I'd have to disagree with you on the "consensus" that Muppet Caper was the best Muppet movie. Don't get me wrong, Caper is in my collection right next to Muppet Movie, but I feel the original Muppet Movie strikes a much more effective balance between storytelling and winking at the audience about storytelling. Muppet Caper never, ever lets you forget you're watching a movie, but the Muppet Movie only occasionally reminds you that this is so.

In addition, Movie doesn't have any fall-flat-on-their-faces moments like the one in Caper where Kermit breaks from the script to scream at Piggy about overacting. That's always been one of my least favorite Muppet scenes--its' part of the Muppets' charm that their jokes fall flat fairly regularly, but it's very rare that venom is the emotion left to fill a scene in humor's absence. Particularly venom from Kermit.

Also, Piggy plays much better as a foil/fop than as a heroine.

I disagree strongly. This is yet another instance of how Scarborough and other Rethuglicans respond to indisputable evidence of the harm they are doing to America by squealing that the flaw in question is actually a problem of the left, not the right.

Scarborough and Bill O'Reilly and their ilk can cite all the e-mail chatter from anonymous lefty loons that they want--none of it carries any of the weight, significance or motivational force of the hate-mongering, fear-mongering and eliminationist rhetoric of people like Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Michael Savage, and the many other leading voices on the right. Name me one left-wing equivalent to this cast of bile-spewers? Or an instance of violence perpetrated by the left wing that's less than 30 years old?

See the letter at Dave Neiwert's blog Orcinus for a thorough indictment. These "commentators" are making a mint while goading their fans towards the start of a civil war, and they need to be held politically accountable for that.

Don't think so:

http://airamerica.com/blog/2009/may/11/janeane-garofalo-talks-about-sean-hannitys-tea-bag-assault

http://www.amazon.com/Wait-Dont-Canada-Stay-Fight/dp/1594863962/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244836721&sr=1-2

www.fox.com/24