Fox News Calls Mr. Rogers An Evil Man

This is completely absurd. You are doing your cause (whatever it may be) a great disservice by treating this seriously. Who are you trying to fool? You quote Brian Kilmeade…Brian Kilmeade!?? This was a tounge-in-cheek response to a seriously stupid study. You want to kill the messenger who only showed you how stupid some people can be. You should be ripping on the actual thing THEY were ripping on. Guess I don’t need to check this site for “news” and information anymore. How stupid.

This is a lame excuse to blame a man who tried to do good things. Sad days.

Watch the video. The Fox anchors are mocking the LSU professor. The mention of Mr. Rogers being an evil evil man is sarcasm. But you folks just want your kneejerk ZOMG FOX IS THE DEVIL.

To call Fred Rogers, a man who devoted his entire life to educating children, evil is not just absurd, it’s mean-spirited and downright evil. Do these right-wingnuts have any clue about reality?

hahahahaha wtf?

Way to generalize a whole generation that Fox is obviously out of touch with. Speaking of entitlement, how about blaming PARENTING for a “sense of entitlement”? Anything to keep people watching, eh? Children are special. Fuck your weird perspective that television is some magical box where we get out feelings from.

This absolutely stinks. Mr. Rogers is NOT to blame. Blame government control and poor teaching in schools. Both parents working, music, video games and a number of other things but NOT Mr. Rogers. I don’t like Spock either but he’s not on the same level. My 3 children were raised on Mr. Rogers and do NOT have the entitlement mentality.

I think it’s hilarious you guys soak up this kool-aid. Number one, she was being sarcastic when she said Mr. Rogers was evil. Number two, the prof from Louisiana State University is saying that Mr. Rogers message is detrimental. Number three, they’re doing what any media people do best: play it up. Whether they’re working CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC makes little difference; it’s they’re job to get peoples attention. Personally I think the thought that Mr. Rogers is mean or “evil” or whatever is laughable and I actually laughed when I heard it because it’s so ridiculous. Why do you guys even CARE about this anyways? This should be beneath all of you.

Oh? Are fear mongering types shirking their responsibilities to their children again? Never would have expected to see Mr. Rogers on the chopping block, but I guess people are running out of things to blame other than themselves. Because, it can’t be their own fault their kids are the way they are. I grew up with this guy, and I take offense to them saying I lived a corrupted youth because of his message. Look out Mr. Dress Up, your next!

Does this so-called study actually prove that this generation behaves in a fashion more entitled than the previous one, or is it just taken as an article of faith? The fact that it’s not even considered worth mentioning makes me think it’s the latter, which makes this a case of… contemporary adults complaining that the kids of today are a bunch of hoodlums. Talk about self-parody! Is there anything more obnoxious and hypocritical than a bunch of baby boomers and gen-xers sitting around wagging their fingers at the kids of today for taking things for granted and not respecting their elders?

Just because some damn fool professor made a deduction that doesnt mean it has any validity at all.
If that professor disputes Mr. Rogers’ word then he disputes God. God said
“We are fearfully and wonderfully made.” because HE made us.

I suppose it is now wrong to hug and kiss your babies when they are born because they have done
NOTHING to deserve this show of affection. They have to EARN it.

I just wish people would not give every fool that comes down the pike validity. If only takes a moments
thought to put LIE to that professor’s statement

Leave it to faux news and their tea party to come up with this crap, when will America get rid of these conservatives and start an age of liberal prosperity.
Faux news you’re entire network is pathetic.

Forget the fact that it’s scientifically proven that telling kids they are special for no reason at all is a determent to their mental stability. No, Fox is evil cause they’re right wing. Fuck anyone who doesn’t agree with me [/ignorance]

Wow these people from Fox News are idiots.

