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No preaching the Gospel of Moses to our Children. But try and stop them from spreading the Gospel of Al Gore.

Does part of the game include turning their virtual parents over to big brother for leaving the lights in an empty room on? Mabye they can get a job at the virtual soylent green factory. Reduce, reuse, recycle, kids!

Hah, it's always the parents haranguing the kids to turn off lights in empty rooms, (and quit messing with the damn thermostat!) being the ones paying the electric bill and all. But that's a market force, so obviously it's not worthy of consideration.

As someone who was a 90s kid, it seriously makes me ill to see how much a network which was once a staple part of my childhood has gone completely down the crapper in recent years. Back then, the annual Big Help campaign they did each year actually seemed to do a lot of good, as it encouraged kids to get out and volunteer to help improve and enrich their communities (i.e. picking up litter in the park, organizing charity drives for the poor, etc.). I guess as the quality of the actual shows on Nickelodeon took its major nosedive (Circa 1999-2000), so did the concepts behind the Big Help campaigns.
This is too idiotic and preachy for words. Let me guess: One of the missions has them rescuing polar bears from global warming or some silly crap like that.

indoctrination anyone????

http://www.americasarmy.com/

It used to be the parent's job to teach their kids about the environment and taking care of it. And it is to an extent still. These type of environmental media...video games, DVDs, etcetera are being marketed and sold either because of lazy liberal parents who don't feel like doing the teaching through actual action or maniacally concerned with environmentalism. It's no surprise that Nickelodeon has gone downhill through f***ups with faux college educations/indoctrination writing and coming up with ideas for them.



In the end, this garbage does nothing to help children become more aware of helping the environment. They'll be so burned out with this over-zealous and fruitless "help the environment" campaigns that by the time they're adults and actually able to do something, they won't care to lift a finger.



As for the America's Army being "indoctrination". Most people have not played that game (nor care to) and the game itself doesn't have it's own television network monopoly (Viacom). Yet Nick is available on basic cable.

Damn...he missed!!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rfYBGl9q30c

All right Mr. Anonymous... watch yourself or we will bring democracy to you too...

I pledge to reduce my household carbon footprint. My children will not consume electricity, watching insipid Nick moonbattery.

Speaking of indictrination, the pathetic remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still 'starring' Keanu "Wha-?" Reeves is a propaganda piece about how humans are ruining the planet and that they (Klatu & Gort) to destroy us for our own good.

Hmm.

Wiping out sentient species because they weren't nice to the trees?

Makes perfect sense.

SPOILER ALERT!

In the end, a choice is made between destorying the Earth or no electricity or any EM field producing items. So, the Earthlings pick that.

So, millions, perhaps billions will die without industry that produces vaccinations, antibiotics, electricity for surgery, fuel production.

Also, billions of people all going back to wood burning stoves and campfires?

Yeah, that'll do wonders for the ozone layer and GW.

I walked out after Keanu "I Still Have a Career? Whoa!" Reeves started his lecture about how 'evil' mankind is. I go to the cinema to be entertained, not to be lectured to be some Hollywood, pseudo-intellectual, halfwit, pothead.

My wife sat through the rest of it. I got a refund and paid to see the rest of THE TRANSPORTER 3.

Mike that's the reason I watch anime's. They only preach that good will always win over evil and with a good story at the same time.

unfortunately, nick is one of the stations offered with all "family-friendly" satellite packages...

I refuse to spend money seeing the Day The Earth Stood Still remake as its more econut/anti-American propaganda.

Last night Discovery aired Al Bores movie and the local TV guide actually gave it 3 out of 4 stars. Unreal. That movie is just a shade more watchable than old Army training films.

Then tonight CNN has PLANET IN PERIL !!! Waaaaaaaaa!!! The Earth is M-M-Melting!!! While its -10 degrees right now in the Dakotas.

I saw the commercial for this game, and I couldn't get up and change the channel.

For awhile, I was skeptical about this global warming thing. Sure, it seemed to be getting warmer every winter, with less and less snow. But even then, it seemed like "We've been around pumping crap into the atmosphere for a LONG time, why is it only causing a problem now?"

For one, I think its a good idea to keep factories from pumping sludge into rivers, and from throwing chemicals up into the sky. Thing is, CO2 is not a dangerous chemical, or else if we would get sick every time we took a breath.

Its PLANT FOOD man. Enviromentalists would LOVE it if people produced tons of plant food every year!

Uh huh. Electricity powered video game consoles running images on electricity powered plasma LCD TV screens and blasting sound from electricity powered stereo systems.

