Posted on 11/03/2009 7:06:07 AM PST by opentalk
Add 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.”
Later , Anderson Cooper from 4th place CNN, guest stars as a reporter for GNN. “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not” — Muppets representing real-life liberal news personalities — But no affectionate nicknames for Fox News personalities;
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.
..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.
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We got them on the run. They are getting desperate.
constant fight to counter the brain washing of our kids from every corner
I suppose we can call or write to our local PBS stations and tell them the donations stop if this kind of crap is going on.
Imagine how groucy Oscar would be if he had to work to stay on the air and then had to pay 40% taxes on any income he managed to make.
Sesame Street has always been a creepy kids show. After all, Evil Bert hangs out with Osama Bin Laden.
I think he was being ironic :-)
It’s ironic that Oscar the Grouch, the archetypical liberal (foul mood, surviving on trash, homeless), would be portrayed as watching Fox News. If the producers of Sesame Street were more interested in realism, they’d portray him as watching the fringe leftist cable shows that constantly harp on how rich white men are oppressing all the downtrodden minorities, yada, yada, yada, feeding Oscar’s resentment against “the man.”
It’s the whole Bert and Ernie “roommate” thing that always had me all wee-wee’ed up.
this is sickening. my boy learned so much from Sesame Street. He was humming the SS tune before he could talk, but hell if i’ll ever let my grandchildren watch (if i ever get any that is!) :”-(
Your tax dollars at work. Your children at risk. Sesame Street costs $20 million per year to make and takes in over $100 million per year in merchandise sales. It also receives institutional and government money (28% of its revenue in 2007-2008). Not bad for a “non-profit.” Guess what? The rest of us pay the taxes that Sesame Street doesn’t.
Sesame Street has always been a marxist propaganda outlet.
Taxpayer funded anti American indoctrination.
this is a 2 year old episode? sesame street always was ahead of its time.
I would think this an opportunity for Fox Broadcast to feature some wholesome, conservative, children-oriented programming. Maybe even start a new cable channel for children’s programming that parents could feel safe with. Conservative households could then block the other channels.
As a kid growing up in the 70’s and early 80’s, I truly disliked Sesame Street. A 9 year old back then didn’t know the words “political correctness” but I always felt that something was wrong/weird with that show.
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