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Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!

December 02, 2011 11:29 pm ET

From the December 2 edition of Fox Business' Follow the Money:

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    • Author by kabniel (December 02, 2011 11:33 pm ET)
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      Look Fox if you think the Muppets are your enemy the you really need take a serious look at yourselves
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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (December 03, 2011 12:11 am ET)
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        this is a repeat from past FOX faked outrages
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        • Author by montanabuddha (December 03, 2011 12:36 pm ET)
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          I think they are really outraged Wolf. Since their RW favorites Atlas Shrunked and The Unattended both lost millions.
          Its a free market irony that they just don't understand.
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          • Author by wolf kotenberg (December 03, 2011 12:41 pm ET)
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            NPR reported that Paul Ryan ( R-WI ) embraces Ayn Rand.
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            • Author by chazmanr (December 05, 2011 9:41 am ET)
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              In others news, water is wet and fire is hot.
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            • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (December 05, 2011 2:41 pm ET)
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              Paul Ryan loves Ayn Rand, in fact from what I've read he has his staff read all of her work!
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              • Author by TheWillofThePeople (December 05, 2011 9:26 pm ET)
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                Of course he does. Who better to inform us about who really are the valuable producers in society than a spoiled rich girl who never worked for anything in her whole life?

                Otherwise known by Repugs and Teabaggers as a "hardworking American who earned her keep."
                ____________________________________________________________
                TWOP
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        • Author by OhImRight (December 05, 2011 1:18 pm ET)
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          this is a repeat from past FOX faked outrages


          I don't know which fake outrage to laugh at more?
          1.goatherders
          2.frog crossing signs
          3.liberal muppets

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        • Author by papa bear3 (December 05, 2011 4:15 pm ET)
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          . . .Maybe, I don't know, the Muppets belong to a union? so they must be brainwashing someone, like they have a persons hand up their bvtt spouting stuff just like FOX News anchors.

          I believe more of what Kermit says than anything a FOX-puppet has to say.

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      • Author by Egbert Souse (December 03, 2011 8:35 am ET)
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        First they came for Tinky Winky and I did nothing.
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      • Author by Rsw58 (December 03, 2011 12:27 pm ET)
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        I agree kabniel. I mean, c'mon, they'e going after the Muppets as "enemes of capitalism"? Oh please. And they are all bent out of shape because a rich guy is the villain? I suppose they should hate Charles Dickens for writing "A Christmas Carol." Why make the uber-rich Scrooge the bad guy? Why did Dickens hate successful people? And what about the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life"? They made a villian out of poor old banker Potter! Oh the humanity! Why can't Hollywood make a decent movie about a super rich oil executive hero fighting against some evil dirt-poor homeless person?
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        • Author by katanakumori (December 04, 2011 2:38 pm ET)
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          A children's movie where an evil oil executive "tex richman" wants to destroy the muppets home.

          How could anyone think this innocent film has a political agenda?

          Shocking!
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          • Author by katanakumori (December 04, 2011 2:54 pm ET)
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            P.S.

            The oil exec's name should have been Lucifer Earthraper.

            It's not as subtle.
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            • Author by kabniel (December 04, 2011 3:07 pm ET)
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              P.S.

              You are pathetic
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            • Author by heehee..santorum (December 04, 2011 3:11 pm ET)
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              Who requires a political party to precipitate a good industrial raping? Do you think destroying the Earth for economic gain is ascribable to Republicans or Democrats? I actually respect your tacit endorsement of Lucifer as a principal in Earth's destruction, I always suspected he was a right-winger at least, and most likely an oil-man.
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              • Author by katanakumori (December 04, 2011 3:49 pm ET)
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                Spoken like a true totalitarian.
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                • Author by kabniel (December 04, 2011 5:21 pm ET)
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                  spoken by a true brainwashed MORON
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                • Author by kabniel (December 04, 2011 5:21 pm ET)
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                  spoken by a true brainwashed MORON
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                • Author by heehee..santorum (December 04, 2011 5:27 pm ET)
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                  Cool, do they sell T-shirts to reflect my TOTAL rejection of Right-wing ideology? I would wear it over the F.T.W. on my back if I thought it would make a difference, but it is hard to improve on FTW, it covers all terrestrial issues. When I die however, if righties get lucky and have representation in the afterlife, I will have to petition the reincarnation committee, as righties for eternity would mean Hell is more than an imaginative construct to control the naughty masses. Totalitarian, you are smarter than I gave you credit for k, thanks.
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                • Author by FoxFighter (December 05, 2011 12:17 am ET)
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                  KatanaMORON

                  Here you go
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                  • Author by CoolSlaw (December 05, 2011 9:41 am ET)
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                    I'm just glad we've never seen throw away "dirty hippie" burnout environmentalist, or dumb construction worker, or clueless teacher, or absent minded professor, or lazy cop, or vainglorious actor, or any number of different cartoon and kids characters that pick on a particular profession that the right wing has attacked.