Everyone is special until proven otherwise in the court of life. Can you people seriously imply that a man telling kids they’re special is a negative and the all standing reason as to why a generation acts the way it does? I’m part of that generation, and I’ll tell you from my own perspective how much your statments seem like garbage to me. I watched Mr. Rogers until I was maybe five years old, maybe six, but in truth, I don’t even know. If I can’t even remember until what age I watched Mr. Rogers, who on this planet could have the gaw to tell me that my morality and views were founded by it? Perhaps a professor did have some evidence towards this outcome in hisstudy, but from what pool of people did he base this experiment on? I didn’t hear any actual numbers crunched in that report, or even a control to the experiment. Oh wait, I get it, maybe it’s just Fox News getting a tidbit of information, plugging their ears for the rest of it going ‘nanana’ so that they can take what little they know out of context and point a finger at something for the sheer shock value just to get attention. I think most people grow out of that by age fourteen, and the ones who don’t usually end up in trouble with the law, outcast, homeless, or in this case, work for Fox News I guess.

In rebutle to this whole image of “Evil Rogers”; and for the sake of a man who wanted to do nothing but provide an environment for learning which kids could enjoy I pose these issues to you. If the mere act of telling kids they’re special is enough to incite an entire generation to feel arrogant, and demand overly fair treatment with little to no effort, then what should things like high school sports and clubs tell us about life? In our day and age, if you want to be a high school football player, you’re in, regardless of ability. Granted you may only be junior varsity, but I’ve heard of programs which will even offer a letterman’s jacket for a JV player. Go even younger, and we have baseball programs, in whichas long as mom and dad fork over the cash, the kid can play, and even if the team loses every single game for the entire season, they get a trophy and a pizza party at the end of the season. I’m not saying that these things are wrong, as kids we need to be inspired to achieve our dreams, before comming into the age when those who’ve become consumed by cynicism and floundering hopes get ahold of our ideals and begin to drag us down.

In the end, yes, we are all special. The issue comes when it comes time for us to live up to our potential whether or not we sink or swim. That’s on us, and the entire colage of experiences and influences we’ve had in our lives thus far; and I’d wager that these events as young adults which prompt ideas that we can always get at least something for nothing, be it in sports, clubs or whatever, are going to echo much louder in our minds than a man on the television we saw when we were still using sippy cups and velcro shoes. But, as far as anybody reading this and giving a damn, I know it probably won’t happen, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if something that benefited Fox News’ image were to arise with this exact same issue at it’s core, they’d put a posative spin on it in a hearbeat. You are the ones who are evil Fox News. A journalism program is meant to inform the population, without bias,and without an agenda. For ANYBODY that takes your programing seriously I feel pity for.

And one last thing; isn’t a bit hipocritical to talk about a television programing destroying a generation?

The opinions of Fox News are regularly those of children masquerading as adults. If the quote from Mr. Rogers is correct, then I wholeheartedly agree – each human being IS special when one considers the fact your precise genetic code has never in the history of the universe existed before and, once your life is ended, will never exist again.

Ever. The question isn’t whether one is special, the question is how can one be so special and still not believe it?

Remembering the fact we’ve yet to find other life in the universe or even another planet suitable to human life, yeah, this planet is pretty special and the life on it pretty rare. Add to that the fact we humans seem to be the cream of the crop of intelligent beings here on Earth, that YOU are a member of the species is an incredible fortune and to be alive here and now more fortune still.

Ignore the childish cynics. Perhaps they too will some day wake up to what they truly are, will some day believe in themselves and finally come to believe they are genuinely irreplaceable. Until then, they spit at that which they do not yet understand.

You people are fuckin disgusting! This is what you call news? You say mister Rogers was evil all the while you spread racism and show no respect to the president of our country! You teach people to hate democrats, blacks, and anyone who don’t share your views, but mister Rogers is evil!? Sick twisted losers!

I think that watching Mr. Rogers was a great idea. For some children they needed this in their life to be special for they might have been abused in some way. Like being yelled at for nothing and that would make them feel bad. Maybe no one in the home would pay attention to them. Maybe there were alot of children in the family and they felt alone. Mr. Rogers was like talking to them and nobody else. Then they would be in their own little world. I watched Mr. Rogers with my children and they loved him. I would let them play make believe when they wanted to. I had four children and none of them was hurt by Mr. Rogers telling them that they “were special”. The person that is saying things against Mr. Rogers probably had a bad childhood with their parents and they never was told they “were special. I still tell my children and my grandchildren that they are special in there own way. I think they are jealous of him for making children think that they were special and they really believed it. FOX people seem to be acting like jerks. Mr. Rogers always spoke in a gentle voice as to not to frighten children. His soft spoken voice would sooth a child who was grumpy, they would listen and calm down. I loved Mr. Rogers. I wish there could be more of people who would do the things he did instead of the goofy cartoons that are on the TV today for children to watch.Thanks for letting me air my thoughts.

