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‘Sesame Street’ Trashes Fox News (PBS)
Big Hollywood breitbart ^ | 11-03-2009 | Stage Right

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: children; defundpbsnbr; foxbashing; indoctrination; media; obama; propaganda; staterunmedia
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1 posted on 11/03/2009 7:06:07 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

We got them on the run. They are getting desperate.


2 posted on 11/03/2009 7:08:12 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: opentalk

constant fight to counter the brain washing of our kids from every corner


3 posted on 11/03/2009 7:11:07 AM PST by wardaddy (folks, these freepathons are taking too long tightwads, shame on us in front of the kooks)
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To: opentalk

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.


4 posted on 11/03/2009 7:11:23 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: opentalk

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.


5 posted on 11/03/2009 7:12:21 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: opentalk

Sesame Street has always been a creepy kids show. After all, Evil Bert hangs out with Osama Bin Laden.


6 posted on 11/03/2009 7:13:24 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: NEMDF
I do not know of any conservatives that donate to PBS, because they have been projecting propaganda for years.
7 posted on 11/03/2009 7:13:25 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine

I think he was being ironic :-)


8 posted on 11/03/2009 7:14:48 AM PST by T Minus Four (This post is not approved by the White House!)
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To: opentalk

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.”


9 posted on 11/03/2009 7:15:21 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: ViLaLuz

It’s the whole Bert and Ernie “roommate” thing that always had me all wee-wee’ed up.


10 posted on 11/03/2009 7:15:35 AM PST by T Minus Four (This post is not approved by the White House!)
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To: opentalk; sodpoodle

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!) :”-(


11 posted on 11/03/2009 7:16:25 AM PST by uncitizen (I'm mad as hell and i'm not gonna take it anymore!!)
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To: opentalk

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.


12 posted on 11/03/2009 7:20:54 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: opentalk

Sesame Street has always been a marxist propaganda outlet.


13 posted on 11/03/2009 7:21:27 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
Not one dime from me EVER. They get govt funding, that's enough, their shows are not that great, only time you see something worth watching is during their Telethon, then it disappears.
14 posted on 11/03/2009 7:22:00 AM PST by annieokie (i)
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To: opentalk

Taxpayer funded anti American indoctrination.


15 posted on 11/03/2009 7:22:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: opentalk
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16 posted on 11/03/2009 7:24:28 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: opentalk

this is a 2 year old episode? sesame street always was ahead of its time.


17 posted on 11/03/2009 7:24:42 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: opentalk
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18 posted on 11/03/2009 7:27:36 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: opentalk

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.


19 posted on 11/03/2009 7:30:42 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: opentalk

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.


20 posted on 11/03/2009 7:35:18 AM PST by PGR88
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