Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs Blasts 'The Lorax': Hollywood Is 'Trying To Indoctrinate Our Children' (VIDEO)

Fox Business Network is targeting another children's movie for allegedly brainwashing children with liberal ideas: "Dr Seuss' The Lorax."

The network first slammed "The Muppets" in December. Host Eric Bolling had insisted that the movie, which features an evil oil baron, was part of Hollywood's vendetta against oil companies.

On Tuesday, host Lou Dobbs railed against "The Lorax," along with the Japanese children's film, "The Secret World of Arrietty." "Hollywood is once again trying to indoctrinate our children," he warned. He claimed that the movies were "demonizing the 1% and espousing green energy policies."

Dobbs said "The Lorax" was about "a woodland creature that speaks for the trees and fights rampant industrialism." He replayed a clip of the Lorax demanding to know who chopped down a Truffula Tree.

He compared the movie to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which he said "forever tried to pit the makers against the takers," and President Obama's calls that "everyone should pay their fair share."

"The President's liberal friends in Hollywood targeting a younger demographic using animated movies to sell their agenda to children," he alleged.

His guests, radio hosts Dom Giordano, Matt Patrick and Steve Cochran, agreed.

"What we're doing is creating Occu-toddlers," Patrick said. He directed parents to "buy huge tubs of popcorn, ram it in your face," leave the litter behind and walk out of the movie.

Watch the full segment below.

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Scenes from the premiere of "Dr Seuss' The Lorax"

Comments

[xxmechamx2013]

12:04 PM on 03/08/2012

Say you're sorry, sir. On air. Address and apologize to all the children of the world, and their parents for your stupid remarks. Your recommendation to parents to buy movie popcorn, eat it in fistfuls, toss the bucket and walk out of the movie was utterly disrespectful and mean. I'm a mother of three and a staff member at a large high school and everything you said is against everything I do every day. Make it right, Mr. Dobbs, and apologize.

[xxmechamx2013]

11:32 AM on 03/08/2012

I'm ashamed of you Lou Dobbs. What air do you breath? What dirt does your food grow in? What well does your water get drawn? Apparently you have a better source than the rest of us for these essential needs if you don't care about what's happening with our planet and our resources. That, or you're just a foolish old man.

[Letitia Cosbert]

05:33 PM on 03/06/2012

wow. That was beyond ridiculous. These people are literally pulling stories and drama out of their butts! A book written 40 years ago?
And has he ever heard of Fern Gully? I mean, indoctrination at its best apparently and that was years before this became a real political issue.

[owswtf]

12:34 AM on 03/06/2012

dislike the fact that they politicized Dr Suess. "To big to fail" was a obvious political ploy. This could have been a wonderful movie without all the political over tones.

When will they let children's movies, be children's movies.
And for all the people who thought the movie was right on, I learned that I can cut down all the trees, make a huge profit, and pollute, because someone else will come along and fix the damage that I caused. Once again I don't have to be responsible for my actions.

[Megan Goodson]

10:07 PM on 03/04/2012

He does know that this story was originally written in the 50s or before? This wasn't re-written just to p!ss off the one percent...actually wait..maybe they are p!ssed because they know they did something wrong. ...feeling guilty millionaires because you know it's YOUR fault?

[Whitney Whitfield]

08:51 PM on 03/04/2012

Really, Lou Dobs? Where were you FORTY-ONE YEARS AGO when the Lorax was written?? You obviously haven't spent the time to sit down and read the book, since the film isn't the director's interpretation of the book. THAT'S WHAT THE BOOK IS ABOUT! "I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for they have no tongues." The moral of the story is to treat our home with care. And really? We're going after the Secret World of Arriety, too? Yes, the film is Japanese, but the film is BASED ON A BOOK (which I'm guessing you also haven't read) by an ENGLISH author, which is called the Borrowers. OF COURSE THEY BORROW THINGS! The basis is the BORROWERS. If you're going to present news, present news, but do some reading or some form of research first. You're pretending these people made things up to present some kind of agenda, and maybe that is why these movies are being produced relatively close to the same time, however, the Lorax is a 41-yr-old book and the Borrowers was written in 1952. The story hasn't changed. I read the Lorax as a kid. I watched it in school as part of the curriculum. I had to read the Borrowers in school, as well, and I'm 20 now.

[rockabore1]

06:05 PM on 03/04/2012

This is absolutely ridiculous! If it were up to the Fox newscasters we'd have films about the joys of littering. What's wrong with teaching kids to try to improve the environment for the better? First off, The Muppets had an evil oil tycoon because that has been a character type in stories for decades! It wasn't an attack on the "poor, kindly oil people". The Lorax was *always* a story about how it's up to regular people to make sure that we don't go too far with technology and ruin the earth we live on! And The Secret World of Arrietty is by Studio Ghibli which tries to tell the same message of conservation as Dr. Seuss did. These are NOT liberal ideas they're ones everyone should get behind.