                    As usual, it's only an issue when it effects their small base of constituents, the top 1%.

                    Think they just proved who they answer to.
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                • Author by chazmanr (December 05, 2011 9:48 am ET)
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                  totalitarian


                  Here is my response to that
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            • Author by papa bear3 (December 05, 2011 4:21 pm ET)
                 
              . . .maybe there was an underlying fear that the impoverished Muppets would occupy Tex Richman's uptown front stoop/corporate headquarters and demand justice.
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          • Author by kabniel (December 04, 2011 3:06 pm ET)
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            katanaMORON

            GOD you are stupid. Tell us about the evil muppets. Tell us all about how a group of puppets that has been around since the 50's is some evil plot. Nothing I enjoy more than laughing at your abject stupidity.
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            • Author by chazmanr (December 05, 2011 9:49 am ET)
                 
              50s?
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              • Author by kabniel (December 05, 2011 12:13 pm ET)
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                Yeah, didnt get on TV till the 60's but the muppets hav been around since the mid 50's
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                • Author by chazmanr (December 05, 2011 12:29 pm ET)
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                  And here I thought that my generation was the first for Muppets.
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                • Author by NiceguyEddie (December 05, 2011 12:48 pm ET)
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                  Yes but to be fair the Commercials he did for Wilson's Coffee aren't exactly the Muppets most people know and love today. (Only the voices are recognizable.)

                  ---------------------------------------
                  IMHO
                  UTOPIA
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          • Author by Johaely (December 04, 2011 4:12 pm ET)
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            A simple comedy film is using a familiar type of stock character? The horror! The horror! Seriously, the "rich texan oil magnate" is one of the oldest stock characters in cartoons.
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            • Author by MiniTru (December 05, 2011 7:46 am ET)
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              We even had one of those Texas cartoons as President, but he couldn't even find oil in Texas. His daddy's buddies had to bail him out.
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              • Author by FoxFighter (December 05, 2011 11:54 am ET)
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                He couldn't find any oil in Texas because he was too busy looking for it in Iraq.
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            • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 8:57 am ET)
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              I know, if anything, the Muppets should be criticized for being trite!
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            • Author by papa bear3 (December 05, 2011 4:27 pm ET)
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              . . .some people say there will be a remake of "There will be Blood"with the Muppets as the cast.

              Kermit reprising the Daniel Day Lewis character
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        • Author by MyassisDragon (December 05, 2011 9:27 pm ET)
             
          Trading Places!
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      • Author by Rsw58 (December 03, 2011 12:27 pm ET)
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        I agree kabniel. I mean, c'mon, they'e going after the Muppets as "enemes of capitalism"? Oh please. And they are all bent out of shape because a rich guy is the villain? I suppose they should hate Charles Dickens for writing "A Christmas Carol." Why make the uber-rich Scrooge the bad guy? Why did Dickens hate successful people? And what about the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life"? They made a villian out of poor old banker Potter! Oh the humanity! Why can't Hollywood make a decent movie about a super rich oil executive hero fighting against some evil dirt-poor homeless person?
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        • Author by Andy Kreiss (December 03, 2011 1:30 pm ET)
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          It's a pretty common theme throughout history in literature, the greedy rich antagonist. It's never been about the wingnuts' phony idea about "being rich makes one evil", it's about the fact that there are evil people, and the ones who get rich have much more power to act on their evil.

          There are plenty of evil poor people in works of fiction, street thugs and gypsies and tinkers and petty criminals, nobody gets all bent because of this stereotyping.

          As much as Fox wants to pretend it's some brand new "liberal" idea, it's nothing recent. While Americans have always had an admiration for people who make it, especially the rags-to-riches story, we've always had a healthy suspicion for the wealthy. You hit the jackpot, good for you, but don't let it go to your head.
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          • Author by kabniel (December 03, 2011 3:48 pm ET)
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            Uriah Heep. Dickens had Scrooge he also had Heep
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            • Author by jjamele2880 (December 03, 2011 4:54 pm ET)
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              EVERY Horatio Alger book (and he wrote about eighty of them) features a rich snob (usually with the title "Colonel" or "Squire") who gets no real pleasure out of his wealth, just uses it to lord it over everyone else (and eventually loses it because his greed causes him to take too many chances.) This villain ALWAYS has a disgustingly stuck-up, worthless son who thinks he's better than the poor but honest, hard-working hero, but who is rude to his parents, gambles, smokes, runs up debts, etc because he doesn't understand the value of honest work. The message of all these books is that it isn't money that makes one rich- it's honesty, determination, faithfulness toward one's work, CHARITY (the heroes are always willing to lend a helping hand to the truly needy, even when they have little themselves,) and thrift. Totally lost on the people who call themselves the "Most Productive" today.
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              • Author by CoolSlaw (December 05, 2011 9:48 am ET)
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                This is nothing new of course.

