‘Sesame Street’: It’s About My Children, Not the Puppet
by Stage Right
Just as I suspected, it has happened. They are trying to “Falwell” me and my colleagues here at Big Hollywood for raising concerns about “Sesame Street’s” description of Fox News as “Trashy.” We are “stupid,” “idiotic” and we are whining and pathetic (impressive debate tactics there, Mr. Socrates). And, according to PBS’ own Ombudsman, Michael Gelter, we are…. right:
I don’t know what was in the head of the producers, but my guess is that this was one of those parodies that was too good to resist. But it should have been resisted. Broadcasters can tell parents whatever they think of Fox or any other network, but you shouldn’t do it through the kids
I was planning on letting the issue die after being romanced by Media Matters, but I noticed something fascinating. I’ve written here about a lot of subjects. Mostly about theatre and the arts, and I also defended that “racist-fascist” Rush Limbaugh, but, never has a post of mine gotten the kind of hate-filled comments this one did. Also, for the first time I started receiving hate e-mails… the long, rambling, Holden Caufield kind of e-mails (you can forgive me for feeling a little “Grouchy”). What gives? Why was this post different?
I think many people either don’t believe there is anything wrong with some playful jokes at the expense of Fox News on a children’s network, or they don’t WANT to believe that the writers of “Sesame Street” are deliberately injecting attitudes that plant seeds in children for future growth. To me, it doesn’t matter. Gelter’s words say it best: “You shouldn’t do it through their kids.”
I am very tired of being lectured by the left (and fellow denizens of the right) about “manning up” and growing a thick skin and taking it in stride. Listen, I’m a conservative in the theatre business… You don’t think I have a thick skin? But when it comes to my kids, I am ferocious in protecting them and in protecting my influence over them.
If my kid came home from a neighbor’s house and told me that “Jimmy’s Daddy said Fox News was trashy news,” you better believe that I would have a word to say to Jimmy’s Daddy. It’s inappropriate and tasteless to inject your personal beliefs onto someone else’s kids. Why is this position controversial? And, to add insult to injury, PBS used my money to do it. Am I really going out on a limb in crying foul?
But, the vitriol and sheer volume of criticism of this post has intrigued me and I have begun to look further into “Sesame Street,” the Children’s Television Network, and the educational advisers who shape the message and curricula injected into these shows. There’s more to discuss. Much more.
And, for those of you mocking this whole concept as to whether a children’s TV show can have that kind of influence over a child, ask yourself: Did Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno have as much influence on your use of compound words as your first grade teacher did? Did you learn the preamble to the Constitution from school, or from “Schoolhouse Rock”? Do you remember “Free to Be, You and Me”?
If children’s TV could influence you with those shows, don’t you think it can influence your kids today? Since you’re paying for it, shouldn’t you know a little more about what you’re buying?
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Ironic since Bert and Ernie have more politcal acumen than Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann.
It wasn't FoxNews that referred to the Tax Day Tea Parties as "teabagging". That was MSNBC.
MSNBC is trashy.
It wasn't FoxNews that had a certain anchor bring up forged documents just to attempt to malign a sitting President. That was CBS. CBS is trashy.
I look forward to your future posts. As a father of three, I am also concerned about what my kids watch and learn. I'm with you bro so keep pressing onward.
And you continue to ignore the same episode made equal "jokes" about CNN and some supposed liberal commentators–if you can call slight puns like "Pox News" something to get all upset about.
Really, kids aren't as dumb as you want them to be to make your silly hysterical political points.
Touche
You might want to check out "Little Einsteins", a show my 4-year old son loves. Mostly its harmless, but there is a recurring bad guy that is on several episodes. He always trying to steal something important from the 4 kids on the show. His name is "Big Jet" and he's an exact cartoon copy of a military jet. It feels to me like they're trying to turn kids against anything military.
The work of a PREDATOR is to use children as objects for a greater evil. How predatory these LEFTISTS are in using a child's program for their personal politics. Disgusting.
