Posted on 10/11/2001 9:06:14 AM PDT by GHCubana
Muslim protesters use bin Laden posters featuring Sesame Street puppet
Muslim protesters are using posters showing the face of Osama bin Laden alongside Bert, the Sesame Street puppet.
It is believed an image of bin Laden with Bert has been inadvertently downloaded from a spoof website.
It has then been used on collage posters printed off to be used by protestors at rallies across the Middle East and Asia.
Photographs of protesters clearly shows them holding posters of Osama bin Laden with a small image of Bert by his right shoulder.
The Associated Press told Ananova the photos are genuine and not doctored.
The image of Bert and bin Laden first appeared in the cult parody website Bert is Evil.
An executive for Sesame Street said: "We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner. The people responsible for this should be ashamed."
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_421042.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
Story filed: 14:41 Thursday 11th October 2001
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Published: 10/15/2001 Author: sidebar moderator
Posted on 10/15/01 10:16 AM Pacific by Sidebar Moderator
The moderators moved quickly to pull the duplicates and that spawned 4 threads asking what happened to the threads.
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Because the duplicate threads were coming so fast and there are multiple moderators working, ALL of the posts were deleted at one point and the oldest has been restored.
We also decided to leave a second post, containing a pulished story on the subject in breaking news. Normally it would be better to have the full story added to the original thread, but in this case the original thread had many replies and the full story deserved to be available.
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Sounds to me like he is in with bin Laden!
(Same goes for that known associate of bin Laden)
I don't get Arabic TV, but when I lived in Germany, we got TRT, a Turkish channel, as there are a lot of Turks in Germany. They had a Turkish Sesame Street, called Susam Stragi or something like that. I saw it only once, and only for about a minute. All I remember was Big Bird was not yellow, he was red. And of course he was speaking in Turkish.
I never watched English Sesame street when growing up in the States. My parents figured I'd probably learn to read even without the benefits of Children's Television Workshop. So I never watched it or the Electric Company.
Cordially,
Hehe, Photoshop comes in handy around here.
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