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Red, not green ... a Fox pundit has accused the latest Muppet movie of being communist.

A US Fox news anchor has labelled the latest Muppet movie as communist, The Guardian reports. Fox Business Network's Eric Bolling told viewers that The Muppets features a character named Tex Richman, a greedy oil boss who wants to drill under the Muppets' theatre. ''Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as evil - that's not new,'' Bolling said.

He then asked his guest, media-bias alarmist Dan Gainor, if Hollywood was deliberately trying to brainwash kids. ''Absolutely,'' Gainor said. ''And they've been doing it for decades.'' He pointed out oil could be used to ''light a hospital'' or ''fuel an ambulance. They don't want to tell that story.'' Bolling's Fox News colleague Andrea Tantaros chimed in: ''I just wish liberals could leave little kids alone.''

They're right, of course, the Muppets have a long history of this sort of thing. Just look. It began with The Muppet Movie (1979): the Muppets head for liberal Hollywood, while a fast-food magnate is the antagonist. The notion of slaughtering a pig (in this case, Miss Piggy, above with Kermit) is treated as if it were murder. Thank you, veggie-nazis. Next, The Great Muppet Caper (1981): the Muppets hit London, home of socialised medicine. Features some squatting. In The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) private charity is promoted over state intervention, but the message is still that poor people got that way through no fault of their own. Muppet Treasure Island (1996) treats entrepreneurial treasure hunting as ''piracy''.

Why, for once, can't the bad guy be an overzealous environmental regulator? Muppets From Space (1999) posits a godless universe; as anti-Christian as any Harry Potter film.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/mov ... z1fybZMtDS

Lord Jim wrote: it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...

loCAtek wrote:

Lord Jim wrote: it's just kind of tough for a poor bad guy to buy an island, or support a private army, or fund his own space program...

Sorry, but wot?

Magneto, was a Jewish Holocaust survivor;



He ran his 'Brotherhood of Evil Mutants' by sheer force of will.

He's so complex, he switches sides from time to time. Try checking the Marvel as well as the DC universe for characters with angst.

The Modern Age Lex Luthor is a product of child abuse and early poverty. Born in the Suicide Slum district of Metropolis, he is instilled with a desire to become a self-made man. As a teenager, he takes out a large insurance policy on his parents without their knowledge, then sabotages their car's brakes, causing their deaths. Upon graduating from MIT, Luthor founds his own business, LexCorp, which grows to dominate much of Metropolis.

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