Green Eggs & Slams

The Lorax.

Out of all of Dr Seuss's books, that is by far my favorite.  As a parent subject to years of "Again, again!" it was never a mental slog to close The Lorax and reopen it to page 1.

The title character, a fuzzy, wise, woodland dwelling little guy laments the dangers of not caring, not protecting that which is precious, endangered - the cautionary tale being the clear cutting of all the Truffula trees to truck into factories which pump out smog and thneeds - which, apparently, everyone needs.  (Until, of course, there are no more trees, then people do what people do, they move on to the next thing they can sacrifice to their self centered ways, and push it to the edge of oblivion.)

My favorite line in the book, the lesson the young person comes to understand, is simple "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not."

Like The Grinch, Hollywood is bringing The Lorax - and the message from the book - to the big screen, only in animated form.

And, well, that is just one more indicator that our children are *gasp* being "indoctrinated" by we dirty liberals.

Yes, the Big I - INDOCTRINATED - was thrown by Spew Fox News' Lou Dobbs, adding fuel to that Satanic Liberal Fire Fox started when they accused the Muppets of pushing an agenda with their movie.

Jesus - seriously?  Do these people not understand that it is drivel, crap, and nonsense like this constantly flowing from their mouths that make the thinking people of the world look at them all and go, "Wetbrained asshats"?

One of Dobbs' guests, radio host Matthew Patrick, said, "What we're doing is creating Occu-toddlers."

Occu-toddlers?  Really.  From a Dr. Seuss book about giving a damn.

Of course his advice for that highly enlightened group of thinkers who watch Fox was this, "buy huge tubs of popcorn, ram it in your face," leave the litter behind and walk out of the movie.

Leave it to Fox to offer mature solutions.

Just curious, if the Muppets and Dr. Seuss are indoctrinating kids to be charitable, kind, thoughtful, and forward thinking - which are all apparently BAD, sinister things, I guess Charlie Brown, Rudolph, and Cinderella had better watch their backs.

Certainly Charlie Brown is a thinly disguised push to educate and parent children via large unseen chickens bred in some liberal science lab.  Rudolph encourages a nanny state in which no one can bully the strange kid anymore.  And Cinderella ignores her chores to sneak off and have "pleasure" with her dirty parts.

I swear, just when you think these people have hit bottom, they order a bigger backhoe and resume digging.

Comments

[Rudy]

Unbelievable, but then I guess I should remember if you care even an ounce about the environment you are obviously one of those vile liberal types!

[Chicky (Kathy)]

Oh Puke - I really hate those guys and all they stand for. (Oh and P.S. Nancy Grace too for wondering OUT LOUD who held Whitney Houston's head under water to kill her)

[Nikki]

The Lorax is one of my faves too and I am delighted he is getting big screen treatment.

These FOX yampalas can make anything seem bad and evil when really they are the scariest, most vile and evil thing on TV. They are worse than Thneeds.

[Theresa from Virginia]

Slow news cycle over at Fox - they've got to find something to spout nonsense and hate about. The Lorax just happened to be a handy target. They are just too dumb to realize that they just continue to make themselves look dumb!

[Kelly in PA]

Once again Linda, you hit the nail on the head! These people are crazy! Why did Dr. Seuss never get attacked before now? He's been encouraging love and care of each other and our environment for years! Thank God Fox News came along to tell us how evil these messages are! Nutjobbers!!!

[nat]

As someone who used to be in the cult errr christian church... I can tell you that Dr. Seuss was hated by many for pushing his atheist beliefs and his belief in evolution. Because seriously - all of the worlds problems were caused by Green Eggs and Ham. Clearly, anything that would make someone a GOOD person would not be of God.

[IrishM]

I think I heard that he also included the movie Arietty, based on The Borrowers by Mary Norton. One of my favorite series of books growing up.