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The Fox Blocker, last mentioned here a couple of months ago, is back in the news:
Kimery says he has sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets. The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary, as well as a few death threats since the device debuted in August.
“About 100” sales since last August. That Fox backlash sure is a big earner.
Has he tried selling a CNN or MSNBC filter?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 27 at 11:57 AM • permalink“The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary, as well as a few death threats since the device debuted in August.”
Color me skeptical.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2005 03 27 at 12:44 PM • permalinkI’ve already have somthing that will let me filter out any channel I don’t like. It’s called a “remote control”...
Posted by Cybrludite on 2005 03 27 at 12:44 PM • permalinkBeat ya to it, Kimery- I’ve had ten of these since 1953- they’re called “fingers”...
Posted by Glenn Bowen on 2005 03 27 at 03:02 PM • permalinkI’m bored with this blog now.
Same old brown-shirts. Same old crap. A few brain dead (but still mobile) nazis acting like insult is argument and wondering why the MSM doesn’t pay attention to their nonsense.
Without argument from other points of view it’s just a club for mutual masturbation.
It’s not interesting, not relevant, and not worth the time spent reading. (It’s fun watching the trolls, until Andrew bans them). Ooops, guess that’s it for me.
Naughty gets smacks on botty. Ooops.
Loved that I was able to suggest a demonstration nuclear strike here, but feeding tubes are sacred.
Gone to get a life.
LoL, Bryla
And that has anything to do with the subject at hand?
Posted by Cybrludite on 2005 03 28 at 12:14 AM • permalink“Loved that I was able to suggest a demonstration nuclear strike here, but feeding tubes are sacred.”
Are you the one who suggested nuking Mecca if there was another terrorist attack? And I told you that was idiotic? You had a reply to that, but I ignored you, because I thought you were a (sincere) imbecile. If I had known you were an insincere lefty troll, I would have ignored you sooner. As others doubtless did.
Maybe you’re not the one, because you seem to be suggesting that you got away with that comment without reproach, which would be a lie. Of course, since you say that “feeding tubes are sacred” here, you’ve apparently either missed or ignore the fact that the Schiavo issue is being debated here, which makes you either a liar or an imbecile.
Maybe you’re referring to your “bomb Iceland” cracks? I’m sorry, were you serious? How barbaric of us not to immediately condemn that controversial, dangerous and reckless sentiment. Brownshirts all, we are.
Damn, you make it hard to figure you out. C’mon, which is it - are you a liar, or an idiot?
It’s amazing how few people have learned how to remove a channel from the rotation. For instance, I remove all home shopping channels from the “channel +/-” options, among others.
My only conclusion is that only idiots cannot figure out how to remove FoxNewz from the lineup. Therefore they are prime candidates for this scam product. Capitalism at its finest.
Of course they know how to use a remote control. The purpose of the product is not to block Fox News, anymore than the purpose of buying a Michael Moore book is to learn anything useful. Buying (and making) the device is just a desperate attempt for lefties to do something, anything, however futile, about supporting their increasingly marginal and discredited world view. The device functions as a talisman to invoke the spirits of leftism, a flea market lucky charm to ward off conservatism. If the inventor had a bit more marketing nous, he would have sold it as a front of set device so people could at least use it as a form of conspicuous leftist consumption. Still, it probably made the inventor feel better about something he had no control over, and feelings and self-righteousness are much more important to leftists than results.
Posted by Jim Geones on 2005 03 28 at 07:50 AM • permalinkJim’s right, this little personal FSN-chip is like a bunper-sticker for your TV. The off button isn’t good enough. If he had any real enterprising spirit (or a copy of Fight Club on DVD) he’d get some lackeys in sales to surreptitiously put them in sets in the appliance department. Then we’d all have the extra fun of watching his perpwalk. (And he’d feel vindicated for suffering for the cause.) Everyone wins!
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Heh, death threats? I’m surprised she hasn’t earned a class action lawsuit or a sack of consumer/Better Business Bureau complaints. I mean, it’s just a cheapo cable filter, $4 in any electronics catalog. Then again, I guess a buyer can’t sue for being gullible.