‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News
by Stage RightAdd one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News: Oscar the Grouch.
Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own news network, GNN (Grouchy News Network). An irate viewer calls in to berate him that the news is not grouchy enough:
“I am changing the channel. From now on I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.”
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Later in the episode, Anderson Cooper from 4th place CNN, guest stars as a reporter for GNN. He interacts with “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not” — Muppets representing real-life liberal news personalities — and they talk about “Meredith Beware-a” and “Diane Spoiler.” But no affectionate nicknames for Fox News personalities; no Spill O’Reilly or Brittle Hume — nope, and the only disparaging characterization of real-world news is reserved for Fox: Fox is a POX. It is trashy. They didn’t even attempt to try “MessyNBC.”
If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch “POX News.” So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news? The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority. And don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.” There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.
…by the way, why SHOULD I change the channel? This is MY channel, I’m paying for it!
The fact that this is a re-run from an episode written during the Bush Presidency only reinforces that this is nothing new. The Left has been doing this for years now. All of us have seen it and felt powerless to mention it, because if we do, we’re ridiculed and dismissed (thank you, Mr. Alinsky).
No, this is nothing new. In Julia L. Mickenberg’s book “Learning From the Left” the history is plainly spelled out. Radicals drummed out of mainstream culture in the late 1940’s turned to children’s entertainment for opportunities not just to work, but to influence. In her introduction, she quotes folk singer Pete Seeger about those artists: “I think many of them are thinking more on the lines of, ‘If we’re going to save this world, we’re going to have to reach the kids’.”
Now this is always a slippery argument for us to make from the right, because we run the risk of being caricatured in the way the late Jerry Falwell was in the infamous “Tinky-Winky” incident. But with this ever-growing list:
- Television shows steering children to left-infested “volunteer” web sites.
- The NEA and White House Office of Public Engagement getting caught RED-handed rallying artists to the cause of Obama-led initiatives.
- An onslaught of public schools teaching their students songs of praise for Barack Obama.
- The simulcast speech by the President to school children with an attached lesson plan to teach our children how they can “help” the president.
- The effort by the President’s top advisers to turn news agencies against the sole-voice of skepticism within the television media.
…One can be forgiven for taking a second look at that Teletubby with the purse… He DOES seem a little gay, doesn’t he?
The insidious nature of left-leaning artists involved in altruistic artistic endeavors always carries the cloak of unassailability:
“How can you fault them for wanting to teach and entertain our children?”
“You must be a conspiracy-theorist to think that all of these people have a master plan to brainwash your children.”
But no one here thinks that in one fell swoop the Left will pass laws against the free expression of dissenting political or cultural views. That’s not how it’s done. First you “educate” children from your perspective. The rest will follow — just like the proverbial boiling frog … is everyone enjoying the Jacuzzi?
But the difference now is that a Saul Alinsky-trained, William Ayers-influenced, Annenberg Challenge Board Member is now our President, and his influence, tactics and worldview (not to mention the power of your federal tax dollars through NPR, PBS and the NEA) now influence our culture at such an accelerated rate that the frog is no longer on a slow simmer but at a rapid boil.
Irony is a wonderful thing. Just as the Left elected the perfect Propagandist-in-Chief, their opposition (you and me) got wise, agile and pretty entertaining. With every lame attempt to turn our kids against us, we now call them on it and point out how ham-fisted, clumsy and square they are. The Left’s worst nightmare came true: The conservatives are the hip ones.
“Sesame Street” can awkwardly slam FoxNews from the comfort of their stodgy old PBS studios… Meanwhile, we have the cool kids on our side: Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck. And our cool kids are pointing out just how boring, lame, predictable and lazy the other side has become. No longer will middle-America sit back and feel powerless as these snobs pass judgment on what we find to be informative and entertaining.
We no longer NEED their approval. We see them for what they are: bitter, pompous and desperate.
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….."If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch “POX News.” So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news?"
Get used to it
This is the new norm and if you don't like it you are a Racist
You have more important things to worry about ,like how YOU ! can serve "The One".
StageRight, you're overreacting. Sesame Street merely gave Fox News a name change (to Pox) that was perfectly in line with their CNN parody Grouchy News Network. It didn't come across as ideologically biased to me, and I am pretty sensitive to that kind of stuff, especially on super-liberal PBS.
If we conservatives are to be successful in the media, we can't keep grabbing our skirts and shrieking every time we are parodied, especially when parodied on a equal level with left leaning counterparts. Man up.
You're suggesting that the left is bitter, pompous and desperate? Mr. Pot meet Mr. Kettle. You're getting your knickers twisted over a puppet? And what's this about undermining your authority? The fact that you consider Fox a serious news network strips you of all authority.
AMEN! As a child born in the mid 60's I've had the full benefit of the Left's assault on our culture in media, print and society. Having been raised in Eastern Oregon among, arguably, one of the most Conservative places left in the United States, once I joined the military, I realized how "right-wing" I was considered. (See for details: http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/current/in... I thought the Carter administration would have put a lid on Liberals for a generation but not even the great Ronald Reagan could hold them back for long. Even Iran-Contra was a contrived media driven non-scandal but it worked by souring the "independents" on Conservative in subsequent election cycles. And ushered in the ridiculous "compassionate conservative" mantra sung by President Bush. Slick Willy was IMPEACHED by Congress but did not have the decency to resign and the public outrage was only on the Right and was utterly muted by the old media. And now the the Obamassiah in power, well, I shouldn't have to tell any of you about the unprecedented publicity surrounding the lead up to his coronation by the old media. Remember how maligned the people on the Right were who sounded the warning bells about all of the Big-O's political mentors? But he threw Rev. Wright, William Ayers and even his own grandmother under the bus to ensure his election. But now that his true colors have been shown even a sycophantic press can't keep the American Public from standing up and finally demanding that politics-as-usual comes to a halt and that actual Conservatives take back the GOP to fight the creeping socialism which has all but strangled our body-politic from main street to Sesame Street. Big thanks to Big Hollywood, Big Government, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and all the rest of the new media for finally giving us a place to call home.
Ummm…
Sesame Street has always been a liberal place. It is a keystone to PBS's success. You can't expect anything else.
Children, they are the only audience the entertainment industry's Incontinent Prostitutes for Oba Mao can stimulate.
…this is the foundation….when they go off to school and the curriculm is cultural drivel is when the non-competitive filth starts…..this country is in trouble.
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Sesame Street with the rewards given to those who run the show to keep it looking like it is loseing money make Barney blush, and old Enron execs wishing they could get royalties on the strategy they're useing.
Here's some footage Sesame Street left on the cutting room floor……
FIRST LADY GARDENS ON SESAME STREET
(Elmo)—Michelle, Michelle what kind of plant are you growing there?
(Michelle Obama)— Never mind Elmo, look at the nice vegetables I have in this big basket.
(Elmo)— But Elmo wants to know what kind of plant First lady plants. Oh I know let’s try to guess what kind of plant it is. Let’s see……
(Michelle Obama)— Elmo…
(Elmo)— Elmo sees it’s planted in a pot. Is pot a clue? Maybe pot is a clue.
(Michelle Obama)— Elmo can we just move on.
(Elmo)—Let me see. Elmo thinks it looks like a weed. Could weed be a clue? Huh, huh.
(Michelle Obama)— Elmo don’t you want to show the boys and girls the tomato plant?
(Elmo)— No this is not a tomato plant; it smells like earth, strong earth, let Elmo smell it closer.
(Michelle Obama)— Elmo you shouldn’t get too close to an unknown plant. It could be poisonous.
(Elmo)—That all right Michelle, it makes me feel good, it makes Elmo feel merry it makes me wanna laugh. Elmo feel MERRY, WANNA laugh. Whoa dude is that like a clue?
Yank their funding!
NOW!
This administration believes that the tax payers dollars are theirs to promote their agenda anyway they like. It gives you insight to what they will do if they are not stopped. The have demonstrated this just once too often. No, our children our not safe from their taxpayer propoganda. Just as they have used the community organizations (ACORN) to steal millions in tax payer dollars to gain power, they have no scruples not to use it anyplace they can get their hands on it.
who are the serious news networks? If Fox is "infotainment" so are the others. Problem is they don't seem all that entertaining.
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this is a little off topic, but my 3 yr old had recently started to enjoy PBS and it is much better than the more mindless garbage.
He is suddenly obsessed with germs. He has to was his hands like every 10 minutes.
I am all for being careful but this is borderline obsessive. He's scared. This is a 3 year old!
don't think these messages get through? try again.
And what would you consider to be a credible news network? cnn? which can't be bothered to confirm a source before broadcasting repeated lies. Or maybe msnbc? whose anchors are all cheerleaders for the president. They either get chills up their legs every time he speaks or they're invited to the white house to be told how to assist him. Whatever happened to speaking truth to power? Or independent thought from the left?
I first saw that episode last year and couldn't believe what I was hearing. We're watching Disney more now, but I have to monitor to make sure I explain things to my daughter when it does get left leaning.
YAWN!! Turn off PBS and put some OLD cartoons on for your kids their STILL funny…..
LOL!!!! Good one!
I can't see a conspiracy here, more of a coalescence of emotion-driven notions based in that 'golden' era of changing the world via dancing in the mud – call it the March Of The Neo-Hippie. While marching to the same drum, they all do 'interpretive dances' to the beat. A swaying throng of spastic motions that leaves observers confused and more than a little annoyed as to what they just witnessed. The binder in this wave of mayhem is that if there is any shred of classical discipline it must be mocked and or destroyed – there is no end goal, nothing definable anyway, because that's not the goal, the goal is just to up-end anything that came before and make up the future as they go along, tic and tac to fit what feels better at the moment.
When conservatives control things, I believe it’s time for all of PBS to test the “Free Market?”
Give them what they deserve: A great big bird…and then Fox 'em and forget 'em.
This is exactly why the Government should not be in media or the arts.
There are some good real life lessons in those old cartoons too. Take Foghorn Leghorn and the Chicken Hawk. The moral of the story is be persistent and you can overcome any obstacle, no matter how loud and obnoxious they are.
Come on this was 2 years old and Anderson Cooper the guest, don't we have bigger fish to fry.
GO Hoffman NY 23…
Fox news should start making a Sesame Street conservative version.
Being on CNN all the time, this appearance is probably the most viewers Anderson's had at least since last November's elections (and the audience's combined IQ is definitely higher than any show MSNBC has on right now…)
It's simple…do what I've done for years. Turn off the TV. My children are one, three, and nine. They love to play outside and we enjoy watcing DVD's. I don't sit them in front of a television unless I'm watching it with them or have already watched what they are going to watch. I don't miss regular TV at all. I get about 15 movies a week from the library and they have a pretty good choice to. TV is just a bunch of overpaid fake liberals.
Thank God my parents never let me watch this trash. I think I did once and said to my Mom "this is for kids who don't know very much".
I'm kind of with you on this….
"fact that you consider Fox a serious news network strips you of all authority"
And the fact you'd say something like this puts your intelligence right around that of a puppet…..
I heard Barney's currently extolling the virtues of anti-Prop 8 legislation….
Never watched Sesame Street, was always a Muppets fan anyway.
At one time Sesame Street was actually cute. Now, the leftist loons have taken it over and made it just another one of their propoganda tools of indoctrination to create a species of Opompouszombies. Parents….send your children to Sunday School and teach them the truth of their Creator….don't let them turn into self-centered, ego-centric, thin-skinned narcissistic mental midgets like their current president.
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Here's Sesame Street's Elmo interviewing Obama: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/10/seeking-to-av...
How much did Gutfeld pay you for that shout-out?
My younger kids are bored by the current look, feel, and vibe on Sesame Street. It hasn't been shy about its politics and agenda for years, and they are stupid to think parents haven't noticed.
My kids would rather watch my old school DVDs from the early to mid 70s, when it was about the King of 8 and the funky pinball machine, Grover the waiter and kittens trashing a dollhouse.
Watching Fox News is hard, because it's as unbiased as Pat Robertson is gay-friendly. If only they were honest about it, instead of claiming otherwise. What I get from the channel is that the leftists are the mean guys, and the conservatives are as blameless as snow. By the way, my feelings are the same when it comes to MSNBC. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow can be as revolting as Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.
"One almost gets the feeling that Time, Newsweek, the NY Times, the LA Times, Washington Post, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, CNN, the Huffington Post, etc. are all not quite enough to balance right-wing talk radio and Fox News." – Victor Davis Hanson
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson102809...
How about only a wing… because they aren't worth the whole bird…
Can't we get older episodes (ie when the human (as opposed to the puppets) cast members didn't look so old) on DVD? If so, then I would rather buy them and have my kids watch those… at least they weren't /so/ political… well they may have been… but I was 10 or so when I last watched them so what would I know.
The thing is (and it seems most people, in particular the leftists) is that every news source is bias in one way or another… Crap, even my Government Professor in College told us all that (while requiring us to get a subscription for Newsweek because that was quiz material)
What? No talk about burning that weed?
Arthur swallowed the kool-aide. Fox has reporters that actually, guess what, report the news. Fox has panels on their programs, that unlike the other networks, such as CNN, MSNBC, PBS, ABC, CBS, NBC, don't do. Which is balance out with liberals and conservatives. On the other networks, it's usually 3 to 1, liberals to conservative. Balanced huh? But ANYTHING remotely to the right of the main network and broadcast news channels WOULD be considered conservative because of how liberal they've all become. Fox is just as legitimate as the others. The only difference? They actually have the cajones to ask the annointed on, Obama, a pointed, tough question. They haven't sold out to the Democrat party like the others.
Don't forget Dan Rather and CBS who ran with a story relying on forged documents regarding Bush's Vietnam service during the 2004 presidential campaign. Or how about the New York Times running story after story of complete fabrication by Jayson Blair. Or how about the several occasions Reuters has run photos manipulated in Photoshop… and I don't mean merely adjusting the contrast but flat out misrepresentation like the same crying Iraqi woman in front of 4 different bombed out areas. Or staged photos by both Reuters and the AP being passed off as authentic spontaneous news events. There are many, many more examples.
Oh yeah, except for FOX, they're all "serious" and just as pure as the wind driven snow. Right.
Yes, it is.
Indeed, the tinky winky incident was a crisis of biblical proportion. The reverend should have regrouped before launching that tirade. One night I feel asleep watching nature or something on PBS HD, only to be awaken in terror, by a series of beeps and clicks. It was a kids show – I think it was boo bah or some such rot. There were multicolored penises flying around, beeping and clicking and dancing in Dolby 5.1. Needless to say, I was disturbed about the state of childrens television and taxpayer funded lunacy. May Fox continue to be a pox on the takeover of reason.
Uh – no, there was no implication of bitterness, pompousity or desperation in the article – though the terms do aptly describe your side. The article is essentially is holding up another example of the Leftist indoctrination campaign foisted upon our nation's young and vulnerable since at least the mid-1960's. It's called informing, it's known as observe and report. It's what you Lefty goofs always claim you do, when in actuality, you're the bleating sheep.
What do you expect? A show dedicated to "educating" children, funded by the government and produced and directed by liberals. I'm surprised it took this long.
I'll tell you one thing. It really is difficult telling those government controlled puppets on sesame street from the government controlled puppets on the alphabet networks.
So did Anderson Cooper share some hilarious "tea-bagging" jokes with the kiddies?
