Muppets Trash Fox News, Host Bolling
Apparently Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog don’t take criticism well. The pair was asked at a press conference for “The Muppets” premiere in London about concerns over the movie’s attack on the oil industry and business.
The Muppets were asked how they felt when Eric Bolling from Fox News discussed their latest movie and said the Muppets were “pushing a dangerous liberal agenda and trying to brainwash children.”
Miss Piggy declared, “It’s almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being news,” to which the audience, presumably press people since it was a press conference, burst into applause. Kermit replied, “Boy, that’s gonna be all over the internet. You are in such deep water.”
Miss Piggy followed up by saying, “If they take what I say seriously they have a real big problem.” It’s not just what Miss Piggy says, but the fact that millions of children watch the Muppet movies and interviews such as this. Instead of facing the facts, the Muppets themselves are sent out to do the dirty work of the left and attack Fox News.
Hollywood continues to portray corporation and successful businessmen as evil. While it is a light-hearted comedy for kids, liberal Hollywood can’t resist an evil oil company to continue their attacked on business.
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You can't trust anybody from hollywierd...
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:47pm.
...to tell you the truth anymore.
I grew up watching (and loving) the muppets. Now it's become just another item I have to add to my boycott list.
That list is getting pretty big.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
DumbCanuck
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 10:22pm.
I don't think you'll have to worry to much about boycotting this clunker. I'm actually surprised it didn't go straight to video.
I loved it. You don't really
Submitted by balboa on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 12:02am.
I loved it. You don't really notice the plot as an insult unless you want to.
I agree with you, Balboa
Submitted by Doraemon_OReilly on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 4:26am.
I loved the new Muppet movie as well. I didn't see the greedy oilman as offensive at all, and I didn't see any liberal messages at all. I will get it on DVD when it comes out in March, and I am looking forward to it. And also, won't anybody please lighten up about the Fox News slam? They are puppets, after all. Kermit made an interesting point in the clip saying that if the film is anti-oil, why are the Muppets driving cross-country in a gas-guzzling Rolls-Royce? (taken from Kermit's mouth) I might get criticized for this, but I won't let it change my conservative views.
"Kame-Hame-HAAAA!!!!!" - Son Goku, destroying Usama Bin Laden.
Me and my daughter liked the movie too
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 8:50am.
I did notice the slam on oil but my daughter is so smart she said "How are we supposed to get home if we have no gas?" Yes, a ten year old outsmarting the liberals, which isn't much of a surprise. As far as Fox News goes, it always strikes me as how people dismiss the slight when they are by far the most honest news in the business, which isn't saying much.
Oh noes!!
Submitted by bobsmom on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:51pm.
Slammed by Miss Piggy. Give me break. And they wonder why we can't take the left seriously any more. And I agree with Mr Canuck above, the list of what I will watch and listen to any more is starting to shrink to just the voices in my head.
I have actually resorted to reading
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:59pm.
I let the kids watch old cartoons on Boomerang.
Same here
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 7:30pm.
When we have our granddaughter we all watch Tom & Jerry together. Nothing like getting hit in the head with a skillet, or lighting a stick of dynamite, thinking it's a cigar, to get a laugh!
The MSM should use the
Submitted by tcm14 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:54pm.
The MSM should use the Muppets to deliver their reporting, the reporters are all liberal puppets anyway; using an ACTUAL puppet would be more honest.
WHOA! Bada-bing!
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 3:57pm.
OUCH!
ROTFLMCBO! (Rolling on the floor laughing my conservative butt off)
Wow, the liberals are so scared to reveal themselves
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:05pm.
in an honest light that they now have to hide behind make believe puppets... not at all surprised as they are an immature group as a whole.
I've never realized it before, but ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:11pm.
... if one were to try to come up with cartoon character puppets for Moochie and Barack, Miss Piggy and Kermit would be perfect!!
We have a big, fat assed top hog who is queen of the pig pen, and a shrimpy, no-shouldered toad with a big nose, of underdetermined parentage and origin who says "how high" when the pig says "jump."
Perfect! Just f-ing perfect!
Kermit only supports Obama because
Submitted by Rover on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 5:54pm.
Just more cronyism, if you ask me. Kermit only supports Obama because of his committment to Green Jobs.
Sick
Submitted by DirtyDave777 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:35pm.
Makes you have to think what kind of scum has to target Children for Indoctrination because when you Mature you are able to Question what your told.
Sick
Submitted by DirtyDave777 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:35pm.
Makes you have to think what kind of scum has to target Children for Indoctrination because when you Mature you are able to Question what your told.
Had It With 'Em
Submitted by rammingspeed on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:39pm.
Filth of the Earth
This is exactly what the commie was talking about
Submitted by ricklail on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:44pm.
Ran across an Italian commie, now dead, named Antonio Gramsci. This brainwashing through education like this the Muppets are doing sounds just like his philosophy of Cultural Hegemony.
Not to belabor this, but...
Submitted by KyWriter on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 4:52pm.
...doesn't Miss Piggy resemble Debbie Wasserman-Schultz a lot? Furthermore, have you ever seen them together? Just asking.
FOX News is losing their cloak of fairness....
Submitted by jdripper on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 5:06pm.
Seems that CBS News has gone ahead of FOX news in the coverage of GOP primaries as being the most balanced. Studies are showing that 74% of the coverage of Mitt Romney is negative and the number is about 50% for Gingrich plus Newt is getting more air time then any non FOX employee by a factor of 3.
This is my own personal observation that they need to rename the Hannity Show to the Gingrich and Hannity Hour. He has become a co-host of the Hannity Show.
Jack
Studies Show
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 5:33pm.
Studies show that people who make posts to internet blogs and message boards stating irrefutable facts, without backing up those facts with links or other substantiating proof, are mostly ignored and not taken seriously by other readers of said blogs and message boards.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Link please
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 7:35pm.
That's right, there aren't any. You're pathetic!
The Muppets SUCK!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 5:18pm.
Always hated them, always will! For a group of friggin puppets that were create and funded by taxpayers dollars, and have reaped BILLIONS in profits for PBS-that were never paid back or rewarded back to the people-they sure got a lot of Chutzpah! I say we fry them, and have a Pig Roast, with Frog legs!
I remember as a child
Submitted by John Francroix Jr on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 5:30pm.
Being groomed for a life of crime following repeated viewings of The Great Muppet Caper.
Oh how it glorified cat-burglary.
Preachy libs love imposing their lifestyle on us
Submitted by frank14 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 7:36pm.
They learned from the USSR to brainwash kids.
why are taxpayers subsidizing this?
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 7:42pm.
Why are taxpayers subsidizing PBS? So our children and grandchildren can be brainwashed? I find politicizing on so-called kiddie shows repugnant. It is evil to attempt to brainwash young children while supposedly entertaining them. Disgusting !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your tax dollars don't
Submitted by balboa on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 7:48pm.
Your tax dollars don't subsidize the muppets.
Kids these days
Submitted by Dave the mailman on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 9:34pm.
The whole situation can be summed up in the saying:
"What one generation tolerates, the next generation sees as normal"
We've got to stop this nonsense before the next generation just accepts this media bias as normal.
So the PR strategy the people
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Tue, 01/31/2012 - 1:40pm.
So the PR strategy the people behind the Muppets are going for is to... wholly EMBRACE the criticism?