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• March 29, 2005 | 3:59 PM ET | Permalink

It’s here, The Fox Blocker.

It’s not just a David Kelly fantasy. Sam Kimery says he's sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets, since its August debut.  Of course, he has also received death threats from Fox fans, who naturally wish to kill anyone who does not share their views. 'Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience,' said Kimery, 45. We note that Kimery is formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct captain, but says he became an independent in the 1990s when he said the state party stopped taking input from its everyday members. Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservative journalistic bias, that inaccuracies are never retracted, and what winds up on the air is more opinion than news. 'I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store,' he says. 'Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retrograde notions.' We also note, for fairness’ sake, that Kimery doesn't use the device himself; his remote is programmed to only a half-dozen channels. Plus he occasionally feels the need to tune into Fox News for something 'especially heinous.'"