Are you glad the Right Wing is attacking cartoon Penguins? I am.

[Armstead]

The latest crusade by Wingnuts like Glen Beck against the cartoon movie Happy Feet is almost a satire in itself.

I mean they've descended from attacking anyone who was opposed to the idea of going to war in Iraq as unpatriotic to venting their spleen against some innocuous cartoon as being "pro environment" and advancing the "gay agenda."

It would be a great skit for the Daily Show or SNL, if it weren't true.

When the right wing starts satirizing themselves without realizing it, they be in bad shape, IMO.

And I think a lot of thopse folks in the middle are going to see that and say "Who are these self-righteous pinheads? What's their damn problem with a cartoon? They need to get a life."

[ClassWarrior]

1. Who's the Nanny Party gonna attack next?

Chickies and bunnies? Helpless kittens up a tree?

:rofl:

NGU.

[Armstead]

2. Those awful tree-hugging kittens, LOL

[meegbear]

4. And what do those kittens want????

They don't want a hand up, they want a hand down! They want to bleed our resources for their own gain! Sorry you're house burned down, but he HAD to save a kitten from a tree! They'll stop at nothing until we're they're subserviant slaves, coddling them with string and free milk! And when they get older and hit the catnip, watch out America!

[ClassWarrior]

27. Nice.

"Coddling them with string and free milk." LOL

NGU.

[Mz Pip]

3. Makes 'em look silly

Like O'Reilly's going on about Danny Devito. Guess O'Reilly never heard on of Rush's rants about the Clintons. :eyes:

IF this is all they've got, they are truly desperate.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[radfringe]

5. Penguins are seeking a safe haven

[acmavm]

6. I really must have missed something here. Is this about that

dancing penguin movie?

And how in the name of everything good does this advance the 'gay agenda'?

I must not be as smart as I thought I was because for the life of me, I cannot connect the dots here.

[Armstead]

8. From media Matters

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611300004

Conservatives attack animated penguin movie as global-warming propaganda

Cultural conservatives, led by CNN's Glenn Beck, Fox News' Neil Cavuto, and syndicated talk-show host Michael Medved, have all criticized Happy Feet, the new Warner Bros. animated movie about Mumble, the tap-dancing penguin, because they say the movie is laced with liberal overtones and tries to "indoctrinate" children. Specifically, conservatives claim the movie is pushing a global-warming agenda. Yet the film makes no references to global warming. Instead, the movie's conservationist subplot revolves around Mumble's attempt to combat man-made pollution and overfishing in his quest to help his fellow penguins. The blockbuster movie, which has already earned more than $100 million in U.S. ticket sales, is silent regarding the issue of global warming.

Nonetheless, Cavuto and Beck, who referred to the film as "propaganda," both complained that the movie amounts to "an animated version of An Inconvenient Truth," a reference to former Vice President Al Gore's critically acclaimed documentary about the threats posed by global warming. Cavuto said that while viewing Happy Feet, he "half-expected to see an animated version of Al Gore pop up." Cavuto also stated that he found the movie "offensive" and asked whether it pushed "a far-left message."

Medved, who is also a professional film critic, complained in a November 17 entry on his Townhall.com weblog that "the propagandistic theme suggests that the biggest menace for the lovable penguins is the human race -- stealing the fish on which the birds depend, or ruining planet earth through pollution and global warming."

None of the commentators supplied any examples from the movie to support their allegation that Happy Feet pushes a liberal, global-warming agenda. In fact, no scenes from the movie mention the issue. Happy Feet is void of any global-warming references, there are no obvious allusions to it, and global warming is not one of the movie's themes. Global warming plays no part in the film.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. Well, won't he feel silly when, in another 20 years,

the penguins have gone extinct because of global warming.

[zbdent]

16. He'll blame it on the penguins' homosexual agenda

not enough chicks being born because penguins don't asexually reproduce ... and too many "gay penguins" destroyed the "penguin sanctity of mating for life" ...

:eyes:

[evilgenius602]

18. yeah, and Sponge Bob and Tinky Winky are gay too...

Earth to Conservative Whackaloons:

Sponge Bob and Tinky Winky do not have gentalia. They cannot be gay. Also I detected no glroy holes in the ice in the damn penguin movie.

Have you ever noticed that these hysterical people who are obsessed with sex, gay or otherwise, and here I included the antiabortion crowd, are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?

[zbdent]

23. Carlinesque ...

just heard him say that the other night ...

:)

[evilgenius602]

25. thank you

I stole that joke so long ago, I couldn't remember where I heard it first.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Well, well aparently scenes of the ice cap falling

into the sea was taken that way by these guys.

As to pollution... yep the message is clearly there for anybody to see.

The problem is I don't mind it, but for the rape and pillage the earth mentally ill conservatives, who once used to be conservatives, it must be raelly bothersome.

After all Loveless, the one who has seen others, has a soda ring around his neck that almost kills him... as it happens in real life

[Armstead]

12. PS...The star penguin is a dancer, so therefore he's gay

That's what the conservative nitwits are saying.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Don't the freeps have anything better to do

like wage a war against "happy holidays" ????

:spray:

what a bunch of knuckleheads,

[stanwyck]

10. I think they need really simple issues

they can no longer discuss the war because it just isn't able to be discussed in any positive light whatsoever. Less said there, the better.
Healthcare? Deficit spending? Immigration?
Yikes. They don't have much to say.
So. Thank God for gays, penguins, and Danny DeVito.
It's really pretty funny what we've reduced the conservatives to these days.
I'm enjoying this.
Michael Medved's anti-penguin column was sublime.

[Agnomen]

9. Stephen Colbert should hire these guys

Their ranting is straight out of his act.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. I'm fed up with the conservatives war on penguins!

It's not the cartoon penguins fault that they, and their live counterparts, are smarter than most republicans!

[Coyote_Bandit]

13. I can remember when

the fundies attacked the Smurfs as being demonic. This is nothing new, IMHO. Just another example of bat shit crazy self-righteous religious BS.

[Jennos20]

17. Why is the Right Wing attacking cartoon penguins?

[Armstead]

22. See post 8 above

[Cheap_Trick]

19. these assholes would prefer

a movie wherin the penguins would kill any who are not exactly like them and pollute the environment to the point of disaster. That's their "moral values".

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. Geez, what are they going to do next summer when the

slacker surfer penguin movie comes out?

[leftofthedial]

21. Terry Schiavo hated penguins

right up to the end. She told her parents.

[spoony]

24. I am too, lol. The more they go after

Teletubbies, SpongeBob, penguins, etc, the more people look at them and realize they're kooks.

[Initech]

26. It only furthers my theory that these people are insane.

And every since the Terri Schiavo debacle last year, these true lunacy of the radical religious right has shown us its colors.