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Dalai Lama is as 'gay-friendly' as is Pat Robertson; if only Tom Hanks were as honest about his Mormon-Catholic bashing then Kingdom Hollywood righteous bias would not be so obviously intolerable.
If watching Fox is so hard, then don't watch it. You only have every other dinosaur-media outlet to choose from. Why does Fox scare you people so much? Does the Left have to run EVERYTHING? Oh wait, yes you do. Sorry, don't report my "fishiness" to Dear Leader.
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Isn't it interesting how people like Arthur like to slam Fox News while completely ignoring the fact that a number of their reporters came from other networks. After 23 years with ABC Brit Hume came to FOX. After 28 years with ABC, John Stossel joins FOX. So with more than two decades with ABC, they lose all credibility overnight because they went to FOX? There's logic for you.
The question should be 'why is PBS always left-leaning??' why should it not be representative of all Americans, which by polls are more conservative than liberal. This should be changed and I think that those who scoff at the notion are going to be in for a rude awakening.
Hey Arthur!!!! How about these stalwarts of journalistic supremecy? Joy Behar, D.J. Hughley, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz? I'd even lump Larry King in there. Please hip us to why you and others like you, seem to leave them out?
As an adult, I will catch a segment of Sesame Street because the old ones brought me back to my childhood. When this show injects this political climate into the show, it loses the innocence that it once had. It's a shame, really. Grown-up, self-centered baby boomers who once again, have to make a simple kids show address the issues of their own generation.
I would, but liberals took away my Bugs Bunny and Road Runner because they were too violent.
I'm with you. I always monitored what my kids were watching and this isn't the worst example of Sesame Street pushing a liberal agenda. I know, I was watching.
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So it's ok to take your money and mine and feed it to the left so they can start the propoganda war on our children? I've watched Sesame Street and decided not to let my kids watch it or the stupid Teletubbies.
If it was their money, I'd say ok, produce what you want. But it's my money they are using and I am less than thrilled about having to be the kid show police when it comes to what my kids are fed. Not OK.
Oh, and Wolf Blitzer failing to follow up during the "balloon boy" hoax when Falcon said "we did it for a show". Blitzer let the dad BS his way out of it.
Produce a kids show that leans the other way and see how the Left cries likes babies. The Left is bitter and desperate, which is why they have resorted to pushing their crap agenda on children…something about having the same mental abilities I guess.
Wrong attitude. It's your tax money too.
i'll accept that old, worn out line as soon as pbs stops using my tax money for liberal indoctrination
now i'm confused, as we talking about pbs or the public school system?
There's a storm coming………
That;s what we all do. I just want my money to stop going to the people who make this garbage.
I think Brit Humus would have been a clever name
And these people want to impose a fairness doctrine on us.
It would be fun to impose their rules on their programing.
Come on Art! We've given you plenty of examples to refute. We know you're an all-intelligent liberal. Now dazzle us with your come backs.
And now we also have this to add to the indoctrination and community-ism of our country:
http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm
SESAME STREET airs on PBS; PBS is an arm of the State. It isn't surprising that it wouldn't be shilling for statism and marching lockstep behind "Il Dufe," although it is a little remarkable how blatant the Hive is becoming in using its entertainment division to promote agitprop, now even to kids.
And don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.” There are no channels left!
Why is the next logical step of turning off the TV altogether engender such fear in people?
I love the left portraying themselves, always, as the open-minded, critical thinkers. When I read or hear most stuff that comes out of the enlightened class (liberals) it's mostly regurgitated bullet points I just heard on another channel or read in another column or article. No originality. Equate it to the chants from liberal protestors that's been recycled throughout the decades. The "Hey, hey, ho, ho <insert stupid echo for rest of childish chant here>, is one I love.
Do Something Good! Feel Something Real!
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i...
http://www.blueavocado.org/node/293
Strikes me as funny that you're awful angry at someone you think you're beating in the ratings.
Gosh, I guess it's too bad that Rupert Murdoch is too busy taking your money to make quality children's programming. All those bad old lefties actually taking time out of their day to teach children to read must be chapping your hide. They're not just thinking (and complaining) about the children, they're actually doing something.
And really, YOU'RE the one inferring that PBS is telling your poor little children that their parents watch "trashy" news. If your kids make the connection Oscar yelling = Faust News yelling, who's fault is that? Oscar? He's always been a grouch.
Raising children is like voting. If you don't participate, you can't complain about the results.
Well aren't y'all speshul for sneering at other people. Do you feel better now, sweetums?
Et tu, Bert?
Doesn't engender any fear in me. The thing is hardly ever on. Thank god for Netflix and Fancast – you can pick and choose what to watch.
But this – "There are no channels left! It’s everywhere" – I agree with. And I also agree with turning the TV off or switching to one's dvd player.
yeah, that oughta be good…..
Arthur? Are you there?
WAAHHHHHH PUPPETS ARE MAKING FUN OF ME!!! WAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
This is what you complain about? Seriously?
No wonder everyone in this country thinks the Right is a bunch of crabby schoolchildren. They're watching Sesame Street and crying their eyes out about Oscar the Grouch, while the rest of us adults are actually engaging the real world.
Get over your goddamned delusions, wipe your tears off, grow up, grow a pair of goddamn TESTICLES, and man the frig up, you pathetic child.
Or would you like to cry some more? Huh? Baby? HUH?
I have to disagree. Stage isn't going crazy over this, he is establishing a pattern, if anyone needs to "man up" it is people who think that this is an overreaction. The right HAS to start addressing this pattern and calling it out. If you read past the 3rd paragraph I think it's pretty obvious.
Yes, god forbid we should be concerned about the communities where we live. It's so un-American to care about one's neighbors. After all they might be *GASP* different!
Our mistake.
1. It's a silly-looking creature
2. It is primarily found in inner city areas
3. It's preaching at our kids
4. It's taking cheap shots at Fox News
5. Everything it says and does is controlled by hidden masters, as it has a vacant, slightly psychotic look and no brains of its own.
6. Last but NOT least, there's a fair chance ACORN illegally registered it to vote as a Democrat.
Obamabot or Muppet? It's REALLY hard to tell sometimes.
Susan, Fox does have a bias. So do all the other news outlets. But Fox DOES go out of it's way to put liberals face-to-face with conservatives. They do have news, contrary to White House propaganda, and they do have opinion. That would be everyone from Beck on, with news breaks in each show. I'm with Biz_Czar, if you don't like Beck or Hannity, don't watch them. I hate Olbermann, because he is so pompous and hateful, and I choose not to watch him. Even out of curiosity. Why the White House and liberals hate Fox comes down to this. Fox asks tough questions, without succumbing to the tingles down the leg feelings that the other news sources have. Obama was elected without ANY critical inquiry by the so-called, mainstream media. Obama won't go on Fox because he's got a free ride on all the other news sources.
I haven't heard anyone on the left calling for a new Fairness Doctrine lately. The Right are the only crybabies keeping that hoary old ghost alive. And it amuses me no end that each side accuses the other of "monopolizing the media" when all I hear is WAAAAHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHH WAHHHHHHHH.
You're all a bunch of selfish, shrill little children, on both sides of the "debate." You are all a useless waste of space. You are all going to ruin this country. and I hope you all rot in Hell for it.
it's not rape-rape. everyone wants to **** 13 year old girls. I did not have sex with that woman. he's an acquaintance in my neighborhood.These are the government funded puppets we are really sick of. Oh, and wahhhhhhhh.
So much fuss over a 2-year old clip! So…first Stage Right is mad they parody Fox news…then he's mad they don't parody it enough by satirizing the anchors' names? Also, Stage Right: please note that those who declare themselves to be "cool…" pretty much never are. As our parents told us, being cool isn't important, being a _good_ person is. (or maybe I learned that on Sesame Street) Conservatives have taken one huge page from the liberal book: going into hysterics at the first perceived slight. And I watch a lot of tv and somehow I made it through that pernicious week of 'service promoting' tv seeing maybe one reference to a character volunteering at an animal shelter, but I'm proud to say it didn't motivate me in the least to help my fellow man or canine.
It's a wonder you took time from teabagging the State to write this post.
I'm all for that. They're so poorly run, that even with their tax funded stipends, they have to beg for money a few times a year. Wouldn't this be considered another "Successful" government run entity? Kinda like the one we may get to decide whether you live or die?
Dazzle us with brilliance?
I doubt he even has the capacity to baffle us with bullshit.
Would that make Biden his assistant Beeker?
The sad irony of course is that since PBS, like NPR, is an organ of the State, those of us in the pro-freedom camp are forced to subsidize Hive agitprop with tax dollars.
Say what you will about FOX, but I haven't heard of Rupert Murdoch sticking a gun to anyone's head to get them to underwrite it.
I think he's the recipient. No douche bag, we're fighting back. I know it's hard to deal with and you sound like you've gone over the edge. Get some help. Please. We're just looking out for you.
He must have been a drive by troll.
well, children and Chris Matthew's leg.
Indeed, since they've been yanking our chains for years it's time to repay the favor.
"Irony is a wonderful thing. Just as the Left elected the perfect Propagandist-in-Chief, their opposition (you and me) got wise, agile and pretty entertaining"
It truly is a wonderful irony. Just last October I thought it was me against the world. To coin FLOTUS….you guys are helping me to be proud of my country again.
Don't stop the presses Stage Right….FULL COURT PRESS!
Why call it "Pox" News? Why not Sox News or Knox News or Box News or…you get the idea. Pox has a definite meaning. Don't think it wasn't deliberate.
Show some old Looney Tunes during the World War II era. Your kids will learn more about sacrifice, courage, patriotism, and humor in one Bugs Bunny cartoon than in 12 years of public education.
I agree. They are better off watching I Love Lucy reruns and the inimitable Three Stooges.
Several posters have left messages to Stage Right saying, in effect, "Lighten up – It's just a puppet show." There is merit to that view. However conservatives should not forget that one of the reasons that we are in the position we now face is that we have historically either been "good sports" about this stuff or have protested weakly and ineffectively. The Left has been ruthless, systematic and coldly efficient when it comes to rooting out elements of the popular culture that don't meet their political agenda. The White House has issued a call to arms against Fox News and the heavy majority of the news, entertainment and cultural media has dutifully and slavishly signed on. Stage Right in particular (and BH in general) is right to bring things like the "Sesame Street" bit to everyone's attention. It's sad when it comes to this but to say nothing is to wekly submit.
nceeno,
Yes it is my tax money, and as a business man I must just "write it off". Except for the defense budget, I'm not sure all of my tax dollars haven’t been wasted.
If I had a nickel for every dollar of my taxes that has been wasted on total BS like foreign aid, PBS, welfare, etc… I might actually be a wealthy man.
As I see it, much like parenting or warfare, we must choose our battles. Right now my battle lines are drawn on ObamaCare, Cap & Tax, man-made Global Warming, Parental Rights amendment, and getting true conservatives elected, and supporting the troops AND the mission in Afghanistan/Iraq (GWOT).
My strategy on PBS is to not watch and not let my kids watch. We can burn that bridge when we come to it, right now let’s fight the big battles so someday we are around to fight the little ones.
Go McChristie and Hoffman!
if you keep notes you will notice that most liberal backers get tax money..unions,PBS,acorn,nea,etc. not many right backers get government handouts. Started long ago, before Obamunism. Sesame st. was liberal leaning 20 years ago.
[...] O’Brien) James Hudnall, Big Hollywood: Comics In Servitude to Obama Stage Right, Big Hollywood: ‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News Steven Crowder: Trailer: ‘Pelosi On Elm Street: The Nightmare Continues’ Jason Killian Meath, [...]
[...] Be: Grayson’s Anatomy: Biggest Tool in House Calls Cheney a Vampire Stage Right, Big Hollywood: ‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News Frugal Café Blog Zone: Fresh Off the “Cheney-Vampire Insult Train,” Now Repulsive Rep. [...]
[...] bar Fox News from interviewing pay czar…and fails, embarrassingly so Stage Right, Big Hollywood: ‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News Jules Crittenden: Hardball Host … Likes A Softball Boston Herald: Chris Matthews refuses hardball [...]
No, we do not have bigger fish to fry. Reaching young impressionable minds with liberal propaganda is no small matter. Our children are our future. This is a very important issue.
I know you'll be shocked, but our 5 year old started with Disney Channel at 3 and their pre-k programming is commercial free and much more positive and happy than PBS. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse will win you over with wit and charm.
With all the licensing and toy product sales, I don't see why they need any public money.
[...] Hat tip to Big Hollywood. [...]
Children have HIGHER intelligence levels than leftists nceeno. Get it right now.
Darkwolf, Beeker is more INTELLIGIBLE than good ol' Joey Plugs Biden. Don't insult Beeker like that!
So, "you are a crybaby" (a name redolent of what psychologists call "projection"), if "Il Dufe" went along with the idea of imposing the Fairness Doctrine, you'd oppose that, right? Because, you know, you're so "into" liberty.
Inded, chambers. "Lighten up" is their way of saying, "Nothing to see here, move along, pay nop attention to the man behind the curtain," etc. If it were just Sesame Street, who would care? It's the Hive's non-stop use of entertainment and pop culture as an all-pervasive conduit for Hive agitprop. See "The Gallant Gallstone" section in THE FOUNTAINHEAD for a satire of this phenomenon–except satire usually deals in exagerration, and similar "Gallant Gallstone" episodes occur almost daily in the Age of ObamaNation.
he has been into the disney stuff for a while but I have been steering towards a little more obviously educational than passively.
QUIT FUNDING PBS!!! The government already controls most of the once free media so why subsidize this crap? Just move Sez-a-me Street to MSNBC!
Buy the cartoons on dvd pjean. They are uncensored by unhinged lefties on the dvd collections. Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. # 4 even includes a Bugs Bunny cartoon titled "Mississippi Hare", which has NEVER been shown on broadcast tv because it was believed to be "racist". You have to have the Road Runner cartoons! The battle between the Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote is the perfect metaphor to describe the GOP Party "leadership" battling the conservatives in the Party over the RINO problem. The "leadership" keeps using their Acme RINO victory kit in attempts to elect more & more RINOs, but all they get is TNT blowing up in their face followed by a fall off of a cliff.
Because they needed a trashy, grouchy name. None of those others qualify.
In reality, I've been so far surprised how little lefty stuff I've been seeing on Sesame Street.
If you want to be worried, worry about the upcoming Season 40. It's going to have an environmental/conservation theme. That's going to be ripe for lefty slant.
when does fox get my tax money to trash the obozo media?
I want my pbs taxes to represent the Real Americans, not the "not proud of America" michelle types
[...] gleichschaltung: Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News: Oscar the [...]
There's a DVD series called "Sesame Street Old School." It actually has warning labels that the material 'may not be suitable for today's children.' It's there because this is long before cookies were a "sometimes food," and it includes 'Alisdair Cookie' with his bubble pipe.
I was a member of the first generation of Sesame Street viewers & can recall when the leftist rubbish started entering the show. It began with lots of depressing animated skits dealing with pollution & environmentalism. I remember my younger sister crying during some of them because they tried to impress on kids their parents & other Americans were destroying the planet. It was subtle at first, but got worse. My parents began putting on Looney Tunes & other classic cartoons instead & I still watch them to this day. Sesame Street was a good idea until liberals got involved. Liberals destroy everything good. My kids will NEVER see this show. It is now nothing but pre-K indoctrination.
Pox is a disease. I doubt if little 3 and 4 year olds know that.
I like this one better!
