pres. Mute for quite a while.

[jjtss]

30. My turn.....my turn......

When I get the news papers and the pictures of the Bush Crime Family are there to annoy, harrass and insult me....I just tear them out and burn them in the sink!!!!!! I don't watch TV News because I would have to turn it on and off every time they show up on the small screen. I get my news from the websites and whenever I can, I E-mail their webmasters and ask that they not put up pictures of the Bush Crime Family.

[Lisa]

32. was it Roger Ebert who remarked, "That's 90 minutes of my life ..."

"... I'm not getting back", after viewing a particularly bad movie?

This is how I feel about Mr. Bush. I could have a much more pleasant and productive time if I read a book, re-pot tomato seedlings, do laundry ... Heck -- if I clean the bathroom, that would be disagreeable but at least I'm accomplishing something. But to subject myself to what is probably going to be an even WORSE gloat-fest than usual? To paraphrase Dubya's mom, why should I waste my "beautiful mind" on that.

I don't think you're alone, Gary. Several of my friends -- all calm, intelligent, thoughtful people -- describe that the sight of Bush's face or the sound of his voice can cause them to "lose it". It's a magnitude beyond the visceral dislike that others have had for Nixon, for example. If I were a psychology grad student, I'd be doing my dissertation on this phenomenon.

p.s. I live in Canada, and one of the newspapers up here featured a half-page enlarged photo of Bush's face on page 5 or 6 -- when I turned the page and unexpectedly saw it, a couple times life-size with every scab, wrinkle, pore, blood vessel in his eyeballs, and whisker he'd missed while shaving -- I jammed the whole paper into the recycling bin. I doubt even his own wife has to see that kind of detail! Luckily it wasn't in color.

[GarySeven]

33. I lived through Nixon and I never hated him as much as this jerk

Now, I'm not so extreme or so stupid that I would vent my rage personally to his face. I would avoid any place he is out of sheer disgust. But it's just absolutely amazing to me that so many people have this visceral reaction to just his televised image.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

38. I shuddered & gagged whenever I saw the GIPPER on TV =P

And laughed at and cursed Nixon, myself, but this is WAY worse, alright...Among MANY other things, there is now a much more urgent fear factor that was missing with the other 2.

[BrklynLiberal]

34. Absolutely cannot stomach to see his face or hear his voice.

Never passed a picture of him without defacing it in some way. (Even in the doctor's office..I do it to his nagazines, and he caught me once!!)
On my bulletin board right now:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

37. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that

I am snickering but feel a huge urge to cry...but I cant cry because I am too numb. :scared: I think I will start defacing it's pictures myself. SOunds like good therapy. I carry a felt tip around and write his name with the "s" as a swastika anywhere I can get away with it. Defacing his pictures seems even more therapeutic

[BamaGirl]

35. I can't watch him

He gives me the heebie jeebies. That anyone with more than two brain cells voted for him still blows my mind.

[Stinky The Clown]

36. I'm with you

I can not stand to watch him. His voice, his mannerisms, his face, his gestures, his smirk, his facial scars, his haircut, his hair, his coloration, his suits, his shoes, the fact I have to share this planet's air with him all brings me anger.

So ... H2S .... what'll it be? Chimpus Khan's speech or root canal surgery?

Root canal surgery .... for sure!

He can blow it out his azz .....

He can eat shit .....

He can kiss MY azz .....

He can just fuck off .....

[leesa]

39. I can't watch him. I become physically ill when I hear his whiney voice

or see his ugly smirk. I have to mute the teevee and keep hold on the remote so I don't possibly see his evil being.

And yet, I'll bet I've endured more "speeches" than the * lovers have ever heard. Because if they actually listened to him, they too would realize he is a psychopath...they've seen enough teevee movies to know one when they see one. God help America.

[HughBeaumont]

40. The Son of a Bitch makes me violently ill indeed. But

What's even worse than seeing his stupid-assed face and hearing his sub-retarded monologues is driving around and seeing DUBYA stickers on almost every fucking vehicle I encounter in a parking lot or on a highway.

Oh my GOD, violence isn't the answer to anything, but Jesus Christ, every time I see one of those dark blue swastikas or those over-serious BUSH/CHENEY 04 banners (as if to say "Yes indeedy, Umurka, I'm a stupid ass and I AM not sorrah!") . .. I feel like taking a 2x4, bashing all of their fucking windows, tail lights and headlights in, pouring gasoline on the exterior, lighting that motherfucker and watching it burn with utter glee.