"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to lib-er-al street?"
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I thought that initially too, but I think they needed another flying vehicle and just picked a jet. Plus, thats Disney, a privately funded network. If it were on PBS, it might be different.
Just like in home and school, the earlier you can teach kids, the more that teaching molds what they will become when they grow up. Children's programming is no different and is extremely powerful in shaping the minds of young children, especially when made to be enjoyable.
Inserting political agenda's into a child's education is nothing really new. It's been happening for decades, if not centuries. With children's television programming, the big difference I see in today's programming over what I grew up with is that the agenda messages are much more blatantly obvious. I never let my daughters watch Sesame Street simply because of this.
Sadly it has come down to a race with the Left over who gets to shape the mind of your child. The Left wants to be the one to shape that mind. One thing it gives them is a weapon to use on the child's family to push their agenda at the local level. And yes, I mean a weapon. My neighbor got hounded by his 7 y/o son every time he mows the lawn that he's "killing the polar bears" by using a power mower and was literally brow-beat by his son into getting a push mower. Another family was being bothered constantly by their 9/y/o daughter to vote for Obama last year. No reason for it besides the "hope and change" mantra she picked up at school. They didn't at least.
"There’s more to discuss. Much more."
Well, I for one hope that you continue writing these articles, because I'm interested to discover what else is going on. Please don't stop now.
This is what I tried, (ever so clumsily) to say when this was first posted. I am an original generation "Streeter." I have now watched it in the early 90's with my own kids, and now with my grandkids. I see how it has evolved. It was always a lefty show, but it has gotten progressively worse. It is not enought to say, "Just have your kids watch something else, if you dont like it." Fine, but I dont fund Nick Jr with my tax dollars. And yes, kids DO remember the things they learn on these shows, all of them, for the rest of their lives. At 43, I can still sing at least 30% of the songs I learned in the early 70s. I still know all the School House Rock songs. Parents can be vigilant, but kids will always pick up on some of this stuff, and especially now when it is shoved down their throats 24/7. And, its not about the vigilant parents, its about the ones who arent. Its our job to stand up for all kids, not just our own.
Thank you SO much. This is exactly want I needed to hear today! Your comment is going directly on to my FaceBook page right now!
Keep writing Stage Right. You have hit a nerve! I love, love, love when the lefties tell us to stop complaining–as if, we have absolutely no right to say where our tax dollars are spent. What really gets me is the comment "turn it off"–well, no duh, I do turn it off, but I wish I didn't have to. Isn't that the whole point?
Dave_C_64
Commodore 64? You rock! If not, please forgive, and you probably still rock…
But as to your post, you illustrate EXACTLY why I am home schooling my children, as I posted many details about on the thread with 11 Obama worshiping grade school videos.
Government school is like Government cheese, if it is all you can afford AMEN! Pass the cheese please, but if you have any choice the free market system has MANY better choices…
Particularly since you're paying for it whether you turn it off or not. If I'm paying for something like this, I'd like to have a say in what it reflects, as in values, standards, points of view, etc. With PBS, you don't have that option.
Do they still have the kids watch this junk while they are in class? 1/2 hour a day (Sesame Street for the younger kids, Electric Company for the older) of televised education while the teachers hung out in the lounge having a smoke. Even back then, I thought it was strange that they were showing us TV in class. In fact the only other time we had TV in class (prior to the PBS years) was during the moon landing. Modern public education, I guess.
Your point about the Schoolhouse Rock songs is well taken. I can still sing those from memory.
I'm screening everything that my 4 and 2 year-olds are watching. Needless to say, my kids don't watch Sesame Street or any PBS crap. I even limit their exposure to Disney Chanel and Nickelodeon, thanks to DVR. And I'm soooooo glad they love Tom & Jerry.
