Originally Posted By skinnerbox Love it love it love it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8YhED4IgQA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...hED4IgQA</a>
Originally Posted By dagobert Thanks for the video! That story about Fox accusing The Muppets for putting dangerous thoughts into the children's minds even made it into the news over here. I'm going to watch The Muppets today. I can't wait to see it.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I normally hate to see anyone respond to idiocy - like the supposed' liberal agenda ' in the Muppets movie. \ I am not a liberal by any stretch, yet I went to the mUppet movie to enjoy --well the movie !. I didn't look for, not pay attention to any agendas -- that is entirely possible to do pretty easily. -- to finish my first thought- I normally would like to see things for kids to stay away from the nutso political environment in our country today- but I admit- this is hysterical..
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The nuttier parts of today's right wing see everything from telling kids to eat vegetables to silly shows like Spongebob Squarepants as part of a complex, left wing conspiracy to indoctrinate our children into socialism. That's how crazy it gets in Crazytown.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Yet they have no problem trying to indoctrinate children to their points of view, by instituting prayer in schools and teaching creationism, or trying to insert religion into any number of things. Many of them are so hypocritical...
Originally Posted By mawnck <a href="http://www.lionofjudahthemovie.com/" target="_blank">http://www.lionofjudahthemovie.com/</a>
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The nuttier parts of today's right wing see everything from telling kids to eat vegetables to silly shows like Spongebob Squarepants as part of a complex, left wing conspiracy to indoctrinate our children into socialism. That's how crazy it gets in Crazytown.< can you imagine what they would have been like when I - or most Boomers were in grade school and in assmeblies we sang songs by Peter Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Kingston Trio etc. ?? OMG
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 LOL, mawnck, thanks for illustrating my point. Man, those animals have creepy faces!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>can you imagine what they would have been like when I - or most Boomers were in grade school and in assmeblies we sang songs by Peter Paul & Mary, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Kingston Trio etc. ?? OMG<< Puff the Magic Dragon alone would have sent them over the edge.
Originally Posted By mawnck I'll tell you the tale of the Children's Record Guild (and their Young People's Records subsidiary) - a company that made educational records starting in the 1940s-1950s, often involving blacklisted folkies like Pete Seeger (who weren't necessarily credited on the packaging). They sold by mail order subscription. Although there were clearly a lot of lefties involved in the productions, the actual contents were innocent and apolitical to the point of boring you to tears, being aimed mostly at elementary schoolers. And while they were always excellent musically, they were clearly recorded on the cheap. But the John Birch Society tried to have them banned, insisting that CRG was inserting secret mind-altering waves into the recordings that were turning innocent American children into commies. Much was made of the fact that CRG shared mailing addresses with the Living Language Course company, whose best selling language course was Russian. Here's an especially cool CRG release from 1950 that's sure to have you wallpapering your bedroom with pinups of Lenin: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nDk_EQQnS8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...k_EQQnS8</a>