Right up there with Wall-E in its multitude of toy, plushie, book, card, poster and Home DVD forms preaching about the dangers of crass commercialism.

Any way to brainwash the kids into thinking like little enviromental moonbats just like the new agers want brainwashing them with this GAIA,GO GREEN poppycock

Oh my gosh! Teaching kids a little about environmental stewardship WHILE HAVING FUN. How dare they! Look for something else to criticize, like those dangerous flying shoes in Iraq.

Nickelodeon, like 90% of childrens programming in the past 20 years, has always been about indoctrination. It's absolutely pathetic how those in charge of producing media aimed at kids opt for ideology over entertainment almost everytime. Mixing in positive education is great; the relentless preaching in favor of a conformist agenda turns kid's minds to mush. As it's impossible to avoid, parents need to make sure they put this stuff in context for their children and to teach them to think critically.

My daughter is 22 years old this week. She lived through the "Nickelodeon years" and 12 years of public school in the San Franfreaked Bay Area to be a well balanced young mother whose gag reflex kicks in any time she sees or hears the Big Zero. She recognizes homosexuality as an anomaly rather than the norm. Despite her persistent indoctrination she recognizes Jesus Christ as Lord. She also recognizes that our family’s abandonment of California for our Texas roots was the best thing that’s happened in her and my grandson’s life.

Moral of the story: Any thinking person with a clue rejects liberal ideology for Truth. They recognize liberal ideology as suicidal crap. Even Darwin would label liberalism as a sickness that is not congruent with advancing his theories.

And they started with CAPTIAN PLANET and the PLANETEERS run by RED TED TURNER now its this kind of green crap what now will they be drilling into the heads of kids?

Is it true that everyone in america drives SUVs and has steak for dinner every night?

"Despite her persistent indoctrination she recognizes Jesus Christ as Lord"

Your daughter thinks she can communicate telepathically with a dead Jewish carpenter?

When my son was small I used to watch some of that crap with him, I finally used the V-chip feature to lock out Nickelodeon and Disney, along with a couple of other things. Probably not what they had in mind when they mandated it, but I wanted to protect him from objectionable content.

Jimbo, your daughter sounds like a really good, smart person. Glad to hear that not everyone in my generation (I'm 24) is a raging lib.

jimbo - good for you! ours are healthy despite liberal indoctrination and all of them love the Lord.

Excellent review on TDTESS remake. The central message? The Earth would be a better place if all of us were dead. Nice.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/6021/

"Biologist Benson, aided and abetted by her gender-bending stepson, have to try to persuade Keanu that humanity deserves a second chance. ‘It would come at a great cost’, warns Keanu at one point, ‘to you and your way of life’.

"It is a vision bereft of the future, except as our absence. The Day the Earth Stood Still ends with a paean to entropy: oil pumps slow, cars stall, ships stop. This is the utopia of the non-human, a vision of a world in which we stop doing things, stop producing, stop consuming. Stop."

Eurotopian Moonbats make complete obnoxious asses of themselves. Over Global Warming, of course.

I have a little kid and we watch little cartoons together sometimes. Believe it or not, the PBS channel "Sprout" isn't nearly as bad as the Nickelodeon channels as far as green/red indoctrination goes. They have a lot of good shorts that deal with simple stuff like sharing toys voluntarily.

We've been into "Kipper the Dog" lately.

Captain Planet and the Planeteers??!! That was so stoooooopid!!!
I have a step-grandchild on the way. The only cartoons we'll be watching at my house are my Looney Tunes DVD collections.

I watched Captain Planet once. Evil loggers were destroying the rain forests. The loggers were actually drawn with fangs! I couldn't believe it. It was just like Soviet propaganda about capitalists.

How about limiting advertising to the young... like much of Europe does?

...Now I wonder why they would do that? Advertising is after all, ONLY about providing facts to enable people to make intelligent choices, isn't it? Not about MANIPULATING people by creating the illusion of gaining infinite pleasure, fun, friends, status, etc, etc, etc... simply by possesing the product.

Those Euros are socialists! How else will people, especially children, know what to want? I'm glad we live in a free market, er, I mean country.

How about limiting advertising to the young... like much of Europe does?

Translation: I'll be the first one to squeal "censorship" when anyone suggests taking "And Tango Makes Three" or "Heather Has Two Mommies" out of the school library.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 15, 2008 7:39 AM

Note the hallmark of the Left - an undying abject cynicism and a thorough contempt for commerce.

Look what RED TED TURNER do to JOHNNY QUEST made a liberal out of him and well at least they didnt liberalize SPACE GHOST or BIRDMAN and dont make BUGS BUNNY green crusader