Even Tom and Jerry aren't sacred. I notice that whenever I catch a rerun, there's frequently one of those T&J clips where there's a human character whose face is never seen — when she's not supposed to be Tom's owner, it's usually a black housekeeper or cook. Someone has been re-dubbing the soundtracks to these things to make her (when she appears) less stereotypically black.
I appreciate the attempt to get rid of insulting and harmful stereotypes, but for some reason (that I can't for the life of me identify), the re-dubbing makes me uncomfortable.
I noticed that too, but the kids laugh every time someone gets beaten up.
That's why slapstick comedy is one of the oldest forms of entertainment — there's something inherently funny about violence when it's unrealistic and overdone.
Liberals would prefer us to believe that violence isn't funny (anybody who's seen Tom & Jerry, or the endless war between Donald Duck and Chip'n'Dale, knows differently). Their position essentially denies that a whole branch of humor even exists.
I wouldn't doubt that, if they could, the liberal watchdogs would take the classic cartoons off the air. There's just so much about them that's "offensive" or politically incorrect — and yet I grew up watching them and I turned out relatively okay.
I think the first line goes something like this:
Progressive Day
Sweepin' the truth away
On my way to where the lies are sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Liberal Street ?
They're actually examples that even the college educated can have wacky views.
Olbermann got into Cornell at 16 and has a degree in communications; he also did go to the Ag-school.
Maddow's actually a Rhodes Scholar.
All of that means jack shit when you make no goddamned sense at all.
They have already edited out the violence from the old Johnny Quest cartoons. And I heard there were some complaints regarding Hadji being a stereotype and insulting towards Muslims. Although he always seemed pretty cool to me. And I think he was a Sikh anyway.
It's sad watching the shows I grew up with be slowly revisioned, edited, and liberalized to protect children from the realities of the past or to touch on whatever hot button issue is going on today.
The shows used to be about fun or learning the basics, not trying to indoctrinate kids with some sort of liberal new age value system.
Roadrunner cartoons can't be beat for non-lethal violence, even though what Wile E. suffers is self-inflicted through unintended consequences.
But the libs can't even leave those alone.
"But when it comes to my kids, I am ferocious in protecting them and in protecting my influence over them."
Damn straight. What the hyperventilation is about should be obvious in the same way one should see trouble in a 13 year old smoking cigarettes (or taking hot tubs at Jack's house). People usually don't wake up and start on the H. It's a progression.
The writers of “Sesame Street” 'deliberately injecting attitudes' won't go to the 40-year-director-in-a-hot-tub-with-a-13-year-old schtick. No. But inch by inch creative liberty grows. And if you don't slam the door shut before it becomes a problem you end up with a full blown crisis.
Sesame Street should be transparent and neutral. You know ABC's and 1+1=2. That's what every kid should know. Not we saved 950 out of 500 jobs. Or doping up little girls fits neatly in someones "compass." I'm not saying that's where they were going. Really. Who in the hell knows where they were going?
Parents shouldn't have to fret about that. I'm almost certain executive producer doesn't want to go there. Don't kill the golden goose. Sesame Street is an institution. Can the lefties just leave one uncorrupted?
(Listen, I’m a conservative in the theatre business… You don’t think I have a thick skin? ) Glutton for angst?
That would explain his disdain for the "stupid" people as liberals view those intellectually beneath them. I've known highly intelligent people who can't tie their shoes. Or use soap.
I had to write the preamble to the Constitution for a test, so I sang it in my head. My teacher made us watch that Schoolhouse Rock video every day for at least a couple of weeks and now that song is in my mind FOREVER.
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My best friend, his wife and I have been referring to this trash a "Socialist Street" for at least 30 years. Not all kids programming is nefarious though. Some non educational stuff slips through with a constructive message, for example "Avatar: The last Air Bender" . But it seems that anything "educational" probably carries a viral agenda. As far as "educational" stuff for adults, has anyone noticed the trash that is aired on the Discovery and the Science Channel?
