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Conan Mocks Conservatives Who Think ‘Cars 2’ Has Liberal Bias

Conan Mocks Conservatives Who Think Cars 2 Has Liberal BiasIf you missed the recent controversy surrounding “Cars 2,” allow me to recap: As details surrounding the movie have emerged, conservatives have charged that its storyline has a liberal bias. These critics believe that the movie holds the power to indoctrinate youths by railing against fossil fuels and advocating for alternative forms of energy. Newsbusters explains:

When John Lasseter moved from executive producer to executive director last year, he overhauled major portions of the plot into a good vs. evil story against big oil.

While one could easily assume that conservatives are blowing the situation out of proportion, Lasseter has essentially admitted to crafting a storyline that takes on oil companies, while trumpeting alternative energies. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, he said:

We revamped the whole story, the whole bad-guy arc…I kept thinking about, “OK. A spy movie in the world where cars are alive. What would be a really good kind of über bad guy? Who is an über bad guy?” I kept going to big oil. This is before what happened in the Gulf of Mexico.

Why isn’t alternative fuel more… Why isn’t everybody jumping on that bandwagon? It makes so much sense: Electricity, solar, whatever. There’s ethanol. There’s all this stuff you could be doing. And so I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel. That’s when we kind of crafted the bad guy’s story.

Upon hearing about conservative responses to the film, comedian Conan O’Brien jumped into the mix and created his own version of the “Cars 2” trailer. The short clip, which takes on a number of conservative stances, is intended to tease those who call the movie biased. Watch Conan’s video below:

Now that you’ve seen the faux trailer, you can watch the real one here:

What do you think. Biased…or not?

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  • Therightsofbilly
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:51pm

    @CLIVE

    Yep, you were indoctrinated all right.

    Do you have any idea how many years worth of oil we have available to us, if we would only go after it?

    So you think we pump out great music, movies and art? Please give us some examples.

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  • chips1
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:43pm

    Disney must be thawing in his grave.

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  • We_Are_Right
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:39pm

    @ The_Almighty_Creestof:
    No, the sad thing is that (ignorant and/or at least apathetic) liberals like yourself continue to elect Liberal/Progressives who will not allow access to the incredible reserves of oil which the US has under its OWN SOIL!! We’ve got more oil in the Bokken Oil Fields than the rest of the world combined! And the problem with this sort of Leftist Propaganda is that it conditions our kids to automatically reject arguments based on rational thought and fact and instead, support progressive legislation which destroys freedom and choice. Do you know how much we rely on fossil fuels in this country? Upwards of %93! We get as much electricity from WOOD BURNING as we do from Wind and Solar COMBINED (approx. 2% each). I am a proponent of advancing research and development ofalternative fuels. Hopefully to the point where they can replace fossil fuels. Because Alt Fuels ARE cleaner. But right now, they’re NOT more efficient, and certainly not ubiquitous, like oil/coal/gas. Let the Market drive the development of these and bring them to the marketplace and let consumers realize they are a better CHOICE. That time has not come and will not, as long as Progressives “drive the car.”

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  • drimmel
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:35pm

    Any liberal biased in a cartoon is aimed at the adults. And the adults who fear that can explain to their children that fossil fuels are not evil nor is alternative energy. All resources are good and should be used under a free market system. Kids will laugh because it’s a cartoon to them. don’t blow this out of proportion and sink to their level. Use some critical thinking!

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  • Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:34pm

    First of all you can tell the difference when running ethanol. Secondly, 1 Gallon of ethanol contains about 76,000 BTU (BTU- is the amount of energy that is contained it) — Gasoline has about 116,000 BTU
    Since 15% of an E85 car contains gasoline, the reduction in mileage is between 24% to 34% less for E85 vehicles.

    The funny part to this is to make 1 gallon of ethanol which contains 76,000 BTU, it requires 98,000 BTU just to make it.

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  • Richard Compton
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:33pm

    Conan’s just another famous jerk doing what ever he can to get attention, I‘ve never thought he was funny and I’m amazed he still has a program. Very telling on how hard it must be really hard to find actual talent.

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  • Eric Von Zipper
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:31pm

    My friends… I keep forgetting, what major network is Conan on now?… Oh, that’s right… He’s not on any of them!… Fool!…

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:30pm

    I’ll scratch Conan off my “watch-list” of must see shows.

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:27pm

    An example of a creative process having been interrupted or corrupted. Take it to the end!

