Is ‘The Muppets’ a communist Trojan horse?

“…I peeked at him in the rear-view mirror and saw he was staring out the window with a furrowed brow. “What is it, buddy?” I asked.

“Why were the Muppets so mean to that job creator, Tex Richman?” my boy said. “He never did anything to them, except provide the gas that allowed them to drive to Paris underwater and find Miss Piggy.”

Ah, from the mouths of babes…

It’s true: In the movie, Chris Cooper plays Tex Richman, a caricature of an evil oil man who wants to drill for black gold under the decrepit Muppet Studios. I didn’t know what to say to my worldly son. I pulled over to the side of the road and pondered my next move. I turned off the CD, pressed eject, rolled down the window, and chucked it on the road. Filthy propaganda! The scales had finally fallen from my eyes. Never again, liberal Hollywood!”