We had a larger than usual number of emails this week from people who thought we are Fox News. Many of them were individual requests for investigations into personal situations, which I have not included in order to protect the identity of the sender. Here, for your regular, week-end glimpse into the mind of Fox News viewers is our latest batch. Apparently, a lot of people are not happy with The Five these days!
As always, names and other identifying information has been redacted to protect the ignorant. Grammar, spelling and punctuation have been left intact.
Received 8/27/13
Suject: Fox News
Yes, I watched something on The Five today that really irritated me. I am one of those Crackers from FL. that that fat slob bob Beckel was speaking of today. And.I would like to say that no race of people have done more in the history of the world to help another race Than whites have done for blacks in this country in the past fifty years. And all it has done is to drag our country down. And it was us Crackers int he south that has made Detroit and other cites what they are today.
Received 8/26/13
Subject: The Five
I can't stand it anymore!
I don't want the five!!!
I want the ONE!!!
BRING BACK GLENN BECK!!!!
NO MORE FIVE!!!!!
Sincerely,
A very, very unhappy former viewer!!!
Received 8/2713
Subject: Correct pronunciation of words
Someone please inform Andrea Tantaros, co-host of The Five, that irregardless is NOT the correct usage of the word, regardless!! There is no such word as irregardless because it counter acts the word regardless. If she wants to be taken seriously, as she debates with others on The Five, she needs to review her knowledge of the English language. Sometimes, while being affluent in other languages, your native language suffers--as is the case with Ms. Tantaros. She needs to come down off of that "high horse" she's riding and get with the REAL world. Being so condescending to others really takes its toll on a person. Right, Andrea?!
Received 8/28/13
Subject: Music over voice
We are loyal viewers of Fox; however, we like to hear the dialog and you make it harder and harder each day by having loud music play over what ever is being delivered. .
For example, we were watching and trying to listen to the story of the little girl in PA who received a lung transplant. The music in the foreground truly was so loud playing over the voice of the person doing the interview it was almost impossible to hear anything except the music.It's very frustrating and made more so because my husband is hearing impaired and wears very expensive hearing aids. The music covers up the dialogue to the point he has about given up whenever a break comes up. He knows there will be 8-16 bars of music before, during and after each commercial! You're not getting your money's worth!Thanks,
Subject: Mr. Belton Funeral Spokane, Wa
Just a heads up. There must be about 150 Patriot Guard Riders here today to honor Mr. Belton and his family.
I lived in Central Florida in the days of segregation and wondered – as a child will do – why each and every public place had to have four (4) bathrooms: one each for colored and white men and women. Just seemed so silly.
In those years, crackers – aka “po’ white trash” – lived exactly like the colored did or worse, but they felt superior to anyone who was colored, even world-class university professors. And they were quick to offend or retaliate against “uppity niggers” or “jungle bunnies” or whatever the current epithet was. Inventing and using offensive terms was (is?) one of those “har-de-har” games they enjoyed so much.
If there was a category totally and adamantly dead set against recognising non-whites as equals it was that lot. In my town, they didn’t have fire hoses but they’d burn down the homes of uppity blacks or walk around menacingly in their white hoods and robes as they burned a cross in front of the homes of people who dared to say anything in favor of integration. They burned one outside our home and it wasn’t supposed to be a mild reaction: it was teach the whitey (my father) a lesson.
Now they’ve got the gall to say they helped the blacks. Sheeeeeeesh.
@e-mailer #3: Irregardless is an American dialect word and is now in the Merriam-Webster dictionary. So regardless of whether it’s correct usage or not, that makes it officially part of the English language. So come down off of that high horse you’re riding and stop being so condescending towards Andrea and the word irregardless. And by the way, asshole, saying Andrea is AFFLUENT in other languages is not correct usage. It’s FLUENT.
