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http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kermit-the-frog-miss-piggy-fox-news-the-muppets/ 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.
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The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news." 
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"Our movie tanked at the box office because we alienated one-third to half of the country that leans right...so let's do it again before the film hits DVD! We're marketing geniuses!!"--the Muppets producers.
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G-man to the rescue!!!! Don't worry, Rupert, I'll save your internet honor!
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Muppets break G-Man???
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...and I will defend the internet honor of the ABC/Disney puppets!
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G-man to the rescue!!!! Don't worry, Rupert, I'll save your internet honor!
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The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news."
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Muppets break G-Man???
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This is chris oakley level shit.
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"Our movie tanked at the box office because we alienated one-third to half of the country that leans right...so let's do it again before the film hits DVD! We're marketing geniuses!!"--the Muppets producers. They didn't say that in the article.
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Nothing he ever says has anything to do with what he links to.
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Does any real person seriously believe the movie is anti-right or whatever? I mean, people who have seen the film? Because there was a baby in the audience when I went to see it and I think even he got the joke. If anything "Tex Richman" was a jab at movies that use standard capitalist bad guys. He even turns good at the end.
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Its been a common movie thing for decades. Now that the internet exists right wing babies can bitch about it with other right wing babies and since stupidity travels at the speed of the internet now the bitching is everywhere.
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Muppets break G-Man??? I broke G-shill long before the Muppets did! (For those keeping score at home, the Niners image is for k-nut). This thread is full of EPICNESS!
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Does any real person seriously believe the movie is anti-right or whatever? I mean, people who have seen the film? Because there was a baby in the audience when I went to see it and I think even he got the joke. If anything "Tex Richman" was a jab at movies that use standard capitalist bad guys. He even turns good at the end. (Yeah) In all seriousness, you make a good point. (But) That point demonstrates why the producers are being stupid. Some commentator who not even I've heard of, in the middle of a debate on Fox, made the anti-Muppet comment. Then, a bunch of other (usually liberal) commentators at other sites picked up on it, largely in an effort to say "those dummies at Faux Republinazi Shill News...how ignorant they are" and started publicizing the little known commentator's previously barely noticed remark. Potential audiences now heard over and over about the "communist" muppet charge and--in a another example of how the internet is a giant game of "telephone"--a significant bunch of them thought this really WAS a another "liberal propaganda" film from the same Hollywood that keeps Sean Penn and Roman Polanski employed. And the movie then--ahem--"underperforms" at the box office. So, you'd think the producers would then say "we've got a good movie here, we don't need controversy, look at what happened because of this" and pretend that Fox News and the whole incident never existed. Basically let the whole thing blow over and get back to marketing the movie in other countries and on DVD. But nooo..... Instead, they start the whole thing up again, thereby likely convincing even MORE people that their movie is some sort of leftist agitprop in yet another series of wacky misunderstandings. Pretty dumb on their part. Sure, they'll make a few liberals--who've probably already seen the movie or don't plan on it anyway--chuckle over one giant media corporation sticking it to the other giant media corporation. But they've also just taken it upon themselves to do again the exact same thing that hurt their box office the first time when it was done by a bunch of bloggers.
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Does any real person seriously believe the movie is anti-right or whatever? Not necessarily anti-right. However, it does go out of its way to feed the perception that the private sector is "THE DEVIL!!" I think writing the movie that way has more to do with Hollywood and an attempt to entice the audiences that hold similar anti-private sector views. The problem with this however--and most films with similar angles nowadays (see also: every recent Clooney film)--is that they continually assume that the audience leans that way just because Hollywood does; the movie isn't doing so well. And really, do people honestly believe MSNBC and friends wouldn't jump on the film if the villain was the head of an environmental/community/PETA organization? Lest we forget how they actually took the time to break down that SNL skit in Obama's defense. I'm not so much concerned with the Henson company's attempt at a "gotcha" by pulling the "FAUXNEWS!" defense. What I'm more interested in is what Frank Oz (or whoever was voicing Piggy) said: "Yeah, if they take what I say seriously, they've got a real big problem." Uh, yeah, sorry but The Jon Stewart defense doesn't work in this instances. Muppet films are geared towards kids, and if I have children, I'm going to take whatever it is that they watch seriously. Whether it be the Muppets, the Teletubbies, the Gummy Bears (I miss that show), or Zoom I'm going to police what they watch. So that was less than smart for him to say.
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couple weeks late. pre 2005 JLA woulda had that up the monday after. and my teams still better than yours
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The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news."
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couple weeks late. pre 2005 JLA woulda had that up the monday after. and my teams still better than yours You were hiding the Monday after. 
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The best response, however, was left to Miss Piggy: "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of, you know, being … news." But Sarah Palin works for them! They must be legit...
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You know, I still disagree with G-man and Pariah, but I disagree even more with the "[something face]" approach.
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You know, I still disagree with...Pariah, NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!
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I agree with everyone in here, especially the something smiley response.
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I agree with everyone in here, especially the something smiley response. 
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the muppets was awesome.
it anti-tanked, with a domestic box office that doubled its budget.
fox news can be silly. the muppets mentioning fox news is silly.
i can't imagine anyone seeing the muppets movie because they thought it was pro-leftie, or anyone not seeing it because they thought it was anti-rightie. if either sets of those people exist, they're no longer allowed to be people.
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the muppets was awesome.
it anti-tanked, with a domestic box office that doubled its budget.
fox news can be silly. the muppets mentioning fox news is silly.
i can't imagine anyone seeing the muppets movie because they thought it was pro-leftie, or anyone not seeing it because they thought it was anti-rightie. if either sets of those people exist, they're no longer allowed to be people. 
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I think rob just revoked the existence of the polititards.
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...and I will defend the internet honor of the ABC/Disney puppets! Keep swinging at the shadows.
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the muppets was awesome.
it anti-tanked, with a domestic box office that doubled its budget.
fox news can be silly. the muppets mentioning fox news is silly.
i can't imagine anyone seeing the muppets movie because they thought it was pro-leftie, or anyone not seeing it because they thought it was anti-rightie. if either sets of those people exist, they're no longer allowed to be people.
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the muppets was awesome.
it anti-tanked, with a domestic box office that doubled its budget.
fox news can be silly. the muppets mentioning fox news is silly.
i can't imagine anyone seeing the muppets movie because they thought it was pro-leftie, or anyone not seeing it because they thought it was anti-rightie. if either sets of those people exist, they're no longer allowed to be people. And if those "people" posted in the 'Mazing Things On The Net forum, mod JM would absolutely vandalize their stupidity.
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