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  • mannrt
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:25pm

    I love the liberal mantra of selling the alternative energy story to those who follow the narrative. If all cars are electric, do you know how many more power plants it takes to power these cars? People have actually told me that we should build parking lots with solar cells on the roof to recharge the hundreds or thousands of electric cars inside. As an engineer, I’m totally amazed how uninformed the public is, (I believe on purpose) to the realities of energy we use to live day to day. The media and politicians keep the preposterous narrative alive that presently we could harness these “renewable” resources to power our industries and lives and remove our dependence on oil and gas and nuclear power. I would love to see liberal bastions like Hollywood power their movie businesses with wind and solar power only and see them scream when they can’t heat their pools, air condition their mansions and be driven in their electric limousines at night, and on cloudy and still days.

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  • His Lamb is Satanic
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Just another flaming “Blazer” story for the hollyweird ghey set of commies that do not deserve your attention, or money.

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  • ShyMan
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:24pm

    If that‘s all the liberal bias that’s in the movie I won’t have much of a problem with it. I just don’t want my kids to see traditional dads portrayed as idiots, Christianity portrayed as the world’s evil, or homos making out.

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  • fitsgibbons
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:23pm

    Everybody is a bunch of petty fools. It’s a movie for crying out loud. Those kids will grow up and realize that the only really COOL car runs on fossil fuel, NOT electricity. Don’t sweat the small stuff.

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    • smokie
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:02pm

      I’m not being a troll, but I must mention; the Tesla is waaaay cool.
      I love Beck’s show, I listen to him on radio, I want small government, but I feel strongly about finding a way to keep our idealogical enemies out of my back pocket. Alternative energy is a solution to that. I’m in an area where small businesses are cropping up to find a solution, and I mean to support them as best I can.

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  • His Lamb is Satanic
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:21pm

    Do not support Hollyweird and their boulevard of bright lights that lead nowhere. That is the communist ghey path to obamanation. Stop watching TV, it is another ghey TransVestite immoral activity. Try fixing up your yard, or helping a neigbor? Don’t watch TV, or give any energy to their warped minds and fads. Quit being so lazy.

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  • last frontier
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:20pm

    Hard to see the forest through the trees, GONAD, had to lick some boot’s on the left so they wont take this show away from him. Back on his little drinking hiatus he realized he doesn’t have any skills except talking.

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  • Drum Man
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Larry the Cable guy is a conservative. And funny as hell.

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    • mbriz
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:51pm

      Larry is a moron for the stupid of this country which grows larger everyday. Thanks Glenn.

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  • nomercy63
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:12pm

    And that is why I never watch any of those fools!!!!!

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    • smokie
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:56pm

      No. Please see “The Incredibles.” It’s one of my favorite movies.

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  • AmericanCountry
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

    From the trailer, there was nothing biased that I could see.

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  • mickrussom
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:07pm

    Now I’m not taking the kids to see Cars 2 in the theaters. I will NOT solicit or screen for my kids this communist crap. Ethanol is a FRIGGING JOKE, Cars 2 idiot, by the way.

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  • Oh My God
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:04pm

    Start the indroctination when they are very young except when they want to go little league practice. Think back, kids thought if you still had checks, you had money.

    And, who is Conan?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:04pm

    I think Conan was poking fun at liberals not conservatives. Either way, it WAS funny.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

      OK, he’s Irish Catholic from Massachusetts. Probably was taking a shot at conservatives but, it backfired. It showed how ridiculous liberals can be.

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  • dd41
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:03pm

    Conan who? Isn’t he a barbarian with a kid that i just saw in the news?

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  • ObserverMI
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:00pm

    Simply from the ‘trailer’ I didn’t see it.
    Yet reading above ‘and’ what Lasseter said himself, yea, why make oil the bad guy? I see the slant there. I’d have to see more of it for a better distinction.

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  • Jezreel
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:58am

    Nearly 100% of movies and trash that comes out of Hollywood is liberal bias crap anyhow. So what else is new. Little kids like to see the cars. They don’t care or even understand about fossil fuels.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:17pm

      Kids understand more than you think. All these messages build up over time. Big oil is bad, American settlers were bad, loggers are bad.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Hollywood is the World center for entertainment blockbusters that thrill general audiences.

      The reason some entertainment that comes out of Hollywood makes Mega-Millions is because it is the world’s best entertainment. The fact that Hollywood routinely produces such high quality master-pieces put that Atlas Shrugged Part 1 failure-piece in it’s place in less than two weeks.

