'It's not filmmakers who are pushing their agenda on kids, but film watchers who are perceiving messages based on their political biases.' And it flirts with closeted homosexuality, as two male krill in the film, voiced by Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, mimic Bert and Ernie as a pair 'of unusually close confirmed bachelors.' What an overreaction, politics professor John Pitney tells The Hollywood Reporter. It touts vegetarianism, with penguins spooked by humans roasting chicken.

It hammers global warming with a scene in which polar bears cling to a shrinking iceberg. This animated film 'has a broad, lefty political agenda,' says Kyle Smith at the New York Post. 'All this time,' says Aida Ekberg at Gather, 'everyone thought Kermit was just a peace-loving frog who just wants to sing about rainbows.' Live and learn. Such allegations were largely met with ridicule. are part of a liberal media plot to ' brainwash your kids against capitalism.' (The villain of The Muppets is an evil oil baron who plans to tear down the gang's iconic theater so he can drill for oil.) 'It's amazing how far the Left will goвЂ¦ to manipulate your kids,' says Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center. Making the connection between a liberal agenda and The Lorax 'is not an entirely ridiculous thing to do - though Dobbs, of course, makes it look like one.'ДЇox Business Network charged last year that Kermit and Co. Well, the Lorax is an environmentalist, and the film is political, says David Haglund at Slate. Club, that the book was written more than 50 years ago, before Obama's energy plan existed. Dobbs accuses The Lorax,В which hits theaters on March 2,В of 'espousing green energy policy,' while conservative radio host Matt Patrick worries that the film is 'creating occu-toddlers.' Never mind, says Sean O'Neal at The A.V. Seuss book it's based on), the Lorax speaks for the trees as part of a fable warning of the dangers an industrialized society poses to nature. using animation to sell their agenda to children,' Dobbs claims. 'The President's liberal friends in Hollywood.

Here, a look back at the Right's complaints about overly-political children's cinema: The Lorax is hardly the first kids' flick to face such criticism. The film, a cautionary tale about deforestation, sells President Obama's 'liberal agenda' to children, Dobbs argued. Seuss flick during a recent segment on Fox Business News. The Lorax is attempting to ' indoctrinate our children' - at least according to Lou Dobbs, who eviscerated the upcoming Dr. Don't be fooled by the cuddly orange critter with the adorable bushy mustache.

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