Fox Business Criticizes Studio Ghibli's Latest

[Something Amyss]

Thank God for this fair and balanced take.

Well I don't think the Lorax is trying to push a liberal agenda, I think it's instead talking about an important issue, one that was important back in 1988 and is still important today. I doubt Dr. Suess was trying to brainwash children, just trying to give a good moral, "if you get rid of all the plants, you destroy the ecosystem." It was an eco-friendly message that's all.

But you see, an eco-friendly message IS a liberal agenda. That's the way it's been politicised in the last ten years.

Plus, as we all know, reality has a known liberal bias (to paraphrase Stephen Colbert).

The Borrowers got started in 1952 by a British woman, so I doubt she was pushing modern American liberal ideas either. I read this series of books when I was younger and never once thought "you know, this is a good point. Taking what you need from others is a good idea!"

No, it's just a series of cute stories.

Next up: Does the Cat in the Hat represent Che Guevara?

 

[GoddyofAus]

Bill O' Reilly wakes up in the middle of the night with a cold sweat screaming "LIBERALSSSSSSSSSSSSS AHHHHHH"

 

[Something Amyss]

What kind of misanthropist wanker do you have to be to take issue from "pushing the agenda" of "being fair" to children?
And then that guy says you should buy popcorn and throw it on the ground to "fight back against the message".
Are those guys toddlers or what? Why do these people get screen time?

Because people eat this shit up. You know how people like to go on roller coasters or tell ghost stories? Well, a lot of other people like to be scared. They don't like to be scared by high speeds and tales of the dead, though. They like to be scared by a different kind of bogeyman. The liberal, PC bogeyman. Lou Dobbs is spinning a liberal horror tale, and people who like to feel persecuted and scared eat it up.

Yeah, I'm bitchy about that. Sorry.

Yo.

Personally, I'm sick of our moderate party being treated as far left, but I can hold my own with any European liberal.

Huh? So telling our kids to be fair and let everyone have an equal shot at life is horrible now? Destroying nature is all fine?

Exactly. Not being a greedy sociopath is bad. That's pretty much their stance.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Okay, I know Faux News is about as reliable as an unpotty trained labrodoodle in a high stress medical situation, but I can normally shrug off thier batshit. However, I may actually have to destroy them this time because YOU DO NOT FUCK WITH STUDIO GHIBLI.

 

[Blunderboy]

The Borrowers never give the stuff back. They should be called The Thieving Little Bastards.
Sorry, that's always bothered me.
I'll go back to ignoring everything Fox News says.

 

[Otaku World Order]

Fox News is like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, seeing patterns and messages where they don't exist.

The real kicker of The Secret World of Arriety is that if you actually, y'know, watch the damn movie, the human who tries to "help" by giving stuff to the Borrowers doesn't realize he's causing all sorts of trouble for them.

Anyone know if Arietty is good? I love Ghibli films.

It is good. Very good.

But, it's Ghibli, so being awesome is no surprise.

What the hell does the Secret World of Arriety have to do with the 1%? Seriously?

I am thoroughly ashamed for my actual understanding of this preposterous claim, but my guess is that Fox sees the depiction of the humans in Arrietty as the 1% and the borrowers as the 99%.

Meaning that Fox sees this movie as indoctrinating kids into thinking its okay to steal (borrow) from the rich if you're poor.

...It must be difficult for Fox representatives to enjoy any movie. They're like fucking general Ripper from Dr. Strangelove.

Oh, but the Borrowers in Arriety are a minority and sharing with minorities is a strict No-No in right-wing nutopia.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Fox problem is that they ether manipulate subjects that contain parts that liberals agree on or they simply do not put forth the research effort necessary to accurately acknowledge subjects within the main material.

I work at a news station (CBS). I know bad news when I see it. Occasionally everyone fucks up, says the wrong thing, chokes, or misses a key piece of evidence. Still, while we are a semi liberal station (mostly due to the personality the anchors convey than the actual content of the show) we do not jump at the chance to shove anything even remotely negative about republicans in their faces.

Then again I'm at a local station, main CBS may be different.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

(Face palm) Fuck the Fox Network. They haven't been coherent since... I don't know when, actually.