      Just proves quality sells big, ideology not so much. It’s the Hollywood way!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:26pm

      No, it only proves that we are willing to sacrifice our values and pay to see their movies, but, they are not willing to go see conservative movies.

      Look at who boycotts whom.

      The left attacked Glenn and decimated his advertisers via boycotts.

      When do you see conservatives do that? You don’t.

      THAT’s why liberal movies do well, and conservative ones do not.
      We go see their indoctrinating crap anyways.
      They, however, do not.

      As for Atlas Shrugged – it done on a shoestring budget – you’ll NEVER get that quality out of Hollywood for that little money.

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:35pm

      Did anyone else notice how little of a response Conan got when he stated that conservatives are complaining that the film is indoctrinating children with a Liberal bias?

      It was almost a “crickets” moment.

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    • dlittera
      Posted on July 2, 2011 at 9:38pm

      That’s what I was just thinking; my children are 1, 3, 6, and 10 and they are not even going to be paying attention to that part of CARS. For the bombs and guns part of the movie. Did you forget about the cartoons like the one with willey coyote and the roadrunner or the teenage mutant ninja turtles. I normally agree with you Glenn, but come on. This will not make your kids a violent person.

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  • hauschild
    Posted on June 24, 2011 at 11:58am

    What‘s life really like for people like O’Brien that care about absolutely nothing that really matters?

    I can’t imagine living life so pretentiously.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:03pm

      I have no problem with todays kids being turned off of fossil fuels and thinking of alternative forms of energy. Oil has allowed the rest of the world to hold us Americans by our short hairs for decades. If they grow up thinking up better ways…then grats to them.

      We’re not talking about them having an impact right now by demanding battery powered cars and cafe standards…and if that is STILL all that is being considered when they DO grow up…then we are truly screwed.

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    • nacilbuper
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

      Who is this Conan?

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    • undercover
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:09pm

      If the writer says it’s biased – then it’s BIASED. Even a progresive should be able to understand that.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:13pm

      So What – it was funny!

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    • fastfacts
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:14pm

      WHAT A MESSED UP SCENARIO:

      Why is it that all of the late show hosts are flaming liberal, they all lie, and they are influencing the youth.

      Then you also have a full list of liberal news sources. Why aren’t the conservatives move in and taking over these sources or making their own alternatives.

      And how do groups like Media Matters get tax-exempt status? http://tiny.cc/qzlcl

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:18pm

      Does anyone even watch his show? The guy is so amazingly not funny. Why do you think Jay Leno had to come out of retirement? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaZeZBGD2c

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:20pm

      Well, coverag like this could put a MAJOR dent in Disney/Pixar’s boxoffice receipts for Cars 2.
      I wonder if that will wake them up?
      They keep going further and further left.
      Disney’s BASE is CONSERVATIVE America.
      But, they have forgotten that, and take us for granted.
      The ASSUME they have our business, so they keep going further and further left to try to get a bigger slice of the pie. They are about to find out that they are sacrificing their EXISTING slice of the pie to chase the next slice. The secret is to GROW the pie, not try to take more for yourself. A bigger pie means everyone benefits.

      Sigh.

      I’ll not be going to see this now.

      I had planned to wait 1 week to let the crowds die down a bit.

      Now, I won’t go at all.

      I was excited when I heard “Larry the Cable Guy” say this one was even better than the first one.
      I should have remembered he is a “teacher” and came from the public educational system.

      Walt is rolling over in his grave.

      It all started with a mouse… And it will all end with a car… because of greed and political power-lust.

      Maybe I should cancel my Premium Annual Pass, to Disneyland / Walt Disney World, too?

      This has been going on for a long time. This is just the first time the press has picked up on Disney/Pixar’s left-leaning bias.

      Doesn’t Disney own ABC, too?

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:21pm

      Well, he obviously didn’t get kicked off of NBC for having the wrong bias.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:22pm

      Who really cares what a guy, who is pre-occupied with his hair, says, anyway.
      I see some kind of bias in most movies I watch. Some, more than others.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:22pm

      creestof -

      NO, it is not OIL that holds us by the short hairs – it is the BANANA people who won’t let us utilize our own natural resources. It is the power-lust of the socialist democrat left.
      By taking away our natural resources, they gain a bargaining chip – then, they offer to give us back what is RIGHTFULLY ours to begin with, but only in exchange for what they want.