                John Steinbeck's American classic "The Grapes of Wrath" has been criticized by the right for having communist overtones before, as it shows the plight of those displaced by circumstance during the great depression.

                One exception would be the works of Robert Heinlein where the crafty and resourceful rich guys change the world when they aren't too busy fooling around with beautiful women and expressing how clever and interesting house cats are.
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                • Author by kabniel (December 05, 2011 1:18 pm ET)
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                  So true

                  Love the way those gorgeous and nubile 22 year olds just couldnt get enough of or keep their hands off those sexy sixty year old men
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          • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 9:00 am ET)
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            Doctor Evil in the Austin Powers flicks was rich. Mike Meyers is a Commie!!!!! ;-)
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      • Author by Rsw58 (December 03, 2011 12:52 pm ET)
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        I agree kabniel. I mean, c'mon, they'e going after the Muppets as "enemes of capitalism"? Oh please. And they are all bent out of shape because a rich guy is the villain? I suppose they should hate Charles Dickens for writing "A Christmas Carol." Why make the uber-rich Scrooge the bad guy? Why did Dickens hate successful people? And what about the movie, "It's a Wonderful Life"? They made a villian out of poor old banker Potter! Oh the humanity! Why can't Hollywood make a decent movie about a super rich oil executive hero fighting against some evil dirt-poor homeless person?
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    • Author by dhertzfe (December 02, 2011 11:34 pm ET)
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      If I wasn't a progressive Dem, if I were a GOPer/TPer, in all commonsense I couldn't buy most of the stuff from FAUX. There so called presentation and facts just don't add up nor do they make sense.

      I fear all this hatred for the common people, progressives, the Dem party and Unions has only been the tip of the iceberg these past three years. This is going to be one hell of an ugly year.
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      • Author by dogbreath (December 03, 2011 10:40 am ET)
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        I totally agree with you d. Honestly, I don't know how people buy this crap day-in and day-out. It just boggles the mind. This is a kids movie, starring characters that most every American is familiar with, and suddenly FOX tries to make them into something evil and wrong. What's next? Superman? Spiderman? Sesame Street? Oh, I forgot they have alread attacked Sesame Street as some communist plot. No wonder Americans have faith in nothing anymore. It's pretty sad.
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        • Author by foghornleghorn (December 03, 2011 11:40 am ET)
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          I don't know how people buy this crap day-in and day-out.

          They're authoritarians - they need their political/media masters to tell them what to believe.

          That's why we have to continually de-bunk zombie lies. How many nutjobs do you think still believe that Gore invented the internet?
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          • Author by foghornleghorn (December 03, 2011 11:41 am ET)
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            correction - that Gore said he invented the internet.
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          • Author by foghornleghorn (December 03, 2011 11:41 am ET)
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            correction - that Gore said he invented the internet.
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          • Author by dogbreath (December 03, 2011 11:44 am ET)
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            How many of them think that we still fought the war in Iraq to destroy their nuclear weapon stockpiles. These folks are idiots and the saddest fact of all is that they relish their ignorance.
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      • Author by tman418 (December 04, 2011 11:40 am ET)
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        If I wasn't a progressive Dem, if I were a GOPer/TPer, in all commonsense I couldn't buy most of the stuff from FAUX. There so called presentation and facts just don't add up nor do they make sense.


        That's only because you're not Tea Partyer Republican. Therefore, you don't think the way they do and you don't buy Fox News' bulls***. You use your logic and reason and common sense. They don't. If they did, they would be a progressive Dem like you and me.
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    • Author by Persephone (December 02, 2011 11:39 pm ET)
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      I know pointing out cognitive dissonance/logic problems in conservative thinking is like shooting a school of trout w/an AK-47 in a bucket, but...

      If evil Liberal Hollywood/the Media has been, as they say, "brainwashing" children and/or us for decades (eons even!) how is it that Fox maintains that America is a Center-Right country? Is Hollywood just really, really bad at brainwashing?

      Maybe I can hire a Muppet to explain to Bolling that these 'facts' contradict one another.

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      • Author by magnolialover (December 03, 2011 2:56 pm ET)
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        That's a question I always wonder about. If everyone is getting indoctrinated into the "liberal" agenda in schools, and by evil entities such as The Muppets, how did republicans win over the House in November 2010? How come FoxNews is the best rated cable news TV station? How come talk radio is comprised almost entirely of conservative radio shows?