Michelle Obama and Big Bird
http://usataxpayer.org/pagex.asp?Get=obamaeligibl...
"So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news?"
It would appear they also have the right to call CNN "Grouchy," or did you not read your own article?
"I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority."
If one's authority is so worthless it can be "undermined" by a singing puppet, chances it probably ought to be.
Don´t worry. Obama will get served in 2012.
Oh come on, I was watching that episode with my 3 year old last week. A couple of silly puns, that's all. I believe the author is being a little oversensitive.
Good lord. WTF are you conservobot reality-challenged crybabies whining about now?
Get your fatasses off the potato chip-laden sofa, put down the PBR and get outside for some exercise, already.
Indeed, completely useless! At least Andrea(forgot the numbers) last week had the courage and ability to debate.
hmm, you are correct. Biden's more like Gonzo, but not as smart.
God, you people really have become a bunch of pussies. "Waaah! We were picked on by a muppet!"
These are the same people who had trouble with Murphy Brown years ago…
Poe's law?
Yes, it would be horrible if they actually got a different viewpoint – it would be near impossible to indoctrinate them into your fanaticism. Well done.
Well, you showed them.
/sarcasm
The Grouchy New Network, featuring Walter Cranky, Dan Rather-Not, Meredith Beware-a, and Diane Spoiler.
Doesn't sound like they're praising CNN either. But it would have been more "fair and balanced" if they used names like 'Garbage News Network' or 'Shox News.'
Yes, because if you get your ass handed to you by a Muppet, you're in really good shape for politics.
HAHAHAHAHA! The conservative butthurt on this thread is amusing. Apparently 'Rather-not' and 'Cranky' is complimentary in the eyes of freepers! The show took shots at CBS too…remember CBS and Dan Rather? the ones conservatives think are the satan worshippers of news? And yes, Fox news is trashy…you don't see commentators on CBS calling people defamatory names and equating politicians with evil historic relics. You don't see people on CBS making straw man arguments or making abusive statements intended solely to inflame tension and differences. Fox made an entire industry out of it, and all of you cattle just soak it up so you don't have to think for yourselves.
Wake up sheeple.
I guess if the Conservatives come to power again they need to teach Sesame Street a lesson and pull all funding. Just as they've tried for years.
Yes, Heehaw I'm sure was plenty 'nuff entertainment. There are a million and one things on TV I can call trash, and Sesame Street is not even on the list.
you get free movies from the library…..who pays for that?..you dumb CON
What passes for conservatism these days is pretty sad. This column is glaring example of that same sadness.
I want MY money BACK!
Yeah, after I get my check back from the invasion of Iraq.
[...] the Grouch bashes FOX News: Big Hollywood reported: Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar [...]
Wow… your "intelligent" post has convienced me of the error of my ways… I shall now be like you and just accept everything that happens without question or reserve… I will just walk in the lines to be provided for and told what to think…. because after all I am not allowed to have an opinion… right? I'm not allowed to express said opinion (that is if I am allowed to have one)… right? I'm not allowed to be against the state and their propganda machine because they are ALWAYS right…. right?
Well I guess that sucks for you… because I am not you and I do not think like you… therefore I will not comply to the liberal status quo like you are seemingly doing with your faux crying as an attempt to mock (which really didn't do a good job because all it did was show your ignorance (or stupidity, I'm not sure which) people that do not agree with you….
If you want to go cry about "teabaggers" why don't you go back to the Daily KOS, I saw them whining about people that don't believe the same as them just a couple of hours ago…. it's that a-way (points to the left)…. :/
every day a Muslim DOESN'T kill you should be considered a good day.
"New York imam pleads not guilty to charges in jihad terror plot"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
you pussy liberals can ignore the Middle East and Islam, they sure as f–k are NOT IGNORING YOU!
Pick your battlefield against Islam; Iraq or your trailerpark, you choose.
Trailerpark? Ha…that's funny, coming from an "attack Iraq" retard.
We understand…big government is bad, unless they're killing brown people who scare you.
trailerpark, government housing whatever. Don't all you liberal socialist / statists prefer someone else to subsidize your existance?
btw, I've never ever met a "brown person" that I was afraid of, ever.
("brown people"? you really are a liberal racist!)
Anything else chump? The Obama administration is at the BEGINNING of the END starting today!
don't commit suicide with that work smock after today. Mickey D's has really big plans for you!
Clean your Momma's basement while you're down there, ok?
Statist? Hmm…someone's been listening to Mark Levin.
But everyone's glad you aren't scared of TERROR ALERT ORANGE!
(got you, didn't I?)
Voting up your own comments is really cute, BTW. they should have you do the Fox News crowd count for the next Teabagger rally.
Andrea would hang in there, I'll give her credit, but she couldn't get off her talking points.
you CAN'T vote up your own comments idiot, otherwise morons like you would abuse the system and just themselves. wackity wackity wack. you pud knocker.
How do you just yourself?
And I see at least three ways you can log on to separate accounts under this message box.
But feel free to deny it.
what? I list the daily incursions of Islamic extremist in to our country. Liberals are either ignoring it because it's "George Bush's War" or, like your *False Messiah* Obama, are talking a good game (the right war, neccessary, blah, blah) and then doing nothing so he obey his Marxist masters, aka the leftist wing of the DemocratSS.
Oh look a troll.
And you'll have to do better than that.
Interesting how it's always you cons who call him Messiah. Of course, it's also interesting how obsessed you guys are getting over a bunch of puppets.
Interesting how quickly that +1 gets there. You must be the pride of your mom's basement.
Afraid of the MILLION people that marched on Washington? Why are you afraid? Do you see the END of a brief flirtation with Euro-socialism crumbling before your very eyes?
you do, and it is.
Beginning of the end, eh? Wow…you really do have a hardon for muppets.
Sorry, never met a mouthbreather that I was afraid of…even a million photoshopped ones.
did you figure out the incredibly complex voting system yet?
give it a spin, try it out. vote me down, please. I consider it an honor.
my numbers speak to the kindness and intellect of the people of this on-line community, nothing less and nothing more.
we have liberals that contribute and are respected, if, and only IF, they are tenatious and well spoken in defending what is indefensible, the agenda of the modern Democrat party.
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my numbers speak to the kindness and intellect of the people of this on-line community, nothing less and nothing more. *
Well, you've got that right.
Maybe not in the way you intended to…
And no thanks. Any place that views you as a respected member is not anyplace that I'd trust my email address to.
I really don't understand why entertainers can't figure out we pay them for entertaining. We don't pay them to educate us, or subvert us, or sway us one way or the other. Of course then there are those like me who don't pay them at all. Stay out of movie theaters, don't buy CD's, and be very careful where I get my news. I don't miss it at all too. The last CD I bought was the Chixie Dicks and I threw it out the window and ran over it with my car.
"How do you just yourself?" you mean "justify"?
The system is smarter than you, twerp. It recognizes cheaters and free-loaders when it sees them.
hey computer wizz, vote YOURSELF UP using your stated methods, go ahead.
I'll watch and see how that goes.
You have to be logged in to vote. You really ARE this stupid, aren't you?
I'm punkin' you like the man-beeatch you are – LOL!
all libs are pu$$ies, it's their nature, it's your nature.
recycling my insults I've directed towards you shows you lack of imagination and intellect.
The problem is they are doing it with OUR money. And people are aware of that. Small things matter and they do make a difference. Anyway, I will make myself a coctail and will watch some news tonight.
Say "buh bye" then troll, back to HuffPo where you came from. They'll supply you with cyber cookies and milk, sooth your damaged ego, embrace you in the h omo and liberal arms that make you feel *wanted*!
A con who's obsessed with puppets AND homos.
Can't say that I find that surprising.
Interesting how you call me a troll, when you can't even respond without calling people names. I guess Texas expects a lot less out of their law students.
You brought up BOTH nimrod! …and Texas doesn't like pu$$ies like you, we rely on independence from mommy governments and self relience.
Being a widdle scared, little, liberal mouse never won any battle; verbal, intellectual or actual. *Digest* that!
Of course Fox news is trashy – when you are talking about the Obama administration, that is the only way you CAN be.
Are all conservatives this retarded, or just you nutbags posting on here. You people don't take losing very well, do you.
Now, I have actual work to do, do you have ANYTHING worth while to add to the discussion or are we going to remain acting like a feces slinging primate?
If yes, spout it. If not, get blown, I'm busy.
"Gibbs Says He Doesn’t Know If White House Has Reviewed Constitutionality of Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance"
here's a clue, Gibbs – NO!
another example of liberalism in action!
Yeah, I guess those burgers don't sling themselves.
Blown, huh? Yep…steers and queers, and you don't sound like a steer
This is not new! It's been this way for over 30yrs with the MSM. They (NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS & NPR. etc.) have always leaned to the left since left-winger's owned or controlled most MSM outlets. The Liberal base has no accountability or moral compass. They try to suppress any kind of authority which is even considered "right-centered". Anyone who has successfully raised a child to respect other peoples lives, beliefs and property can tell you that no Liberal or left-wing advocate helped them to do so. The MSM feeds off of misery, ignorance and guilt. They love to inflate any story no matter how weak to a scandal before checking the facts…as long as it involves people of authority, including parents of our children, but not Dems & their sheepish followers.
"retard", "brown people" (?) who scare you, "(got you, didn't I?)" (??), "Teabagger",
"How do you just yourself?" (???), "really ARE this stupid",
"Maybe not in the way you intended to…" (????)
"A con who's obsessed with puppets AND homos.
Can't say that I find that surprising. "
Ya, you're a real "Ralph Waldo Emerson" we can see by your list of moronic rants and insults.
LOL 1990 – Well put! I hate internet abbreviations but that comment seriously made me "laugh out loud".
I noticed that as well, but I could see promise in her. Perhaps a little more exposure to the likes of us knuckledraggers might influence the rational part of her nature.
From the looks of it, that kind of thing is worth at least 116p around here.
You were right in your original post…you should get your money back. I wouldn't count on your school obliging, however.
tiring, boring, repetitive liberal moron…stop wasting our time here and get back to waxing that needle dick of yours, OK?
get a tweezers, that ought to make the process proceed!
The answer is that people in PBS are not making very much money. They do what they do for the love of teaching and love of culture (yes, a limp-wristed liberal viewpoint). For conservatives, money is the only thing that matters, so why would they waste their time at PBS when there is no hope of getting rich?
Back to HuffPo troll, they pay is better. Try Craig's List, ACORN is hiring ignorant America haters at minimum plus $1.00.
besides, ad hominem is "too hard* for you to pull off.
Puppets aren't real.
Interesting, as it's the only think you can manage.
Wow…that's 116p worth of comment right there.
How long does it take to vote yourself up with alts, anyway?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3LUid0IZ2w
1990 · 2 minutes ago
"Interesting, as it's the only think you can manage."
you might want to *rethink* that sentence ~hoss~!
Why? Did you have any actual points you made here? It's pretty much been ad hominem from you from the get go.
At least a library is fair and balanced. PBS is not.
Provide a conservative kids show funded by the taxpayers and I'll quit bitching.
Yes, that's true. It's for 2-4 year olds who need to learn how to count or learn the alphabet. The "Pox" joke was really for the parents who get stuck watching it with them.
My son now watches Fox and likes Cavuto best.
I always wondered if they were REALLY too violent, or if they (dating back to WW2) were just too AMERICAN for the screen masters. When's the last time you saw one of the pro-military ones, even with the violence edited?
I just don't want to fund "parody" or "propaganda" with my donations.
"only think". Did you mean "thing" or is it just a bad sentence? I don't like whiney liberals, I might have to tolerate them but I don't have to like them. Any adult that supports this leftist, academic, Marxist, theorist named Obama as he tries to run our country into a ditch bothers me.
Hence; you bother me, but not that much. I see the end of this fraud Obama and I see the left climbing back into their holes for 30 or 40 more years of hibernation, on college campuses, where they belong.
When did they let trolls become Journalists? I use the term Journalist loosely.
Ya, PBS sucks, Obama sucks, the DemocratSS suck, the socialist *idea* sucks and people that rely on the current state system suck. That's FIVE POINTS!
Well if Rachel and Keefy say it, it must be true! Neither one of them are journalists anyway.
and please, stop obsessing on the score, it's pathetic.
Your envy, jealousy, what ever the Freudian problem you have is, it's really creepy.
You probably shouldn't be the one commenting on people's typos, 'hoss'
It's all the same battle. More control and power for the government. That's what progressives like the one in the WH live for. Look at who the progressives are in Congress. They have goals that transcend party lines.
What's insidious about PBS and Sesame Street is the assault on our kids to indoctrinate them into thinking things like "Pox" is trashy. It gets far worse too.
My congressmen can never get enough email from me asking them to not vote for continued PBS funding.
Calling people homos, an obsession with sucking…
Yep, you're Republican.
Nah…it's just cute. You voted yourself up on a conservative blog. Whatever helps your self esteem.
I'm not a neo-con, I'm an old fashioned f. u conservative, economic Darwinist, cut taxes, shrink government, eliminate bureaucracies Reagan conservative. We need to take back the education systems, the media and popular culture from the depraved out-of-control leftists intent on subjugating our country to Islam, George Soros and slide us into Euro-style socialism. I spent a month in Western Europe and the decay is sicking, the incursion of Islam is unsettling, and the lazy incompetence is scary.
SESAME STREET was always a terrible show and because of the way it switches from one scene to another, so quickly, it has ruined two generations' imaginations and ability to concentrate on something for longer than 2 minutes.
But this new tactic is even worse! What's next for them, a character who tells very little children, as Hamas funded T.V. does, that they should kill the enemy ( jews there, conservatives here ) ?
says the minion of the gay/party the DemocratSS, hee hee.
Many people on PBS make tons of money off the far lefty crap they push on that station, so your specious argument is patently ridiculous, as is your impugnation of conservatives as being "greedy" and money hungry anti-intellectuals who hate "art" !
And you don't see the humor in the fact that you guys are screeching about an offhanded comment by a muppet? To think, it was you guys who were yelling at liberals in the '90s to man up, that they were too PC, and now you're bitching about a puppet.
As a I'm an old fashioned f. u. conservative, economic Darwinist, cut taxes, shrink government, eliminate bureaucracies Reagan conservative, you must've been pretty frustrated since…well…since Reagan
The really funny part is that I'm punking you AND conducting other business at the same time! I have research to do and luckily, you're so unoriginal and lame I can that and bit-ch slap you, do my research and read other posts!
[...] it seems is it that easy for leftists to foment coherent messaging, even towards our kids simmering in the pot. For those that argue, ‘just turn off the TV,’ I agree and that’s all [...]
ego and self esteem aside, mental midget does not fit for someone who was the editor of the Harvard Law Review, which is probably one of the most intellectually difficult achievements there is.
Do you have anything else? I have a meeting concerning grad school I must attend at 4:00 local, in about 11 minutes. You gotta get it cranked up Bud, spew that crap faster!
No? That's it? OK Bud, don't over yank that baby weasel, get back to your mopping and don't forget the area around the fryer.
The district manager is coming in tomorrow and we expect that kitchen you work in to be *pretty*!
SO, GET TO WORK!
Only if their idiotic parents allow them to watch the tripe aimed at them.
SESAME STREET was not allowed to be on, in my house. I'm a good parent !
Why are you allowing your child to watch brainwashing garbage? SHUT OF THE T.V., DON'T USE IT AS A BABYSITTER, AND READ TO THE CHILD !
