What the hell, Fox News

Mr. Rogers created Sylar.

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Also, the Land of Make-Believe segments indoctrinated kids to trust a powerful, centralized government to solve all their problems like some sort of kindly old puppet.

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It’s not exactly a surprise that a private broadcaster owned by Rupert Murdoch would try to demonize the man who personally saved both PBS and the VCR from extinction, but jeebus, is it ever reprehensible.

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At what point did this seem like a good plan for these people?

Seriously, this is like the all BS over ’empathy’ and ‘social justice’ and ‘community organizer’. It’s as though the US is slowly developing this Bizarro-world thing where up is down and left is right and things that are generally accepted as good and desirable are in fact wicked and evil.

Man. Talking down Mr. Rogers like that is like bashing the Delai Lama if he weren’t the head of a theocratic state with regressive social mores. I’d be way more likely to talk shit about John Paul II or the Dalai Lama than Mr. Rogers. That’s just cold.

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It’s hilarious how much conjecture there is in this video. “These kids” “this generation” “all these people growing up” “the most narcissistic generation”.
Fox News: The old folks’ home of the journalism world.

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So Mr. Rogers is responsible for the Fox people who think to themselves, “Hey, I have no education, no actual functional knowledge, no way way of discerning the difference between the facts and my opinions, but, because I’m me and I’m special, I’m right and the world has to listen to me!” and spreading their toxic nonsense everywhere?

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Wait, why are we talking about this? I swear I remember Fox News “covering” this like a year ago and the world rolled its eyes in unison back then. Are they bringing it up again or what?

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Deegan: this video was uploaded to YouTube in 2008. It’s just stunningly bad enough that whoever sees it has to share it.

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This is pretty old news, I’m afraid. Fortunately, it’s long internet half-life gives me an excuse to link the PBS senate hearings clip over and over again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q

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Man, whenever you think Fox News can’t get any worse… they top themselves.

Geez, that’s just pathetic.

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What amazes me is Fox’s uncanny ability to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I mean, my God, is this news? Is this really worth devoting an entire segment to? Some frumpy folks decided to blame Mr. Rogers as a negative influence on their kids. Is there honestly nothing in the world more interesting at this time? It’s like a few months ago, when they did a piece on a “gay-centric advertising campaign.” That is to say, McDonald’s put out a commercial in which a son mentioned to his father that he swung a certain way while they were talking in the restaurant. One commercial.
Which aired in France.
Who the Hell would care about one commercial in France which acknowledged the existence of gay people??

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@ Joe England

I’ve always found Burger King ads to be the gayest anyway (even before the King shown in some guy’s bed I remember cowboys singing about how much they like meat). Why don’t they go after them? I doubt they’re a sponsor since I was under the impression that Fox’s advertising revenue was generated entirely by companies trying to cash in on doomsday panics.

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To be perfectly fair, this report is 2 years old.

It’s still untenable that someone would attack a benign man who passed away years after his death with a massively BS complaint. But then, this kind of doushbaggery is what I’ve come to expect from Fox.

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