Right-Wing Freakout: Pixar's 'Cars 2' is brainwashing children to care about the environment.

[onehandle]

Could an animated film about cars become Big Oil's next nemesis? In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, "Cars 2" director John Lasseter discussed the major overhaul to his upcoming film, a revamp that makes Big Oil the bad guys.

He told the paper: I kept thinking about, "OK. A spy movie in the world where cars are alive. What would be a really good kind of über bad guy? Who is an über bad guy?" I kept going to big oil. This is before what happened in the Gulf of Mexico.

Why isn't alternative fuel more... Why isn't everybody jumping on that bandwagon? It makes so much sense: Electricity, solar, whatever. There's ethanol. There's all this stuff you could be doing. And so I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel. That's when we kind of crafted the bad guy's story.

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Some conservatives are already enraged. The Lonely Conservative blog wrote, "We conservatives and believers in free markets are accused of being paranoid when we say the Hollywood industry is trying to indoctrinate our children with left wing propaganda. But now movie directors and producers are coming out and admitting what they're doing. I'm just glad I found this out before I allowed my kids to persuade me to take them to see the movie 'Cars 2.'" Indeed. Evil films can brainwash children into caring about the environmental degradation that their generation will have to pay for.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/21/cars-2-big-oil-john-lasseter_n_881251.html

[JoePhilly]

1. They see monsters and demons all over the place.

[sharp_stick]

2. I love enraging conservatives

it's fun and easy. Nobody that stupid has the sense to think anything through so you can piss them off at the drop of a hat.

[Heidi]

3. That's because they're self-serving dominionists.

I was raised Southern Baptist, they are also liberals who taught me that dominion means stewardship.

[Ian David]

4. Other than Ghost Busters I, Red Dawn, and Omega Man, there are no good Conservative movies. n/t

[Alamuti Lotus]

6. Ghost Busters I?

[JHB]

8. Not sure, but I think that part would be about...

...Mr. Peck(er): the main obstacle to Our Guys Saving The Day is an EPA bureaucrat.

[EOTE]

12. Correction, Red Dawn was a good, bad movie.

As a good movie, it fails incredibly. As a bad movie, it does fairly well. I saw it expecting to see a bad movie, and I wasn't disappointed.

[Ian David]

13. It was at least an entertaining movie. n/t

[spanone]

5. good

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Sooner or later most conservatives 'get it.' But it's so tiring always dragging them into reality

[KittyWampus]

9. Free Market? HAHAHAHAHA! How much in subsidies does Petroleum get?

[butterfly77]

10. This is why the country is now in the shape it is in..

they can bring up any fake controversy and the so called left wing media jumps on board and the country talks about it for weeks..

[Taverner]

11. There was an article here that showed that climate change negates capitalism

As in, it proves the Capitalist axiom wrong where by the market solves all problems

In essence, the Conservatives are believing in a flawed model: Capitalism can destroy a people just as easy as it can make an unethical man rich

[4lbs]

14. What free market? The free market where some stiff stuffed suit in a Wall Street commodities

brokerage gets to determine, at a whim, how much the country, and even the world, pays for a gallon of gas for the next 3 to 4 months?

[Canuckistanian]

15. Conservatives are perfectly free to make their own movies

Why are they worried about Hollywood?

[krabigirl]

16. lol at calling a "Cars" movie "evil" and brainwashing. people need to get a life.

[krispos42]

17. Yeah.all that truth has a well-known liberal bias

:eyes:


The purpose of my car is transportation, not the consumption of dead dinosaurs. I would like to achieve that purpose while changing the means, thank you very much. And I'd like to change the means BEFORE it becomes a crisis, as it must in the next 20 years or so.

Bearing in mind, of course, the average life-span of a car in America is about 16 years.



Call me a fuckin' radical...

[Renew Deal]

18. He gave away the ending.

I don't have to see it now.

[chalky]

19. Now if we could just put Tinky Winky behind the wheel on the 4th.

The drought nixed the July 4th fireworks around here, but the sight of exploding right-wing heads would be just as entertaining.

[Trajan]

20. What happened to the 'marketplace of ideas' ?

They prefer a slanted field, where conservatives pump bullshit up everybody's ass while the rest of us just STFU ....

Well ? .... FUCK YOU !

[derby378]

21. What good is a free market if nobody's left to buy your oil?

Ecological collapse tends to make the land unfit for sustaining life. Unless you're one of those microbes that eat arsenic, that is, but I don't feel like tempting Fate.