Muppets vs Fox News - 2012-02-04 10:31 AM
http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/
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Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy took a well-deserved swipe at Fox News while taking part at a press conference at London's May Fair Hotel this past January 26.
A little while ago, Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling said the following: "The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new. I'll put it out there: Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?"
Kermit the Frog doesn't think so. "Oh yeah, it's sooo dangerous," Kermit responded when a journalist asked him about Bolling's accusation. "It's a funny thing, they were concerned with us having some prejudice against oil companies and I can tell you that's categorically not true. And besides, if we had a problem with oil companies, why would we have spent the entire film driving around in a gas-guzzling Rolls Royce?"
The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news."
Directed by James Bobin, from a screenplay by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets was released in the United States last November. The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Rashida Jones, Chris Cooper, and features a whole array of star cameos, including those by Alan Arkin, Zach Galifianakis, Emily Blunt, Ken Leong, Jim Parsons, John Krasinski, and Mickey Rooney. In the film, the Academy Award-winning Cooper (Adaptation) plays the villainous oil executive Tex Richman, who knows there's oil under the Muppets' studio — and is out to get it no matter how.
As for Bolling's claim that "Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new" … Well, he is certainly right on that account. Subversive Mary Pickford, surely a revolutionary Communist out to overthrow the U.S. government, starred in numerous films in the 1910s in which she was a member of the disenfranchised — or at least had to spend time as one of them so as to learn about generosity, compassion, and selflessness.
A little while ago, Fox Business Channel's Eric Bolling said the following: "The Muppets are back and being terrorized by an evil oil executive in their new movie. Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new. I'll put it out there: Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?"
Kermit the Frog doesn't think so. "Oh yeah, it's sooo dangerous," Kermit responded when a journalist asked him about Bolling's accusation. "It's a funny thing, they were concerned with us having some prejudice against oil companies and I can tell you that's categorically not true. And besides, if we had a problem with oil companies, why would we have spent the entire film driving around in a gas-guzzling Rolls Royce?"
The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news."
Directed by James Bobin, from a screenplay by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, The Muppets was released in the United States last November. The film stars Segel, Amy Adams, Rashida Jones, Chris Cooper, and features a whole array of star cameos, including those by Alan Arkin, Zach Galifianakis, Emily Blunt, Ken Leong, Jim Parsons, John Krasinski, and Mickey Rooney. In the film, the Academy Award-winning Cooper (Adaptation) plays the villainous oil executive Tex Richman, who knows there's oil under the Muppets' studio — and is out to get it no matter how.
As for Bolling's claim that "Liberal Hollywood depicting a successful businessman as 'evil,' that's not new" … Well, he is certainly right on that account. Subversive Mary Pickford, surely a revolutionary Communist out to overthrow the U.S. government, starred in numerous films in the 1910s in which she was a member of the disenfranchised — or at least had to spend time as one of them so as to learn about generosity, compassion, and selflessness.
