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"Two Tickets For Wall-E Leftist Propaganda, Please." Possible?

Jul 3 2008 - 7:56am

Heading out to the movies this holiday weekend? If your "two tickets, please," is for last weekend's #1 flick [1], Pixar's Wall-E, you might be getting a jumbo bucket of leftist propaganda with your price of admission. But it's a cartoony-thing, right?! But it's a cartoon-y thing with an apparently serious leftist message.


The National Review's global-warming blog says [2] “it was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment.” Oh! That sounds like a cute and funny movie! What??

But wait, there's more! Glenn Beck says [3], "I just see Wally and he's on the Earth and he's cleaning stuff up and I looked at my wife and I said, it's a frickin' global warming movie, it is how we destroyed the Earth." Over at Dirty Harry's Place (a conservative look at film, punk) Harry says of the Pixar tale [4], "they stop things cold, yanking you out of the story with the liberal nonsense. Quite a disappointment. Anyway…"

Lars Larson was on with Dan Abrams backing all of this up, saying [5] it gives "little kids the idea that human beings are bad for planet Earth." At Townhall, they agree with the propaganda claim, but say [6] it's "actually a brilliant exposure of liberalism’s flaws."

Is all of this possible out of a cartoon? Is Wall-E propaganda in the world's cutest package?

Check out Buzz's brilliant review [7] for more info on the plot and characters — and hey, 4.5 out of 5 stars ain't bad!


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