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        • Author by MsYellowDog (December 03, 2011 3:32 pm ET)
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          It's never going to be good enough for the wingnuts until the last "squeak" of liberalism and/or progressive thought is squashed out of the proletariat. Anywhere there is a single word or deed of empathy/kindness to others, they will be there to destroy it,so it won't proliferate.
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        • Author by grrson (December 04, 2011 3:02 pm ET)
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          pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!!
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      • Author by FoxFighter (December 05, 2011 12:57 am ET)
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        Bolling is a muppet
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    • Author by ThomasJH268 (December 02, 2011 11:59 pm ET)
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      Well the fascists had to after somebody new since the teletubbies are off the air
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    • Author by Tunasafeart (December 02, 2011 11:59 pm ET)
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      Have these people ever seen the Muppets? Created by King Lovey Dovey, Hippie Dippie Jim Henson? They're just now realizing that there might be a slight liberal-bent to the Muppets? Sound the alarms!

      Alright, let's just start with the plot point of evil oilman Tex Richman. It didn't even have to be oil he was after, the whole point of his character was that someone had to be tearing down the studio to get the gang back together. They could have been building a strip mall or a casino there, it didn't matter. Obviously a poor person isn't going to buy the studio and tear it down, so of course he had to be rich.

      Secondly, the Muppets have always been about humanitarian causes (love, sharing, peace, etc). The Muppets are the antithesis of conservative ideals in this day and age. Just skip the movie if you are so offended that puppets are trying to bring us together in unity. I mean, how dare the lighter Muppets not detain and waterboard those darker-colored Muppets because of suspicions.

      Thirdly, they are looking waaaaaaaaaaay too deep into a movie with singing and dancing puppets just trying to make people smile with corny jokes and slapstick. The only message they are trying to get across is that the Muppets, with their happy message of love for one another and friendship, can still be relevant in our cynical and sarcastic society

      Lastly, projection much? Who wants to grab kids while they're young and brainwash them into believing ludicrous ideas more than conservatives?
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      • Author by magnolialover (December 03, 2011 2:57 pm ET)
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        Tea Party summer camps.

        'Nuff said.

        If someone can show me the liberal counter part to me, I'd love to see it. And denounce that too.
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        • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 4:48 pm ET)
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          Mags, the liberal counterpart to you would be an angel.
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        • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 9:10 am ET)
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          Well, It certainly ain't the Boy Scouts.

          I got me my Rifle and Shotgun Merit Badge to prove I was there!
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          • Author by chazmanr (December 05, 2011 1:15 pm ET)
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            Liberals are not by definition gun haters. While I believe that there should be restrictions on what types of firearms people can own and where they can take them, I have no problem with private gun ownership.

            Signed,

            Another notorious liberal, former Boy Scout with the Rifle & Shotgun merit badge and holder of the camp record for for highest average score from all shooting positions about 30 years after setting the record.
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        • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 9:10 am ET)
             
          Well, It certainly ain't the Boy Scouts.

          I got me my Rifle and Shotgun Merit Badge to prove I was there!
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        • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 9:35 am ET)
             
          Well, It certainly ain't the Boy Scouts.

          I got me my Rifle and Shotgun Merit Badge to prove I was there!
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      • Author by dazednamused (December 04, 2011 7:53 pm ET)
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        cough ... monotheistic ... cough ... religion ... cough
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    • Author by whatIthink (December 03, 2011 12:59 am ET)
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      Fox's enemies list:

      1. Muppets
      2. Sesame Street
      3. Spongebob Squarepants

      Feel free to add any other cartoons/puppets I'm missing...
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      • Author by nixter (December 03, 2011 1:25 am ET)
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        Teletubbies
        Simpsons
        American dad
        South park
        And anybody who thinks fox noise sucks.
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        • Author by Persephone (December 03, 2011 1:30 am ET)
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          Family Guy. Basically all of the good cartoons.
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        • Author by ThomasJH268 (December 03, 2011 1:56 am ET)
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          Harry Potter, mustn't forget, Harry Potter
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        • Author by somnambulist (December 03, 2011 3:22 am ET)
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          American dad

          The fact this show airs on FOX is oh, oh so ironic. I mean, it's a show whose opening bit in its pilot episode makes fun of the color-coded terrorism alert system. The series' sole purpose is "let's make Family Guy again, but do nothing but mock every aspect of right-wing history, politics, and social beliefs".
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          • Author by somnambulist (December 03, 2011 3:30 am ET)
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            Hate replying to myself, but forgot something fairly significant--

            It's important to remember the difference between the FOX air broadcast network TV and FOX News. I mean, same ownership technically, but very different management, different business models, different target audiences, etc etc.