Hey, since I don't have any Asian nukes handy or can't offshore their job to Malaysia, might as well give the retard-gelical values voter a glimpse at their future with that Texas Train Wreck and his merry band of Voevods at the helm.

I mean, I simply challenge, CHALLENGE these fucking pieces of moronic sub-human fecal shards to name one, ONE right thing he's done so far. ONE.

[TNMOM]

41. I can't stomach the smirk either...

When I'm in the lunch room at work and they have Faux News on, I literally lose my lunch.

That smug SOB doesn't have a clue.

[Cha]

58. You poor thing!

At my job they have a "Peace Is Patriotic"(with Doves for Stars) poster on the bulletin board!

[mcar]

42. I haven't watched him since the 2000 selection

[Blue_In_AK]

43. I can't watch him either

or listen to that stupid cadence in the way he talks. He makes me feel physically ill. There have been a lot of presidents in my life, but he is ABSOLUTELY THE MOST bile-inducing. I feel like :puke: just thinking about him.

[pityfriend]

44. We need to stay on top of things people

The only thing that will keep us on the higher ground is personal research and awareness. It pisses me off enough when conservative friends just parrot AM hosts. If we're not watching the President, we have to resort to our own filtered news as well.

[July]

67. Not watching Bush doesn't mean filtering the news.

We can read transcripts and articles, as well as watch the rest of the news, if we like (I get my news online and from print media, but there are some choices on television).

This is all about the annoying aspect and demeanor of the chimp.

[deadparrot]

45. Mememememe!

I feel ill every time I so much as hear his voice.

[welshTerrier2]

46. he has soiled my Toshiba for the last time ....

and he'll never appear again in my house ...

mrs. wt2 just pats me on the head when i scream at my TV IF we ever catch a TV newscast ... pretty much gave up getting any news from TV ...

i just can't stand it anymore ... i listen to the dribble and drool that passes for responses to the tough questions and sit there in disbelief ... i've had it ... the pablum they're peddling must be meant for someone else ...

so thanks, DU and DU'ers for preserving what little bits and pieces remain of my sanity ....

[A Brand New World]

48. I've refused to watch him since the election of 2000. I wear the batteries

out on the remotes flipping away from him. The only time I've ever listened to him was during the debates. I even changed channels immediately for any of his campaign commercials. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of such a moron. My presidents have been Gore and Kerry. Since we currently reside in Bizarro World, then I can choose to acknowledge who I want for President. (Trust me, I'm not a loon. Just cannot tolerate *!)

[cindyw]

49. haven't watched him for years. He makes scare my kids with yelling.

[BlueInRed]

50. Me, except for me it's been long before 2000...

Because I'm in Tx and he's been on TV driving me crazy for WAY too many years.

[kcass1954]

51. I hate him, but I watch him.

I'm not always "allowed" to watch him. My kids decide if I can watch or not, based on how much tolerance they, since they have to listen to me yell at Junior. They have been known to turn off the TV and hide the remote

Keep you friends close, and your enemies closer. I want to know what he's saying, I want to see the smirk on his face, I want to watch him lie to you and me, and most of all I want the constant reminder of what this fight is all about.

[ldf]

52. there is this little button labeled "mute"

as soon as i see his disgusting countenance, i hit it.

[Donailin]

53. it takes me day to regain my composure after i watch him

or hear something that he says.

George Bush is a fucking asshole and I hate him.

[GarySeven]

55. There is POWER in this hatred!!!!

It seems to me there is a kind of unrefined political POWER in this revulsion toward the Smirk's image. I have posted to this board many times, but never, never,never have I gotten this many responses and stayed so high in the lineup for so long. There is something unifying, even clarifying about this hatred - a common ground for political action.

What about this idea - if the image riles us so, let's deprive America of it. Let's not destroy property, but let's do what we can to prevent the image of Bush from being seen. If you pass a magazine rack with his fucking grinning souless eyes bulging out from the covers, turn the magazines around, move them to the back of another rack - just GET RID the image.

If you see his face on a communal newspaper at work, take the page that it's on. Cut out the image. If you are lucky enough to control the TV at work, exercise your right whenever the news comes on. Replace his picture with Mr. Ed's - or Mr. Ed's ass. Afraid of complaints? the Freepers won't know the difference.

There's power in hatred, but too often it is misdirected to bad ends. Here's a chance to put our hatred to a good use and dilute the omnipresent image that the thugs occupying the White House and their willing media allies are trying to shove down our throat.

