During a press conference in the United Kingdom this past weekend, Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog responded to a question about the criticisms Fox News had about their latest Muppet movie. Here is what Miss Piggy and Kermit had to say.
KERMIT: “It’s a funny thing, they were concerned about us having some prejudice against oil companies, and I can tell you that’s categorically not true. And besides, if we have problems with oil companies, why would we have spent the entire film driving around a gas-guzzling Rolls-Royce?”
MISS PIGGY: “It’s almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being, uh, you know, being news.”
KERMIT: “Boy, that’s going to be all over the Internet.”
MISS PIGGY: “Yeah, if they take what I say seriously, they’ve got a real big problem.”
It’s Miss Piggy’s last comment above that took center stage on Monday evening as Bill O’Reilly briefly talked about the Muppet response and decided to fire back a response of his very own. O’ Reilly took issue with Miss Piggy’s shot at Fox News and warned that “Though we still like The Muppets, they better watch it.”
Here’s the video:
Despite the fact that O’ Reilly was jokingly warning the Muppets, he was still responding to hand puppets. I would call that taking the Muppets seriously. It’s like when children talk to their toys as if they are real. It’s fun when you’re a kid, but when you do it as an adult, (in this case a man over 40 who claims to be a serious news anchor) you look like an idiot. Fox News has apparently slipped so low that it now feels the need to debate about whether it is real news or not with a bunch of lovable puppets that a majority of Americans enjoy. Bill is feuding with puppets. Perhaps he should watch his sanity.
It’s way, waaaaaaaay too late for Bill O’Reilly to be concerned about his sanity.
If he’d been concerned about either sanity or personal honor, he’d have told Rupert Murdoch where to stuff it the first time he was directed to lie to the public and call it news.
But he didn’t, and so now here he is. Debating with Muppets, and threatening them with–what? That he’ll put them through a meat grinder? That he’ll have their hand’s knees broken? That Fox will begin the same kind of war of innuendo and downright slander against the Muppets that they’ve been waging on President Obama since before he was actually elected President? I have a challenge to Bill O’Reilly, and sincerely hope he reads this.
Bill, I understand why you feel that you’re on the same level with the Muppets, since you always have Rupert Murdoch’s hand up your ass working you. That makes you similar to the Muppets in at least one significant way. What you actually are, however, is what the Muppets would have been if Hitler, or Pol Pot, or Stalin, or Rupert Murdoch had been working them.
Evil.
However, Bill, YOU could, just possibly, change. Quit Fox Newsless, tell the truth about what Murdoch and his hirelings insisted that you do to the American people, and expose what the other bubble-brained gasbags working for Fox are doing to their audience.
Or, in other words, make a serious attempt to redeem your soul, and recover your honor. You can’t lose your honor, Bill, it’s something you have to deliberately give away. And you can decide to take it back, if you can stand the pain of accepting what you’ve been all these years when you do so.
You don’t have to, though. It would be really hard, that level of change. And you’d have to go to work for NPR, or Air America, or some other non-commercial enterprise to keep from just ending up with another corporate scumbag’s hand up your ass working you. But it would be good for you, despite the pain, and you’d gain Jon Stewart’s REAL respect if you did, in spite of the skit he’d do about your confession. And, you never know, you might end up as the voice of reason and sanity opposite Rush Limbaugh’s hate and fear show, and be remembered through the ages to come as the man who brought light to a dark and dismal period of our history.
Instead of as just another mouthpiece for a corporate scumbag.
God help you, Bill. I hope you make the right decision.
One puppet to another.
Yes, let em learn from their homophobic parents how to treat gay kids. Yes, Little Junior can learn that it is okay to hear the that gay people are bad and inferior to the great white man. Then tell em the truth about how a “good parent” in Wyoming hung a gay child on a fence post last year. WHy? because the “bible told em so>”
I’m no fan of O’Reilly, or Fox News, but c’mon he’s joking, not “Feuding with puppets.”
lol..agreed!