Muppets Diss Fox News In Response To Accusations Of Being Anti-Oil

Sailor Steve · 01-31-12, 03:28 PM

And to think, those subversive stuffed animals teach our kids! I think the letter 'M' ought to be locked up for at least a week!

vienna · 01-31-12, 03:42 PM

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And to think, those subversive stuffed animals teach our kids! I think the letter 'M' ought to be locked up for at least a week!

...and I think Fox News should be given a time-out on the naughty seat...

Sailor Steve · 01-31-12, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by vienna

...and I think Fox News should be given a time-out on the naughty seat...

And wear the dunce-cap!

vienna · 01-31-12, 03:58 PM

vienna · 01-31-12, 04:25 PM

The really sad thing about the whole situation is the Muppets (and Sesame Street) probably have been imparting more accurate and correct information than Fox News ever has (not ot mention probably being more "Fair and Balanced")...

An interesting BTW: I wonder if the general public is aware of the corporate subtext involved in the Muppet vs Fox News "feud"; the Muppets, by way of the Jim Henson Studios, are a subsidiary of Disney Studios. Disney is getting in an indirect dig at rival Fox without have to be directly named...

Penguin · 01-31-12, 04:42 PM

Hey vienna and Steve, I have a little side question: was the dunce cap still common during the time you guys went to school?
I'm asking because I know this cap only from Disney comics from the 50s/60s (and earlier) - however the artists who drew them went to school at the beginning of the last century.

AVGWarhawk · 01-31-12, 04:47 PM

The Muppets are made from petroleum based products. What's the problem here?

Oberon · 01-31-12, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And to think, those subversive stuffed animals teach our kids! I think the letter 'M' ought to be locked up for at least a week!

It's worse than you think:

Penguin · 01-31-12, 06:31 PM

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It's worse than you think:

So the Muppets are Commies and Sesame Street are Nazis - where does this leave Kermit? Is he something like a reverse Mussolini?

Takeda Shingen · 01-31-12, 06:56 PM

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So the Muppets are Commies and Sesame Street are Nazis - where does this leave Kermit? Is he something like a reverse Mussolini?

Kermit has appeared on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. Clearly, he is a Commie-Nazi.

Penguin · 01-31-12, 07:27 PM

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Kermit has appeared on both Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. Clearly, he is a Commie-Nazi.

Sesame Street premiered before the Muppets, so he'd be more of a Nazi-Commie

; therefore my intention was to ask if Kermit changed opposite to the Duce, who went from Socialist to Fascist

soopaman2 · 02-01-12, 10:48 AM

Kermit is clearly pro-people.
Anti crony capitalism.
Fair for Joe shmoe small business, as it is for multinational fatcat.

In other words, he a progressive liberal.

Of course FAUX news will attack that, it makes a mockery of thier indoctrination.

We saw Kermit in Oakland assaulting a police officer, will be the next Fox report.

Sailor Steve · 02-01-12, 11:10 AM

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Hey vienna and Steve, I have a little side question: was the dunce cap still common during the time you guys went to school?

No. But then I went to school in Los Angeles, the center of progressive liberal thinking.

Hey, maybe I can blame them!

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I'VE SEEN PUPPETS SMARTER THAN THOSE GUYS.

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Sesame Street premiered before the Muppets,

Ah, but Kermit had a long career before joining either of them, making his first appearance in 1955.

vienna · 02-01-12, 02:10 PM

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Hey vienna and Steve, I have a little side question: was the dunce cap still common during the time you guys went to school?
I'm asking because I know this cap only from Disney comics from the 50s/60s (and earlier) - however the artists who drew them went to school at the beginning of the last century.

Are you trying to say we're beyond old? "Beginnig of the last centrury", indeed!! Why, I have half a mind to...to..wait, what was I saying?...I think I need to go lie down...where's my shawl?...