They are right, nothing but a generation of spoiled, entitled, panty wearing sissies

Wow fox can suck it hard. As a people lets try and follow one rule dont blame mr. Rogers of all people! Wow and The lsu camp is really conducting some interesting studies.

WTF. Fox. Just shut the hell up. OMG.

You know, I always had this bizarre theory that Fox News is actually an elaborate prank set up by The Onion and Rupert Murdoch that got so out of control nobody wants to admit it anymore.

Fox is off the wall….Mr Rogers had a wonderful program for the children,i remember when my youngest was growing up & how she wouldn’t miss it,HOW CRUEL CAN YOU BE FOX…

thats retarded

A lot of people think the purpose of Fox News is shilling for the Right. But, in truth, its purpose is nothing more interesting than making money for Rupert Murdoch. They just find that this higher purpose is best served by saying the stupidest, most irritating things possible and watching people come by the millions to argue about it.

It is mere coincidence that this falls directly in line with conservative social policy.

Wow. What a perfect breed of sheep you democrats are.

If you think CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and every newspaper in the US is satire free and 100% facts, you people are absolute idiots. Then again, that wouldn’t surprise me, as you think these media outlets are beyond reproach simply because they are heavily slanted towards liberals.

Really pathetic bunch you are.

I see a lot of people yelling at each other over whether or not they are liberal and just insulting each other. That is not necessary.

My opinion: Mr. Rogers is not evil. The statement that he is evil is not meant to be satire, but perhaps an exaggeration of how the speaker really feels. This indicates to me that the speaker does believe that Mr. Rogers had some malicious intent and had intended a result similar to the one asserted. I disagree with that as anyone would who can think critically.

I further disagree that anyone who watched this show on a regular basis feels entitled simply because they were told they were special. And Mr. Rogers is not the only one who said this. It also does not logically follow that a student would seek an A when receiving something lower is because said student was told as a child that they were “special.” That kind of culture can be attributed to many other things.

In fact, my father, who is now 60, consistently would tell me to go to my teachers and ask for a better grade whenever I got anything lower than an A. I am sure that’s not uncommon coming from parents from the baby boomer generation. He didn’t watch Mr. Rogers or encourage me to watch it. He certainly didn’t say I was “special.” It wasn’t until I was in my 20′s and out of college that he said anything truly positive to boost my self esteem when things were not going my way. So I find it extremely hard to believe that this experience is unusual, and I still went and asked for the extra points even though I didn’t feel “special.” If Mr. Rogers message was so influential, wouldn’t I then feel entitled and “special?” I guess it didn’t work. And I seriously doubt my experience is unique.

Fox is full of mental jackasses.. They have nothing more to blame on others so they have to dig up crap like this.

I am *so* sick of hearing the older generation go on and on about how “entitled” my generation is.

These people had opportunities handed to them on a silver platter when entered the job market. We’re experiencing *twice* the unemployment rate of the general public.

The older generation could actually work their way through college and finish it debt-free, if they worked hard. We can’t make payments or get living wages even with our expensive degrees.

Minimum wage has not adjusted with inflation across the decades, meaning it actually *meant* something for them.

The boomers had fair, non-profit healthcare available to them when they were our age, and fair credit terms. We get milked and screwed and scammed and end up with nothing to show for it.

While we work our asses off at Wal-Mart and call centers (because those are the ONLY JOBS THERE ARE) and eat ramen noodles to survive, we watch our parents’ generation prepare to buy second homes for recreation and lecture us about our “entitlement” and how we need to “work harder.”

We’re not “entitled.” We f*cking DESPERATE.