Help! I can't stop watching those terrible Sunday political shows

[Peggy Day]

I get so mad, but it's like a train wreck-I can't help but look.
Any suggestions?

[mike_c]

1. kill your TV....

Seriously. I unplugged mine twenty years ago and life has improved tremendously.

[Peggy Day]

5. I like watching some things though

like debates, c-span, Keith Obermann, Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report

[MADem]

2. Turn on a movie, or listen to music. They just suck so bad lately.

It's easier to just get your news from the BBC World Service, and skip the yakking. They don't say a damned thing, really, do they?

[Peggy Day]

3. I did record Mad TV last night

they do suck

[still_one]

4. Read Al Gore' book, The Assault On Reason /nt

[Peggy Day]

10. I am going to read that.

Currently I'm reading Armed Madhouse and Outlander.

[still_one]

15. Armed Madhouse is good, but Gore's book is extraordinary

It encapsulates the frustration we all feel

[StudentProgressive]

18. He says common sense stuff we knew 8 years ago

I agree with most of it but it's nothing new. It's just new that he's actually saying this (a little late don't you think?)

[Warpy]

6. Since you're home and watching, I imagine

you're not the churchy type. If you're a believer, spend a Sunday checking out the UU or Quaker congregations in your area. You might find an alternative that's more pleasant than watching the gasbag parade.

It's summer and the mornings are cool and pleasant. Time to find a place to schedule a weekly walk. It'll do your body a favor, clear your head, and get you to start progressing back to sanity.

Buy a leftist political book or two and schedule a block of time on Sunday mornings to read a few chapters. Sit OUTSIDE to do this while the weather is still nice, away from any temptation to hit "that" button on the TV remote.

Develop an interest in fancy cuisine. Listen to loud music as you spend the time preparing an elaborate restaurant menu for Sunday dinner.

Drink heavily on Saturday night and be too paralyzed by hangover on Sunday morning to MOVE, much less want the noise and light of a bad TV program. (not the best suggestion, but offered as an alternative to the lazy)

Habit can be broken by scheduling something else during that time period. I know. I broke the evening news habit three years ago and I broke the Sunday gasbag habit fifteen years ago.

[Peggy Day]

7. Good suggestions

My plants need watering,there is a art/wine festival (today), I've always wanted to go to the Sunday yoga class, love to cook. It is a beautiful day out here too. You are right.
As far as church, I got church rammed down my throat earlier in life, and now consider myself spiritual instead of religious. My family lives in Ohio and are freewill Baptists. It's hard when I visit them, but don't go to their church anymore. I've been trying to find a church that I could like, but have had bad 1st visits, so have chickened out.

[RufusEarl]

8. My answer, sleep late on Sunday morning!

[Peggy Day]

9. I can't. I always get up at 5:00

Unless I have a terrible hangover-and I don't like that!

[gratuitous]

21. Well, if you're going to shoot down my best suggestion, forget it

I was going to say start drinking heavily on Saturday night and be too polluted Sunday morning to give a rip about the train wrecks on your TV at that time.

I wouldn't want to recommend hard drinking for everyone, but it's always worked for me.

[rurallib]

11. Turn on the Best of Thom Hartmann instead

Works for me!

[Peggy Day]

12. yea-I do have AAR podcasts nt

[Peggy Day]

14. He's one of my favorites.

That's what I'll do. thanks-good suggestion

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

13. It's a world where Mary Matalin, Robert Novak, James Carville, Paul Begala and Donna Brazille have

some kind of credibility, because they pop up over and over and are apparently taken seriously, no matter the inanity of their utterings.

If one chooses to watch the shows based on their guests, it's pretty slim pickings for reasoned thinkers. I'd love to see Mike Gravel or Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters, Henry Waxman, John Conyers, more of Senators Clinton, Obama or Dodd, AL GORE, and, always, Howard Dean.

But, instead, it's a full hour of freakin' McCain or David Brooks earnestly explaining to Russert that the nhh comment by Imus about Rutger's basketball team really isn't racist or sexist if one just understands the context of privileged white men. :eyes: .
It's a bit more tolerable watching now than when it was the smug old days for the GOP and their media operatives, happily spewing BS with nary a protest from the shows' hosts. Like after Sept. 11 or before the Iraq occupation.

Now that the BS is obvious to all, the RW politicians and their corporomediast "journalist" friends have this desperate "please believe me, just this once" edge to their exchanges, which still makes the shows an icky viewing experience. (Cheney's most recent appearance on MTP was both creepy and unintentionally humorous, although the "interview" ultimately was a waste of the public airwaves.)

I just glimpsed Matalin on MTP, off with the TV, on with music, ahh, much better! :-)

MKJ

P.S. If you view watching these shows as doing reconnaissance on the latest RW talking points, you can depersonalize some of your reactions. However, we all have our limits!

[Peggy Day]

16. And, they don't even correct lies or ask important questions.

I just turned it off, because I hate Carville and Matalin. Even This Week is really weak-George doesn't ask the good questions, and doesn't respond to lying idiot guests with any good rebuttals.

[Nay]

17. Peggy, go into the light. Free yourself. I haven't watched that crap

for 20 years. It's worthless! Kill your TV! Join a hiking club that goes out every Sunday, all day!

[Redneck Socialist]

19. Take up fishing...

Oh, and get rid of your TV.

[scarletwoman]

20. I have to work on Sundays, so I'm automatically out of danger. Not watching the Sunday gasbags is

quite survivable.

sw