https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/the_left_took_over_an_important_cultural_institution_while_you_werent_looking.html

February 7, 2023
By Andrea Widburg [aka “Bookworm” on Neo’s blogroll]

If you were raised in America, you probably grew up reading books published in the “Little Golden Books” series. It’s likely, too, that parents associate that label with trusted and wholesome products. Well, they’re probably still wholesome (no sex, obscenities, or other nasty things in these books), but recent content has taken both a shallow and a leftward turn, with the Little Golden Books starting early to turn your kids on to pop culture and to “wokify” them.

I understand that is already in the works.
Or the Mouse Works, as the case may be.
The guy’s name is Nelson Peltz.
https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/disney-nelson-peltz-bob-iger-earnings-1235515012/

Trian Fund Management founder Peltz is a billionaire activist investor who hosted a fundraiser for President Donald Trump in February 2020. He’s known to be unhappy with Disney’s response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and at present he’s in the midst of a lawsuit against the wedding planner for his daughter Nicola Peltz and her now-husband, Brooklyn Beckham. For most of last fall, Peltz was also busy trying to engage with Disney brass, asking for meetings and phone calls.

At first, he received an appropriate response for a publicly traded entity, according to a source close to Peltz, but then the Disney brain trust began erecting walls.
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Feeling ignored, Peltz informed Iger in a Dec. 20 phone call that if Disney did not acquiesce to his demand for a board seat, he intended to mount a proxy fight that would challenge Iger’s legacy. A meeting was suddenly forthcoming. So, in early January, the Palm Beach-based Peltz made the cross-country trek to Burbank after finally scoring a meeting with Iger and the Disney board. But the meeting proved to be less than satisfying for the 82-year-old investor, whose Trian has a nearly $1 billion stake in Disney.

Peltz is a man accustomed to getting his way. On Jan. 10, he arrived at Disney headquarters for his allotted 45 minutes to find Iger, McCarthy and Gutierrez in the room but no board members — the 12 men and women instead appeared via Zoom. Peltz presented his deck, which he provided to the board two days in advance of the meeting to give members time to digest it. As he went through all of his slides, he awaited feedback. But none was forthcoming. The board remained silent, and the sole question came from a member of the leadership team who asked about Peltz’s calculation of a so-called overpayment on the Fox acquisition.

“There was this sense of defer and delay and not really an openness to engaging,” the source adds.

All this drama culminates as Disney prepares to deliver its first look at its financial performance earnings since Iger returned and for an inevitable battle with Peltz over the disputed board seat.

MORE, from an almost limitless selection of pundits this week.

https://instapundit.com/568087/
GET WOKE, GO BROKE: The Critical Drinker on Disney — An Empire In Collapse (Video). [language warning]

Commenter: “He’s spot on. I hope that takeover guy succeeds. I just wonder if there is anyone out there who he could bring in that would create actual entertainment.”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/02/06/disney-still-going-all-in-on-woke-n528718
“Children’s programming from back in the dark ages aimed to reduce prejudice and build up a positive set of social norms, encouraging children to be better people and making the world a happier place. This kind of programming aims to gin up anger and resentment as if pounding into kids’ minds the idea that they are victims and their fellow citizens their oppressors.
The aim is to produce activists, not better people. It is about turning children into political weapons.
Ideas like this are not appropriate for the age range of Disney’s intended audience.”

https://notthebee.com/article/heres-what-disney-is-actively-teaching-your-kids-about-race-hint-its-crt

Remember, this is now the Disney narrative: only America does bad things.
https://notthebee.com/article/disney-pulls-simpsons-episode-where-lisa-mentions-chinese-forced-labor-camps

People have noticed.
https://notthebee.com/article/disney-announces-major-restructuring-plan-55-billion-cost-cutting-measures-7000-layoffs

https://pjmedia.com/culture/benbartee/2023/02/09/watch-disneys-savage-anti-white-ballad-in-childrens-show-n1669413

Hoping an up and coming analogue to Carl Icahn will pull off a hostile takeover and show the odious Mr. Iger the door.

Rubberized.

…and yes it is, else your looking at losing alot of money.

Not tile. Never tile – unless it is for yourself and you are never going to sell.

Rubberized Linoleum.

(…and yes, I know what I’m talking about.)

But there were so many Bachrach/Warwick hits!

Inescapable in the sixties and we were all better for them.

33 engines were to fire at once (31 did, still a success I think), and hokey-smoke Bullwinkle, it was a show.

I’m surprised none of you mentioned this Burt Bacharach/Dionne Warwick hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnzTgUc5ycc&ab_channel=Petersmusic