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Geez get over it dont let your kids watch sesame street anymore, theres alot more things that we pay for with our taxes that we should be worried about than sesame street. Instead of leaving it up to the tv to raise your kids why dont you raise them take them to the library or a park oh wait there closing those to and nobody seems to care cause there worried about sesame street lol!
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Another clueless statist troll… believe it or not, most parents who use enrichment TV shows ALSO read to them, also take them to museums, also take them to the library, also take them to church, also go to science fairs, also play ball in the park, etc. It's not "all or nothing," you knucklehead. Parents multi-task daily without blinking an eye.
Your "Geez get over it" is translation for: unless it personally affects me, anything anyone does to improve their children's world outlook (i.e., NOT socialism) is a waste of time. Hope you don't have kids, because you sound like the kind of guy who wouldn't worry about untied shoelaces until the kid falls, wouldn't feed the kid unless he or she was crying, and wouldn't worry about socialism in your public schools until the irreparable indoctrination has taken hold.
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It should be an honor to be compared to Falwell as regards to his condemnation of the Teletubies for promoting homosexuality through the character Tinky Winky. I have never seen the show but the moment I heard the name of the purple character I knew Falwell was correct. Having been exposed to gay culture because of various family members, I was familiar with the use of the gay slang term, Twink: a young man barely of legal age or even underage, pursued by older men, Chickenhawks. Lefties like to think they are more clever than all the rest of us rubes so I saw it as in their character to try to sneak in the gay term Twink with the character Tinky Winky. Sesame Street was obviously not trying to be subtle.
THis is so typical of anything on PBS or NPR………tax dollars used to promote the Left's ideology…….
In this progressive NWO, our kids don't belong to us anymore, they belong to Obamanation. Time to 'unfund' public media.
Amen.
There are elements of the left that have their own problems with Sesame Street, namely the commercialization of characters. This actually bothers me more than the socialist ideas — I don't want my kid being conditioned to see a celebrity face on the package (Elmo, usually) as evidence of a quality product, especially from a show that's supposed to be so educational. I think it's a major part of how they lure them into TV culture.
It seems to me that the writers at Big Hollywood may be able to find common ground on this one with, for example, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood. You may not like their whole agenda, but you know. Politics, strange bedfellows.
When my girls tell me what they learn in school and I feel it is indocrination, we have a talk. I ask them questions that lead there young minds into thinking for themselves and developing reasoning abilities that will serve them in later life. They have learned to question anything that is told to them especially when it doesn't seem right or logical. I am very proud of them and I hope they keep their teachers on their toes. BTW, they are now 16 and juniors in high school. One is studying to be a forensic scientist and the other is in the IB (international baccalaurate) program.
I agree with No_Big_Gov — we watch Little Einsteins somewhat regularly and I don't really see a problem with Big Jet…I think they just needed a character that would make sense as being able to compete with Rocket, and so they chose a Jet. I think if you really tried hard, you could find "negative" things in any children's programming. Little Einsteins does a good job of introducing kids to music and art, and since many public schools seem to be dropping those subjects, I think it's great to have a show that supports those areas.
I do agree that Sesame Street crossed a line, they shouldn't be targeting anything as 'bad" (well, unless it's something we all want our kids to think is bad, like stranger danger, or other safety type issues). We almost never watch Sesame Street, which makes me sad. I really enjoyed it as a kid, but I feel it's gone way downhill since then, so I don't really care if my kids watch it or not – there are other outstanding kid's shows on that really do teach them a lot of stuff!
A 2nd Amen – we are a household that allows our kids to watch certain educational programming because I think there is a place for that in their education. AND we read to them all the time and take them to parks and museums and zoos as well. I really just feel that our taxpayer funded programming that is aimed toward children should not have any political leanings at all. Period, end of story.
