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Liberal Rebecca Watson explains why it’s OK that rich kids will get to...
wordpress ^ | August 27, 2015 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

Posted on 08/27/2015 3:46:32 AM PDT by grundle

Liberal Rebecca Watson explains why it’s OK that rich kids will get to see new episodes of Sesame Street nine months before poor kids

In this video, liberal Rebecca Watson praises HBO for funding new episodes of Sesame Street, which it will let PBS air for free after nine months. The number of new episodes produced per year is also getting bigger because of this deal with HBO.

I agree with Ms. Watson that this is a good idea. She admits that rich kids will get to see the new episodes nine months earlier than poor kids, but also says that this is not a problem. I praise her for seeing this as a win-win situation instead of as a class-warfare type thing. I wish more liberals shared her way of thinking.

I myself grew up watching Sesame Street, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and other educational shows on PBS, and I am definitely a better person for having done so. Perhaps this makes me a “bad” libertarian, but I can’t think of any practical reason to oppose government funded public television. In theory, libertarians such as myself are supposed to be against it. But I believe that in this particular case, real world evidence proves that the theory is wrong. The financial cost of public television, as a percentage of the federal budget, has always been trivial, and the educational benefits of public television over the decades have been enormous. I am glad that I, as well as millions of other people, watched it when we were children, and if that required the use of taxpayers’ money, then so be it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_6MS3QDnOI


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To: Dr. Sivana

We need new episodes because times have changed. For example, the old episodes would not have had liberal messages about homosexuality in them. Nothing about the environment or global warming. So they need to produce new episodes to keep current with the latest liberal causes.


21 posted on 08/27/2015 7:01:50 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: grundle

“...The financial cost of public television, as a percentage of the federal budget, has always been trivial, and the educational benefits of public television over the decades have been enormous....”

I’d damn sure want to see the science on the latter part of that statement.

As to the former, being ‘trivial’ doesn’t make anything constitutional. In fact, I have a few Amendments I can point to to say it’s exactly the opposite.


22 posted on 08/27/2015 10:03:37 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: Gaffer

Bert and Ernie will probably get married and become King & King of Sesame Street and adopt a male Prince who later decides he perceives himself more as being a Princess, but its not like there’s anything wrong with that, right?!


23 posted on 08/28/2015 3:23:49 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

All them people is Hippies......Eric Cartman has the right idea about them.


24 posted on 08/28/2015 3:25:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Yes he does - classic.


25 posted on 08/28/2015 3:33:42 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: jacknhoo

“Oh-oh, Ma’am, you’ve got a full blown drum circle out in your back yard!”


26 posted on 08/28/2015 3:36:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

“You get a few hippies playing drums and next
thing you know, you got yourself a colony.”


27 posted on 08/28/2015 3:45:57 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: OttawaFreeper

I agree with you that those old episodes of Sesame St. were the best ones. The switch from Grover to Elmo as the lead host was a bad move and a dumbing down of the show. I was born in 1971, so it was those old episodes that I watched as a child. Perhaps today’s children would be better off if they stopped making new episodes and only aired the ones from before Elmo became lead host.


28 posted on 08/28/2015 2:45:00 PM PDT by grundle
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To: 9YearLurker

No one sticks entirely to their party’s platform.


29 posted on 08/28/2015 2:45:30 PM PDT by grundle
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