            FOX Sports networks and the movie wing of News Corp don't fit the same mold, either. It's just the media end both domestically and internationally that I (well, the collective "we", for the sake of MMFA standards) should take issue with.
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            • Author by michaelr (December 03, 2011 10:51 am ET)
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              Yes, that's revealing, isn't it?

              Fox News is just a product. Packaged and sold to specific customers. It's not news, it's not information. It's entertainment.

              Of course, so are CNN and MSNBC. Local news is the basest of them all, preying on your innate fears ("The secret dangers lurking in your home that CAN KILL YOU. Tonight at 11!").

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              • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 12:43 pm ET)
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                ("The secret dangers lurking in your home that CAN KILL YOU. Tonight at 11!").
                What? What?? WHAT??? I can't wait 'till 11! Tell me now!!
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        • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (December 03, 2011 4:33 pm ET)
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          Bert and Ernie are Gay!
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          • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 4:50 pm ET)
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            Well, they really suck at that gay agenda thing. My sons enjoyed them when little, and now all four are straight.
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          • Author by The Liberal Republican (December 05, 2011 9:06 am ET)
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            I hate to support the stereotype, but have you ever seen The Dream Sequence where burt and ernie are riding the bed? It could easily be interpreted as gay.

            I can picture American Dad doing a parody of it. The Alien and Steve riding a bed.

            I guess the ultimate question is... Who Cares?

            We can all agree. Don't tread on me. Free to be you and me!
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        • Author by David2012 (December 05, 2011 1:03 pm ET)
             
          I think they're okay with The Simpson's. After all, it's a Murdoch cash cow.
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      • Author by FoxFighter (December 03, 2011 12:18 pm ET)
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        Glenn Beck Picked on the 3 Little Pigs earlier this year
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (December 03, 2011 1:33 pm ET)
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        Don't forget, they're going after that animated penguin movie ( Happy Feet?) for mentioning Global Warming.

        This isn't new. When I was a kid, we saw movies about Christopher Columbus, promoting the Round World Agenda, in public school !
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      • Author by grrson (December 04, 2011 3:04 pm ET)
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        They would probably have a conniption fit over Fraggle Rock if it was still on the air.
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    • Author by PBVV (December 03, 2011 1:01 am ET)
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      Sheesh, I am old!

      I remember when The Right WingNuts were ranting about the Smurfs brainwashing our kids, subverting the young into ...something..??

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      • Author by papa bear3 (December 03, 2011 9:19 am ET)
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        . . .Hey, Kukla, Fran and Ollie lead me down the road to Communism in 1952
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        • Author by rms (December 03, 2011 9:22 am ET)
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          Boris and Natasha?
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          • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 5:42 pm ET)
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            Second Jay Ward sighting this week. A couple of days ago I told a new poster, bullwinkle, that his post was Badenov. (It was actually pretty good.)
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            • Author by rms (December 04, 2011 8:22 am ET)
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              I'm not big on adding Constutional amendments, but Rocky & Bullwinkle should be required viewing...
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              • Author by Conchobhar (December 04, 2011 3:30 pm ET)
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                Would never get through. The right would find the idea of fracturing fairy tales too much like free thinking.
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        • Author by carnholio (December 03, 2011 11:40 am ET)
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          Confessions of a Nazi Spy made me a socialist Communist fascist progressive.
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        • Author by cugagcmu805031 (December 05, 2011 12:53 am ET)
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          Captain Kangaroo made me a liberal, along with Mickey Mouse, Zoro, the Lone Ranger, and Sky King. LOL
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        • Author by kabniel (December 05, 2011 1:19 pm ET)
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          Yeah but Sherri Lewis was hot. There were a whole lot of roads she could have led me down when I was a kid
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      • Author by dazednamused (December 04, 2011 7:55 pm ET)
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        Gargamel was a Teatard?
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    • Author by dhertzfe (December 03, 2011 1:48 am ET)
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      The MRC guy needs a speech therapists really really bad.
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    • Author by bailorgana (December 03, 2011 7:18 am ET)
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      Eric Boling is bought to today, by his stupidy, his bigoty, and his paranoria.
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    • Author by bailorgana (December 03, 2011 7:30 am ET)
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      Also here's some thing for you Eric.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48rz8udZBmQ
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    • Author by teh.stoopid.lib (December 03, 2011 8:00 am ET)
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      Yeah, ya dum libs! Leave the poor little kids alone an stop indoctrinatin em!
      c'mon kids, get in the car, it's time fer Sunday school.
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    • Author by MickD (December 03, 2011 8:00 am ET)
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      Hollywood hates corporate America? They are corporate America! Hey Jag-off, FoxNoose has a movie company.
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    • Author by MickD (December 03, 2011 8:30 am ET)
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      Hollywood hates corporate America? They are corporate America! Hey Jag-off, FoxNoose has a movie company.
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    • Author by wookie (December 03, 2011 9:58 am ET)
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      Why does a business network care about anything but whether or not the movie makes money? If liberal movies make money hasn't the market validated those ideas? The fact that the right flips out over the slightest hint of criticism shows that they go beyond simply making money to creating a corporate religion.
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      • Author by Andy Kreiss (December 03, 2011 1:39 pm ET)
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        Keep in mind, wookie, how the right wing media reports on these things.