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You just don't seem to grasp the most basic concept here Stage Right as I have tried over and over the past two days to get you to see. The children who watch Sesame I'm assuming to be no more than 10 years old. Do you honestly and truly believe that CHILDREN 10 years or younger can watch Sesame Street and grasp political concepts let alone conservative vs. liberal. Let's face it this is about YOUR POLITICAL BELIEFS. AND YOUR POLITICAL AGENDA! This is isn't about PBS or Fox or liberal or conservative. This is about YOU Stage Right being offended by a SATIRICAL JOKE on a CHILDREN'S TV SHOW because you watch Fox News. You feel that YOU and the others who watch Fox News are being called trashy and garbage. This isn't about kids at all. Please stick to writing about theater. I'm sure being involved in theater your whole life you have some good insight on that. Leave the politics of TV alone.
Hey mom4no_hate Glad to see you piping up again! No you don't get to say where your tax dollars are spent! The politicians YOU ELECT decide our Government's budget. Citizens don't get to run rampant just as we hope the government runs rampant. I agree that I think our government is flexing its powers to see where they can go and what they can get away with but you are going overboard as is Stage RIght. I'm not a left or a right guy I hate politics in general. And the point is yes you should have to turn it off! That's THE ABSOLUTE ESSENCE OF FREEEEEE SPEECH! FREEDOWM OF THE MEDIA! THE MOST BASIC OF OUR RIGHTS. There can left shows and right shows YOU DON'T GET TO DECIDE THAT! BECAUSE THEN IT WOULDN'T BE FREE!!!! But the point is A CHILD CANNOT POSSIBLY comprehend these facts! If he can please feel free to get him evaluated for genius status because I know I didn't know crap like that. And my parents never told me "Sweetie that show is left. Watch this right show." This is about YOU and Stage Right and other righties being offended. Not the children. Please stop hating on the lefties
Sorry, Finn, your argument doesn't wash.
If a 5-year-old is told by a fuzzy puppet "Jews are dumb" twice a week; then at six he watches as the nine-year-old lead actor says "It was so sad, my doggy was killed by a Jew;" (Why nine? Because every little kid wants to be about two years older. But I digress.) Then at eight he sees the hero of a cartoon adventure series defending Nice People against attacking Jews; and then at ten he watches, oh, a major "adult" (wink, nudge) cartoon on Fox always portray the Jews as malevolent idiots; and at twelve he sees on the hottest Crime-Forensics drama that whenever there is a Jew in the guest cast, he is the villain, or at least a numbskull…
Then the kid doesn't have to "get it" in a political sense, any more than a watcher of late-night television has to "get" that Ford was a klutz (he wasn't), Quail and Bush are idiots (they aren't), or that Limbaugh is a racist (he isn't). It simply becomes something the kid "knows."
If the first paragraph is offensive, substitute either Christian or Conservative for Jew. Because that's what I see every day on television, from pre-school to "adult."
So yes, it is indeed about PBS. They are funded by my tax dollars to tell me, and you, and my grandson that I am stupid and evil. And I do not like that.
Yes because John McCain and Sarah Palin would have been the glorious white knights to ride and save us from the bad, mean people. I'm one hundred percent, heck I'm 4567 percent sure that if McCain had been elected that the economy would be perfectly healed right. I believe EVERY single last one of our troops would be home from Iraq by now, and I totally believe we'd have awesome free health care for everyone! I believe the unemployment rate would be down to -1% yes negative one percent! I believe the national debt would be gone completely and we'd be in the black. Man why didn't I vote for them. Face it people in the world we live in these days nothing is what it seems. Nothing is guarenteed. Politicians are big wind bags full of lies. And plus Palin was an idiot no offense.
Don't worry Mark—the REALLY funny thing is 'Big Jet' is an SU-27-a Russian/Soviet aircraft.
