My Dad Wasn’t Brainwashed by Conservative Media

They fed him exactly what he’d been waiting to hear

Amber Fraley
4 min readAug 17, 2021

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I hear a lot of apologetic white progressives who insist their parents or grandparents have been “brainwashed” by Fox News or other conservative media. I hate to break it to you, but in most cases, that’s simply not the truth.

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Amber Fraley

1Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.