Yeah. No.
But, again, if it makes your little ego feel better, go for it.
Liberal cretins should have a restraining order keeping them away from children. These retrogrades have given us a 50% dropout rate in Los Angeles, now they use Sesame Street as a propaganda tool. These leftwing rodents should be publicly flogged.
Buy the DVDs !
I mean, I could see how you think by laughing at your own posts you're 'punking' me. I guess when you don't have any points other than 'suck! suck! suck!", you have to hold onto anything you can.
I hope they're not using your reasoning skills on here to determine your fate.
Actually, scratch that. I wish they'd use your reasoning skills on here to determine your fate. I'm sure Texas needs ditch diggers who thought they coulda beena lawyer.
Hey idiot: OSCAR THE GROUCH LIVES IN A FUCKING TRASH CAN!!! IT'S A PUN! "TRASHY!" GET IT?
Let's not major on the minors. Small potatoes. Bigger fish to fry and we never watched Sesame Street and my "kiddoes" did not want to! The stupidity of it was a bit funny; I can take it!
Boohoo thin-skinned rightwing blowhards complaining about a successful kids show.
You people are paranoid and nuts… best of luck with your 20% (and dropping) American electorate.
Dear folks who like the network with the guy who cries: stop crying.
If the Reich-wing Republicans had a kids show it would be call "American Nazi Youth Today."
How about we apply the "fairness doctrine" to PBS and "Seaseme Street". I have seem many liberal personalities on the show, but very few conservatives. I'm pretty sure that the libs would seriously get their panties in a bunch if Rush, Beck or Hannity were on it.
You fuckin loony birds! Pox is a perfect parody of Fox when dealing with Oscar and trash. What a bunch of paranoid, loser, pathetic obstructionist conspiracy theory nuts! Get over it…..maybe super-mom Sarah Palin will swoop in and save you all in the future
So rush or beck can get on there and spit their homophobic, prochoice bullshit? It's a kids show! You right wing retards have lost all sense of reality. I can only laugh and count the days until you are in single digit membership….you're under 30% now with your exclusionary idiocy. Keep pickin morons to run for your party and you'll be extinct before 2012
What a waste of time. Why are conservatives so obsessed with their media and entertainment being politically correct? They all sound like a bunch of big government liberals to me. Darn hippies
Sesame Street parodies Fox's name = evidence of anti-conservative conspiracy
Sesame Street simultaneously parodies CNN's name = shh, that didn't happen. I don't know what you're talking about. There is an anti-conservative conspiracy.
Of course I'm operating under the assumption that the writer would've been intelligent enough to notice that the caller complained that GNN wasn't good enough and actually preferred Pox, that Oscar is a Grouch who lives in a trashcan, etc. but obviously playing victim takes precedence.
Seriously. I don't know where these liberals get off teaching kids to count, read, write, etc. They're screwing up their ability to become good consumers.
Especially since this is news for grouches. It would be like complaining that an American news network wasn't American enough. I take it as a complement.
Good job mom. Clearly the only way to counterbalance what you see as liberal indoctrination is to give 'em a nice conservative brainwashing to even it all out. We'd hate to let the little darlings grow up to have thoughts of their own. After all, can you imagine what kind of charred, dystopian hellscape you'd be inhabiting if your kids don't grow up to share every single political view you hold?
Oh come on. You know better than to actually expect them to acknowledge the real-life implications of what they say right?
I for one am outraged that you feel my tax dollars should be going to pay for your dumb kids' DVDs. If you want them to see DVDs go buy some like a real American.
It's not a joke. It's a coldblooded liberal attempt to subvert our children into joining Obama's bloodthirsty child-army. Get your story straight.
I can see how you're all bent outt've shape about them parodying Fox given that they didn't do a sendup of CNN at the same time.
Oh wait..
I'm 41, so like most people my age, I grew up on Sesame Street. But I don't have any kids of my own so I haven't watched it in years.
Good grief, not even kids' shows are free of this insanity?
That's why I hate labels like 'conservative' and 'liberal', even though I know they are necessary just so we can have something to call these groups in order to talk about them.
But the labels make it seem like these two worldviews are simply a matter of opinion and you can choose one or the other and be okay. They're not. One's based in fact. The other is based in lies. I'll leave it to you to distinguish which is which.
The irony is that here you are not only calling people names like a child would in a playground, but you dare call someone dumb when you cannot even punctuate a sentence.
Excuse me while I fall over laughing!
"You know better than to actually expect them to acknowledge the real-life implications of what they say right?"
Pot, meet kettle.
How it cracks me up that people such as yourself cannot even grasp how ridiculous you sound as you spout off your nonsense!
Maybe Super Grover?
You are the one who thinks a logged-in user can vote for himself. They can't. A logged-in user does automatically get a +1 vote for an article. If it goes up or down it's because someone else liked or disliked that comment and bothered to click one of the little icons.
Intense Debate is used by a number of blogs. Theoretically, you could setup a blog to pontificate about your mighty intellect and use Intense Debate to handle comments for your awesome postings of great wisdom.
Would be a moot point, though, since it's likely no one would bother to read it. That's why you're here.
You must've been crushed when your parents told you….
So funny that you get stuck to them simply using "POX News" but have nothing to say about them poking fun at the other news agencies and reporters. You, my compatriot, fail.
LOL! ah yes, as if we would take anything that leaks from that asshat's (Maddow) mouth as journalistic integrity.
Hmm a hard toss up between Grover and Gonzo… has then been any information released regarding Biden's preference for Chicken?
This clip is two years old. Why don't you find something relevant to discuss?
Much ado about nothing. Conservatives sure are sensitive these days, playing the victim and whining. Looking for enemies in Sesame Street? Give me a break. No wonder the Tea Baggers were unable to win the congressional seat in NY…
Um, you have got to be an effing idiot to be offended by this.
wooooooooooooow somebody's a little testy! PS All you people who want to throw stones and make comments like "Oba Mao" and so forth – wasn't it you who spent eight years screaming about how it was treason not to support the President? Maybe you should remember that now.
Instead of crying all the time about how OPPRESSED you are, maybe you ought to get off the Internet and go do something positive for the country.
Wow. Reactions like this are why the country is screwed.
Real conservatives are worried about the economy and our taxes and the 2 wars going on. Some of you people are as delusional as the left.
We need to build our country back up, not play tit for tat about a Children's program.
You don't like your tax dollars going to Grover? I don't like mine going to Iraq, which takes quite a bit more than PBS. Find a better argument-you'll always lose with this one.
OMG, heaven forbid you have to see Obama promote volunteering to kids. If it was Bush you would haven't a problem with it. Your such a hypocrite just like the rest of POX news. And for the record, Fox news is trashy. Get over it. My tax dollars go to things that I don't like so deal with it.
He's reporting for "GNN" the grouchy news network, which suggests that everyone on CNN is a grouch. In other words, this is harmless, in the same way the right-leaning commentary of Monday Night Football is harmless, and your griping about it only looks like whining an and conspiracy nonsense. Knee jerk partisanship is sinking this country into a stagnant suckhole. Both halves of political ideology are necessary for a healthy democracy.
Hello, for all you dimwits claiming this is Obama indoctrinating our kids through gov't media: THIS WAS FROM TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THE GOP CONTROLLED PBS! Get a grip people. You have to be seriously blinded by bias to only see the shot at "Pox News" and ignore the shot at "Grouchy News Network".
WOW, Just a tad defensive there aren't you? And that's understandable because FOX news is finally being called out for what it is – the cable arm of the right. Does a reputable news network consistently crop video of Democrats to twist what they are saying? Does a reputable news network PROMOTE tea parties while excusing the promotion as "Just following the story?" Does a reputable news network cover the gay/lesbian march on Washington the same way they cover the 9/12 march on Washington? Does a reputable news network have anchors that call the president a racist? (yes it was Glenn Beck who said it and he said it on the news program, not his program) Does a reputable news network promote stories about the President being a muslim and not a US citizen without doing the obvious fact checking that would refute the story? Do the math. FOX NEWS is not a reputable news program. BTW, your assumption is incorrect. If mom and dad are cable watchers then it is not accurate to say chances are 50/50 they watch FOX. Fox viewership is tiny – and there are many cable channels to choose from.
Let's not all get a lynch mob after good ole Oscar! It was the female monster thingy who trashed FOX "news". And we all know how women monsters are!
PBS IS FILLED WITH ACORN THUGS. WERE SURROWNDED BY LIBTARDS , SOCAILISTS, AND JAY-Zs. I DUNNO ABOUT YOU FRIENDOS BUT IM HUNKERIN DOWN WITH DUCT TAPE, PLAYDOH, SKOAL APPLE FLAVORRED DIP, BEER, MY GLEN BECK BOOKS, AND MY TRUSTY AR-15. *DIP*
People like you scare me. Jesus.
OMFG, do you have any idea what Bush did with your tax dollars? DO YOU?
WHY DONT THEY MAKE FUN OF GAY ASS MSNBC? WHY ? BECAUSE OSCAR IS BLACK , SO IS THE COUNT AND BIG BIRD IS GAY.. DEMRATS AND LIBRATS ARE ALWAYS INJECTING RACE AND GAYNESS INTO EVERYTHING INCLUDING MY GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO WATCH TV. JEFFERSON IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE RIGHT NOW AND REAGAN (GOD BLESS HIM ) TOO.
YOU"RE RIGHT! INDOCTRINATION!!!! IT'S A CIANT CONSPIRACY to get PUPPETS TO BRAINWASH OUR CHILDREN!! What the heck is wrong with our country. When are we going to stop whining and wasting time with trivial BS such as this. And by the way, for you to complain about having to watch "Obama's" volunteerism and service ads and to be repulsed makes you unpatriotic, unAmerican, and frankly somewhat stupid. That you have a forum for your drivel is a testament to our freedom. I'm glad you chose to embrace it, despite the fact that your invisible underwear is showing….
aND NOT GORGE JEFFERSON EITHER, ANOTHER RACIST.
[...] be no matter how much propaganda Democrats and media try to put out. The Democrats are even using Sesame Street to try and indoctrinate the nations children. See this ARTICLE and Video for yourself. The worst [...]
Grow up.
A) You don't have a right to TV that voices your opinion. Actually, you don't have a right to TV. Or internet.
B) It's a kids show, get over yourself
C) Your kids probably would do better if they stopped watching so much TV and you stopped "writing" and played with them
D) "service" and "volunteerism" are noble ideals to instill in children. I don't understand how charity has become political.
Funny … need to send in my donation to my public television station.
[...] be no matter how much propaganda Democrats and media try to put out. The Democrats are even using Sesame Street to try and indoctrinate the nations children. See this ARTICLE and Video for yourself. The worst [...]
Funny, considering in study after study, children who watch Sesame Street do better in school.
pretty funny when you get owned by a muppet…
Conservatives cannot take a joke, get a joke, or appreciate a joke – but they ARE a joke. EVERYONE with half a brain knows that Fox is not news. Even stuffed animals.
WAAHHHHHHHHHH THE PUPPETS ARE MAKING FUN OF MEEEEEEE MOMMY MOMMY WAAAHHHHH TELL ME HOW TO THINK I'M AFRAID OF THE FUZZY PUPPETS MOMMY THEY MAKE ME FEEL ALL TINGLY IN MY PANTS WAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.
No, i'm into your mom. She said to say hello.
Funny, that's what i said to your mom last night.
I ridicule and dismiss the lot of you. Seriously, every time a baby-boomer dies in this nation for the next 20 years, the nation will become an incrementally better place.
You've. Got. To. Be. Kidding.
My nose hurts from spitting out my coffee. If they are picking on Fox, why are the only talking heads they make fun of liberals? Even my eight-year-old niece can tell it's a parody, meant to be funny. Let's dig out and dust off our sense of humor, folks. This isn't partisan. We can have fun, disagree, and not turn everything into a food fight.
If our kids watch sesame street, how will we maintain our mediocre educational status with the rest of the civilized world? Someone has to be in the bottom 50%, and darnit, we're comfortable there.
What cracks me up is the inability of some folks to recognize satire.
right GOP nutjobs, you're all hot and bothered by a fucking sock muppet who you're afraid is indoctrinating children, yet you're cool with more mild topics like rape http://www.republicansforrape.org/
Republicans – anti muppet, pro rape!
DREW, NEVER MIND THESE GAY ASS LIBRATS , THEY'VE ALL BEEN ALREADY INDOCTRINATED BY MUPPETS (SOCIALIST), COSBY SHOW (RACIST), AND BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY (TREE HUGGIN , CLIMATE CONSIPRATOR LOON) , OH AND THE TELLATUBBIES (GAY!!!). MY KIDS ARE ALL HOMESCHOOLED , GO TO CHURCH, AND ONLY WATCH WAR MOVIES….THINGS RONALD REAGAN SHOULD HAD DONE WITH RON GAY ASS JR. BUT I DIGRESS
You people are idiots.
Did you just conclude your argument by stating that the Republicans have "cooler" people, and therefore, are better? Is this 3rd grade?
Oh, it must be – you're enraged over Sesame Street.
red states have the lowest educational levels, highest porn subscription levels, highest teenage pregnancy rate, highest divorce rate, highest incidence of child and domestic abuse. I know, you want links. I don't have time to provide you all the links (you'll just say they're "liberal fascist communist nazi" media, but this is a good start: http://killfile.newsvine.com/_news/2009/06/28/297...
/snark hahaha they don't get it
so who do you donate to? I donate about $200 a month to provide food, medical services, and other assistance to kids all over the world.
what's the problem? Fox is a pox on the news landscape.
I believe the figure you quoted should be 19%.
Um, Sesame Street ARE the Muppets!!! Duh!!!
Yes, teach your kids all about the fairy tell that is religion and Jebus…….teach them how religion spawns intolerance and hatred. Indoctrination…are you for real??? Yes, let's teach our children that volunteering and community service and helping others (which is the FOUNDATION of the christian religion) is bad for you…oh noooooooooo….idiot!
Is it any wonder the right, let alone Fox "news" isn't being taken seriously anymore.
It appears that the Church of the Perpetually Offended has increased its congregation.
REDNECK>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thin-skinned, cry baby.
Has it not occurred to you that some things on Sesame Street are aimed at adults just as much as kids? Do you really think your child is going to make a connection from Pox, Walter Cranky, and Dan Rather-Not? Come on. If your child does make that connection, then I'm willing to bet they are also old enough to ask you to explain more, in which case you can assert your "authority."
PS. Did it ever occur to you that parts of Fox News is trashy? Like psychotic Beck? If you enjoy the made-up fear-mongering and insult-throwing of Beck and his colleagues, including the Left's Olbermann, then maybe you need your own fact check.
ummm any of you wingnuts happen to remember when Sesame Street did a spoof on CNN with the GNN? Grouchy News Network..
bunch of paranoid freaks
ummm any of you wingnuts happen to remember when Sesame Street did a spoof on CNN with the GNN? Grouchy News Network..
From what I've read, Sesame Street makes fun of a lot of TV shows, including CNN. I don't understand what all the noise is about other than some people who want to be identified with a certain media outlet (for whatever reason) are a bit thin-skinned, to say the least. Man, what a bunch of titty-suck crybabies. And I thought the Left was bad enough, they got nuttin' on you guys.