Actually, I went to a Catholic parish school in San Francisco, my original hometown. I was born in December 1950 and started school in kindergarten in 1956 (because my birthdate was after the September school year start, I had to wait until the following year) and graduated out of school in Spring of 1965, so a total of 9 years in the same school. The school was run by the Jesuits, but almost all the teachers were nuns, with a few "lay" teachers. The school and the church were built of granite blocks in the European Gothic style at the beginning of the 1900s, between 1900 to about 1910. If you ever see the movie "Sister Act" starring Whoopi Goldberg, that's the church and school used in the movie.

The nuns were of the old school sort: fully dressed in black robes and wimples with starched white cowls around their faces and a very large rosary/crucifix around the waist as a sort of belt. They were truly fearsome. We didn't have dunce caps, but a common punishment was to sit on a stool in the corner facing the wall. There were also physical punishments ranging from slaps on the hand or face to swats with rulers or chalkboard pointers. There was one nun who used to wake up daydreaming students by throwing, at full force, chalkdust laden board erasers at their heads. The student was not allowed to clean off the chalk dust and spent the rest of the class with dust all over his face and shoulders. In about the 2nd grade, I was once punished by being locked in the cloak room that ran along the length of the classroom. It like an enclosed hallway with a door at either end and we would walk into the classroom in a line and, in order, hang our coats on an assigned hook and place our lunches on a shelf above the hook. I was locked in the cloak room for about 2 hours and, after a short time, I was very bored. The only light came from a small stained glass window too high for me to see through. I decided to amuse myself by switching around the coats and lunches from their assigned locations randomly. When lunchtime came around, the class lined up in order, started to enter the cloakroom, only to be thrown into utter confusion. I do believe that was the first of many, many trips to the Mother Superior's office.

BTW, the education I recieved in that school was the finest I ever had at any school. I deliberately flunked the Catholic high school admissions test to avoid going to an all-boys school. When I entered the public school system, I was astounded by how far behind the schools were in comparison to the Catholic schools. Even though I had been in a school that was a near to Victorian as you could imagine (we wrote with fountain pens, sat at heavy wooden desks with inkwells and cast iron frames), the level of education was far and away better than the public schools...

02-05-12, 01:42 PM

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Tribesman - if it came from FOX news first

If????
FOX is in the title of the topic, it's in the headline of the article, it is in the story, the FOX piece is provided in the link .
How can there be any "if"?
Unless of course you are choosing to comment on a topic without going any further than "Huffsucks" and just spouting on that.

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recall that the more stupid someone is, the longer you can fool em.

good point, where was that study about fox viewers being slightly dumber than the general population.

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	And to think, those subversive stuffed animals teach our kids! I think the letter 'M' ought to be locked up for at least a week! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,713 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The really sad thing about the whole situation is the Muppets (and Sesame Street) probably have been imparting more accurate and correct information than Fox News ever has (not ot mention probably being more "Fair and Balanced")... An interesting BTW: I wonder if the general public is aware of the corporate subtext involved in the Muppet vs Fox News "feud"; the Muppets, by way of the Jim Henson Studios, are a subsidiary of Disney Studios. Disney is getting in an indirect dig at rival Fox without have to be directly named... Last edited by vienna; 01-31-12 at 04:51 PM.

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,261 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	The Muppets are made from petroleum based products. What's the problem here? __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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soopaman2 Der Alte Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 3,316 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 0	Kermit is clearly pro-people. Anti crony capitalism. Fair for Joe shmoe small business, as it is for multinational fatcat. In other words, he a progressive liberal. Of course FAUX news will attack that, it makes a mockery of thier indoctrination. We saw Kermit in Oakland assaulting a police officer, will be the next Fox report. __________________ If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. -Winston Churchill- The most fascinating man in the world.

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	Hey vienna and Steve, I have a little side question: was the dunce cap still common during the time you guys went to school? I'm asking because I know this cap only from Disney comics from the 50s/60s (and earlier) - however the artists who drew them went to school at the beginning of the last century.