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Fox News blames Mister Rogers for ruining everyone born after the people on Fox News were.
They quote a "study," which is actually nothing more than an Wall Street Journal interview with a professor of finance at LSU. In the interview, the professor is thinking about the entitlement zeitgeist of students who demand A's, and says, "It just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers."
Here's the video from Fox & Friends in which the hosts discuss why Asian students perform much better in school than American students--it's because the Asian students didn't grow up listening to Mister Rogers tell them how wonderful and special they are.
Also, from the video of the show:
"This evil, evil man has now ruined a generation of kids."
"Instead of telling them 'you're special, you're great', why didn't he say, 'there's a lot of room for improvement, keep working on yourself'?"
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Date: 2009-04-06 08:40 pm (UTC)Which is certainly true for anyone who regularly watched Fox News.