      It is about POLITICS, not about oil.

      You’ve drunk too much koolaid.

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    • The_Bees_Assume
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:23pm

      It was funny! I don’t care who you are (as Larry the Cable Truck would say) – that there was F-u-n-n-y!

      Lighten up and laugh!

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    • Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:24pm

      you don’t have to watch “cars 2” if you don’t like it… its a free country, you and your kids can watch the new“ tea party drama” they are talking about on the homepage. its looks like a quality show :)

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:31pm

      LOVENFL3,
      Have you watched Leno lately?
      I tried a couple times and zapped at the monologue full of political bias, un-funny “jokes,” and Palin smears. Total waste of time.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:33pm

      @TomFerrari
      Riiiight…and the fact that we won’t see solar power in our life times on a wide scale basis because we only want to harp about oil & coal?

      Go back in time and take the wheel from the caveman and ask what they might have thought up had they not had it. Tell our kids of today about the problems with oil and they might create marvels by the time they are our age.

      And I hate koolaid…I much prefer the tears of stagnant thinkers gridlocked on the highway of life.

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    • obamanation
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:35pm

      How many carbons were used to make this film, distribute it and play it in theaters…. hypocrites.

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    • Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:39pm

      tom ferrari, creestof has the right idea. preserving and conserving used to be the heart of the conservative message. i know many republicans that realize we are beholden to the middle east, almost entirely because of oil. and the fact is, we have been using the combustion engine for about 100 years, its about time we became energy dependent. and that has litttle to do with tapping our own supplies, what we have will run out. thats not even up for debate, its a fact. i find it hard to believe that we have to go from point a to point b based on 100 year old technology. many conservatives agree. this is not a strictly “liberal” issue. being a conservative automatically makes us shills for the oil industry? i don’t think so.

      moreover, the movie is entertainment, for your kids, if you don’t like it, watch something else. face it, liberals run hollywood, and america pumps out great music, movies and art for the whole world. its our second largest export right now.

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:40pm

      Glenn is moving to the Net. My dish is going in the trash. Don’t really care what Coneann whatever says. Don’t let hollowood or the government schools indoctrinate your kids. If you do then you are part of the problem.

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    • VegasGuy
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Why isn’t alternative fuel more… Why isn’t everybody jumping on that bandwagon? It makes so much sense: Electricity, solar, whatever. There’s ethanol.
      _______________________________________________________________________________

      Ethanol? This is your first indication this guy is clueless and not up to speed with the facts.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:42pm

      @CLIVE

      We won’t watch it Clive. Disney gets none of my money.
      You are correct, it is a free country.
      At least you learned something at that “good school”

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:56pm

      creestof -

      Bless your heart.

      The reason we won’t see widespread solar in our lifetimes is that it is not commercially viable – it has nothing to do with energy sources that came before it. That is like blaming hay for not having flying cars – hay fed the horses, but it did not prohibit the development of flying cars. (YES, they DO exist – they are just not commercially viable) – google Moller flying car if you need to see them.

      Then, there is that RINO, the governator – who signed an electricity contract with the electric companies that allows them to jack up your rates to their highest tier – (5 times that of the low tier) – if you install solar on your house – so, if you don’t install enough for 100% of your needs, you end up paying MORE for your electricity.

      In summary, the reasons you won’t see ubiqutious solar is:
      1) It is not commercially viable
      2) Greed and Corruption

      And then there is the amount of energy an pollution required to PRODUCE the solar panels.

      Okay, I take it back – you don’t DRINK too much koolaid –
      You have a DIRECT ARTERIAL I.V. of it. LOLOL

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:03pm

      @The_Almighty_Creestof

      You actually think America imports almost all its oil because it doesn’t have any to drill for? Are you seriously that delusional, ignorant or unlearned???

      And, people wonder why we’re 15 trillion in debt and sinking.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:05pm

      I am more saddened by the lost innocence of childhood. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is political now. Children’s entertainment used to carry messages of character: things like resourcefulness, thrift, honesty, bravery, charity and honor. Now, they are focused on fulfilling an agenda, and it’s always leftward. Modern kid’s show subjects include gay marriage, equality for illegal immigrants, anti-corporatism and anti-capitalism, the villainy of the rich, anthropogenic global warming as fact, multiculturalism and “saving the planet” as being more virtuous than the people living in it.

