Muppets' liberal bias is "brainwashing our kids."

[mgc1961]

If the topic of discussion is a beloved Jim Henson creation, chances are that Eric Bolling will find something leftist about it.

The Fox Business personality once again lashed out at a Henson creation Friday evening on Follow The Money, claiming along with guest and conservative Media Research Center member Dan Gainor that the new “Muppets” movie has a liberal bias.

Bolling and Gainor took the most umbrage over the movie’s selection of a villain, a powerful oil businessman. And they figured that it supposedly represented the movie industry’s animosity towards corporations.

“I’ll put it out there: Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?” Bolling asked.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/03/foxs-bolling-the-muppets-liberal-bias-is-brainwashing-our-kids/

I guess Bolling and Garinor would have heartily approved of the movie if poverty stricken Lily was cast as the villain. Oh wait, I just...yeah. I just had an idea. Perhaps these two should finance a remake of It's A Wonderful Life in which George Bailey is the tyrant.


:silly:

[Tesha]

1. Of course. Most of life outside of Faux Noise has a liberal bias. (NT)

[ewagner]

2. ...and that damned Dickens....

villainized that poor, hard-working, job-creating, rational-self-interested Mr Scrooge ......it's been a liberal conspiracy for years! Years, I tells ya!!!!!

[baldguy]

3. Scrooge was the original Compassionate Conservative™

[Diclotican]

4. mgc1961

mgc1961

Wow, now they are after the Muppet's.. One of my favorite show when I was little.. And one I in fact cherished to the point, that I was willing to do almost anything, to get to se the 30 min long show... Yea, I loved Kermit, Ms Piggy and all the others..

And, thanks to you tube, you can find the treasures online. And I have to say, even tho the show is little old, they are still pretty funny to look at. Specially at 4-5am when you are little down on the sleeping, and most things are funny... Not to say, all the different artist they have on the show over the years...

But, liberal bias?.. I'm not sure what liberal bias means in the US anymore, but common decency, and be good with each other is maybe "liberal bias" this days.. I don't know..

Diclotican

[Demeter]

5. Yes, Brainwashing all that crap you psychos crammed into their little psyches

I fail to see a downside to that.

[Berlin Expat]

6. Sweet Lord save us

from the Muppets and their anti-capitalist Communist Green creeping Sharia being supported by George Soros, the Trilateral Commission, Bohemian Grove and the Bilderbergs satanic philosophy which will surely turn our children into slavering, drug-crazed socialist Marxist Muslim sodomites camping out at the nearest Occupy Movement!! In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.


:sarcasm:

The derpitude from the Right gets deeper everyday. I'm starting to wonder if their insanity is somehow contagious.

[Enthusiast]

9. Don't be surprised if your prayer is co-opted.

There are stealth Freepers on here that would find it appropriate. Srsly.

[Berlin Expat]

15. Oh, wonderful.....

like I'd need that on my conscience.

Thanks to the Teahadis, the modern GOP has become nothing more than an extension of the John Birch Society.

They're an unbelievable collection of conspiracy mongers, deluded fools, and neo-Confederate revanchists.

In what sane political party would the likes of Michelle Bachmann, a raving loony if there ever was one, Newt Gingrich.....NEWT GINGRICH, a man whose serial infidelities and ethical problems make him a soap-opera character, and the rest of the would-be GOP nominees be taken seriously for even a millisecond? Has the GOP become so disconnected from any semblance of reality that they now exist as a gathering hole for intellectual pygmies?

I'd daresay Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, even Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize what the Republican Party has transformed into.

[kickysnana]

7. Disney was and the Corp is Corporate Right Wing. Muppets are now Disney. oops.

[JBoy]

8. Just ignore it. Like you do Jesus' liberal bias.

[Enthusiast]

10. If it doesn't contain cruelty, intolerance and bullying

it must be liberal. Don't yiz know anything?

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[DocMac]

12. How funny.

I just watched "It's a Wonderful Life" last night. I noticed Bert (the cop) and Ernie (the cab driver) and realized that those muppets, Bert & Ernie, must have come from that movie.

[socialindependocrat]

13. Wasn't Shirley Temple living off the system

Every where she went she never had a job but she was fed and clothed

just because she had dimples and said Dog gone it!

She was type cast and learned how to manipulate so well

What was the natural profession for her to select but

TA TA DA DAAAAAAA

A politician!!!!!!!!

Sorry Shirley - you really are a peach!!!!

But, the logic still follows!!!!

[dawg]

14. "Maniacal laugh, maniacal laugh"

They're onto our Muppet-based strategy!

[NMMNG]

16. Apparently the proper thing to do

would be for the muppets to allow the oil tycoon to take over the theater, then for the muppets to take minimum-wage jobs from the oil tycoon and be grateful to him that they weren't out on the streets. (Cue swelling music and ode to the "job creators".) :eyes:

[NICO9000]

17. Bolling just wants to be tickled like Elmo!

Won't someone please help?

:evilgrin:

[rpannier]

18. Statler and Waldorf have moved over to Fox Business News???

I didn't know that

[applegrove]

19. If anyone teaches empathy they get accussed of having a liberal bias. Just sick.

Do little children really have to take on the personality traits of a psychopathic corporation starting at age 2 or 3? And what will the world look like in 75 years if we allow that to happen.

[uriel1972]

20. Compassion, co-operation, humour

all of these are liberal values now. Take pride in your Muppets people, take pride in your Muppets.