However, I may actually have to destroy them this time because YOU DO NOT FUCK WITH STUDIO GHIBLI.

Agreed, friend. I'll get the torches, you find some pitchforks!

 

[castlewise]

Arrietty is a Japanese film based on a series of novels by an English author. Of course its unamerican. If it wasn't produced in the US (or china) then we don't want it.

 

[Hexenwolf]

Did anyone else laugh out loud when they saw that "Controversy" was one of the tags for this post?

 

[Flailing Escapist]

If I ever become famous enough to be asked onto Fox I will laugh hysterically the entire time and if they ask what my problem is I'm going to answer, "Sorry but I think my opinions deserve better than to be on a sh@#$ty two-bit tv program".

Hopefully it's on the Bill O'Reilly show because that guy is the king of the conservative assholes.

 

[4RM3D]

I stopped reading after "Fox News...".

Incidentally, I also stopped caring ages ago.

 

[Ukanef]

I sure am glad there's an ocean between me and these pricks

 

[Deathfish15]

I'm sorry it's "liberal" to want big-business to stop taking 99% of the wealth of this country and giving it to less than 1% of the population.

I'm sorry it's "liberal" to want those same big-businesses to make up excuses to completely abolish employee benefits, health coverage, pension funds, and the like.

I'm sorry it's "liberal" to want them to also actually pay their taxes (instead of getting massive tax breaks they don't need) as well as them to follow regulatory laws as far as both environmental and labor are concerned.


Wait a second, I'm not sorry at all. If all those things are "Liberal", then I'm proud to be a Liberal. Because right now, our country sucks. George Washington would weep, if he were alive today, to see that we've traded one king an ocean away for no-crowned kings here who bought their dictatorship style rule.

 

[Pink Gregory]

What the hell does the Secret World of Arriety have to do with the 1%? Seriously?

I am thoroughly ashamed for my actual understanding of this preposterous claim, but my guess is that Fox sees the depiction of the humans in Arrietty as the 1% and the borrowers as the 99%.

Who is this that has suggested that children will immediately and without doubt take any underlying theme on face value as not a moral message but an instruction?

Same reason I take umbrage with the people that claim that whole Disney Princess thing is harmful to children, immediately assuming that children can't separate fantasy from reality.

 

[RoBi3.0]

Wow, just wow you wanna go see the movie but don't agree with the message, then go spend lots of money on concessions then throw it all of the ground. Since when is teaching your kids to be dick heads better then teaching then to care about the welfare of others and the planet they live on?

/facepalm.

 

[Chadling]

As a Brit, can some Americans explain why being a liberal is as bad as **** punting an old woman? "Oh noes, this film says be nice to the enviroment PROTECT THE CHILDREN! BURN THE FILM!"

"Are you thinking of helping your fellow man Timmy?" "Yes, Pa." "That's the wrong thing to do son! You should stomp them into the dirt and climb to the top on their bodies!"

About a generation back, the right-wing of the time (remarkably sane people compared to the ideologues that we have now) succeeded in turning the word "liberal" into a curse word. Now it's pretty much spouted mindlessly to describe anything that the GOP is opposed to.

And personally, I get a feeling that behind every Faux News commentator is a sad, sad individual who is just following a script and whose soul is privately crying out for sweet oblivion.... or at least a job that involves some intellectual integrity and creativity.

 

[PlasticTree]

Right. He hasn't watched any other Ghibli films, did he? Since this is the main theme in what, 80% of ALL THEIR MOVIES?

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Everyone is all "Ghibli is Japanese!! LOLOLOL!" while forgetting that they're owned by Disney now.

Uh....that's not true.
Disney just distributes their movies internationally. Ghibli's doing very well and would probably go out of business before letting a foreign company buy them up.

Oop. Indeed that is the case. I just misread some blurb of an article about the topic. Still, it's not like Arriety is Asian in origin anyway, so why don't they talk about the English ruining "Good ole American values"?

 

[DRTJR]

They actualy had a point with The muppets, Ghibli is a japanese studio so their is always going to be a slight cultural disconnect, and for Arietty to have an agenda it would have to have a plot first. still liked the film