Business anchor asks: "Are 'The Muppets' brainwashing our kids?"

Jason Segel in "The Muppets."

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(CBS) Are the Muppets trying to brainwash our kids against capitalism? That's one of the questions asked during a segment this week on The Fox Business Channel, and it's causing a bit of a stir online.

Anchor Eric Bolling played a clip from Disney's new film, "The Muppets," which features a rich oil baron named Tex Richman playing the villain.

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"What's actually going on here?" Bolling asked commentator Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center. "Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to brainwash our kids?"

"Yes, absolutely, and they've been doing it for decades," replied Gainor. "Hollywood, the Left, the media, they hate the oil industry. They hate corporate America."

Gainor later added, "It's amazing how far the left will go just to stoop, to manipulate your kids, to convince them, to give [them] an anti-corporate message."

Tell us: What do you think about the segment?

[NathanMerrill]

The fact that he took this seriously is reason enough to fire him from any news network.

But given that Fox News is not a news network, he's safe.

Seriously, its a very silly excuse plot. What's wrong with these people?

Oh right, they want attention. I suppose it is too bad we gave it to them.

[ncmike4]

There is sizable segment of adults, who having been immersed in the lefty driven public education system, as well as the biased entertainment media, mistakenly think they are "mainstream" when in reality, they are simply fish, swimming in a fishbowl of leftist soup. They mistakenly believe that the leftist-tinged foundation that comprises their world view is the "centrist", "moderate", (and of course, tolerant) position. These folks are quick to claim that "conservatives" are imagining a leftist bias and spin, that they themselves simply do not observe. And of course, it's invisible to them because they've been swimming in, and drinking the liberal line for their entire lives. Fish simply are unaware that they are in water. Like the fish, these folks simply have no conception that "THEY" are the truly useful idiots, as opposed to the blatantly moronic folks of Occupy Wallstreet.
Until the middle Americans who have been structurally and foundationally poisoned by the educational/entertainment "systems", actually crack open a book and read and understand original source material, instead of simply parroting the "party line" that poses as "moderation", they will continue to absorb the subtle indoctrination which the left infuses into every entertainment and communications piece they produce, and blindly believe that they are the ones who are "normal." The need to belong, conform and to be loved, has been effectively used to twist their very perception of not just their world view, but their thought processes and estimation of their very self worth. So of course, they, and the chorus of clowns on the internet blogs, shrilly squeal that Eric Bolling is ridiculous and outrageous in his statement, which is actually, factually, true.