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Sonia Sotomayor Goes On Sesame Street And Ruins Every Little Girl's Dream (Watch Video)
Business Insider ^ | 11/13/2012 | Abby Rogers

Posted on 11/13/2012 6:53:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor stopped by Sesame Street last week to essentially dash Abby Cadabby's hopes of having a career as a princess.

"Abby pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career," Sotomayor told the pink puppet in a clip that gained prominence on BuzzFeed, the Washington Post, and TIME .

Instead, the justice recommended little girls go to school so they can be a teacher, lawyer, or "even a scientist."

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TOPICS: Education; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: sesamestreet; soniasotomayor
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1 posted on 11/13/2012 6:53:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, a princess got where she was by something other than talent, probably has the IQ of a certain incumbent president, and has never had a real job.

Sorta like Sotomayer.

Shove it Sonia, you’re a bimbo and you know it. Thanks for removing what little respect I had for the law profession.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 6:55:59 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: SeekAndFind
Elmo puppeteer accused of underage relationship

Posted: Nov 12, 2012 9:09 AM CST Updated: Nov 12, 2012 1:59 PM CST

"Sesame Street" character Elmo and puppeteer Kevin Clash arrive at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Dec. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, file) "Sesame Street" By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" is taking a leave of absence from the iconic kids' show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

Puppeteer Kevin Clash has denied the charges, which, according to Sesame Workshop, were first made in June by the accuser, who by then was 23.

3 posted on 11/13/2012 6:57:11 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

So a supreme court justice (an unqualified nitwit) goes on sesame street in her judicial robes? These pinhead LIBs have no sense of propriety. To top it off she attempts to quash the motivation of little girls everywhere. What a clymer!


4 posted on 11/13/2012 7:00:50 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Da Coyote

She’s (Sotomayor) is just another affirmative action appointee from our affirmative action guy in the White Hut.


5 posted on 11/13/2012 7:01:22 AM PST by Nowhere Man (Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
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To: SeekAndFind
"Didya here? Elmo's been diddling little boy puppets!"


6 posted on 11/13/2012 7:02:30 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not be a princess? Sotomayor made a career out of bing a troll.


7 posted on 11/13/2012 7:10:47 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not be a princess? Sotomayor made a career out of being a troll.


8 posted on 11/13/2012 7:10:52 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Why is the government more concerned about protecting a microbe on Mars than an unborn baby here?)
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To: KeyLargo

Pretending to be a princess is not a career but being a queen can land you one.


9 posted on 11/13/2012 7:11:46 AM PST by hometoroost (Frodo lives!)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
..or maybe a Democ'rat performance Artisssst, like Sandra Fluke...
the pay, is somewhat irregular..
*nevermind*
WHO LET HER on to Sesame Street..

10 posted on 11/13/2012 7:14:54 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (Anger a Conservative by telling a lie; Anger a Liberal by telling the truth....RWR 8-)
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To: SeekAndFind

The message is a good one. I’m sick of fools, both male and female, that think they’re owed something by others just because they exist. However, they could have picked a better spokesperson. Sotomayor has had everything given to her because of her heritage, just like a princess.


11 posted on 11/13/2012 7:15:23 AM PST by DarkSavant
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To: SeekAndFind
Headline: Kate Middleton states no future in role as Princess; aspires instead to be incompetent Lesbian judge
12 posted on 11/13/2012 7:23:06 AM PST by twister881
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To: SeekAndFind

In other words, “Abby, no fat, ugly wallflower like me ever got to be the princess, so I don’t want you or any other girl to have fun, either.”


13 posted on 11/13/2012 7:26:01 AM PST by CatherineofAragon (The idiocracy has come home to roost. God help us.)
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To: hal ogen
So a supreme court justice (an unqualified nitwit) goes on sesame street in her judicial robes?

It saves her having to say to people: "Do you know who I am?"

14 posted on 11/13/2012 7:26:51 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell that to Grace kelly.


15 posted on 11/13/2012 7:27:40 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: SeekAndFind

I ashamed of this woman who is a Supreme Court Justice.


16 posted on 11/13/2012 7:33:00 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SeekAndFind
Okay girls, first you try to get a good advertising gig ... say pitching cigarettes ...


17 posted on 11/13/2012 8:01:09 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Abby Cadabby should have told Sotomayor that “dreaming she's qualified to serve on SCOTUS is no different than dreaming to be a princess only the princess dream is less dangerous to America”.
18 posted on 11/13/2012 8:06:50 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: DarkSavant
The message is a good one. I’m sick of fools, both male and female, that think they’re owed something by others just because they exist.

The message is a bad one. A little girl's fantasy about being a princess has nothing to do with a sense of entitlement or the idea that she's going to lie around on silk cushions all day ordering people around, and it has even less to do with inner-city entitlement.

When a five-year-old girl says she wants to be a princess when she grows up, she's not talking about some adult image of a princess shaped by history and politics, or even by images of Princess Diana and the Duchess of Cambridge. She is referring to Disney heroines, who are the only princesses she sees regularly.

She means she wants to be beautiful and feminine, like Disney princesses, with long thick hair and gorgeous gowns.

She means that she wants to be spirited and independent, engaging in risky but ultimately triumphant adventures, as Disney princesses do.

She means she wants power, which is something little girls do not have.

She means she wants love and marriage.

There is not one thing in this list of dreams that is in conflict with conservative goals or principles. They're normal female psychological desires, and are not to be discouraged. What has to change as the child matures is her idea of how she is to get these things. Since she's not going to get the gowns, carriage, and loving husband by inheritance, she's going to have to work for them, one way or another. That could mean having a job, starting a business, or just being such a wonderful, loving conservative woman that some fine man will want her to be his wife and the mother of his children.

But to have a homely middle-aged woman dressed in black, a woman who never had that handsome prince, nag little girls about choosing an appropriate career path is disturbing. Do we have to start the pressure in the Sesame Street years? Can't kids go through childhood unencumbered by worries about their careers? The continual drumbeat to Have a career, Work, Perform, Dedicate, Work more, Sacrifice conflicts with the traditionalist belief that it's fine for a woman to be a wife and mother caring for her children.

19 posted on 11/13/2012 8:10:58 AM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Or go to the right university to meet the right person...

20 posted on 11/13/2012 8:15:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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