        If the Ayn Rand or Sarah Palin movie had not flopped, and had instead raked in some money, they would have been cited as proof that conservative ideas are strong, that audiences are going out of their way to hear the right wing message.

        If a film that the wingnuts imagine has a liberal agenda is successful, the audience was tricked into seeing it, having their money stolen in furthering the liberal agenda.

        Wingnuttery is a schizophrenic ideology, not recommended for those with functioning cognitive dissonance sensors.
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    • Author by marco21 (December 03, 2011 10:15 am ET)
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      God, so embarrassing. They fret over some fantasies yet thirve on others like the fictions of Ayn Rand.
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      • Author by dogbreath (December 03, 2011 10:46 am ET)
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        He!!, they devise policies based upon Ayn Rand, who was a complete loon. The GOP has marched so far off the cliff they actually remind me of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon more than anything else.

        Maybe they should watch those cartoons and see what they can pull from them. Expecting too much, I know.
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        • Author by ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© (December 03, 2011 12:05 pm ET)
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          A complete loon, and an atrocious writer.

          (Susan of Texas has a fine series of blog posts on the latter subject.)
          ~
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        • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 6:46 pm ET)
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          The GOP has marched so far off the cliff they actually remind me of a Wile E. Coyote cartoon more than anything else.
          So if we can just get them to look down, all our problems will be solved: "wa-HOO-hoo-hoooooooooo"
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    • Author by MeanMrSpicyMustard (December 03, 2011 10:22 am ET)
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      "Tomorrow night, FOX Business investigates: is it, in fact, not easy being green, or has the liberal nanny state struck again to increase subsidies for illegal immigrant frogs?"
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    • Author by MiniTru (December 03, 2011 10:45 am ET)
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      Fox Business' Follow The Money Unmasks The Muppets' Liberal Agenda: "Brainwashing" Your Kids!
      Fox "News": "It's not easy being mean."
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (December 03, 2011 11:32 am ET)
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      Let me see if I understand this.

      Eric Bolling, an on air personality for the 24 hour, 7 day a week Fox Business Channel, as wells as an on air personality for the 24 hour, 7 day a week Fox News Channel, both of which are owned by News Corp, which also owns The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, News of the World, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Post-Courier, the Fox Broadcasting Company, the television stations WYNW in New York, KTTV and KCOP in Los Angeles, WFLD and WPWR in Chicago, Harper Collins Publishers, the BSkyB broadcast network, hulu.com, and a number of other broadcast, print, and online information and entertainment ventures . . .

      Well, he's got his panties all in a bunch over a 98 minute movie that stars singing puppets? Seriously?

      I wonder if he'll throw a similar tantrum when Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked is released. I just saw a clip that featured them singing Lady Gaga; clearly a liberal attempt to brainwash your kids into accepting the LGBT agenda.

      One that comes courtesy of 20th Century Fox, dontchaknow.

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      • Author by magnolialover (December 03, 2011 3:00 pm ET)
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        I think you've just pulled out their next talking point when Alvin and his buddies come out with their new movie in a few weeks.
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    • Author by bilbo_dies (December 03, 2011 11:38 am ET)
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      Sounds like these guys want to have prior approval of any message/show before release.

      What about my first amendment rights.



      BTW Great job of talking over the opposition's viewpoints.
      Just what I like in America now. If someone says something you disagree with, you just interrupt them and shout over them.
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    • Author by FoxFighter (December 03, 2011 11:40 am ET)
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      ...Meanwhile, the Muppets at FAUX News...

      Seriously? I've seen the Muppets twice and it is one of the most innocent movies I've seen.
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    • Author by psp (December 03, 2011 11:44 am ET)
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      I'm going to get brainwashed tonight! I can't wait!!!
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    • Author by FoxFighter (December 03, 2011 11:44 am ET)
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      Next they will say that there is some hidden LGBT agenda hidden within the words of "Rainbow Connection."