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:09pm

      @TomFerrari

      Just sounds like a bunch more reasons to have our youngsters of today thinking up new things to try.

      Maybe you’d prefer sticking to just oil and funding terrorists with every gallon of gas you buy?

      Maybe early alzheimers has finally struck and you think America has enough untapped oil to cover our needs and allowing us to be independent?

      Maybe instead of talking about koolaid, you should check your BAC after your next cup of “coffee.”

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:15pm

      @hauschild

      So you even know how to read? Where in any of my posts do you see me say that or even elude to that?

      Yes, we have oil under American and American held soil. If you honestly think it will even remotely meet our gluttonus needs…you are insane. It won’t in the short term…and it won’t in the long term.

      Excuse me now, I must go look up “unlearned.”

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    • Bloody Sam
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:20pm

      Let’s see…“Cars 2”.
      Directed by an admitted Liberal biased director.
      Produced by Pixar Animation Studios.
      Who was that guy who was chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios…..hmm…Steve Jobs?
      Oh yeah…the guy who runs Apple Computers.
      The Mount Olympus of every Birkenstock wearing, Starbucks drinking Hippy wannabe *******. Sure…..no possibility of a Liberal bias there.

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    • Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:31pm

      @Therightsofbilly,,, you are right, i’m ashamed that i got an education, and make good money because of it. i should be more like you, a fool on a message board, who is proud of being stupid.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:38pm

      Just another so-called comedian hiding behind his so-called comedy to promote his agenda! Enough said!

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    • aragona
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:40pm

      This is a message for parents to provide, not liberal propogandists. I would never take my child to this movie.

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    • ObamaWatcher
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:41pm

      Hollywood has no obligation to remain politically neutral, their movies can lean as far left or right as they choose. And thank, God they have that freedom; even more so, thank, God, I have the freedom to choose whether or not, I or my children will watch them.

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    • JayCee
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 1:59pm

      Who cares what the guy who failed at replacing Leno on the Tonight show has to say about anything?

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:02pm

      TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:22pm

      creestof -
      _____________________________________–

      Yup+

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    • Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:04pm

      @tom ferrari, The_Almighty_Creestof just handed you your a$$, how does it feel?

      “And I hate koolaid…I much prefer the tears of stagnant thinkers gridlocked on the highway of life.”

      hilarious.

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    • Itchee Dryback
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:06pm

      Clive
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 12:39pm

      tom ferrari, creestof has the right idea. preserving and conserving used to be the heart of the conservative message. i know many republicans that realize we are beholden to the middle east, almost entirely because of oil. and the fact is, we have been using the combustion engine for about 100 years, its about time we became energy dependent.
      _______________________________________

      How much oil do we get from the ME?…20%…a little more?

      “been using the combustion engine for 100 yrs.”…..sooo..lets jump into the future and use windmills and choo-choo trains?

      Fossil fuels and combustion engines are two separate things.
      Just sayin.

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:11pm

      @THE_ALMIGHTY_CREESTOF

      “Maybe you’d prefer sticking to just oil and funding terrorists with every gallon of gas you buy?”

      _______________

      Or, we could go get our own, since we’re sitting on oil fields that contain more oil that all the middle east combined. That way, we could put more Americans to work, reduce the cost of domestic gasoline by 125%, and spark a boom in the economy. Of course, we won’t because it might mean that oil companies (and their investors- you know, stockholders and retirement program owners like you and me) might profit, and we wouldn’t be funding tinpot dictators in the middle eats devoted to the instructional of Israel, and it might mean that capitalism survives, and we wouldn’t want any of that, would we?

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    • Rice Water
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:27pm

      Larry The Cable Guy, WHY hast thou forsaken me??? This opens the door to Ted Nugent doing the voice of a conservationist panda bear in “Ice Age 4”.

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    • Sound The Trumpet In Zion
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:31pm

      It looks to me like conan created a preview of his life story.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:35pm

      It is almost impossible to find any really funny movies anymore. All the comedy writers want to do is make some kind of point, which is seldom funny. Indoctrination of children by strangers is also not funny. Right now, there is no alternative to fossel fuels so our children need to learn how to live with it and try to make thing better for the future. And how did planned parenthood get written into a “funny” kids movie?

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    • goobert
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:36pm

      Its comedy get over it already.

