The Other Chip

I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings in the prior post. I wasn't knocking either of the two blog posts regarding shopping (or not) at Sears. I was only pointing out the irony in the conflict between them, and perhaps clumsily trying to make a broader point that I won't change shopping habits based on any reason that doesn't have to do directly with the basics of any economic decision: price, quality, convenience, etc.

I agree with the commenter who said there is sometimes good information to be found in chain e-mails. But I always do check snopes.com before passing any of that information on, particularly with regard to potential news stories here at FOX 4.

With all that said, let me offer you my LEAST favorite chain e-mail. We've gotten this chain sent to our Viewers Voice e-mail box viewersvoice@kdfwfox4.com at least 100 times. The e-mail is only half true at best. I'll copy the e-mail here, and then write my standard reply below.

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Subject: Fw: Denzel Washington

Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers that have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the States, especially burn victims. They have buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher House is a hotel where soldiers' families can stay, for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying in the hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses on base but as you can imagine, they are almost completely filled most of the time.

While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build. He took his check book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it

The question I have is why does Alec Baldwin, Madonna, Sean Penn and other Hollywood types make front page news with their anti-everything America crap and this doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the base newspaper in San Antonio.

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My reply:

This story is only half true. Check out this link at snopes.com for the real story.

By the way, FOX 4 did cover this story the day Denzel visited the base, which was back in December 2004. But we only told the part of the story that was true.

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Thank goodness for Snopes.com!