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Chicken Little...ummm
Just to be picky: in most versions of the story, Chicken Little was wrong. An acorn fell on his/her head, and the chicken had a deluded panic attack.
No doubt some modern versions say Chicken Little was right -- these days it's compulsory to portray all doomsayers as plucky misunderstood Cassandras. But classically, the moral was, "Don't over-react, you idiot." David Lereah was clearly wrong about the housing situation, but not about the fable.