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Kermit, Miss Piggy respond to liberal allegations
Muppets hold press conference in London
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And we thought Miss Piggy got snippy with us for asking if she enjoyed bacon for breakfast.
This
time, Jim Henson's resident well-dressed diva is firing back at
accusations that her latest box office success, "The Muppets," is hiding
a liberal agenda within its plot.
The assertion was made last
year by Fox Business commentator Eric Bolling, who raised the question
of whether having a wealthy oil tycoon as the movie's villain was
sending an anti-corporate, anti-oil message.
At a press conference in London last week, Kermit and Miss Piggy
mocked the theory that "The Muppets" movie is pushing a "dangerous,
liberal agenda and trying to brainwash children," with Kermit joking,
"Oh, yes, it's so dangerous!"
But on a more serious note, Kermit
continued, "It's a funny thing. They were concerned about us having
some prejudice against oil companies, and I can tell you that's
categorically not true. And besides, if we had a problem with oil
companies, why would we have spent the entire film driving around a
gas-guzzling Rolls Royce?"
Miss Piggy jumped in to add, "It's almost as laughable as accusing Fox News of being, you know....news."
Kermit then (correctly) predicted, "That's going to be all over the Internet!"
