Monday, December 5, 2011

Is the New Muppets Movie ‘Brainwashing’ Your Kids With Anti-Business Message?

"We’re teaching our kids class warfare!” Fox’s Eric Bolling said on Friday. “Where are we, communist China?”


What’s got him so upset? It’s the new Muppets movie, which features a villain curiously named Tex Richman.

The “Follow the Money” host skewered the new movie in a segment on Friday that seemed to be a warning to parents. The Washington Post explains:

The film features an evil oil baron named Tex Richman (Chris Cooper), who wants to raze the Muppets’ old theater to drill for the black gold. The gang reunites to host a major fundraiser to win their theater back.

Bolling saw it as an attack on the oil industry and capitalism, and invited Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center to put in his two cents. Gainor made the leap that the Muppets’ efforts to save their theater was a puppet version of the Occupy movement. All it needs is a pepper-spraying cop.


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