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    • Loki
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:41pm

      Really not suprised at Conan being a lib… he worked on SNL for years…
      On the issue of powering this nation… if those with the money (Big Oil, Big Auto, Big Power) would want to revolutionize our nation and bring the second industrial age to america, they need to think ahead… Hydrocarbons has been great and reliable fuel source, and can still be.. but needs to be used more efficiently… If we as a nation lead and retool from a hydrocarbon society to a hydrogen society(as some futurist suggest) we could extend those resources we have, rebuild our nations industries, and lead. Between accessing the hydrogen in oil, natural gas, water, and methane hydrate, we could power fuel cells, run automobiles(both fuel cells, and use hydrogen in ICE vehicles). This switch over could extend our energy into the 22nd century, and allow us to figure out fussion and make it feasible.
      Detroit make fuel cell powered cars, Texas uses the waste gas off the oilwells, refineries, and trash dumps to produce hydrogen as well as the nat gas, oil, and water they could use.
      we switch to a hydrogen based society, we can tell the arabs to pound sand… without the desire for arab oil, their terrorist societies cannot be funded…
      We need a leader in office that will prepare america to make the leap….

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 2:59pm

      Clive WROTE:
      @Therightsofbilly,,, “you are right, i’m ashamed that i got an education, and make good money because of it. i should be more like you, a fool on a message board, who is proud of being stupid.”

      Ouch, what a stinging rebuke, guess I’ll go hang my head in shame now.

      This, coming from the guy who felt the need to tell us how much time he spent getting drunk with girls in college.

      And then went on to say….”I put in my 4 years, got my paper, so that’s cool, and I never really felt like I was being indoctrinated”

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 3:00pm

      Did it come out of Hollywood? If it did there’s 99.9% chnace that it is more liberal propaganda.

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 3:56pm

      I had missed the first story .. thank you for the info .. I will save not only my money but have sent a link to my friends with kids who I know LOVED the first movie. Will not support the indoctrination of “green” on their children.

      TEA!

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Bummer this was gonna be my kids first time in the movie theater. We loved Cars 1.

      did they happen to mention what the alternative energy source was going to be? Garbage?

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    • AmericanSince1619
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:30pm

      Ethanol – there’s a good one.

      As grain production shifts from wheat to corn, the amount of surplus wheat declines and its price increases.

      Since the ethanol mandate the cost of surplus wheat has doubled, when this food is needed to feed the poorest of the world, the decreased supply and the increased price prevents it from reaching as many as it used to, and people starve as the result.

      Ethanol, the liberal backed, tree hugging solution that is actually killing people.

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    • auburntaylors96
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:39pm

      hey all_mighty_creestof…..it hasn’t been foreign governments holding us hostage over oil for decades…it’s been our own government….the united states has some of the largest oil and gas reserves in the world. the green movement over the last 3 decades is more responsible for us being over a barrel (exuse the pun) than opec. turn the private sector loose and stop allowing morons like al gore to influence national energy policy, do away with the dept. of energy…they’ve never produced a single barrel of oil or kilowatt of electricity and drill everything everywhere. i worked in the petroleum industry for 11 years…don’t let the left convince you it will be 10 years before we see any benefit from drilling our own reserves….that’s a boat load. when kuwait’s oil fields were on fire during the first gulf war the left told us it would be 3 years or more before they could all be extinguished…boots and coots put them all out in 3 months. the government is populated with mental midgets, don’t listen to them.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:40pm

      @AmericanSince1619

      It looks like I completely misjudged you the other day.

      I want to publicly apologize, and I hope you know that it is sincere.

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    • AmericanSince1619
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:50pm

      @Therightsofbilly

      Ahh gimmee a hug!

      The hard part isn’t wrapping your head around a Christianity that loves man, it’s not becoming a socialist in the process.

      Charity, giving is one thing, taking it from others is another, it is not kind to those who are taken from, and since they had no choice in the matter, it isn’t a good work.

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:52pm

      Aren’t all the cars in Cars gas and oil guzzling types of vehicles. Why should they care about alternative fuels? Without petroleum products they die! Yep makes alot of sense for someone to attack their own food supply.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 4:57pm

      @AmericanSince1619

      Thanks!!

      Good comments there.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:06pm

      So tell me, what is “conservative” about oil, and “liberal” about alternative energy? What is so offensive to conservatives about working towards better energy production? How exactly is it that the Tea Party claims to be a populist organization while rushing to defend huge oil corporations at a moments notice?

      A few of you have actually pointed this out, but by far most of you Blazers just seem too stupid to think for yourselves on this one. How sad.

