Blaming Mr. Rogers is a ruse to take responsibility away from the corporate

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corruption factor.

Fox New's latest smear tactic, blaming Mr. Roger for spoiling so many kids by instilling the idea that they're special is extraordinarily pathetic and false. If Fox News is such a hard hitting investigative news media, why are they picking on the skinny runt on the block, instead of the fat cats in corporate America or the good ole boys abusing the real estate industry where every ambitious twit can get a piece of the action?

Mr. Rogers never taught kids to be greedy. That was taught with the MBA explosion in diplomas where people were taught how to follow strict formulas to make the bottomline look successful in the short run so they can then ask for their next promotion. Those formulas usually involved cutting overhead, like other people's jobs. They were taught how to take the elevator to expedite their ascendance on the ladder of success and never look back. So it is business that deserves the credit for creating generations of Americans who feel that the world owes them a lifestyle.

And it's the combination of business practices overriding government process which made the unimaginable happen and destroyed the sunshine that keeps people honest. Without society's watchful eyes, the greedy managed to hijack our country for personal gain. But they couldn't do it alone.

It was whatever organization that trains people into believing that blind obedience is akin to patriotism that misguided so many into thinking that their patriotic duty was to follow and protect those in office, from the rest of us, who were independent enough to see the fool-hardy and self-interested agendas.

You put that all together: Formulas for fast-track riches, the destruction of government process and too many people mistaking team work for patriotism, and you get the kind of quagmire society we have today where no one trusts anyone in their neighorhood.

Now you know why Fox News will be successful in pinning the blame on Mr. Rogers. Because that's easier to absorb, than everything else I've written.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/FOX_Did_Mr._Rogers_ruin_entire_0706.html

[NC_Nurse]

1. Does anyone really take this bullshit seriously?

Yeesh!

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2. That's why we have to answer back, no matter how stupid their reports

come across.

As I just pointed out in another thread, if they can get away with getting their audience to believe the ridiculous, then they don't have to worry about investigating the facts and reporting the truth.

[NC_Nurse]

3. I guess I think of anyone who watches FOX and believes

their horseshit is already lost.

My dad, case in point.

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4. Some of them believe they're more intelligent than average.

The only reason why they repeat this stuff is because the people in their insular worlds believe it's gospel. But you corner them and speak to them on a higher level, and suddenly, they feel as stupid as they deserve to feel for believing it without question.

[havocmom]

5. Think parents who think buying shit = spending time actually raising kids

might be part of the problem too.

[NC_Nurse]

6. No shit.

Nobody wants to take responsibility for spoiling their own kids. :wtf:

edit: sorry. I can't type worth a shit.

[Toasterlad]

7. Jeez...Ya Think?

Does this mean all those hours I spent examining the videos of the Neighborhood of Make Believe for commie/pinko subtext were wasted???

Shit. :grr:

Trudy! Cancel the subpoenas for Mr. McFeely and Handyman Negri!

[muntrv]

8. I think Mr. Rogers was a Presbyterian minister. If so, then faux snooze is

un-Christian.

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11. Fox News wouldn't have a problem with that contradiction.

[muntrv]

9. It's because Mr. Rogers usually visited neighborhood and local businesses

on his shows instead of going to sprawl mart and mickey-dees. That's why fox snooze is talking this shit.

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12. Fox News is plain nutters.

Frankly, most kids that I know didn't watch the show because he was too conservative and not hip enough.

[EFerrari]

10. Nader calls it the commercialization of childhood. n/t