      What next?
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      • Author by FoxFighter (December 03, 2011 12:23 pm ET)
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        Geez I must be still trying to wake up, there are a ton of redundancies in this post. :-/
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (December 03, 2011 12:30 pm ET)
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        An alliance between Faux Gnues and the Decepticons, Snidly Whiplash, Dishonest John, Simon Bar Sinister, and Lex Luthor, to put America into alinement with a proper authoritarian mind set...or else
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        • Author by Bongo Fury (December 03, 2011 12:50 pm ET)
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          What's with Olive Oyl and those three Kids? Did she give birth to them? Fox needs to investigate.
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        • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 12:53 pm ET)
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          Please. I've known gnues; I've worked with gnues; gnues have been my fiends. Faux is no gnu.
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        • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 6:49 pm ET)
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          An alliance between Faux Gnues and the Decepticons, Snidly Whiplash, Dishonest John, Simon Bar Sinister, and Lex Luthor, to put America into alinement with a proper authoritarian mind set...or else
          ANOTHER Jay Ward sighting. If I hadn't packed my Snidely T away for the winter I'd put it on.
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    • Author by jdkinpa (December 03, 2011 2:38 pm ET)
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      Of all the regressive idiots at FAUX, Bolling and his 'co-host' from 'THE FIVE' have to be a couple of the worst; if that's possible.

      Quote: "The only good number on Sesame Street is FIVE." What a self serving Schmuck.......
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      • Author by Conchobhar (December 03, 2011 6:30 pm ET)
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        Let Bollocks say that to the 8 Ape. That gorilla would clean his clock (and then clean up after himself.)
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        • Author by Conchobhar (December 04, 2011 3:24 pm ET)
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          Three thumbs up. I'm guessing worrierking and irony are old enough to remember the ape. Who else?:>)
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    • Author by crazymonkeylady (December 03, 2011 10:17 pm ET)
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      Let's see. The word Paranoia comes to mind. Besides, the Muppets are a business. They do movies to make money. That is capitalism at it's best. I can't imagine what you people raise your kids on. Nothing but Veggie Tales and NRA films. Who is brainwashing who? Get a grip!
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (December 04, 2011 10:37 am ET)
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      WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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    • Author by didi (December 04, 2011 2:47 pm ET)
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      Everyone KNOWS Miss Piggy is a flaming liberal!
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    • Author by Turey (December 04, 2011 3:53 pm ET)
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      This guy really make me miss Beck. At least Beck's stupidity was hilarious sometimes.
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    • Author by draftedin68 (December 04, 2011 4:02 pm ET)
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      Eric, the bag just called.

      The hammers took a vote and they want you out.

      NOW!

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    • Author by dommanno3075 (December 04, 2011 4:09 pm ET)
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      Fox is just pissed that the Muppets are raking it in for Disney, not them.
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      • Author by Nihilist (December 04, 2011 5:14 pm ET)
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        and what is up with snow white living in sin with 7 dwarfs???? not good for the little xtian children to be exposed to...
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    • Author by Nihilist (December 04, 2011 5:09 pm ET)
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      what is up with the reichwing and puppets? remember tele tubby's were going to make your kids gay? or yoda was really Buddha and should be shunned by good little xtian kiddies...
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    • Author by open_mind (December 04, 2011 5:48 pm ET)
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      This just comes down to a fundamental disagreement between the left and the right. Conservatives believe that greed is good. I don't think the left is necessarily anti-business. We are anti-greed, though. If you think greed is good, that is how the two get conflated in your mind.
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    • Author by hoopvillain (December 04, 2011 7:03 pm ET)
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      Are you f*@&ing kidding me!?
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    • Author by dazednamused (December 04, 2011 8:58 pm ET)
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      I smell an "Occupy Sesame Street" protest brewing ... what with all those young, struggling Republicans out there.
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    • Author by little poncho (December 04, 2011 10:22 pm ET)
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      eric, you trying to brainwash your few sheep?????
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    • Author by cugagcmu805031 (December 05, 2011 12:50 am ET)
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      One must really be very insecure and paranoid to deliberately search for a political message against them in a children's movie.
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    • Author by newzhound (December 05, 2011 9:41 am ET)
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      Wait till he hears about Dr. Seuss' Lorax...
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    • Author by shaggles (December 05, 2011 11:28 am ET)
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      HAHA!! Yeah. Disney sure does HATE capitalism.
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    • Author by armendale (December 05, 2011 11:43 am ET)
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      For god sake! If you're gonna let your kid be brainwashed let US do it!
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    • Author by 4teepee (December 05, 2011 12:22 pm ET)
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      Actually, the movie, to make money, debases the Muppets. That is capitalism.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (December 05, 2011 12:58 pm ET)
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      Jim Henson is one of my heroes - OK "was," and remains so in death. He was a great artist, who did what he needed to do to pay the rent and then never "sold out" once making it big. (The sale of the Jim henson Company to Disney happened after his death.) He was an idealist, yes, but he was also a great American and one of the very few undeniablly GOOD people to come into our lives. Was he a Liberal? Well, yeah, duh. Pretty much a full-blown hippy. But did he hate capitalism? Puh-lease. He was no Commie. He just did Capitalism RIGHT: He did the Muppets for profit, and the donated the other half of his career to Pupblic Television, creating Sesame Street as a non-profit venture. He made his maney and he GAVE BACK, advocating for Literacy, Education, Tolerance, Peaceful Coexistance and Helping the underpriviledged.