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    • Marci
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:20pm

      Oh geez Almighty–alternative is fine in addition to what we do have, but we have the resources, we should USE them. We don’t HAVE to depend on anyone. Enviromoonbats want everyone to think that’s why we go to war, that we are killing the polar bears, etc. In reality, these people are being used, and anyone who can’t see that our government (and other country’s govts) is merely lining us up to charge us on puffs of air so that we all have to sit in the dark and eventually BEG THEM for food is blind.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:20pm

      @Publius

      It’s not a conservative / liberal thing.

      It’s a common sense / no sense thing.

      Don’t cloud the issue.

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    • grandma7
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 5:30pm

      The producer/director guy makes his story sound soooo sweet and such a coincidence.

      Not buying it for a minute!!

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 6:43pm

      @TomFerrari – If you are going to miss the movie because some guy at the blaze tells you it has a liberal bias than you are truly a fool.
      Let me get this straight, Cars is a liberal movie because it is INDOCTRINATING (lol) our children by teaching them that there are alternatives to fossil fuels.
      I used to think that you /blazers were just a little ignorant of the world and thats why you curl up and hide here but now I see there is no hope for you. If you can see liberal bias in this movie, you are verging on paranoid schizophrenia. What should anyone expect from a site of recovering drunks run by a recovering drunk.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 24, 2011 at 7:20pm

      creestof, You said,
      “Maybe you’d prefer sticking to just oil and funding terrorists with every gallon of gas you buy?
      Maybe early alzheimers has finally struck and you think America has enough untapped oil to cover our needs and allowing us to be independent?”

      My response:
      NO, I’d rather we use our own natural resources. We actually have 300 yrs worth of oil HERE. 300 YEARS.
      We have additonal centuries worth of natural gas and coal – YEP, I said it, “COAL”!!!

      As for your accusations of alzheimers – you should be ashamed – though I know you socialist democrat people HAVE NO SHAME – to you, there is no right and wrong, only “what YOU demand” and “everything else”. Shameful – alzheimers is a serious, and debilitating disease. God willing, YOU will never have to deal with it yourself, or with someone you love. You are disgusting using it as a personal attack or slur.

      As for my BAC – the last alcohol that entered my body was in the form of Nyquil for a cold. Prior to that, it was about 3 yrs ago when I enjoyed a glass of cabernet AT DISNEYLAND @ The Napa Rose. Sorry to disappoint you. I do not need alcohol. Funny you would assume I do. Freud would have called that transferrence.

      By the way, regarding your personal attacks on me…
      personal attacks are the refuge of a weak argument.

      Bless your heart.

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    • Philliephan3D
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 3:06am

      i thought Conan’s thing was hilarious, we cant be so uptight. the trailer for the actual movie didnt seem to have any agenda in it, but if the director even says its in the movie it probably is but i dont think Conan was really making fun of anyone i think he was just being funny.

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 5:30am

      Conan was just making a joke. And if cars 2 turns out to be indoctrinating it will not be a hit. Therefor it might hint, but won’t go the full michael moore

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 7:05am

      @Publius

      Most people are not engineers and do not have the slightest idea how things work. Liberals use this public ignorance of engineering to politicize green energy ideas and these libs make up wild untrue stories as to their efficacy. They teach these wild fantasy green energy lies and scary tales about oil and gas to our children and the children bring these lies home to their parents who also have no understanding of engineering. Green energy is very good as far as it goes and we all hope that there will be more application for green energy in the future when new inventions occur and the cost goes down. Breakthrough inventions on green energy are very hard to come by, so right now we must live within our means and stay with oil and gas and maintain hope of new inventions in future. That is the correct and also, BTW, conservative position. BTW, electric cars are great, as far as they go. Now all we need is for someone to invent a good battery to run these horseless carriages, something they have been trying to do for a long time.

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    • TheCenturion
      Posted on June 25, 2011 at 8:28am

      I haven’t seen Cars 2, but I have no doubt that a lib bias exists within the confines of the dialog.

      I recently watched ‘V’ for Vendetta, and while I enjoyed it for the political action/thriller that it was the liberal bias could not have been more blatant.

      I just pretended that the conservative, religious zealot dictator bad guy was obama.

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    • BoiseBaked
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 12:29am

      Conan, you lost me.

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on June 26, 2011 at 8:18pm

      It is completely liberal progressive biased. GREEN THIS, GREEN THAT. renewable energy and so on.

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