You are an idiot
[...] Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site is not amused. The blogger Stage Right writes: “If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch ‘POX News.’ So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch ‘trashy’ news? The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of ‘Sesame Street’ without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority. And don’t tell me, ‘If you don’t like it change the channel.’ There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.” [...]
[...] throw around senseless statements without base of fact, or just continue an endless attack against Sesame Street awful Barack Obama and anything his Party stands [...]
Dude, did you know that Sesame Street makes fun of all sorts of TV shows? And did you also know that "the government" has nothing to do with the programming of PBS? However, without government support, many artists–conservative and religious ones, as well–would never have the opportunity to develop their skills or market their wares, something from which all of us can benefit.
That's not what Sean Hannity does? >.<
I''m a conservative, so please bear that in mind when I say this: You are a douche. Seriously. It's a joke, see? They didn't say that FOX News was trashy, they said that POX News was trashy. See, it's a play on words. Oscar's GNN is a play on CNN, and it's obviously trashy because Oscar's on it. It's a joke.
People like you are the reason that liberals hate conservatives. Waaah, they said something that could possibly be twisted to seem like a bad thing! (Well, only by a douche, of course.) Get over yourself.
You live in some weird 1950s fantasy America that doesn't (and shouldn't) exist anymore.
It's hard to get a story straight with someone who enjoys hyperbole and exaggeration. Coldblooded? Bloodthirsty?
Let me see if I can do the same…
The last 8 years gave most Americans (that is, the vast majority of Americans) blood in their stool.
Hey, it was easy!
And I was always told that we liberals whined a lot! Listen, instead of bitching and moaning about how Sesame Street is sabotaging your attempts to indoctrinate your kids, why don't you just let your children make up their minds for themselves once they're old enough? Are you conservatives so intellectually bankrupt that the only way for you to perpetuate your party's existence is by pumping your ideology in to the minds of vulnerable kids? Come on now, if your beliefs are able to stand on their own, any intelligent teenager will accept those beliefs on their own (and not merely because Big Bird told them to when they were younger). And if they can't stand on their own, well, I guess it's a good thing that your beliefs die off anyway.
And you were right. You don't know very much. With so many more serious things in our lives to demand change from what we have now, this is ludicrous. Act like the adult you are supposed to be and leave this silliness about a 2-year old parody on Sesame Street to the CHILDREN.
Big words do not make your comments more factual. The fact is that 5 of 9 board members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are republicans nominated by President Bush. And if you think there should be more representation, then ask Ken Tomlinson…oh wait, he resigned and is being investigated for improper financial dealings. Oh, and could please document or provide sources regarding these PBS employees who are making "tons of money". I really would love to know.
All ye who watch Sesame Street prepare to abandon thy faith. Stone your children to death for witnessing their blasphemy. Pluck out your eyes for having seen such anathema. Mine eyes have seen the coming of the Lord and it's not a pleasant sight. He's pissed because someone called Him a RINO. You know, for saying librul stuff like "…meek inherit the Earth." Uh oh – Look up! It's the Rapture! Gotta go…….
Conservatism/Republicanism is mental disorder.
Hoffman == FAIL
I love the right wingers lamenting sesame streets turn to communism.
News flash wingnuts. When you were little wingnuts back in the 70s, other wingnuts were already saying sesame street was full of commies.
You people are so stupid.
Typical right-wing, over the top, freak-out. Hurry, run out and get some duct tape and tin foil to tape up your windows and protect yourself from the liberal radio waves! lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol !!!!!!!
I should dumb down my normal vocabulary because YOU are an idiot?
Bill Moyers makes tons and tons of money, for one. So does Ken Russell. Neither would be making some of that, if not for PBS and my tax dollars.
I don't care WHO ( which party affiliation ) is on PBS's board; there's no reason fcor it to be funded with our tax dollars. The same thing is true of NPR.
Hey, dummy, you were part of a socialist group… the military. How much more socialist can you be. You're all treated equal, you're all given government healthcare (the best America can offer, according to Bill Kristol), you get government money, you are run by the government… the government owned you… you, my good sir, are a socialist… and by choice. I'm sure you loved it. And if you think Fox News a reliable news source, then by god, you must believe the same of The Daily Show. They both make people laugh.
Considering Oscar lives in a garbage can and was reporting for the Grouchy News Network (GNN) . . .
pox
/pɒks/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [poks] Show IPA
–noun Pathology.
1. a disease characterized by multiple skin pustules, as smallpox.
2. syphilis.
3. Also called soil rot. Plant Pathology. a disease of sweet potatoes, characterized by numerous pitlike lesions on the roots, caused by a fungus, Streptomyces ipomoea.
4. (used interjectionally to express distaste, rejection, aversion, etc.): A pox on you and your bright ideas!
I guess this is why you watch Sesame St.?
Hey at least they didn't use a "C", instead.
Yeah, they could even include the gay teletubbie. It would make for great scandal!
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As opposed to the \”reality\” of Sesame Street? Lighten up, Frances, and go share a cookie with the Cookie Monster. Or has reality bitten and he is now the Tofu Monster? In any event,today's letter is ZZZzzzzzzzz……
holy shit. this is a new level of crazy. I"M SO ANGRY
[...] Right” at Big Hollywood, in the midst of a post complaining about Sesame Street (really), gives us this gem: don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the [...]
Um…people? From Oscar the Grouch's viewpoint, "trashy" is a very GOOD thing.
And besides, even if it was taken literally, the average age of kids watching Sesame Street is what…three? Somehow, I don't think you're going to have a bunch of preschoolers hearing that and deciding that they're no longer going to spend their evenings watching Fox News.
I think you're reading a little too much into this clip. Oscar the Grouch is a news caster for Grouch News Network ( and he's cheaply trying to drum up ratings), who can his rival be but some parody of Fox? I do sometimes agree the media has a liberal bias, but you're reaching here. Picking on Sesame Street is just sad.
Um…people? From Oscar the Grouch's viewpoint, "trashy" is a very GOOD thing.
Besides, the average age of a viewer of Sesame Street is what…three? I somehow doubt they'd see that clip and decide that they will no longer watch Fox News.
Let me try to explain this since you clearly have never seen Sesame Street before. Oscar is a grouch, who spends a lot of time in trash cans. His viewers on Grouchy Network News are as surly as he usually is. Puns involving Oscar usually refer to trash, grouchiness and other bad things. "Fox News" therefore becomes "Pox News", like CNN becomes GNN. Johnny Cash becomes Johnny Trash, and so on. No left wing conspiracy or administration plot. Just puns involving trash and bad stuff. Got it? Glad I could clear that up for you.
[...] of today’s issue, a writer on Andrew Breitbart’s conservative Big Hollywood site is irate that Sesame Street would go down this [...]
The truth shall set you free.
[...] over a two year old episode of Sesame Street which was re-broadcast last week. Here’s how Big Hollywood tells the sorry tale. Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News: Oscar the [...]
Remember when it was un-'merican to criticize the President in a time of war?
What an f'ing baby. If Jeff Gannon gives you a hug the next time you hook up, the way your daddy never hugged you, would you please get over your perceived slight by Sesame street? What kind of infantile 40 year old (I'm assuming you're over 40) sits around watching Sesame Street and then blogs about the grand Sesame Street conspiracy. I know you're employed but honestly, get a real job. And you wonder why you were beat up in school…
It's too bad that parents who claim to espouse good wholesome conservative values can't be more discerning in what they allow their own children to view. I wonder how much long term damage exposure to media such as FOX News and The Rush Limbaugh Show do to children. I guess that it's not much of a concern if you're intent on raising a generation of hate-mongering hypocrites. It seems to me that any political parodies on Sesame Street pale in comparison …especially since they’re probably beyond the understanding of kids in that age group anyway.
I can't decide if I find this more sad or stupid. One of these days you'll open the funny pages & find Beetle Bailey insufficiently respectful of the troops. Are death threats against Oscar the Grouch soon to follow?
OLD cartoons obviously don't help you or your kids spell anything very well.
Perhaps if you're unhappy about the way your political affiliations are represented in The Media, you should stop and ask yourself "Why?" Is it because The Media brainwashed people into feeling a certain way? Or is The Media just a representation of how the majority feels?
The fact is (Public Broadcasting and Sesame Street aside), The Media is run by advertising dollars. If people don't like what they're seeing, they tune out. The Media is a representation of the masses. That doesn't mean either side is right or wrong, because the masses are SO often wrong. We're talking about the same society that made Eminem and Lil Wayne famous. So I'm not saying the Left is right because they are representing how the majority feels… that would be like saying Lil Wayne is a brilliant artist because he's popular.
Our society seems to be voting Democrat these days, and though one could argue that "The Big Bad Media " made all the sheeple follow the Left, I see it as the other way around… The Media being a reflection of that.
The point I'm getting to is that perhaps the Right needs a new PR strategy. See, The Media loves the "hip, cool kids", and if the Right isn't being represented by The Media it's probably because you're NOT "hip" OR "cool".
The fact is, the Right is seen as a bunch of stuffy, old white men who are stuck in a time long forgotten, and though you'll obviously get your fair share of Conservatives commenting that you're right on the money in making a big stink about a silly little parody bit a puppet made about a news network on a children's TV show, most people will roll their eyes and say "here we go again".
Finally, if you want your kids to grow up with your beliefs, do you think taking yourself so seriously and throwing a hissy fit over something a puppet says on TV will win them over? It's all about image, and rants like this aren't helping yours. Call me sheeple, tell me I've "swallowed the kool-aide", but then take a second and think about what I've said. It might actually help your cause.
Liberalism is truth… Fox News and Conservatism is a joke. The only thing that keeps that party alive is their ability to seduce those people "you can fool all the time" -Lincoln. Republicans are good and keeping those fool to vote against their own interests.
THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE HERE , LIBRATS. ITS LIKE MAGIC, WE JUST SIT BACK AND LET THE POEPLE VOTE FOR US EVEN THOUGH REPUBLICANS HAVENT DONE SQUAT IN YEARS ..EXCEPT WHINE AND SAY NO. THATS RIGHT , I SAID IT. WE'RE OBSTRUCTIONIST AMERICA-HATERS. LETS BE TRUTHFUL AND MAKE THIS COUNTRY FAIL!!
He's right… if you think Fox News is legitimate you're an imbecile. Only truth survives in the end and I can't wait to see the complete death of conservatism and all the ugly racism and hatred is spreads.
hahaha conservatives are such children. A bloo bloo bloo some childrens show made fun of us PERSECUTION COMPLEX.
Owned by Oscar you right wing hacks… liberals will always be the innovators, the dreamers, the creative ones, the ones who push the nation, the world and humanity forward. I wish they'd allow Republicans to pay no taxes so long as they would just go away and stop dragging the world down with them.
Everyone knows that Fox News is a bullshit-show. You don´t have to be left wing to realize that. So, I guess, your children should be worried if your watching it. Hopefully someone in the family can steer it back on track. Read The Wall Street Journal instead or something.
Oh, my freaking god, you are so HI-LAR-IOUS!
It's a freaking puppet, and the script writers had to "parody of CNN and guest star Anderson Cooper in and keep Mom and Dad watching so the kids want to watch too." That means the scriptwriters needed to be a little gentle with Anderson Cooper, yet still keep it revelant and funny. That is what Sesame Street is about you idiot. A little wink at Mom and Dad, and funny puppets acting outrageously.
Goddess love a tortured avatar on a fracking cracker, if this is the level of discourse you all whine about, you deserve to be marginalized by a more educated people, which the young ones coming up will be thanks to Sesame Street.
C'mon. They came up with "Pox News" because Oscar already had a trashy network, "GNN." The only parallel is that people who don't like CNN often watch Fox. This isn't PBS trying to claim that Fox is somehow worse. "Trashy" is a compliment when dealing with Grouches. Remember Oscar's theme son? "I Love Trash."
Is this really the best you can do? Perhaps getting a life is in order.
If Sesamae Street is liberal, then HOO-RAY for all of us who have watched it. I'm proud I'm not a bitter, racist, homophobic, snobby, poor-hating, ignorant, nationalist, capitalist-flunky, conservative windbag-lapping, dishonest moron. Thats what you and your ilk are and you and your "ideas" are ruining America. You have absolutely no understanding of what America is nor what its "execptionalism" means. Ignorant, trogloditic, bitter fools. Go back into your caves and let the rest of us serious, sober, intelligent, loving people worry about the problems of the world and work to solve them rather than stick our heads in the sand and whine about how nobody likes us. You're right, we don't….because you fail at trying to like anyone but your narrow-minded, fearful selves.
Yes, much better to poison the children with conservative propoganda — they won't have to think as much.
[...] than that. As The Huffington Post reports, the pseudonymous blogger Stage Right of the Web site Big Hollywood took offense at a recent “Sesame Street” segment featuring Oscar the Grouch. In the [...]
[...] than that. As The Huffington Post reports, the pseudonymous blogger Stage Right of the Web site Big Hollywood took offense at a recent “Sesame Street” segment featuring Oscar the Grouch. In the [...]
[...] than that. As The Huffington Post reports, the pseudonymous blogger Stage Right of the Web site Big Hollywood took offense at a recent “Sesame Street” segment featuring Oscar the Grouch. In the [...]
Uh CNN got parodied in the same "trashy" light… why is no one defending them? "MessyNBC" and an massive amount of parodies would have been overkill on the joke. Besides Oscar LIKES trashy things so it wasn't even an insult! I'm surprised no one is pointing out that Fox is supposed to be "Fair & Balanced" but are acting like this parody of Fox is an attack on conservatism… so is Fox biased for conservatives or fair & balanced?
[...] where Fox News is referred to, as “Pox News” and a “trashy news show,” is a plot by the left “to undermine my [parental] [...]
[...] Conservative blogger "Stage Right" at entertainment-news site Big Hollywood took the occasion to rant about a two-year-old episode of Sesame Street that included a reference to the fictional news network "Pox News." (h/t [...]
My God the culture war is hilarious. Just fantastic.
good lord — take an aspirin and get over it!
You are an idiot. Plain and simple. Stop making mountains out of molehills.
Sesame has always been "liberal". After all, it was started in an effort to educate inner city low income preschoolers. It tackled racial and class integrations, non-nuclear families, and inter-racial marriages before many shows would even dare.
But really, I think you're being "bitter, pompous and desperate" because you have no problem with the parody itself and the fun they poke at other networks and journalists, only the fact that Fox was included but yet not included "enough" for your liking. Make up your mind you big baby.
Service and volunteerism. Oh my. Now there's a couple of anti-conservative values.
Boo hoo – Fox gets what it deserves. Its a station owened by Mordocuh who is happy to see the US and Barak fail, just like the terrorists. Democracy in America works only when there is an informed populace. Fox's ideological partisan attempts to present news as opinion –botching it– deserves to undermine your puny little "authority" since even children can see that when Fox opens its mouth against our democratically elected President 24/7 all that comes out is nasty hot air. So go suck a fox's teat some more, Hollywood doesn't need your whining. You'll never work in this town again, hopefully, after taking the wrong side of the issue and complaining about a puppet! Asshat.
<<There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.>>
Oh the horror of it all!
"Bill Moyers makes tons and tons of money, for one. So does Ken Russell."
Again, documentation? Sources? You've got none. And if Bill Moyer makes "tons of money" it's likely from speaking engagements, not from his employment at PBS.
As for the funding with our tax dollars, that's the point of PUBLIC broadcasting. If you don't want it funded at all, that's fine. Tell your congressperson. But don't accuse it of being a liberal media outlet when it's clearly run by both left and right leaning politicians.
