That time the Wall Street Journal and Fox News tried to destroy Mr. Rogers

[Professor Emeritus]

We were covering this in TLR in the Mr. Rogers is the GOAT threads but I wanted to put a dedicated thread here.

First, some random Professor of Finance made an uninformed rant claiming that American kids were entitled cause they grew up watching Mr. Rogers. Even though he based it on absolutely nothing, the Wall Street Journal decided that was worthy of a featured opinion piece and proceeded to blame Mr. Rogers for kids being narcissists, rude, self-absorbed, disrespectful, and lazy.

Blame It on Mr. Rogers: Why Young Adults Feel So Entitled



So of course Fox News jumped on that shyt with the swiftness, basically turning Mr. Rogers into some sort of evil figure:





Pushback got intense so the original professor had to retract his statements, tho I don't believe the Wall Street Journal or Fox News ever did.

Professor retracts Mr. Rogers smears.

The reference to Mr. Rogers was just a metaphor. I have no professional qualifications to evaluate the real problems or propose solutions. Mr. Rogers was a great American. I watched him with my children and wouldn’t hesitate to do so again if I had young children

I just thought it was interesting how two major news organizations worked so quickly to try to destroy and belittle someone who did so much good on so little evidence. I'm not even sure why they would even have anything against Mr. Rogers (unless they just innately react against anything good) that would cause them to co-sign the attacks so readily - you would have thought he'd be their ideal of pro-family, God-affirming, white male image. Then again he's a good guy so....

 

[Corny Batman]

When your king is Rush Limbaugh, whose only skill is being an unrepentant a$$hole, of course Mr. Rogers is going to be your enemy. These people were against seatbelts, they're currently against vaccines, they literally fought a war to keep black people enslaved. They're just shyt. They are Europe's shyt. Europe squatted down on America and shyt these people out.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

When your king is Rush Limbaugh, whose only skill is being an unrepentant a$$hole, of course Mr. Rogers is going to be your enemy. These people were against seatbelts, they're currently against vaccines, they literally fought a war to keep black people enslaved. They're just shyt. They are Europe's shyt. Europe squatted down on America and shyt these people out.

Now to think of it, it's ironic how Trump's "they not sending their best" applies so well to a large subset the Europeans who came here.

I mean there were a few exceptions (like the Mennonites and Quakers who were seriously good people who fled religious persecution), but the vast majority of Europeans who came here were....problematic. Either especially greedy, especially warlike, or just plain got along very poorly with others.

 

[SupaDupaFresh]

For the record the Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journal are owned by the same corrupt parent company.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Mr. Rogers is arguably the GOAT white man that ever existed next to John Brown. And that’s how you know the right wing is a bunch of mouth breathing brutish snow chimps that are hellbent on destroying the world all in the name of rugged individualism and unnecessary possessions and ultra consumptive practices.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Mr. Rogers is arguably the GOAT white man that ever existed next to John Brown. And that’s how you know the right wing is a bunch of mouth breathing brutish snow chimps that are hellbent on destroying the world all in the name of rugged individualism and unnecessary possessions and ultra consumptive practices.

Yeah, he's on my list now.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Some of the most effective Congressional testimony ever. Starts slow and with an unreceptive audience but wore them down and had their hardness just melt before his sincerity and mission.

 

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Now to think of it, it's ironic how Trump's "they not sending their best" applies so well to a large subset the Europeans who came here.

I mean there were a few exceptions (like the Mennonites and Quakers who were seriously good people who fled religious persecution), but the vast majority of Europeans who came here were....problematic. Either especially greedy, especially warlike, or just plain got along very poorly with others.

Applies moreso to the Cubans who ended up in South Florida than almost any other group IMO.

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Mr. Rogers is arguably the GOAT white man that ever existed next to John Brown. And that’s how you know the right wing is a bunch of mouth breathing brutish snow chimps that are hellbent on destroying the world all in the name of rugged individualism and unnecessary possessions and ultra consumptive practices.

You forgot Stan Lee too