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2011/12/06 03:07:18
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
It ain't easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.
Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.
Bolling, who took issue with the baron's name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.
"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.
"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."
Indeed, there was no mention of the benefits of oil drilling in the Muppets, but there was also no discussion of any other aspect of the industry. Richman, played by Chris Cooper, was out to destroy the Muppets theater. Kermit and his friends, then, were not committed environmentalists (though one must imagine the frog is concerned with his swampy homeland) but simply puppets looking to save a place they once loved.
Still, Gainor blamed the film, and its predecessors, for Occupy Wall Street and the environmental movement.
"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."
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I know this comes from the Huffington post, so if need be, I'll post a Fox News version of the story.
2011/12/06 04:28:37
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
It ain't easy being green, but according to Fox Business, Kermit the Frog and his Muppet friends are reds.
Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.
Bolling, who took issue with the baron's name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.
"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.
"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."
Indeed, there was no mention of the benefits of oil drilling in the Muppets, but there was also no discussion of any other aspect of the industry. Richman, played by Chris Cooper, was out to destroy the Muppets theater. Kermit and his friends, then, were not committed environmentalists (though one must imagine the frog is concerned with his swampy homeland) but simply puppets looking to save a place they once loved.
Still, Gainor blamed the film, and its predecessors, for Occupy Wall Street and the environmental movement.
"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."
The Teletubbies were unavailable for comment. Mahna-Mahna.
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I know this comes from the Huffington post, so if need be, I'll post a Fox News version of the story.
Clueless greedy tools are still clueless greedy tools?
2011/12/06 04:31:22
Subject: Re:The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Hating on the muppets is just a way of identifying yourself as a total idiot whose utterances should be disregarded.
Much like hating on The Daily Show, cookies, bacon or boobs.
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I am surprised they haven't identified santa as a communist. I will be starting a new thread on that santa thing....
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2011/12/06 05:44:39
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
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2011/12/06 10:25:47
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Mannahnin wrote:Hating on the muppets is just a way of identifying yourself as a total idiot whose utterances should be disregarded.
Much like hating on The Daily Show, cookies, bacon or boobs.
The Daily show is liberal, but its funny, so thats ok. Colbert is better. Tosh is better. The crazy LSD cartoon with the ever stretching dog is even better.
Cookies, bacon, and boobs, are just proof of the existence of a benevolent pasta god.
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2011/12/06 12:50:57
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Yeaaahh, oil is very rarely used in bulk power generation in this country. Coal, natural gas, and nuclear are by far the main sources of electricity. Oil is just too damned expensive to be competitive with the other three.
Well unless we're talking 1840 and whale oil.
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2011/12/06 13:07:21
Subject: Re:The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
More importantly, I have a date with a blond to take her to see it. Looking forward to it!
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2011/12/06 13:42:26
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
I am surprised they haven't identified santa as a communist. I will be starting a new thread on that santa thing....
Hmmm... now that you mention it.... he does have an affinity for the color red. He also gives toys to kids for FREE! Plus, he is part of the insidious War on Christmas!
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2011/12/06 13:49:54
Subject: Re:The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
I am surprised they haven't identified santa as a communist. I will be starting a new thread on that santa thing....
Hmmm... now that you mention it.... he does have an affinity for the color red. He also gives toys to kids for FREE! Plus, he is part of the insidious War on Christmas!
Its all so clear now. Just look how he runs his sleigh. Rudolph leads it when conditions are poor, because of his glowing red nose. From Each his Ability to Each to His Need! How could we have been blind to it all this time!
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2011/12/06 13:52:04
Subject: Re:The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Frazzled wrote: Rudolph leads it when conditions are poor, because of her glowing red nose.
Fixed that for you, Rudolph is female, and probably pregnant, as are all the other reindeer.
Only female reindeer have antlers in winter.
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2011/12/06 15:19:31
Subject: The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Lord of the Rings is communist too! Frodo has a lot of gold in his palm, but for the good of the world, he has to throw it away. And the forces of darkness represent capitalism's buying power, visibly by the fact that Sauron has all the cool monsters and has an empire made up of Mordor and the southern human kindgoms. The Fellowship of the Ring represents the Marxist virtue of "from each according to his ability." The hobbits are short because they represent the workers, who are themselves on a low point in the social pyramid. And what do workers hold in their hands? HAMMERS AND SICKLES!
The movie is about the muppets saving their theater, not about big oil or global warming. It's like the guy never watched the show. Just read a blurb about the movie
"Big oil man Tex Richman.." OMG! Hide the kids! Big Red is trying to corrupt us!
Also, Kermet is a chubby chaser. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They try harder...
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2011/12/06 15:45:44
Subject: Re:The Muppets Are Communist, Fox Business Network Says
Mannahnin wrote:Hating on the muppets is just a way of identifying yourself as a total idiot whose utterances should be disregarded.
Much like hating on The Daily Show, cookies, bacon or boobs.
The Daily show is liberal, but its funny, so thats ok. Colbert is better. Tosh is better. The crazy LSD cartoon with the ever stretching dog is even better.
Daniel Tosh is a funny dude. Steven Colbert is a funny dude and awesome. And a Catholic. The Daily Show is liberal, but burns hypocritical liberals too. I particularly love it when they do ahead and "gotcha" people by playing clips of the same person expressing totally contrary and unreconciled views at different times. I wish the regular news would do this.
Frazzled wrote:Cookies, bacon, and boobs, are just proof of the existence of a benevolent pasta god.
Ben Franklin said that beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy. I don't believe in his god or the pasta god, but I agree.
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