And your vocabulary isn't the problem, it's the strained and contrived manner in which you use it that is.
And what publicly funded kids show spread that message? Talk about thin skin, there were a few guys on the right that said that, and a few of us on the right which opposed that message–including the object of hatred, George W. Bush. So it was never "unamerican" to criticize the President in time of war. You just can't deal with the fact that some people out there thought that. That's why you're going to try to change everybody's thoughts, eventually. But there was never a consensus that it was unamerican to criticize the President in time of war. So I can't remember it.
Oh as a post script, I can remember a discussion in a NFL forum, where one lib was going to town on that subject, how they weren't allowed to criticize the president. I pointed out that there were like 3 people agreeing with him, who all got to state their piece–practically everyday. And about 7 disagreeing with him, only one guy was calling him "un-American" in the discussion. I asked him WHAT–WHAT criticism has he been wanting to say, but is afraid of the cops busting down his door? And then he got on me about being unhinged–when it's common in a NFL forum to assert someone is crazy anytime you want a guy to start that they don't want to start–or even think they are a better player than they do. So after pointing out, link by link, that he had no grounds to say what he did, he reverted to standard NFL-argument form, and claimed victory after not being able to establish his claim.
That's one of the reasons, I don't remember "when", because I was arguing with people claiming to be repressed by disagreement and opinion. Which is again, why it is not that hard to believe that you people who can't take opposition, will eventually label everything you don't like "hate speech" and get our kids on board before you do.
this was 2 years ago people. get a grip. sheesh
Are you morons for real? I think your stupidity might be the only real thing here. Fox News is fake, Pox News is fake, the muppet saying it is fake. The purple teletubby? Definitely gay, tho. You conservitards nailed that one. I'm glad to see you're focused on what's important.
Glad to see your kiddies will be missing out on some prime educational TV that Sesame Street provides. You are raising fine Republicans who will avoid an opposing view (even when it comes from a muppet?) nicely.
Are you REALLY saying Sesame Street has a liberal bias? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
This show was brought to you by the letter A.
Yes, I see it now. Totally liberal!
Right, you go on following the muppet. The muppet knows. It will tell you what to do.
I'll put my non-Sesame Street kid up against your Sesame Street kid ANYDAY.
Hell, I'll put him up against you.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Well, I have a college degree, don't have a single porn subscription, my son is not pregnant, I am still married and have never beat my child.
Your data comes from the Times and is highly suspect, except for the teen pregnancy. That I know about thanks to all the hispanics in AZ that can't keep their legs closed. Not my fault.
Iran-Contra was a "media driven non-affair?" Since when does selling weapons to a country who holds weekly "death to America" rallies in order to finance a bunch of criminal drug lords guerilla warfare count as a non affair? And how does Col Oliver North orchestrating the whole thing under the auspices of the White House make it media driven?
Rock on. "My authority" undermined by a hand puppet. What a putz.
LMAO! I've never been to this blog before, but it's too funny! I mean, who gets their undies in a bunch over a puppet show? Especially, a rerun of a puppet show. It's a parody, people. You might want to invest in a sense of humor.
And, Fox News isn't a news channel…it's entertainment media. You just get a bunch of good looking people to dress up like newscasters, sit on a set that looks like a news set and call yourself a "news channel", then add lemmings. My challenge to anyone is to watch the Fox "news" programs with the volume off. Check out the eye rolls, facial guffaws and all of the body language that communicate opinion. There's nothing wrong with a network that has a slanted view of things, but be straight about it and take your licks when called on it.
I write the way I talk; there's nothing "strained" nor "contrived" about it! I've been talking like this since I started talking. Okay, so it must have been a bit strange for some ( outside of family and friends, who also had very large vocabularies and used them ) to hear a three year old correctly use words such as "paradox" and "obdurate", but that was their problem; same for you.
Moyers has made a lot of money due to his shoes on PBS; look it up. I didn't make it up. He sells books that dovetail his shows.
Everyone has known for many decades that PBS is a lefty leaning station; as is NPR, on the radio. Good grief…………………are you that blind and ignorant ?
SHUUUUUUT! UUUUP!!
You gotdamn right wing morons getting uppity about a quick joke on Sesame Street that your braindead, future conservo-jack offs won't even get! Cripes, you clowns always mock the left for being so sensitive but like at this! Kindly de-sand your manginas and learn to laugh at yourselves; take it from me, it's a lot of fun (laughing at y'all, that is).
You people make me cry for my country. It's a kiddie show that parodies everyone and anything! Kids get the morales but aren't going to be able what you think is a hidden liberal agenda. Relax! I don't associate myself with a particular party as my beliefs are all over the political spectrum. I watched Sesame Street growing up and I am far from a liberal or conservative basher. Do what I do with my kids. Watch TV with them if you feel the need to turn it on for them. Don't let the TV become the babysitter, but use it as a chance to talk and interact with them and teach them about what's going on. All I'm hearing here is bad parents complaining about how Sesame Street is raising their children.
Such a good observation for a grown man, your Mommy let you be a big boy and watch TV huh? What did she pack for lunch for you today? Do you still wear footies to bed and sleep on Superman sheets?
You ponces can't handle a little satire, but cheered bravely when Fox stood behind the President and his Phony War. If you can't stand the heat, then please leave.
You are an idiot. How about tv show only right views, or make everything neutral, and then you get to pick. How about all the shows have no opinion and be neutrally bland? if you're so afraid of your kids getting brainwashed, spend more time teaching and explaning it to them and why you think its wrong and why you think your kid should think exactly as you do and stop complaining. While we're at it, I guess you should expect tv to raise your kid for you exactly the way you want too, and maybe feed them as well. Had I saw that part as a kid, there would be an astronomically small chance that I would have become inclined to think negatively of Fox news because of it. Im more glad that they are able to sneak in things that older people can watch and have opinions for or against while their kids are enjoying furry stuffed animals and songs. If anything you should be happy that if there was a leftist movement, that is is so blatantly ovbious so you can point it out to your child and steer them away from it than it being so subtle and sneaking up on them.
How many of you think that the 6 year olds who watched this show figured out that it was about CNN and Fox News? I sincerely hope that you realize this is nothing more than a kids show, and that any adult jokes they make will go over about 99% of the children's heads.
We're the left and we're coming for your childrens!! Booga booga!!!
Yes. Boo volunteering and helping one another and all the other crap that the bible says we should do.
Well you're not suppose to watch when you are 16. SS is meant for preschoolers.
You're obviously the product of cousins….
Bush ,unlike Obama, has been busted for pot and coke so if this "joke" should have any 1st lady in it, it should be Laura.
The government only supplies a small percentage of PBSs annual budget. Thats why they "beg for money". Maybe you should know what you are talking about before you speak. Dummy.
I'm sure you're not aware of any of the "liberal" aspects of the Disney company, like funding healthcare benefits for same-sex couples employed by them. Nope. They're much more wholesome than PBS. Which I am watching right now, by the way. Not too much liberalism in "Nature."
Also, not much bias in the "fact finding" argument here, either. Not that Fox wrongly stated Florida went for George W. in 2000 or some such thing. Not that they cite their own journalistic integrity by listing off random conservative think-tank surveys… during their prime time news coverage. Nope. They sure are fair and balanced.
Then my wife has to trump me. "Why do you even bother?" she asks. Good question. Carry on with your conversation, blind men. Carry on.
Sure! Those blackface cartoons sure were funny! Or the one where Bugs Bunny becomes a trannie! CLASSIC! Wholesome family fun? Maybe not. Funny? Eh… MOST of the time.
everyone at fox news needs to get swine flu and die
i know right, wow ima make a great parent. ima say watch watcha want, be gay if ya want, hate all republicans cuz their evil. yupyup. all yall rightys can eat my shiz kay.
peace love music an weed yall
Sure! It could feature a weekly segment from Grandpappy O'Reilly reminding them that free thought is reserved for adults and that Constitutional rights don't apply until you're of voting age. (It was in his book. I read it, too.) Or perhaps children could play in the magical world of the Shady Beck Glenn. (Get it? Its a play on words, you know… My wife doesn't think that one is very funny. And yes, she is liberal.) In Shady Beck Glenn, children laugh and play carelessly while beating evil Liberalmonsters with sticks. And the trees can have ads on them! That would increase profits by 20 percent without cutting into preciously overbooked commercial segments. After that, Mother Palin can teach the children what Death Panels look like, and to whom they should be reported when they're spotted.
Seriously… Children have their whole lives to learn about what it means to be American, patriotic, liberal and/or conservative, or whatever. It doesn't take much time to figure that out. What DOES take a full lifetime is learning. And if you forgo PBS for some other source of television, you could very well be cutting your child off from the one REAL outlet on TV that actually makes REAL learning at least a little bit more fun. Basics like vocabulary and languages, math, and science are not nearly as common on other channles as they are on PBS. And the reason for that is simply because there is no business model for learning on a large scale.
Which is why you will NEVER see an honestly educational television program on ad-supported television. And which is exactly why "government supported" television must continue. Because, so long as parents insist on setting their child in front of the TV, at least they have one decent option. (And no, its not Fox.)
LMAO..I mean..really? Okay I'm sorry..but how pathetic can you get? First..It's a compliment to say that "Pox" news is trashy.Why? Ask yourself–what do grouches in Sesame Street love?! TRASH..LOL I mean, COME ON. To a grouch trashy is great! They'd rather watch it..that's all it is. It wouldn't have even sounded right if the lady grouch said "oh huggin and kissing, im watching pox..they're show is nice and clean".
Thank you for the laugh though!
"This just in… Fox News is the most balanced source of news on cable television. A survey conducted by Fox News but funded from outside conservative organizations says that Fox viewers are more informed, more educated, and more balanced."
Just like their coverage? I don't know if that was childrens show material, but it sure sounded like a good joke to me.
Angela, or may I call you douche, SO WHAT!!! Take every F'ing dime from them!!! Pinhead.
We have a vhs tape of a Sesame Street show and it has two construction workers…I think one is named Sully. A TV set breaks and they are too dim to fix it. At the very end of the tape the one says (barely audible), "I'm a Republican".
If any of you have that tape, check it out.
So like all our little trolls on this site to accuse anyone of not thinking. Do you ever make an intellectual argument or do you always go about spewing your hatred without thought or reason? Try debating in a proper way on this site and you might actually enjoy some intellectual conversation. Perhaps you are the one who doesn't like to think.
You've got to be kidding me. I don't have time to read all of these, but this whole thing has been completely blown out of proportion. I have a 3 year old and she doesn't know anything about Fox or CNN. I hope all of you who are complaining don't have your preschoolers watching the news either!
Conservatives are so sensitive. You're complaining about Oscar the Grouch now?
But it's especially strange to complain about this episode. Grouch has trashy news- he lives in a trash can, get it? But Grungetta says she prefers Pox News because it is trashier. She supports the right wing Pox! She says it is better than GNN! She"s a republican people! And now the right wingers want to complain like a 5 year old getting teased on the playground- again.
It is funny that people will complain about something so stupid, but they will let there kids watch all the movies that have people killing each other with all the bloody and brains falling out of there body.
Sesame street is a very good cartoon, I think people or just looking for a way to get money or get all the good shows off the TV.
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Because no other network reports news anymore.
The one that's getting picked on obviously does.
Repeat after me, I'm guest and I'm a douche.
Did your TV only get one channel? Oh. maybe you're 14 and never knew there was other cartoons. I bet you never were told that cartoons by Warner Brothers were NEVER intended for CHILDREN!!!
There was a shooting in Topeka, KS a week or so ago and a letter was written complaining of people bringing their kids out to look at the body!
Do you think that might do something to the kids?
Ooooo….. We ain't scare of no ghosts OR spooks!!!!!
Ladies first!!!!
Oh dear. Clutch your pearls & head for the fainting couch!
Wow. Ok, here's a message: GROW UP! This post is probably the most idiotic, childish bit of whinery I have ever witnessed in my life, especially in light of the fact that the sketch you are complaining about is two years old. Wow . . . no complaints while your guy was president, but now that he's not you'll fly off the handle if a joke is made at your expense? That is just pathetic, childlike behavior. And what's the joke – "trashy"? Wow . . . a pun based on the fact that Oscar the Grouch lives in a garbage can . . . yep, six year olds will really see far beyond that one. You have the emotional maturity of this show's target audience. If there's an anti-conservative bias currently spreading through the nation it is because of people like you who will focus on insignificant things like this while ignoring the real issues. Grow up and get a life; this is the dumbest thing I've heard of yet.
my kid watches nothing but golden age looney tunes dvds. when smoking, drunk birds, dropping heavy shit on peoples heads, and shooting people in the face was funny.
Ok first off I want to list everyone that I have so far that has achieved Complete Idiot Status: Number 1. and most prominently Stage Right the original blogger of this catastrophe. You are an idiot sir or ma'am because you criticizing a children'ds TV show of pushing a political agenda. Which they probably are sorry its a fact of life. Get over it. BUT…..Think about the audience of the show for one second you idiotic fanatical bag of rocks. KIDS! CHILDREN! When I watched Sesame Street I wanted to see Count count to 8 or Cookie Monster to eat some cookies. Or Bert and Ernie to read me a story. Big Bird and Elmo to teach me the ABC's. I didn't know what a conservative or a liberal was!! I didn't know left hand or right hand political views!! I was 6 YEARS OLD YOU IDIOT!! Are you joking me??
Number 2. PLF5403 I will refer you to the above statement. The show is for kids. Somehow I don't see how being a kid in 1960 or 2009 (I'm talking <10 years old here I will admit adolescents and teenagers much different nowadays but not a child) has become that much different. If your kids are only old enough to be watching a cartoons and Sesame Street I highly doubt they're gonna ask you mommy? daddy? why is Cookie Monster a left wing pro-Big Government supporter? Are you joking me? Do you eally think that will happen? They're 6 or 7 YEARS OLD!! Come on you idiot!
Number 3. MerNJ— What? Are you serious? Ok first off let me ask this…how old is your daughter? You actually sit there and explain a cartoon when it becomes left leaning in your opinion? Are you serious? Are you dumb? Are you insane? The kid is trying to watch a cartoon!!!! My dad didn't have to explain Thundercats to me. He didn't explain why cats dressed up and flew a jet in SWAT KATS!! You sound like a fanatic! Controlling your daughter's TV viewing is one thing but taking it as an opportunity to fanatically manipulate your daughter and push your views on her sounds like something they do in China or something. My way or its wrong. Nice viewpoint on the world MerNJ. Take Corby's advice and let your daughter decide HER OWN political views you crazy fanatic!
Number 4. The dynamic duo of Waldo the Bureaucrat and ToddM crying to get PBS's funding removed. Ummm I can't say much for you beyond……..you're idiots. I don't care about your political views or PBS's political views. This all started over an innocent poke at Fox News by a kids TV Show. You don't seem to be crying about wanting Comedy Central to be shut down because they broadcast prehaps the most politically incorrect television show in the history of mankind South Park. One of my personal favorite shows I might add because they don't hold anything back. They make fun of nearly EVERY race, religion, politician, and celebrity on there. Why don't we keep going, I seem to remember some racially directed remarks toward Hispanic people in Bad Boys 2. Maybe we should prevent Jerry Bruckheimer from making more movies. Or maybe prevent Columbia Pictures from making movies. Why don't we look through everything in our society that's politically, religiously, or discriminatory and remove it. How about Carlos Mencia? He makes racially oriented jokes about his own race. I bet he has an agenda……… You people all need to chill out!!!!
