‘Sesame Street’: All Monsters Are Equal?

The Public Broadcasting System’s taxpayer-funded ‘Sesame Street’ has, at cursory glance, presented young American children with what colorfully appears to be one of television’s few safe havens of educational fun. 

Yet, embedded in its visually intoxicating muppetry and otherwise innocently entertaining educational content there lurks highly controversial political messages designed to promote multiculturalism and global citizenship:

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 ”We all sing with the same voice, the same song, the same voice. We all sing with the same voice and we sing in harmony… 

I live in southern France, I’m from a Texas ranch, I come from Mecca and Peru… I come from everywhere, and my name is you…” 

That’s right kids! We’re ‘All’ the ‘same’… um, except that we’re all different.  (more…)

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Tags: nea, Obama, Orwell, Sesame Street
Posted Nov 3rd 2009 at 12:33 pm in Art, Featured Story, Politics, Television | 257210134 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/abaldwin/2009/11/03/sesame-street-all-monsters-are-equal/%27Sesame+Street%27%3A+All+Monsters+Are+Equal%3F2009-11-03+20%3A33%3A05Adam+Baldwin

‘HELP!’

I remember three images from September 11, 2001:

1)  People jumping from burning buildings.
2)  Congress standing outside, humbly bowing their heads, and praying.
This was a shocking sight.
3)  The pews of my church completely full of people…and for several months after.

It’s human nature to remember God when we’re in big trouble.  Even agnostics offered up a prayer that day.  We needed super human help from a higher power to defeat the Enemy Without.

God answered our prayers, and along with the excellent leadership of Bush, Cheney, our fantastic military, and superb FBI and CIA, we have been safe for eight years.  Thank you.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Congress, Farrah Fawcett, founding fathers, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 6:52 am in Politics, Religion | 22813471 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/21/help/%27HELP%21%272009-09-21+13%3A52%3A57Victoria+Jackson

Troopathon 2009: Heroes Not Victims

Hollywood has, for the last thirty years or so, made military members the butts of jokes – they’re either crazy Vietnam vets (Rambo) or corrupt institutionalists (The Hulk).  But most of all, they’re victims (see Platoon).  They’re victims of uncaring governments, of obtuse generals, of racist politicians.

Such portrayal couldn’t be further from the truth.  Since the end of the draft, America’s military men and women have courageously volunteered to defend our country; they have put themselves in harm’s way for a higher purpose than themselves.  They aren’t selfish or stupid – or dupes, as John Kerry suggested (”You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.”).  They are heroes.  As Orwell put it, “We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”  And today’s soldiers have trained themselves to be rough and ready; they haven’t been coerced or forced.  If the highest sacrifice is the sacrifice by choice, these men and women make the highest sacrifice every day. (more…)

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Tags: John Kerry, Orwell, Platoon, rambo, stuck in Iraq
Posted Jun 25th 2009 at 4:23 pm in Military | 168694No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2009/06/25/thursday-8/Troopathon+2009%3A+Heroes+Not+Victims2009-06-25+23%3A23%3A56Ben+Shapiro

Why Big Brother Matters: The Enduring Importance of ‘1984′

Few books in history, if any, have left such a powerfully lingering effect with their last four words as the classic tale of a totalitarian nightmare by Eric Blair (aka George Orwell), ’Nineteen Eighty-Four’: “He Loved Big Brother.” In those four words, the utter destruction of a human being, and by extension humanity itself, was complete. The novel remains a most dark and compelling tale, and is even taught as a full course in many college classrooms.

John Hurt in Michael Radford’s ‘1984′

The essential fact, the very heart of the matter, in George Orwell’s timeless classic is “the ability to say two plus two equals four. If than can be done, all else follows.” Yet the nightmare Big Brother regime of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ must by necessity keep redoing the math, even as it keeps rewriting history. Those who do the correct math, and refuse to see the equation otherwise, are the greatest dangers to Big Brother’s existence and are doomed to suffer fates worse than death. (more…)

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Tags: 1984, Annette Bening, Big Brother, dictatorship, Film
Posted Mar 30th 2009 at 10:13 am in Entertainment, Politics, Video | 918142 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jtsimpson/2009/03/30/why-big-brother-matters-the-enduring-importance-of-1984/Why+Big+Brother+Matters%3A+The+Enduring+Importance+of+%271984%272009-03-30+17%3A13%3A05John+T.+Simpson

Speaking Obama

In the past few days there have been several reports about officials, high and low, using new politically correct language to describe things which have been around awhile. The best example is the new head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, refusing to use the word “terrorist.”  She preferred describing terrorist actions as “Man Caused Disasters.” The problem with politically correct speech is that it hides the obvious. Even Big Freakin’ Hillbillies like me understand an illegal immigrant is someone who broke the law to get into this country. We of simple minds get confused when folks from the Ivy League start describing them as “migrants.” To us, migrants are plain spoken folk, those who waited in line, did the right thing and came here in accordance with our laws. (more…)

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Tags: abortion, New Language, Obama, Obama-Speak, Orwell
Posted Mar 29th 2009 at 10:55 am in Political Humor | 90950One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/03/29/speaking-obama/Speaking+Obama2009-03-29+17%3A55%3A54Jeffrey+Jena

Free Speech Fades in America

There is growing alarm among talk radio personalities and executives nationwide as the Obama administration embeds socialistic values into the American mainstream.  Thanks to President Reagan, broadcasters have been free from the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine for over twenty years.  The number of talk stations has grown from 125 to now over 2000 thanks to his great wisdom of repealing this doctrine which muzzled free speech.  Radio and Television owners simply didn’t want to risk being turned into the FCC and potentially lose their broadcast license if they said something controversial.  I worked for twenty years under this doctrine and we never broached major controversy – free thought and expression was tightly controlled over the airwaves.  When Reagan dropped the restrictions, Rush Limbaugh and a multitude of other conservative hosts emerged and succeeded because there was so much pent up demand by those who felt their views negated by restrictions and by the overwhelming liberal media bias.  Now, Democrats want to restore speech restrictions and it is simply covert censorship. (more…)

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Tags: Censorship, Censorship: The Threat to Silence Talk Radio, Conservative talk radio, Fairness Doctrine, Orwell
Posted Mar 19th 2009 at 10:44 am in Media Criticism, Politics | 84046163 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bjennings/2009/03/19/free-speech-fades-in-america/Free+Speech+Fades+in+America2009-03-19+17%3A44%3A01Brian+Jennings