Fox’s Bolling: The Muppets’ liberal bias is ‘brainwashing our kids’ - Polidicks

[B]Fox’s Bolling: The Muppets’ liberal bias is ‘brainwashing our kids’[/B] [release]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. “Yeah absolutely, and they have been doing it for decades,” Gainor said. “Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry. They hate corporate America. And so, you’ll see all these movies attack it. Whether it’s “Cars 2″ – which was another kids’ movie – the George Clooney movie “Syriana,” “There Will Be Blood.” All these movies attack the oil industry.” In October, Bolling attacked the other famous Henson creation Sesame Street, angered by a new muppet named Lily being poverty stricken. Bolling later on brought out The Five co-host Andrea Tantaros, who also bashed both Sesame Street then and “The Muppets” now. “It’s brainwashing in the most obvious form,” she said. “I wish liberals would leave little kids alone.” [/release] SOURCE: [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/03/foxs-bolling-the-muppets-liberal-bias-is-brainwashing-our-kids/[/url] Video of the story: [url]http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110070031[/url]

I'll decry the bashing of corporations/big oil as soon as they do, you know, anything remotely worthy of praise. Still waiting.

Muppets? You mean that show where guys stick their hands up puppet ass? Homosexual agenda! Liberal brainwashing! They're teaching kids to hate the oil industry, and thus America! *this program brought to you in part by BP and Shell*

G doesn't stand for green, kids, it stands for greedy!

[quote] “It’s brainwashing in the most obvious form,” she said. “I wish liberals would leave little kids alone.”[/quote] Says the party who wants children to be taught that homosexuality is wrong and unnatural, but having the generic rich guy as a villain is brainwashing.

Gotta love Fox. Bet you wouldn't hear them kicking and screaming if the movies were exaggerating the dangers of nuclear power! I mean, I'm all for a balanced presentation of opposing viewpoints for our youth, but this is MASSIVE hypocrisy and stupidity wrapped up into one. Do they honestly think ANY child will make the connection that Bolling made? It's unlikely. Did they bitch this much about Wall-E or FernGully?

I wonder what he would say about some Looney Tunes reruns.

well clearly the "liberal elite" havent done a good enough job because people are still listening to these fox morons

Fox is more of a joke than the Onion.

daww why can't the muppets movie be about how gracious and helpful oil companies are? like when all that oil mysteriously appeared in the ocean, and BP was nice enough to help clean it!!

Also quote from the mentioned Sesame Street argument: [quote]“But why does Lily have to be a muppet?” Eric Bolling asked. “Why does Sesame Street have to make Lily a poverty stricken little muppet for our kids to watch? Why is Lily a lass, a group, do we single out the black muppet, the Hispanic muppet?”[/quote] So are they saying we should single out blacks and hispanics? [sp]automerge![/sp]

Added a link to the clip in question. [url]http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201110070031[/url]

Silly fox. They can find liberal bias in a republican presidential debate.

Logical bias*

"why not have a barney frank muppet" dear fucking god no. I think one valid point was raised though: if this was liberal propaganda, a financial services tycoon would have been a much better big bad evil guy than an oil tycoon.

These idiotic statements sponsored by the letter "F". For Fucking Whack jobs in America.

This is fucking stupid. It's going to make idiots not see one of the best films of the year.

The muppets are too liberal [sp]In their jokes[/sp]