[dwash]

08:20 PM on 03/04/2012

You couldn't have said it better.

[owswtf]

12:36 AM on 03/06/2012

Nothing wrong with the book, its the movie that seemed to be a political ploy.

[latietz1]

04:33 PM on 03/04/2012

Why would anyone encourage others to eat like a pig and then litter? How is disregard for nature a good thing? I'm no tree hugger, but I dont think it is man's God given right to pollute the land on which we rely.

[green4lifemama]

11:22 PM on 03/01/2012

Really Dobbs, get a life and a clue!!! Since you can dish out negativity, you better be prepared to take it as well. Its called Karma and one of these days its gonna bite you in the bum. How can you be so closed minded, blind, so far out in "right field", ..I don't know pick one, fill in the blank, whatever. You spout a pleathera of opinions as opposed to facts. I am sorry my dear, but you had better get a reality check and soon. You don't believe in Global warming, that the environment isn't changing. In fact, with the way you verbally assault anyone or any idea regarding promoting a healthier planet, you'd think that you thought everything with the planet is just peachy keen. SIR... YOU ARE SO WRONG!!! Ghandi said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world" if that's the case with you, we are up the creek without a paddle and a leak that will pull us under. As a mother of 2, and hopefully sometime down the road a grandmother and great grandmother, I hope the world is a place that the children can thrive in. Because at the rate we're going, we're in a lot of trouble. Word to the wise, think before you speak, and speak truth instead of lies. If you cannot add positive change then step out of the way and let us "liberals" take care of the mess!!

[SoCal John]

11:22 PM on 02/27/2012

I suppose Lou would have considered Horton's Whos illegal aliens and insisted it was indoctrination on the issue of illegal immigration. When you find a children's book that has been in school libraries for 41 years as threatening your own way of life, maybe you should rethink your way of life?

[SoCal John]

11:15 PM on 02/27/2012

The Republican elites (not all of them) truly think they have done such a great job at demonizing progressive thinkers with the term "liberals". Dr. Seuss has always tried to get children to understand the importance of leaving the world better than it was when they took it over. I personally am proud to be one of those "liberals" and find quite honestly that progressive thinking is far more Christlike than Lou Dobbs will ever be.

I read the book when it came out in 1970 at a time when Industries did not have the regulations they do today and am impressed by the industries out there that have followed the example by putting back into the environment what they take out. I feel Seuss had more impact on todays society than many of us will ever realize.

[owswtf]

12:38 AM on 03/06/2012

I enjoyed the book, but the movie had a political spin put on it. Do you like green eggs & ham?

[SoCal John]

02:32 AM on 03/06/2012

I think the book had the same environmental (today political) message but in this environment, Hop On Pop would be elderly abuse and Hortons Whos would be trying to give rights to illegal aliens. Grren Eggs and Ham would be considered a political right wing attempt to argue Michelle Obamas eat healthy campaign.

[pandabear2012]

09:04 AM on 02/27/2012

Fox's favorite word recently, along with "Dick", slick Rick Santorum is "Indoctrinate". I would like to know why what Fox news does every single day is not "indoctrination". This is the height of hypocrisy. Turn off Fox news. Bad news for America.

[Way]

06:49 AM on 02/27/2012

You know, if your particular political ideology is threatened by popular children’s movies…that may be a serious indication that you subscribe to the WRONG political ideology.

[mshannon]

12:54 AM on 02/27/2012

Sure the Lorax has a message, as did many of Miyasaki's films. "Castle In the sky" is about environmentalism. And there is a fair amount of conditioning that goes on with this. But is that bad? We would like kids to think about burning fossil fuel and not deforesting just to build homes. But of course, folks like Dobbs and Eric Bolling are fine with films about active duty Navy Seals jumping into foreign, Arab nations to "fight" terrorists, who of course have the oil we want. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. And never a negative comment will be made on Fox about oil; or Meet the Press either, whose major sponsor is the oil, gas & coal corporations of America. Lou is cherry picking to rile up the Fox base.

[luckybear]

11:11 PM on 02/26/2012

Lou Dobbs is a joke. His entire show on CNN was indoctrination. He told his viewers that illegal aliens were infecting Americans with leprosy. The source? A white supremacist (this is true watch 60 minutes). He spent weeks complaining about candidate Obama's lack of flag pin. Dobbs needs to be deported; he is an embarrassment to our nation.