This is aimed at making kids pacifists. Has nothing to do with Smurfs as characters, other than that it will traumatize the kids who see it.

An adult-only Smurf film on war directed at Belgians that some kids saw by accident? Sure, I believe that.

My beloved daughter was home from college this weekend where she is taking first year politics from a lefty prof who showed them Fox News clips in his talk on "spin". I made her look at the post below on the BBC report on GWB's taking orders from G-d. She "sort of" saw what I was talking about. I'm thinking of saving myself some time and just threatening to disinherit her if she graduates with the wrong opinions.

tt:

Only the sissies.

What makes all of the this even more hilarious is that there is clear evidence that the Smurfs were Islamo-fascists.

Someone a couple of years ago spun a whole theory of this -- which I couldn't find with a quck google but it goes something like this:

All male community, leader has long beard, white arabian-style headdresses, their enemy is an anti-Semitic stereotype -- Gargemel (even has a vaguely Jewish name) with a cat named after the angel of death, etc.

Bottom line -- the smurf village might as well have been called Tora Bora.

Hope those planes in the kid film used some bunker busters on those little blue b*st*rds.

Remember all the controversey a few months back when some church somewhere put on an Easter pageant at which they crucified the bunny?

They smurfing smurfed the whole smurfing village? That's smurfed up.

That rotten Gargamel!

I watched the the full video last night. What makes it so jarringly weird is the animation scene comes in the middle of the video, which opens with former child soldiers in Burundi who have had their legs blown off or amputated, followed by the Smurf segment, complete with the annoying theme song before the bombs rain down. But given how so many people feel about the little blue gnome wanna-bes, this is the least effective come-on to change people's behavior since Times Select tried to make folks pay $49 a year to read Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd.

They need to take a page from the National Lampoon's "Buy this magazine of we'll kill this dog." campaign, and do the reverse: promise that if they receive enough donations, next they'll off "The Care Bears" or "My Little Pony" or "Pokeman" or "Barney the Dinosaur" or the aforemenioned "Teletubbies" or any of a huge list of annoying and cloying animated marketing gimmicks. Or course that would not meet their propraganda needs, but we're talking some big bucks if done right.

Raoul:

Please. Not Barney. Kill all the others if you must, you bloodthirsty right-wing savage, but I beg you to spare Barney.

I love you
You love me
I am funded federally
I'm the taxpayer-subsidized purple dinousar
They sell my stuff in K-Mart stores.

--the Barney ending theme, as sung in my home circa 1994-95.

Via skilled use of the tivo and constant vigilence, I managed to keep my elder daughter ignorant of that fat purple whatsit for almost 4 years. About a month ago, I walked into the living to find her at rapt attention watching that thing sing. I don't know how she foiled me, but now she watches the bloody show every day.