Please see page 15 for my full blog on this topic PLF but here's my message for you: Number 2. PLF5403 I will refer you to the above statement. The show is for kids. Somehow I don't see how being a kid in 1960 or 2009 (I'm talking <10 years old here I will admit adolescents and teenagers much different nowadays but not a child) has become that much different. If your kids are only old enough to be watching a cartoons and Sesame Street I highly doubt they're gonna ask you mommy? daddy? why is Cookie Monster a left wing pro-Big Government supporter? Are you joking me? Do you really think that will happen? They're 6 or 7 YEARS OLD!! Come on you idiot!
Please see page 15 for my full blog on this topic MerNJ but here's my message for you: Number 3. MerNJ— What? Are you serious? Ok first off let me ask this…how old is your daughter? You actually sit there and explain a cartoon when it becomes left leaning in your opinion? Are you serious? Are you dumb? Are you insane? The kid is trying to watch a cartoon!!!! My dad didn't have to explain Thundercats to me. He didn't explain why cats dressed up and flew a jet in SWAT KATS!! You sound like a fanatic! Controlling your daughter's TV viewing is one thing but taking it as an opportunity to fanatically manipulate your daughter and push your views on her sounds like something they do in China or something. My way or its wrong. Nice viewpoint on the world MerNJ. Take Corby's advice and let your daughter decide HER OWN political views you crazy fanatic!
Please see page 15 for my full blog Waldo but here's my message for you: Number 4. The dynamic duo of Waldo the Bureaucrat and ToddM crying to get PBS's funding removed. Ummm I can't say much for you beyond……..you're idiots. I don't care about your political views or PBS's political views. This all started over an innocent poke at Fox News by a kids TV Show. You don't seem to be crying about wanting Comedy Central to be shut down because they broadcast prehaps the most politically incorrect television show in the history of mankind South Park shall I keep going……..?
Please see page 15 for my full blog ToddM but here's my message for you: Number 4. The dynamic duo of Waldo the Bureaucrat and ToddM crying to get PBS's funding removed. Ummm I can't say much for you beyond……..you're idiots. I don't care about your political views or PBS's political views. This all started over an innocent poke at Fox News by a kids TV Show. You don't seem to be crying about wanting Comedy Central to be shut down because they broadcast prehaps the most politically incorrect television show in the history of mankind South Park shall I keep going……..?
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A new level of paranoid hypocricy emerges as the right wing bozos demonstrate once again that they can dish it out, but cannot under any circumstances take it. I'll wager that these same nitwits have no problem allowing their oh so impressionable brats listen to Rush the Gasbag and Glen the Crybaby on the F(ear) O(bfuscation) X(enophobia) Network. Irony is one of the many things that escape these ………….well, let's not go there
Hey FInny! No one says to shut them down moron. We're saying DON'T USE MY MONEY to keep them afloat. South Park is on the air because voluntary advertisers are purchasing time for their commercials. Not using TAX dollars to support them. No wonder liberals are terrible at business. You can't even get that simple concept. Next time, read what people are saying. No one's saying shut down Sesame Street. Just quit using tax dollars. If people want them on the air, they can do the same and voluntarily keep it running. Like a national public access.
People grow up!!! Find something to do, it is pathetic that you actually have the time to sit around and wathc a "children's show" and then criticize!
If your kids picked up on the slight to FOX News and are now questioning your choice of political news source, then they are WAY too old for you to be "sitting them down" in front of Sesame Street.
Seriously, Stage Whiner – grow up. This is a KID'S SHOW. It was simply satirizing the name (not to mention CNN was made fun of as well) and you take this as a direct affront to the news channel and start spewing this trash? Ladies and gentlemen – welcome to a new level of stupidity. It's called the FIRST AMENDMENT. Free speech. Ever heard of it? You know what – I don't even know why I wasted two minutes of my life posting this. I'm just going to start ignoring everything that comes out of the mouths of these people. If anyone has any sense, they'll do the same.
Wow Yeah you go Brenda! Ram your beliefs right down your kids throats. That'll teach them! Are you insane Brenda? Seriously? Yeah I'm sure when your kids get to be teenagers they won't rebel against your idiocies and stuffing your beliefs down their throats, or your fanatical prison-style control system! Yeah censor what your kids watch and they'll definitely love you more! Brenda I'm not saying be a crappy parent and just let them watch whatever they want on TV. I believe parents NEED to keep an eye on their kids, but COME ON Brenda do you REALLY think if you let your kids watch Sesame Street that tomorrow you three year child will come to you and ask "Mommy? Why does Cookie Monster a pro-Big Government left wing supported of gay rights?" HE'S THREE YEARS OLD! Come on! Get over yourself and think! THINK!
I'm with johnbob. People please are you all insane! Mom4no_hate I SERIOUSLY doubt that if you were not an adult that you would see the left wingisms in the PBS shows! The kids are 6 YEARS OLD! They want to laugh and play and see Big Bird and Elmo! And Cookie Monster! I loved Cookie Monster! I just laughed at him. I didn't ask my mom or dad "Mom? Dad? Why does Cookie Monster a pro-Big Government left wing supporter of gay rights?" I was 6. Here's a new topic to blog on what possesses a 14 year old boy to kidnap, sodomize, and MURDER A 4 YEAR OLD BOY! Or what possesses 10 people to gang rape a 15 year old girl and what possesses 10 HUMAN BEINGS to WATCH this heinous act and NOT call the police, or why 5 teens felt they had to douse another teen in rubbing alcohol and light him on fire nearly killing him? I don't know! But I HIGHLY doubt it was too much Sesame Street re-runs. Think people…think.
Ok, follow me on this one:
The caller is clearly a grouch-type like Oscar who lives in a trash can. She is upset because Oscar's news network is showing kissing. She says she is switching to Pox News, which is a trashy news network. For a grouch who lives in a trash can, wouldn't something being trashy be a good thing?
I'm not going to argue that Sesame Street has a liberal bent. They do. I just don't think this incident is quite as blatant as you would think.
My children have plenty of thoughts on their own. That's the way I intend to keep it. Thoughts on THEIR OWN, not garbage from some overpaid actors that are all mouth. Sitting them in front of a TV for hours is brainwashing. I know most parents would rather do their own thing and have the TV baby sit their children but I choose to be a part of my childrens lives.
Yes children want to laugh and play. Ask your child if they would rather go outside and do something with you or sit in front of a TV. Nothing wrong with the cookie monster, cute fellow but it's sitting children in front of the TV all the time that hurts. My children love Vegi Tales and it teaches them morals in a cartoon. They watch their fair share of children shows but not all day long.
As a matter of fact we did. The congress helped him spend it.
Palin/Bachmann 2012!
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You guys in the US need to lighten up, the programme is for children who will not understand the parody!! That was aimed at so called "grown ups" but it seems a lot of you so called "grown ups" need to start watching pre, pre school shows!!
Here's a suggestion: Stop letting the television raise your children. If you really think your child is being brainwashed by leftist propaganda, turn off the TV (both Sesame Street) and speak with or play with the child yourselves. It's your responsibility to teach your child. Maybe you aren't ready for that yet, but sooner or later your children are going to realize that not everyone in the world thinks the way you do–which may be a good thing.
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Oh, stop overreacting. They were parodying the news, if my memory of Seseme Street is right, they've always had fake news networks on there. Now, how many news networks can you name off your head? I can think of three; Fox, CNN, and MSNBC.
Now look at it from a writer's persepctive; which one of those do you think would be the easiest to make a parody of, just based on how it rhymes with other words (especially dirty or messy words, after all Grouch is a dirty guy)? Fox is a clear choice, since it rhymes with so many other words. CNN is only three letters, so that would be a little harder to pull off, and MSNBC is near impossible.
Now the political perspective; Conservatives, grow a pair. Jesus, every time I turn around, all I hear is whinnying and complaining, and it's usually about the stupidest (and imaginary) things like this. Remember the whole "indoctrination" of our youth when kids sang a song about African-Americans and he had a bit about Obama? Or that Obama was never born in the United States? Or death panels that are going to kill grandma? Or all the other lies and scare tactics that we've heard wither about those pesky liberals and their communist agenda?
Were liberals guilty of whinnying back in the Bush administration? Of course, and they still are. But at least the stuff they complained about was actually real.
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Rick, what are you watching, only MSNBC?? conservatism isn't dying, it's getting stronger. Open your eyes! oh and I hate to break it to you but the only real racists out there are those on the left. People like you walk around in your own sense of superiority but you can't see the forest for the trees. Open your eyes.
viva the revolution .I don't care for either side .You guys are a bunch of idiots.If it were up to me we would have a single ruler because i don't think most people know what they are talking abot
so "GNN, Grouchy News Network" is NOT a dig against CNN yet "Pox News" IS a dig against FOX News?!?! What is wrong with you? And you don't even get the premise, to Oscar the Grouch, "trashy" is a GOOD thing. The character that calls him is saying she is GOING TO WATCH "Pox News" because she wants the "GOOD" thing of "trashyness" which "GNN" is not giving her enough of. Oscar the Grouch is a character that lives in a garbage can, clearly you don't understand the premise.
Where was everyone two years ago when this aired? Oh, the federal government was republican then…
I think everyone is reading too much into this.
First off, it's a TWO YEAR OLD news parody, with Oscar the Grouch. Where does he live? In a freakin' trash can. What do grouches like? Trash. Who was the irate caller? Another grouch.
I think this is being blown way out of proportion, and everyone is getting their panties in a bunch over nothing.
Can someone say 'lipstick on a pig'? Oh, that's right. I forgot you can't. Because if you do, you might get slammed for calling Sarah Palin a pig.
And for the record, Fox news is trashy news. Their website is full of articles about celebrities and sex how-to's, and puts all of the important news at the bottom of the barrel. I haven't a clue what their broadcasts are like, because I don't watch Fox news. I have better ways to waste my time.
Sesame Street, like all of the other good children shows, has been scrutinized for years, and labeled to be bad for kids. What about some of the other shows that really shouldn't be targeted for our kids? For example: Most of the cartoon shows on Cartoon Networks.
The ones making a big deal out of it, are the parents. You have to remember that it is children watching this. The children who this show is targeted to, have no concept of politics, sexuality, or any other ignorant claim against Sesame Street, that the parents read too much into. While children are mental sponges, and absorb what they see and hear, they don't remember it unless the exact same thing showed to them repeatedly. So, if you don't have Sesame Street on DVD, DVR or VHS, I think you're child is safe.
Where is God when you really need him? I think the gene pool needs more chlorine.
*Gets on knees and prays, to remind God to pick up some more Clorox*
Sesame Street is geared to an audience of 2-4 year olds. Let's hope they're innocent enough that they don't know what CNN or FOX news are. Do you really think that a "liberal" message (which is not really there) would get through to a two-year-old child? As a preschool teacher, I can assure you, it would not. Don't make excuses for parents' overreactions.
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>>The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to **undermine my authority.**<<
Wow. That's sort of the whole thing in a nutshell isn't it. You are so self-conscious of your own self-righteousness, you fear anyone and wanything who will question it.
Mainstream news.
"The Liberals" whoever the hell they are in THIS country of moderates.
Even your own children.
Why would you want to control your children instead of let them become their own people?
What kind of pathetic stooge wants to mass-produce his own stupidity instead of hope his children surpass him?
How pathetic can you people become? Can you even trust each other? PBS : mind control. Elmo, bad; Rush, good. Fox News is a joke: is that news to anyone but you.
I guess this guy has nothing to wright about so he picks on kids shows. Because he can't wright for any one else. How much is Pox ( oh sorry about that ) fox paying him for thisthis is getting out of hand, this guy needs to get a life.
Sesame Street is a show that promotes diversity, sharing, and acceptance of all people. Aren't these valuable lessons for all children regardless of their parents' political views? Are conservatives that desperate and hard up that they will even attack a puppet's joke? Maybe if you focused on real issues the last Republican presidency wouldn't have been such a terrible disaster!
I don't let my my kids listen to right wing nazi trash. All conservatives are selfish stupid twits. It is a cartoon like George Bush
Why don't you guys grow up and stop seeing "Meanies" behind every bush. It's a kid's show! Handle it!
I agree completely. As a leftist myself, I can say that it's much easier to laugh at people like Bill O'Reilly when they're yelling and sputtering and rampaging angrily around the studio. One of our strongest stereotypes of conservatives are of men rampaging, yelling and thundering about offenses against them when we blow it all off as a joke.
My advice to you guys? Keep a cool head. This was a harmless and relatively tiny jab at FOX, and doesn't need a big response. People are more likely to take you seriously when you focus on the serious matters.
I guess you people have nothing better to do. Sesame street Liberal??? That's a hell of a lot better than being consertive. Get a life!!
fox is not a news station.they have wanna bees fo so called reporters.they suck
"undermine my authority"? I thought our job as parents was to teach our children to investigate and listen, then make their own decisions.
A collection of puppets scare the crap out of 500 grown up Americans. Now that's something to worry about. People…take a nap, relax, and be unafraid of "Obama" monsters under the bed. They're just not there.
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I just find it interesting that even though this episode is 2 years old, it's just now sufacing. Hmm, could it have something to do with the fact that Michelle Obama will be on Sesame Street tomorrow?
Republicans and Conservatives crack me up. You're all stuck in an intellectual cul-de-sac, and trashing Sesame Street on a non-issue is the best you can do to whip up some outrage in the dwindling 21% base? Wow. Can't wait to see you all fall on your faces in 2012.
[...] Big Hollywood, a blog created by conservative writer Andrew Breitbart, accuses the episode of revealing PBS’s liberal bias. [...]
What a bunch of humorless, self-important jerks you people are. Honestly. It isn't as if Fox News is considered a legitimate news source, given the meddling that its right-wing owner is famous for. Rather, it is a series of right-wing editorials, not a "fair and balanced" look at the world. A such, it is trashy. But in any case, this is the sort of reaction that has given the right side of the aisle such a well-deserved reputation for the petty, the nasty, and the trite.
man you need to stop
worri"n
about a frickin puppet and get busy on yer bomb shelter…MAN UP…moron
is a momentary reference can override your parenting, then your parenting skills are WEAK.
[...] on the right claiming that the “Left [is] attempting to undermine my authority.” Says Stage Right at Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood [...]
you can't even spell losing! ha!
their is the wrong word… it is they're… maybe you should have watched sesame street more
WAAAAAAAH!
Do you hear that Randy Savage? It's a whole lot of pansies crying!
OH YEAH!
"…by the way, why SHOULD I change the channel? This is MY channel, I’m paying for it!"
In all actuality, the advertisers are contribute a lot more than the amount of your measly monthly cable bill, so I don't think you own it. BESIDES, if you don't like what's on television, READ A BOOK!
Uhoh Angela. Apparently you didn't read your dear leader's autobiography, "Dreams from My Father". A quote by Obama himself: "I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though. …"
Oh, and btw, 2 weeks after your 'ME sigh ah' was sworn in, his brother, George Obama, you know, the one that lives in squalor in a Nairobi slum, was arrested on drug charges.
[...] Big Hollywood, a blog created by conservative writer Andrew Breitbart, accuses the episode of revealing PBS’s liberal bias. [...]
