Lou Dobbs freaks out over children's literature Part I

This is “The Onion” really, isn’t it?  Satire?  These guys aren’t for real, are they?  “The Onion” couldn’t have done it better.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lou-dobbs-compares-the-lorax-to-occupy-wall-street-as-the-war-on-childrens-movies-continues/

Many of you remember The Lorax, written in 1971, from your childhood; “The Lorax” was also filmed in 1971.  You should dash out and buy copies of both the book and the movie if you do not have them.  The one of which Lou Dobbs speaks is a more recent version, is supposed to come out on March 2.  Some of you also will remember The Borrowers.  Following is a partial response to Mr Dobbs.  Call it Part I.

My response to Mr Dobbs:

Mr Lou Dobbs, surely you realize that from the earliest times people have told stories to their young ones, the wise old elders passing on their culture, telling tales to instill the values and virtues that had been so important a part of their lives, that they might become part of the young ones’ lives, “indoctrinating their children”--tales of honor and valor, of love and caring, of integrity and fidelity, tales of caring for their families and neighbors, for animals and all living things, for nature and for the very earth itself.  These tales were passed down for thousands of years, bringing up their children in the way they should go; they have come down to us in the form of myths and legends and hero tales, fairy and folk tales, and through the ages have taken the form of poetry and plays, of books and movies, and still new ones are being created.  Some have pathos, some have humor, but not one does not have a lesson, not one is not aimed at “indoctrinating the children.”   And so it is with these tales you vilify, Mr Dobbs, “The Secret World of the Ariettys,” (based on that beloved book “the Borrowers,”) and “The Lorax.”  But you, Mr Dobbs, think that you alone should be the judge of what lessons are suitable for other people’s children.  You, Mr Dobbs, are no wise old elder.  And because the lessons from the stories I heard taught me that I ought not to call you an ignorant, narrow-minded, bitter old man, I won’t.  Even though I am your elder.

Gramma Windy