Yesterday I found out I'm a really bad grandmother.
I took my 5 year old granddaughter to see the movie "Happy Feet" during her Thanksgiving break from Kindergarten.
Yesterday Wolf Blitzer informed me that there was a definite bias in the movie "Happy Feet." Fox news said it was an animated version of "An Inconvenient Truth."
Pure propaganda from Warner Brothers! What's a grandmother to do?
After seeing the movie even I was amazed at the depth of the story. There were the environmental factors...we're screwing up the planet...overfishing, global warming, ecological disasters due to our overburdening the ecosystem with waste. There was reference to humans as alien beings...who abducted animals and tagged them after doing experiments. I guess from an animal's point of view this makes sense. I didn't find that offensive, but the right wingers sure do.
But the most disturbing idea, according to Fox, was the gay penguin agenda. That, I'm sorry to say, I missed. Mumble, the penguin star of the movie, is unable to sing but he can dance. I guess dancing makes you gay!?! It makes as much sense to me as a gay penguin agenda.
One thing about the movie, besides the singing and dancing and gay penguin agenda, that I enjoyed was the triumph of the "different" penguin, Mumbles, over the old guard penguins. The religious fundamentalist penguins...yeah even penguins have Jerry Fallwell/James Dobson type leaders...finally were shown the light when Mumbles returned. The penguins had a singing/dancing duel. Good triumphs over prejudice.
Who knew I would be indoctrinating my granddaughter by taking her to an animated movie? I thought I was just having fun with her...but opening her up to peace, love, acceptance and an environmental message were just icing on the cake.
Even if you don't have kids or grandkids go see this movie! The right wing is probably going to boycott it.
Robin Williams is a riot! He plays two characters one of them must be part of the gay penguin agenda.