      If what the Muppet's and Jim Henson stand for is "Liberal?" Well, then why would anyone want to be Conservtaive?

      Or, to put it a different way: The truth hurts, doesn't it, Fox?

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    • Author by murph1011 (December 05, 2011 1:20 pm ET)
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      "There Will Be Blood" demonized the oil industry??? Funny, I saw it, and I saw no political angle whatsoever. If anything, it's a testament to one man's passion to launch his own business, and becoming fabulously wealthy in the process.
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    • Author by murph1011 (December 05, 2011 1:23 pm ET)
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      And hey Fox, you're right. There has NEVER been a kids movie in which the plucky heroes have to overcome the machinations of a cartoonishly/stereotypically grown-up business person. I guess the Jason Segel's fault was calling the villain "Tex" instead of giving him an accent and calling him "Pierre," "Vladimir," or "Muhammad."
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    • Author by Jurgan (December 05, 2011 1:59 pm ET)
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      Between this and Herman Cain quoting Pokemon, I really have to wonder what the right-wingers are doing with their time. By the way, Statlor and Waldorf are definitely Republicans. Kermit is a dirty hippie, Ms. Piggy is a latte liberal, Gonzo strikes me as a libertarian (certainly on civil issues- he favors monster/chicken marriage), Fozzy is a low-information swing voter, and Rolf is a socialist who only makes a living from an NEA grant. Never thought about this before, but it's working my intellect more than watching Fox News would.
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    • Author by temphandle tearfully55timetable (December 05, 2011 2:28 pm ET)
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      Personal story, I love Sesame St and the Muppets...one morning as I'm getting my son ready for school we were watching Sesame St., and the letter "M" was featured. I called in late for work ...when I arrived there were "M's" all over my desk...great natured office! That said, as I read/listen to this and remember the positive affect both the Muppets and Sesame St., had and on me and my son, not to mention countless families, I can only think how narrow minded and pathetic Fox News is for pushing this crap....Today is the letter "C"
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    • Author by fantagor (December 05, 2011 4:04 pm ET)
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      "Hey, Muppets! Stop brainwashing people! That's OUR JOB!"

      - Fox News

      Randy
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    • Author by temphandle petitions32mortimer (December 05, 2011 4:05 pm ET)
         
      we dont hate the wealthy, we hate how u abuse power and expect perks just because you got a break! I admire the man who makes it in this world, most liberals do. iknow of no one who indoctrinates kids. we all aspire to the american dream. rich is NOT evil.
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    • Author by cyberstrike (December 05, 2011 4:27 pm ET)
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      I guess they missed the scene in the musical montage where Kermit is gathering rest of the Muppets where Sam the Eagal is on a news network that looked a lot like FNC.
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    • Author by donwelty (December 05, 2011 7:09 pm ET)
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      Can these people go back and look at the history of corporations? Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry and created a major polluter of air. Bernie Madoff created a fine financial institution and destroyed the lives of many people. Enron executives not only destroyed the company doing insider trading, but also the lives of thousands who depended upon them for money in their old age. You don't have to go far to find corporate executives with "bad" intentions who destroyed a lot of people. You also do not have to go far to find corporate executives with the "best" intentions and lack of understanding who destroyed many people.

      As we go through life we meet a lot of good people and a lot of jerks. The writers of the Muppet movie have decided to make the bad guy "jerk" in the movie an oil executive. Are these people getting all excited because the movies of the 1930s showed farmers turn bad guys? Or how about Jesse James--Southern veteran turned gang member? Maybe there will be a movie about bankers turned bad guys, called "Madoff made off with millions?"

      I think that going a bit far.
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    • Author by TheWillofThePeople (December 05, 2011 9:24 pm ET)
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      So let me get this straight...

      Andrea decides that the original message of Sesame Street, which was sharing and being nice, was great until it was corrupted by Liberals?

      And just who does she think espouses sharing and being nice?

      I'll give you a hint: it's not a Republican talking point...
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