Block Fox news?

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A superfluous invention perhaps, but nonetheless, somebody has invented a device made specifically for the purpose of blocking out Fox newscasts. Of course, the truth about it is that it will block any channel you choose it to, given that the device is nothing more than a standard coaxial trap and one has to select which local cable channel is Fox when ordering the device. In effect, the invertor is hoping that it will be used to block Fox, when it could just as easily be used to block any other channel deemed undesirable by the purchaser.

Which brings me again to my comment about this being a fairly useless invention. Unless one intends on "sabotaging" school and hotel TVs (the former is actually suggested on the Fox Blocker website), blocking out one channel via a coaxial trap is a waste of time when the bulk of today's cable boxes and cable-ready televisions have built-in controls for blocking channels a user deems undesirable. As a form of protest, it's pretty weak...unless you can get a bunch of people to sabotage a great deal of TVs all at once.

Of course, the right-wing lame-brain's that worship at the glow of Fox news have been emailing various threats to the inventor of this little device, as if he were breaking into their homes and tampering with the settings on their televisions. I guess that small minds can't grasp the concept that the Fox Blocker could just as easily become the CNN Blocker, if you order one set to channel 8 instead of 61 (at least in Pittsburgh).