This evening my wife and I took my daughter and one of her friends to see the new Disney/Pixar film WALL-E.  The characters were cute and appealing, the animation was stunning and the plot was something only Al Gore could love.  And your average soy latte-sipping, Obama-voting, Che-flat-waving liberal.

First, the premise of the movie.  Earth (or, at least, America as the fate of the world’s other nationalities is never addressed), after coming under the control of some sort of massive retail-orientated corporation (think Wal-Mart on steroids), has been destroyed.  It is nothing but a murky, dusty, unpeopled pile of garbage.  The corporation, called Buy N’ Large or BNL for short, has taken all of the planet’s inhabitants aboard one gigantic luxury spaceship and launched them into space where they’ll cruise around while BNL gets the planet cleaned up.

That’s where WALL-E comes in.  He’s some sort of waste disposal robot tasked with gathering up garbage and stacking it.  He is the last “living” thing on earth.  One day a shuttle from the spaceship holding all the humans (Axiom is what it’s called) comes and leaves behind a probe.  This probe is supposed to search for evidence of earth growing plants again.  The probe, called Eve, finds WALL-E and a single plant WALL-E found growing in a discarded refrigerator.  The probe and WALL-E fall in love, but then the shuttle returns and takes Eve and the plant back to Axiom.  WALL-E follows by clinging to the side.

And it is back on the Axiom that the story really begins to get disturbing.  The humans on board the ship have turned into blimps who are shuttled about on hovering recliners and care for nothing but what is shown them on there ever-present view screens.  This is no doubt how most liberals see the American public.  Fat.  Stupid.  And totally enthralled by the consumerism and media promoted by massive corporations.

Which, of course, isn’t anything like how Americans actually are or will ever be, but I guess that doesn’t really matter.

Regardless, the story proceeds as you might expect.  WALL-E and Eve get the plant to the right spot on the ship (opposed by instructions left by the evil corporate BNL) which prompts its return to earth, and suddenly all the fat stupid people on the ship wake up and realize that they need to save the earth.  And then, simply by caring about the planet, everything is made right again and they all live on in utopia overseen by the captain of the ship who tells the people to farm, dig wells, etc.

Which is exactly how the liberals want it, no?  One central authority telling everyone how to live their lives for the sake of saving the planet.

Now, being a conservative, I’m used to the liberal political messages that are inherent in the entertainment industry.  But when I saw those fat, blobbish morons on that spaceship - people so bulbous they couldn’t even walk - I was insulted.  Political slant is one thing, but rarely do you see an insult to the public at large made in such a blatant manner.