Interesting take Tom, I ask to what show do refer where a kid is blantantly and outright told by a puppet that Jews are dumb? If this were the case then obviously I would be opposed to that kind material being in a television show for children. I am simply stating that I don't believe that this particular joke in question warrants the backlash and outrage that say a 14 year old boy kidnapping, molesting, and murdering a 4 year old boy should get. I am merely trying to say that if people want to be outraged about TV it should be about the sex, drugs, racism, and violence on TV. SDV TV (Sex Drugs Violence) I'm sure you would agree has to be considered more of a shaper of a child's personality then political propaganda. Violence is the universal evil on our TVs today. It inflicts it wrath on every race, religion, political view, and gender. I'm saying let's have a blog about that! Not PBS's political agenda. But if you wish to continue this rant then by all means.
Well what will be next for Sesame Street, Big Bird and Elmo Pissing on a picture of Jesus Christ.
My god. Let the kid make their father get a lawn mower. Help stop the freaking obesity PLAGUE that has fallen upon America! And if it's "for the polar bears", so be it. Honestly, anything thats for the left is against the right? . Fuck Democrats. Fuck Republicans. Fuck politics.
I'm sorry, guys. I just think getting so twisted over Sesame Street makes you look pathetic and sad. You've become exactly what you've mocked feminists and some minorities for: objecting to the most far-fetched and lighthearted insults to your side. I certainly applaud parents monitoring what kids watch, and I defend to the death your right to do it, but you're getting as overly sensitive as the black man at a council meeting a few years back who got furious that a white co-worker used the term "Black Hole." Sometimes a pun is just a pun. And for God's sake–it's a 2 year old clip! At least keep your outrage timely!
And before anybody accuses Tom of exaggerating in that first long paragraph, there's a TV show in Palestine called, I believe, "Tomorrow's Pioneers" that exists primarily to indoctrinate the kids against Israel.
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"Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?"
"Take a hard left and keep turning."
Interesting admission from the BBC:
[quote]The show crossed the Atlantic 18 months after its US launch, but the BBC rejected it because of its "authoritarian aims" in trying to change children's behaviour.
"This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television," said the head of children's programmes at the time, Monica Sims. [/quote]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8340141.stm
This has nothing to do with young children understanding political concepts. It has to do with the media using their influence on the culture to indoctrinate children to think that conservative things (such as Fox News) are "trashy" and illegitimate. It doesn't matter if the kids understand "why", it only matters that they associate Fox News with "trashy".
BTW, in case you missed it, that is the entire point of this website.
It’s inappropriate and tasteless to inject your personal beliefs onto someone else’s kids. Why is this position controversial?
Because people want to inject their personal beliefs onto other people's kids.
Like the former Marine said:
"Stay the away from my kids!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIIMbqO-Jc
Sesame Street has been ridiculously left wing in its inception.
This is no longer America. Our traditional news media, educational system and government are in the hands of Maoist usurpers…doing their damnest to turn us overnight into a communist state. They should leave now and stop passing unconstitutional legislation. If they are smart, they will cease and desist.
just a couple more examples of people who are educated beyond their intelligence…
I went through public schools in the 1950s and early 60s; we were inculcated with love and respect for the United States of America. We memorized the Gettysburg Address in history class, and sang all the hymns and marching songs for every branch of the US military in our music class. We learned about the structure of the federal government, and were constantly reminded that we were blessed to live in a free country. Oh, and we said the Lord's Prayer and had a reading from the Book of Psalms–yes, in public school–along with repeating the Pledge of Allegiance and singing "The Star Spangled Banner" to start each day.
Over the past ten years I taught at our local (Los Angeles-area) community college, and the takeover of our education system by the left is something that would tempt me to despair, except for the fact that studies show that the single most decisive influence on a child is his or her parents. My husband and I have two adult sons who went through public schools and universities and came out with their conservative values intact.
Just take the next left turn
Freedom is the right to say thar 2 + 2 = 4 and not 5
* Winston Smith – Thought Criminal
Yes, by all means spend your energy investigating Sesame Street. You will uncover the true heart of the liberals there and thus be able to destroy all progressive thought thereafter.