[OneBlueSky]

56. Bush's image on the tube is an "auto-click" . . .

if I'm channel surfing and happen to stumble upon Bush, my index finger automatically clicks to the next channel . . . it's an involuntary response, comparable to Pavlov's dogs . . . nothing I planned, and nothing I can control . . . it just happens . . .

much the same thing happens when I stumble upon images of Howard Stern, Gilbert Gottfried, Dennis Miller, Joe Lieberman, Jessica Simpson, and oh so many others . . . I think I've discovered a new medical condition . . . "anti-asshole auto-clicking syndrome" . . .

[Cha]

57. It's been about 4 years for me.

I get enough of him just reading some of the shit he spews and the occasional unavoidable pic on DU.

[Jack Rabbit]

60. I'm not planning to watch the SOTU this week

What's the point? The man is lying whenever he moves his lips.

I can read about what he said on the BBC the next morning.

[driver8]

61. I cannot stand to look at his stupid, smirking, lying chimp face!

Everything that the man says is a lie. I don't need to sit there and watch a man insult my intelligence for an hour or so.

I also have not watched tv news or any of the other bullshit "news shows" since the election. I just cannot bring myself to watch them.

[Carolab]

62. Exactly the same aversion response as you. Radio, TV, OFF! n/t

[theHandpuppet]

63. Just the sound of his voice makes my stomach churn!

When Bush is on, I literally grab the remote to find ANYTHING else to wash out the poisonous sound and sight of him.

[lojasmo]

64. I refuse. EOM

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

65. I haven't watched ANY news program since Nov. 2

It makes me healthier. I get my news on the internet and I start my day reading LBN right here on DU.

On ignorgauration day, I was driving to get a sandwich for lunch. I had my window down. I heard ITS voice on the radio from someone else's car. UP went my window, on went my radio to a non-commercial sattelite radio classic rock station and I turned it up LOUD.

Just hearing ITS voice sends shivers of horror through my body.

[laylah]

66. I haven't been able

to stomach his dumbass voice OR face since Coup 2000. I flip him off then flip the tv over or off. My daughters do this also. It got to be a joke in our house as to who could flip the freak off quickest :silly:.

Jenn

[kiraboo]

68. Let me put it this way:

I can't even stand to see this: * any more because of what it represents. Having said that, thanks people for making me feel like I'm not alone. I've hated the man since he first came to my attention before 2000. I looked into his beady little eyes and said to myself, "The man is evil." I hate the way he speaks, the tone of his voice, his monkeylike face, his puny-man strut, EVERYTHING. Everything.

[MHalblaub]

69. It always makes me happy seeing him on TV.

He is the one who proofs my English teacher wasn't right.
My English is not incomparable worse.

[cyn2]

71. Yup, that'd be me....and my husband...we refuse! n/t

[twenty2strings]

72. Gives me a sick feeling...like Damien...

I feel that he just might be annointed....by something.:evilfrown:

[liberalgenes]

73. Yep!

Can't stand to look at his smirking, lying face, can't stand to hear his voice, can't stand to hear anyone refer to him as president. The chimp's appearances on my tv are rare and usually prompt a few expletives and a quick channel change.

[Tracer]

74. I'm a good-natured, polite, mild-mannered, middle aged woman.

But if I can't get to the "clickah" (Boston-talk) fast enough to turn off that slimeball, you would see the air turn blue with curses, and my middle finger shaking violently at the TV.

I recently finished reading "* on the Couch" Ñ a long-distance psychoanalysis of the Turd-In-Chief.

Now, I'm not a big fan of shrinks, and this author's guessing at Smirk's childhood neuroses was off-putting Ñ but his analysis of the ADULT Smirk was right on the money.

The one chapter that impressed me the most was the one where the author identified Smirk as a sadist.

[tibbiit]

75. I quit watching cable news and other tv news, and smirkie

on July 9th 2003, the day they pull3d down the saddam statue.
Dont watch that shit.
tib

[Roland99]

76. I have made a vow to myself...no more Bush admin liars will be seen by me

nor will they be heard.

I've already cancelled all of my Cable TV (and Internet at home) and only watch PBS news once in a while.

[Norquist Nemesis]

77. Every time his mug invades my home

I say, "God, I hate him" or "SOB" or some other such verbiage just happens. It's like a compelling reflex I can't control. Tourette's ala Bush.

Then I grab the remote.