‘Sesame Street’: It’s About My Children, Not the Puppet

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? (more…)

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Tags: big hollywood, Fox News, free to be you and me, holden caufield, Media Matters
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 1:49 pm in Culture, Television | 25944687 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/11/06/sesame-street-its-about-my-children-not-the-puppet/%27Sesame+Street%27%3A+It%27s+About+My+Children%2C+Not+the+Puppet2009-11-06+21%3A49%3A58Stage+Right

Podesta Spends Soros’ Money Stupidly

This week’s Washington Times column:

A telling event occurred on Sept. 15, Day 6 of the drip, drip, drip ACORN video rollout. President Obama met for lunch with former President Bill Clinton at trendy Il Mulino in New York City.

For the second consecutive day, the New York Post featured the ACORN scandal on its cover – complete with James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles in their outrageous “pimp and ho” costumes.

Does anyone think the president and the former president were unaware that the city in which they were dining was mesmerized by the ACORN scandal – especially since ACORN had bragged that its employees had kicked Mr. O’Keefe and Ms. Giles out of their New York office?

The Sept. 15 edition of the New York Post explored the political angles and directed attention to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s investigation into why an ACORN office in its jurisdiction helped instruct a prospective brothel owner how to hide his prostitution proceeds in a tin in his backyard.

No one in the morally superior media world has asked, why did Mr. Obama have lunch with Mr. Clinton that day? So let me take a guess, and it seems like an obvious answer. Mr. Obama, under siege by a video-a-day expose that was exposing the Democratic Party to an avalanche of consequences (ACORN defunded in the House and Senate, ACORN delinked from the census, etc.), needed advice from the last president to navigate through a major political scandal.

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Tags: ACORN, acorn scandal, ACORN videos, Bill Clinton, Brooklyn District Attorney
Posted Sep 27th 2009 at 5:47 pm in News, Politics | 236686No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/09/27/podesta-spends-soros-money-stupidly/Podesta+Spends+Soros%27+Money+Stupidly2009-09-28+00%3A47%3A37Andrew+Breitbart

Muzzling CNN’s Lou Dobbs

It seems the whacked out left just can’t stand to see their comrades at CNN continue to air the Lou Dobbs show.  They were glad to see Glenn Beck move over to the dark side on the Fox News Channel and now they would like to see CNN can Lou Dobbs.  Here’s the story in brief.

Dobbs got under the skin of liberals when he challenged them on illegal immigration.  The voicebox of the left, Media Matters for America, challenged Dobbs claiming he spent an inordinate amount of time on the illegal immigration issue and the debate over the failed amnesty bill of 2007.  Dobbs simply asked hard questions and was labeled a racist passing along “myths” for his efforts.  In one memorable television segment, Dobbs skillfully defended himself telling MM’s Paul Waldman on the air, “Your report is a scurrilous attack, and you pretend it has some scholarly basis.  It is an absolute pitiful joke.” (more…)

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Tags: "birthers", birth certificate, CNN, Lou Dobbs, Media Matters
Posted Jul 28th 2009 at 3:32 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 191970111 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/07/28/muzzling-lou-dobbs/Muzzling+CNN%27s+Lou+Dobbs2009-07-28+22%3A32%3A04Brian+Jennings

Democrat Utopia Nothing More Than a Fantasy

Cap and Trade, the biggest tax increase in American History, sailed through Congress without anybody even bothering to read it. What will prove to be perhaps the biggest historical change to the American way of life seemed nothing more than a Congressional mouse click, the Terms of Service Agreement on a new software installation. What is it about Democrats that they have such trust in other Democrats?

There was no debate, no discussion; in fact the bill wasn’t even finished when they started voting on it. Yet they all knew they would like everything in the bill, and rushed the vote. I’m somewhat envious of the common goal they all seem to share, but I’m also suspicious of why nobody bothered to read it. Granted it was fifteen hundred pages, Fourth of July recess, and the deposit on the Martha’s Vineyard cottage wasn’t refundable.

I think there is also something else at work here: Democrats tend to have more faith in the system than they have in the individual. When President Reagan tried to close the Department of Education, he was considered to be against education. It’s not just spin, Democrats really think that way. They feel it’s important to keep the Department of Education, because without it, there will be no education. Without the Department of Health, we would all be sick; without the Department of Commerce, the economy would fold. Ditto for the FDA, the FCC, FAA, and the rest of the alphabet soup. (more…)

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Tags: Al Gore, Cap and Trade, charit, Congressional Budget Office, Department of Commerce
Posted Jul 3rd 2009 at 11:56 am in Politics | 175046174 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/tslagle/2009/07/03/trust/Democrat+Utopia+Nothing+More+Than+a+Fantasy2009-07-03+18%3A56%3A03Tim+Slagle

Jon Stewart and Kumar Go to D.C.

This week’s Washington Times column:

On Tuesday night I was bestowed the honor of being ridiculed on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. The segment in which I was featured had Mr. Stewart mocking those of us who dare criticize the new president. In the era of Obama, mainstream American political humor is now officially on the defensive.

Stewart lumped me with Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican — a cross section of people you might expect to be critical of an administration implementing very liberal policies in a very short time.

The “joke” was that these right-wing zealots weren’t giving the new president enough time, that the previous president did worse things, and that I, in particular, was ridiculous for blaming the president for “St. Patrick’s Day” becoming “Potato Day” at my kids’ public school. (Yes, the name change took place. No, I did not blame President Obama — specifically.) (more…)

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Tags: " "The Daily Show, "The Colbert Report", Comedy Central, Democratic Party, Fox News
Posted Apr 12th 2009 at 4:13 pm in Celebrity News, Entertainment, Featured Story, Media Criticism, Political Humor, Politics | 104470One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/04/12/jon-stewart-and-kumar-go-to-white-house/Jon+Stewart+and+Kumar+Go+to+D.C.2009-04-12+23%3A13%3A21Andrew+Breitbart

Boycott Greg Gutfield’s ‘Red Eye’

This week’s Washington Times column:

“Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld” on the Fox News Channel must be boycotted or taken off the air. Its sexist, misogynist, homophobic, racist, speciesist and self-hating host must be maimed, lynched and/or killed.

If not, someone might be offended. And that cannot happen – especially now that President Obama is poised to make everything really great.

In an era of extreme political correctness, when almost everyone is offended by almost everything, and with self-appointed advocacy groups organized to find offense on behalf of almost everyone – offensively, without the majority in the group’s consent – it’s nice to know that there’s a place to go where everyone can be offended almost all of the time.

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Tags: Andy Levy, Barack Obama, Bil Schulz, Daily Show, David Brock
Posted Jan 25th 2009 at 6:23 pm in Featured Story, News, Politics | 30756136 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abreitbart/2009/01/25/boycott-greg-gutfields-red-eye/Boycott+Greg+Gutfield%27s+%27Red+Eye%272009-01-26+02%3A23%3A09Andrew+Breitbart