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Eric Bolling Trashes Environmental Message Of The Muppets: ‘The Evil Muppet Is Named Tex Richman!’

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On Friday’s Follow The Money on Fox Business Network, Eric Bolling and his guest Media Research Center‘s Dan Gainor strongly criticized the environmental themes of the recently released Muppets film. “Let’s point this out,” Bolling exclaimed. “This evil muppet is titled Tex Richman!” “It’s amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message,” lambasted Gainor. ‘I mean this is a Muppet movie for goodness sakes! The only thing green on the screen should be Kermit!’

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“I’ll put it out there: Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?” Bolling asked.

“Yeah absolutely, and they have been doing it for decades,” Gainor replied.

“They hate corporate America,” Gainor continued. “And so you’ll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was ‘Cars 2,’ which was another kids’ movie, the George Clooney movie ‘Syriana,’ ‘There Will Be Blood,’ all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don’t want to tell that story.”

Despite Bolling and Gainor’s repudiation of the environmental message of The Muppets, Kermit has always been pro-green as Jim Henson was a staunch advocate for wilderness protection, which is evident in works like Fraggle Rock and National Wildlife Federation ads, where Kermit’s nephew Robin told viewers to “make Earth Day everyday.” Most notably, one of Henson’s final Muppet productions, in fact, was a segment produced for an ABC 1990 Earth Day special with Kermit raising awareness about species extinction and saying that it was “up to people” “to fix the damage they’ve caused to the earth.”

Watch Bolling and Gainor criticize The Muppets below via FBN:

(h/t HuffPo)

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  • Gloves M. Donahue

    Don’t forget the insidious Captain Planet from Ted Turner.

    One day, the “green jobs” era will be looked at as a ridiculous time in history.

  • Anonymous

    why is it ridiculous to be in favor of the planet instead of your wallet? I tend to think that breathing trumps profit does it not? I understand you conservative leaning fellows (including those in the video) don’t have a “pro oil industry” kid show but why don’t you capitalize on that and make one instead of bashing the environmentalist kid shows that have been out there already and successful at it.  Also to that “green jobs” reference, is that opposed to dirty jobs?

  • Jon Bershad

    Jesus Christ.

    I was actually sitting in the theater wondering if Fox News was going to try to spin this. However, I naively thought that even they would be too rational to attempt that. Oh, silly me.

    The movie mentions the villain’s oil plan exactly twice. Any actual children in the audience will think of Cooper’s character as nothing but a bad man who wants to steal a theater.
    But, no, by all means, lets ruin this joyous piece of children’s entertainment by picking it apart looking for evil, conspiracy messages. The FBN guys are so right. The Walt Disney Corporation actually hates all companies! They’re actually just a bunch of hippie communists. That’s why all the toys at Disney Stores are all free, right?

    If these guys really want to be offended by something (and since that kind of opinion-based news only works if someone is offending you), why don’t they do a segment exposing the fact that the plot to this movie is basically just the same plot from the failed Country Bears movie from last decade. Disney just rewrote it and made it actually work this time.

    Seriously, same exact story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Country_Bears

  • Gloves M. Donahue

    Here’s a customer for Gloves Donahue’s Carbon Credits and Palm Reading Emporium, opening soon near your local Chevy Volt dealer.

  • Anonymous

    When you’re the bad guy in a Muppets movie, you know that you are probably doing something wrong.

  • Anonymous

    Amazing how “conservative” scum will scream righteous indignation about this and have very little to say about how they rewrite textbooks used in schools to “indoctrinate” the children into their own sick, perverted and FAILED ideology. They’ll probably call for mandatory reading of “Atlas Crapped” to 4th graders and have that idiot Bolling on his crap show telling everyone how it’s for the betterment of our country or some such thing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Well this is about the sped that most conservatives operate these days-they have to critique cartoons because because real life has proven not to favor their obvious bias. 

  • Anonymous

    If he thinks The Muppets were teaching leftist propaganda, I can’t wait to see what he says about Jesus, with that whole ”turn the other cheek, give all your belongings to the poor for eternal salvation” rhetoric. 

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Eric Bolling would prefer that our kids are taught to litter, inhale smog, have contaminants in the drinking water and that the environment is meaningless to our survival on this planet!!

  • souvien

    eric bolling…adding to the toxicity of d’bags every day…

  • Anonymous

    Evidently it was a slow news day on the FBC.

    This ranks right up there with the faux-outrage that FNC attempted to create on Memorial Day over the FDA changing the food pyramid….to something equally dumb, I might add..which FNC cleverly passed along as “FOX NEWS ALERT – OBAMA ABOLISHING THE FOOD PYRAMID”.

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    It blows that kid films can’t just be fun entertainment. Hollywood always has to be pushing some left wing message. It’s so depressing.

  • Anonymous

    Curious to know if Bolling felt this way about Avatar, too. 

  • Anonymous

    You know, sometimes the message tells the truth. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Are these paid monkeys aware of the history of oil exploration, even within the US frontier? Talk about having been “brainwashed!” 

    Even “There Will Be Blood” is a liberal plot to lie about the grand and glorious oil industry? 

    They must HATE “Hell on Wheels” for how it trashes the noble railroad barons…

  • Anonymous

    >> Bealzebubba: “Curious to know if Bolling felt this way about Avatar, too”

    Bolling bitched and tried to get into the act a little. However, in
    terms of AVATAR, it was actually Greg Gutfeld on RED EYE who perpetually
    ranted about the movie the most, to a near nauseating degree.
    Basically, he continually argued that AVATAR was unpatriotic —
    especially at a time when American soldiers were in combat overseas —
    since it painted soldiers in a bad light, given that they were the
    heavies against the nice jungle cat people.

    MIND YOU…a core story point that is repeatedly brought up in the movie
    — which Gutfeld somehow managed to magically miss every time — is
    that ALL of the armed forces you see in the movie were PAID MERCENARIES,
    hired by the company as “security” while mining the planet.

    Of course, that brings us to Neil Cavuto — on his Fox business show —
    who likewise blew a major gasket over AVATAR. Of course, to him, it
    wasn’t about the soldiers or patriotism. To Cavuto, AVATAR was
    subversive and evil because it painted the mining corporation in a bad
    light — therefore it was clearly anti-capitalist.

    In fact, I can still close my eyes and recall Cavuto doing several days
    of long, boring monologues griping AVATAR…especially as it became more
    and more of a box office success. And how he would get pissed because
    the movie didn’t portray enough “good things” that corporations do.

    Or course, all of this was topped by Cavuto, when the first HAPPY FEET
    movie came out. Holy crap, that was the movie that REALLY got his goat
    and got under his skin. Not because it had a slight environmental
    friendly message, but again because he felt ANIMATED DANCING PENGUINS
    promoted and anti-corporate message too.

    Bottom line: if a film doesn’t involve someone continually kissing the
    butt of a corporation for the film’s entire 2 hour running time, then
    Cavuto thinks you’re undermining the entire financial system.

  • Porphyry

    Maybe there should’ve been another bad guy called Red Loud.

  • Anonymous

    Really that is your rebuttal? I knew it was pointless to participate in the internet comment world…

  • Anonymous

    If anyone knows evil muppets, it would be FAUX news.

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