Ronald Reagan…the ultimate verification of the embalmers art
Glenn Beck…still alive he may yet witness the rapture, unlike the bloated corpse of Jerry Falwell–dead alone in its office.
Bill O'Reilly …misogynist and champion of sexual harassment.
Rush Limbaugh…fat ugly drug addict.
Conservatives all. More available upon request.
To quote Dick Cheney…."So."
I'm amused by the hysterics of people like johnbob. It drives them crazy that a new generation might grow-up without liberal teachings. It's so very kind of you libs to be concerned about what OTHER people let THEIR children watch on TV and in movies. I hope you remember that same concern the next time a group or organization expresses an opinion about the effects of programs like "The Simpsons" on children. But we all know you won't because the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.
You raise your children the way you feel is best for them and let us raise our children the way we feel is best. Is that too much to ask?
btw johnbob, I used to know a good 'ol boy named johnbob that attended all the Nascar races. I really admired that hunting rifle he kept in a rack in the back window of his pick-up truck. That wouldn't have been you would it?
Wait, boys and girls. If you listen real hard you can hear the WAAAAAAAAAAMUBLANCE!
I find it interesting how little you think of your children, that a slight knock on Fox News makes you think that they will grow up to be a bleeding heart liberal. This isn't a big deal, and we should respect the intelligence of our kids and believe that when they grow up, they will have good morals and values instilled. And please don't blame Sesame Street when your kids argue and get mad at you in their teens, because all kids do that. Take it for what its worth, a harmless TV show. I watched Sesame Street when I was a kid, and I believe I turned out fine, besides always having Ernie's rubber duckie song stuck in my head.
Everyone is frightened to reply to my comments on conservatives. I heard Dick(head) Cheney was so mad that he shot Big Bird in the face.
Bravo PBS! Someone need to get the message to the youth that watching fox news does make you a fucking idiot!
In the age of political correctness, I think we have taken the Sesame Street issue a bit too far. The trash loving and dishing done on the Oscar's trashcan news show would indicate to me if a viewer is switching to a trashier show that would be a good thing. This is not to say I absolutely object to PBS overall and their definite left leaning bias. But I'm sick of the political correctness.
And you would be the new Czar of what is and isn't news? A very arrogant position to self promote yourself to.
Andrew Breitbart,
Good Lord, THIS is a problem? Are you insane? You have gone off your nut!
You are worried that a minor joke will unravel any hopes you have to influence future generations to your point of view?
I am afraid you need not worry. Greed and self-centeredness, deceit and covetousness are all more natural to the human condition than forgiveness and humility, selflessness and charity.
Soldiers murdering their own, a ineffective congress that's been a model of slothful, misdirected debate, huge economic disparities which will break the back of the free market system – there are bigger things to worry about than petty partisan conspiracies.
You have a brain, use it!
[...] their parents watch “trashy” news?” said conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart of Big Hollywood. “The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of ‘Sesame [...]
Think about the audience – they're kids. I'm not belittling their intelligence, just saying when I was a kid I didn't know the difference between CNN, Fox, CBS, ABC, etc. In fact, all the networks were trash to me because when Dad turned them on at night it meant the end of cartoons for me that day.
And seriously – "MessyNBC"? Sounds like you wish you could write that stuff. Get over yourself.
This looks like a good place to hang out if I was a racist, homophobic, hypocritical, douchbag that allows talk radio to tell me how to think.
There is a reason that children's shows have a liberal bent, that is because children don't "hate" naturally, it takes a while for children to be taught how to hate others and to fear new things. They have a hard time understanding the rhetoric and hate embodied by their conservative parents, they have not been indoctrinated into the cult of the hateful Republicans.
I feel pity for all of your children, they will never learn about love, kindness or sharing from their parents, they will only learn about hate and fear, since that is the only emotions that you people seem to comprehend.
This place is as sick and twisted as the fox forums. This place is like one of the CHAN boards except you folks don't have any imagination, sense of humor or conscious.
Yeah, quit whining about his "very large vocabulary!" Maybe you'd feel better if you bought yourself some of Moyers's shoes! Or maybe one of those truly incredible books that either connects his shows together or cuts them into dovetail joints!
THIS WAS FROM TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN THE GOP CONTROLLED PBS!
dude, ur a loser and a half, its a freakin puppet, get over urself. u definatly have some serious self esteem issues if ur worried about a bunch of puppets undermineing ur authority. they falled POX news trashy, SO WHAT? ITS A KIDS SHOW!!!!! y r u so upset? do u not have something better to do with ur time? take ur kids out and go play with them instead of sitting watching childrend cartoons and then blogging about it. what a f*ckin loser!! seriously!
You have all lost your minds!!! Don't like it…don't look at it. I don't like Fox News, so I don't turn it on. simple stupid.
You're an idiot. Reading your post is like reading Stephen Colbert's book, but with the chilling undertone that you are dead serious. God forbid that the President tell your kids to stay in school and work hard. Heaven forbid the NEA should encourage the national recovery program. You are a conspiracy theorist, despite what you say. In fact, your outline of your conspiracy that you lay down indicates a total lack of historical knowledge. In most fascist takeovers, the original government is violently overthrown, and a fascist or communist government. The reeducation begins afterward. Examples include North Korea and Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany was only slightly different, the original government was so weak that Hitler easily morphed it into a fascist regime.
Where were you attacking big government and fascism when Bush crushed civil liberties? Where are you when the left is defending personal liberties from the religious right's moral crusade? You're not a conservative, you're a partisan hack. I could understand your fury if simply thought it wasn't the place of the government to finance recovery programs or social welfare, but that's not your argument. You argue from behind a stack of insane conspiracies, and not from a true conservative perspective.
[...] blog known as Big Hollywood criticized GNN’S founder, Oscar the Grouch, as being “one more solider to the [...]
This is OUR hard earned tax dollars hard at work. Why are we catering to these people? Are we so pathetic that we allow this to continue.
Oh just go take your kids over to the creationist museum and have them reprogrammed
This is why everyone sees you conservatives as losers. You take time out of your day to write an entire article about a SHOW FOR SMALL CHILDREN, demonizing it because boo-hoo, they made fun of your precious Fox News. Yeah…you sure are a bunch of "cool kids", Glenn Beck is REAL "cool", if by cool you mean "doesn't give a damn about logic, facts, etc.", then yeah, he's cool.
Seriously, I just can't get over how sensitive and whiny you people have become after losing one little election. You guys like to act like you're rough and tough "real Americans", but really you're just over-sensitive, whiny losers. When Bush was in power, "liberals" were impotent hippies who were about to surrender to the Taliban, but now Obama's in the White House and you guys are crying as though ACORN is the Waffen SS and now Sesame Street is the television equivalent of Die Sturmer apparently.
Please, for the love of your precious Jesus, please try to salvage some dignity and stop soiling yourselves over piddly nonsense like Sesame Street; increasing your humiliation by shouting through your tears that Dennis Miller and Glenn Beck are "cool". Yes, every nerd in junior high who skulked somewhere in the library at lunch just KNEW that he was the REAL cool kid, just like his mom told him. Dignity- have you heard of it? Here's what is NOT dignified- constantly being afraid and upset by everything. Like I said, you guys are currently acting like Sesame Street, ACORN, and Obama are just an inch away from locking you up in concentration camps. Let's look at a list of things you tough conservatives have been deathly afraid of for the past 20 years or so:
Communism: Ok, this one actually made sense since there were two rival imperialist powers armed with nuclear weapons. Plenty of liberals were afraid of that and there were also many Communists who hated the USSR and China so this is at least understandable.
Islamic Terrorists: Yeah 9-11 sure shocked a lot of people, the same way the Germans were shocked when the British suddenly bombed their cities after they had flattened Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry, etc. But most people went on living their lives, while you started buying guns for some inexplicable reason.
Iraq: Yeah I know the president told you to fear Iraq(months after his own secretary of state publicly said Iraq was not a threat to anyone including its neighbors), but this was getting ridiculous.
Will Ayers: Here's a fun tip- look up how many people the Weathermen killed. Then look up how many people right-wing extremists have killed in the US, dating back to the time the Weathermen was founded.
ACORN: Oh NO! Community organizers!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!! This is where it gets really pathetic.
Alright, so what's next on the agenda of "things conservatives are incredibly afraid of"? Will it be the paramilitary, exclusionary feminist organization known commonly as "The Girl Scouts"? How about Ice Cream men?
Grouches live in trash cans, among trash. They ostensibly collect, and, in turn, celebrate trash. Pretty much everything grouches say on "Sesame Street" will ultimately involve some type of trash-related pun. So why ist "trashy" a vile liberal insult in grouch-speak? And what's it like to pretend you're being persecuted 24 hours a day?
[...] Breitbart: [...]
[...] Despite being a couple of years old, the "Pox News" episode was recently aired again and got attention from Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site. Share this on del.icio.usDigg this!Share this on [...]
GROW UP!
No one cares about your high school UIL vocabulary. You still haven't put together the two very obvious conclusions that people have gone through great pains to illustrate for you.
All you've done here is whine and throw up smoke-screens of pretentious pseudo-intellectualism, and that makes you not only ignorant, but willingly so. If you can't surrender even the most blatant points people prove against your arguments, that simply goes to prove how intellectually and emotionally immature you are.
You're a bad example for other conservatives to follow and you should be ashamed of yourself.
You can't even write a cogent, coherent paragraph and you're attempting to put me down? BTW………………besides deserving an F- for the writing, your post doesn't prove anything other than the fact that you are not only ignorant, but incapable of proving your poiunt; whatever that point was supposed to be.
Look, no matter what you or anyone else on your side has said, it has been a well known fact that PBS has been and still is a blatantly lefty biased channel since its inception.
And if YOU are a "CONSERVATIVE", you should learn what that means. I doubt that you are one, because I have never seen such benighted prattling from anyone outside of DU.
[...] Breitbart’s Big Hollywood site was not amused. The blogger Stage Right wrote: “If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch ‘POX [...]
Nothing says 'parental authority' like plopping your kids down in front of the TV so yyou can blog about your 'parental authority'.
Wow grow a sense of humor pal. It's Sesame Street. And this episode is an old rerun. Have you nothing better to blog about?
Or is THIS a joke and you're just perpetuating the characterization of conservatives as grumpy and thin-skinned? If so, bravo. Well done. You've got a chuckle out of me.
Oh no, nothing can be a joke, nothing can be just an innocent show for small children. To these people everything needs to be some kind of evil plot hatched by ACORN, Obama, Will Ayers, etc.
You know, if Faux News didn't have Glenn Beck it would be bearable… But the fact they keep him on does make it pretty trashy.
Are you going to blog about South Park's sure-to-be-classic episode next?
Also, using the media to send a message is decidedly more moral than intimidating and frightening the populace into your viewpoint.
Give me a break will ya… You claim the left does this all the time?? Well the right is always laying claim that the left does this all the time.. Talk about sour grapes… Besides what "kid" do you know actually understands the joke, let alone watches that "Trashy News Show"??..
Oh and since I can't edit, I am not from the "left".. I am from the "middle", who is sick and tired of the "right" complaining about the "left" and listening to the same old story being played out, decade after decade, about how our national debt will be passed on to our grandchildren… God that statement is so old, the "right" has been making that claim everytime they bury us in their mindless spending, and actually think people outside of the "right", believe it… Hell it was the "right" who put us in this place in the first place – but that somehow gets buried in the "right's" amnesia episodes…
Finally if you don't want your money to support these "lefties" then stop donating… PBS is not funded by the Federal Government… It is funded solely on donations…
The money paid out to the Conservative Abstinence Educational program is about 10x the amount of tax dollars that is given to PBS (not to mention the significant budget cuts given to PBS over the past 8 years). I think it's pretty slanted in one direction.
[...] [...]
Wow. Talk about a bunch of thin-skinned politically correct babies. Lighten up you paranoid nutters.
Yeah, I just reread it and noticed, my bad. Thank you for noticing and letting me know.
Stageright… All i have to say is STFU. Do you even know what you are talking about here? It's people like you (I'm not talking Conservative, Republican, Libertarian, or Tea-bagger, I'm talking about you people who are so damn paranoid and spend way too much of their valuable time time trying to figure stupid conspiracies in mundane daily items) that has led our great nation in to this B.S. political and social climate. You people make me sick. You people have destroyed our nation. You people are the ones that elevate minutia into something grander than it was ever intended or thought to be… for what? Just for the sake of being a jackass? This is Sesame Street for God sake. SESAME STREET! What's next? Burt and Ernie are subliminally trying to indoctrinate ("indoctrinate" isn't this one of your peoples' favorite words) our kids into the thought that Queers are here and we should get use to it?
Get an F'ing life and start watching grown-up TV; stop watching kid shows.
[...] O’Brien) James Hudnall, Big Hollywood: Comics In Servitude to Obama Stage Right, Big Hollywood: ‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News Jason Killian Meath, Big Hollywood: When Late Night Attacks: Left Worries Obama Becoming Punchline [...]
There's a big difference between the riff on CNN with Grouchy News Network, which makes sense considering he's Oscar the Grouch, and saying "Pox News, now THAT'S a trashy network." It went too far by saying it was a "trashy network," and don't tell me it's some cutesy riff on his trash can. If you don't see–any many libs/Dems/progressives here clearly can't–then you're the problem.
Why is it that virtually none of the posters here actually have a fair and balanced view? Either they are left leaning artsy folk who think MSNBC is Gospel, or they are right wing nut jobs that think Fox is showing any level of "news". The fact is America is polarized, and you're either in one camp or the other – and nobody takes the time or energy to think for themselves.
Fact: Fox News is "infotainment". Fox itself says that Fox &Friends; Glenn Beck; Sean Hannity; Bill O'Reilly; Greta Van Sustern; Neil Cavuto; are NOT NEWS – they are Fox "Opinutainment" – they are "Editorial".
The so called News team takes a heavy right slant, biased reporting, that then gets picked up by the Opinion team who blow all sorts of ridiculous accusations and crazy thinking – the News team then picks it up again, making a big deal out of it with "Some are accusing the white house of…" – the "some people" are the Editorial team on their own network!!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-october-29-...
And guess what – MSNBC is JUST AS BAD, with a heavy left slant and hysteria.
LEFT, RIGHT, realize what is going on – you're not thinking, you're not talking, you're not solving problems. You're all making things worse for everyone. Move to the middle and try to compromise a bit.
[...] know, the way the blogger Stage Right at Andrew Breitbart’s BigHollywood did when he posted ‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News. Actually, it appears that the Spill O’Reilly character took his name from this particular [...]
And people say conservatives aren't racists…it's statements like those that say otherwise.
Oh i bet Jesus loves you, don't try and attack other people by putting yourself on a pedestal if a person makes little money and a part of it goes to taxes and some of the taxes goto PBS then obviously he has no control over the money he makes and wishes he could keep it rather then waste it.
Wow, talking about making mountains out of molehills and written by some one who has to hide behind a fake name! Reading this and comments by the right wingers makes me laugh (right before I puke) Thanks for the entertainment all! Ha Ha!
as buggy bunny used to say "What a bunch of maroons!"
Well, chances are, if you're sitting your kids down in front of the electronic babysitter to watch Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck your kids are liable to grow up brain dead.
Turn off the TV and go play with your kids.
Well, chances are, if you're sitting your kids down in front of the electronic babysitter to watch Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck your kids are liable to grow up brain dead.
Try turning off the TV and playing with your kids.
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