/sarcasm off
I like to read this blog to see how pathetic and scared some people are. It's like watching televangelists spew their hatred.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious that Finnish doesn't seem to comprehend!
So maybe we should have a televangelist do a stint on "The Street." Cool with that?
(Can't wait to see what you do with my handle)!
"I am very tired of being lectured by the left (and fellow denizens of the right) about “manning up” and growing a thick skin and taking it in stride. "
Amen Brother.
Hello there! Nice to hear from you. You are correct–we do elect our politicians and they do control the government's budget. Since you seem to be familiar with this site, then you will know that is totally the point. We elect the people that we believe will be most responsible with the budget, and the others should and will be thrown out.
You also have a wonderful point about free speech, but here also I must disagree. This is not about free speech, it is about someone else trying to teach my child something I disagree with and using my taxpayer dollars to fund it. Would you want to use your taxpayer dollars to have someone teach your child right-wing propaganda? Please answer truthfully.
I always appreciate civil debate. Thanks for the comment.
No, Palin is not an idiot. But you are.
I still remember all of those: Conjunction Junction, the nouns, and interjections. I loved them. And it did help me remember the Preamble. I got an A on that test.
I hate today's cartoons. Give me a good Scooby Doo or Looney Tunes cartoon any day. I love it when Foghorn Leghorn and the dog and Chicken Hawk get into it.
The creator of the show STATED that the Tinky Winky character was created to increase acceptance of gays.
Basic rule of thumb: Anything a liberal screeches about, you can assume the opposite is true. The louder the screeching, the truer the opposite is.
You obviously don't have children.
If the propaganda wasn't efffective, do you think they'd be wasting their time and money creating it?
"Sometimes a pun is just a pun. And for God's sake–it's a 2 year old clip! At least keep your outrage timely! "
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!
Oh I love you guys, you have no self-awareness! The stuff that comes out of your mouths with no sense of irony is just amazing.
I hope you remember this post the next time you go off on a BDS rant.
I learned all my multiplication tables via "Multiplication Rock"
"3 6 9…12 15 18…21 24 27…30"
God bless Bob Dorough.
Oh for those days again. It is interesting though that I was in elementary school in the early 70's and we were taught all the military songs in music class too. My children today do not know them. We just had a parent/teacher conference with our 6th grader. He is learning about the ancient Egyptians right now, but still does not know a whole lot about his own country's development, other than what his father and I have tried to teach him. Our education system is in shambles.
Well Ken and Idaho Gal I understand the POINT of this website, but I just don't see the POINT of debating THIS particular topic. But feel free…….
Hahahahaha and YOU my friend Ben have OBVIOUSLY NEVER WORKED for the Government. I au contraire HAVE!!! EVERYTHING THEY DO is nearly a colossal WASTE of MONEY and ENERGY! So YES I absolutely and 100% believe they would waste their time and energy creating even if to fall on deaf uncomprehending ears………
Wow ummm that's really not an intelligent comment Roger. There is lacking a logical progression from trashing Fox News to pissing on a photo of Jesus. You're trying to compare apples and oranges. A deity to a NEWS STATION…….not really an even comparison my friend. A biiiit of a stretch I'm afraid. Perhaps if you had said pissing on a picture of oh who's a big conservative leader? I'm sorry but none come to me but that would be a much more reasonable comparison though………
But that's how that entire region seems to bred. I will not dare presume or rush to judge those cultures of the Middle East but that whole region from what I am told and heard is bred from birth to dislike any but their own and sometimes that means some people in their own country. And THAT is why I am happy to live in America because though I will admit propoganda exists in every facet of our lives it is not nearly to the degree it is over there and to compare our propaganda to theirs would be a quite a stretch. Some of those cultures are taught sheer HATE it would seem for the other. So sad…
And I agree with you on that, Erin. Any "political leanings" to be taught, as with religion, is up to the parents, not the government, and most certainly not a children's program. Taxpayer-funded programming is suppose to be non-partisan… what a laughable crock.
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