The Brainwashing Of My Dad

2016 • 89 minutes
3.6
98 reviews
58%
Tomatometer
Eligible
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Right-wing cable news and "conservative" talk radio attract older Americans like graying moths to an angry flame. But why would someone who was either apolitical or a Democrat in younger days become addicted to conservative talk shows in their twilight years? Filmmaker Jen Senko wondered how her WWII veteran and Kennedy Democrat father had been transformed into a Fox News fanatic, suddenly and inexplicably railing against blacks, gays, and poor people. Using her dad as an entertaining example, Senko pulls back the curtain to expose the tools and tricks of the wizards behind the right-wing media revolution. And in discovering what happened to him, Senko reveals the all-too-chilling bigger picture of what’s happening behind-the-scenes to influence our national discourse.

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3.6
98 reviews
T Gauntlett
July 6, 2019
Garbage. Like all propaganda, this thing insists that all viewpoints outside it's own are wrong, dangerous and Hitler-esque. It doesn't actually provide any evidence to support the creator's assumption that 'right-wing media' is creating 'far-right viewers', it just goes through the usual CNN/MSN 'talking points' (ie fear-mongering). Can't believe the creator of this thing basically capitalised off of a harmless old man (the dad) who is now dead and thus incapable of giving his own side of the story or refuting any of the exaggerated nonsense in here. Save your $ and watch some clouds float across the sky instead.
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Ed Felty
November 2, 2018
YUCK, more left wing propaganda. I'll stick with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, two documents created with a genius never before seen by mankind. Our government was designed with built-in self protection mechanisms, don't let these Globo-Socialist traitors change a thing!
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Mark Henderson
August 4, 2018
To quote Winston Churchill "if you were never liberal you were never young. If you're not conservative you never grew up". Some people take longer to grow and then again some never do. Its life
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