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.
simple solutions for complex problems:
Friends don’t let Friends Watch TV, unless it’s FOX NEWS.
I think folks are writing more into this than is there, they got a CNN guy to be a guest star and wrote a parody story line around it.
Have you ever watched Sesame Street? If not, I suggest you go catch some of their “MONSTERPIECE THEATER” skits, they are great parodies that kids laugh at for one reason and adults do for an entirely different one.
Sadly SS has lost a lot of its edge from when it started 30+ years ago in that area, and especially since Henson died (but that’s the muppets in general) but I am not getting jumping ugly at a Sesame Street parodies.
Sesame streets downward spiral began the day Snuffalupagus was no longer Big Bird’s “imaginary friend” and was seen by the rest of the cast.
I’m just looking for my little black puppy.
My daughter is almost 2 and can’t sit through 1 episode of Sesame Street. We tried but she is totally bored with it. Her morning fave’s include: Blue’s Clues, Ni Hao Khilan, Jack’s Big Music Show, Wow Wow Wubbzy, Yo Gabba Gabba, Dora, Diego, and The Wonder Pets.
Wow Wow Wubbzy is her favorite hands down. We love Nick Jr. because there are no commercials and all of the programming is geared towards learning different things in each program plus there are puzzles, songs, and really effective stuff on there.
We also own Baby Can Read...the DVD’s and books...best thing you could ever buy your child.
The rest of the time she is out playing or in the pool. No PBS brainwashing here...we tried to give it a shot but just couldn’t do it. I won’t even begin with how bored she was with Mr. Rogers re-runs.
Sure has. I used to love it when I was a kid and now as a grown adult...hoooooo boy...do I read though that marxist crap.
Amen. Snuffy’s voice also changed as well. What was the thinking on changing him from an imaginary friend to a visible friend?
Grandson dropped by for a visit - NO battery operated toys, NO TV, NO swing set....so I improvised. Took him outside and taught him to play golf with a stick and tennis balls!!!
We had to rake leaves first!
Time to get our children back playing IN the real dirt - not passively watching the detritus that passes for education on TV and in the NEA classrooms.
sod;)
sod,
what happened? wasn’t the kid just born like 6 months ago? and you’re teaching him golf already? well actually it’s not a bad idea. start him early and he could be the next Tiger Woods/Serena Williams.......
Imagine if Seseme Street programming on state run Public Broadcasting System was funded by the sale of licensed Seseme Street toys, clothing, and other products rather than taxpayer funds.
Didn’t Snuffalupagus work in the Clinton White House and then move over to ABCDisney News?
I always suspected that Bert and Ernie were a couple.
Neither of my children liked it either. Unless one was living in the Bronx, SS would seem like another planet.
Well he always was REAL, just the other folks on Sesame Street always seemed to be looking the other way when he was around. I don’t know what the motivation to make him visble was, maybe after so many years of setting up ways to make sure Big Bird saw him but no one else, they got tired of the storyline.
Oh, come on. You’re joking! Cookie Monster still eats cookies! Doesn’t he????
No, I think it is veggies now.
i can say with great pride, my children never watched Sesame Street...
What is that?! A cookie monster who eats veggies instead of cookies? That’s just dumb.
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