Call The Waahhmbulance! Wingnuts Upset Over 'Pox News' on Sesame Street
By Susie Madrak Wednesday Nov 04, 2009 3:00pmVia Raw Story, something that proves more than ever that wingnuts are nothing but a bunch of WATBs. Now one is complaining that two years ago, Oscar the Grouch made a crack about "Pox News":
Forget Tinky-Winky, or whatever his name was. Meet Oscar the Grouch.
A conservative blogger at Andrew Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" website -- the onetime right-hand man for conservative maven Matt Drudge -- is now targeting Sesame Street for its "unfair" portrayal of Fox News as "trashy news show."
Evidently, Oscar the Grouch's "GNN" is not trashy enough. (Oscar, the furry green puppet, if you remember, lives in a trash can.)
During a Sesame Street segment, Oscar finds himself interviewing a puppet celebrity. A crabby viewer calls in to rebuke him after one of his subjects begins kissing him.
“I am changing the channel," the viewer crows. "From now on I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.” Story continues below...
Breitbart's "Stage Right" blogger will have none of it -- even though the episode was originally broadcast two years ago and only recently re-aired.
"If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch 'POX News,'" the blogger pens. "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," the blogger continues. "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."
Yeah, no channels left, and certainly no conservatives. No "Morning Joe," no Lou Dobbs, Pat Buchanan, David Frum... oh, never mind. What's the use?
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Their mouths only move when Matt's hand is up their a$$.
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
If this person is so "offended", she must know that any message that's being given is obviously correct.
Oh for god's sake! When a puppet can twist your bloomers maybe it's time to put on a clean pair.
Isn't there a statute of limitations on whining about any particular instance of "liberal bias" in the media?
Apparently not.
Steve Allen:
"They can pick it up, but they don't get it."
Boo hoo hoo!
Jim Henson must be proud!! I've always loved the Muppets and appreciate that they're on the same side of the aisle as I am... Neocons are a bunch of whiny babies, the whole bunch of 'em!
nuff said
can undermine your parental authority...
You probably suck as a parent.
Undermining weak parents' authority for going on 30 years now.
"If a muppet can undermine your parental authority...
You probably suck as a parent."
Small correction: If a muppet can undermine your parental authority, you ABSOLUTELY suck as a parent.
It's Grover, Bert and Ernie! Hide the kids!!!
"without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority"
Respect ma awthoritay!
<Nelson Muntz>HA Ha!</Nelson Muntz>
Now you've done it. I'm on the floor, you have to help me up now :-D
I'm surprised they didn't faint the first time they ever heard the little song, It's not easy being green.
and "GNN". They should be pleased that they are getting fair and balanced parody.
Unbelievable. Being mentioned in parody at all on Sesame Street should be an honor.
Sure there is... Oscar just told you... Pox!!
If the conservatives hate America so damn much, why the hell won't they just LEAVE?!
Probably because they can't find another country that would take them.
or planet.
or galaxy.
universe
quantum multiverse
unidimensional time warp
solar system
aaah...but of course...there is the dark emptiness of the black hole of Rush's anus.
is currently being occupied by a maggot
Couldn't get DEMS to pay all the taxes for 'em.
I wish they would , but who would take them ? Only one possibility , the Taliban , after all their mission is the same .
You know what? I don't think those bitching about the show are smart enough to understand it and see the comedy. It must be sad to go through life without a hint of a sense of humor.
There was a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks, and I don't remember exactly the quote, "Are you dimly aware of the cruel irony of the universe giving you such a tiny brain?"
I think of that quote often these days...
is wrong with these people?
They are habitual bitchers.
Wait til the Yanquis win the Series and not the Poducunk Klanners!
must have pushed the Muppets that way...
poowah widdle babbies.
hee hee
That blogger is no doubt a beck fan as he did a whole episode about the promotion of service that the white house encouraged. Of course Beck found plenty wrong with it in his little empty head.
There's a rich vein of manure in that stoney outcropping!
But it's the kind that kills your plants and stinks up the place.
Breaking News:
Buster Bunny has issued a debate challenge to any Faux Noise talking head!! ;o}
Will Buster spot them a couple of dozen IQ points just to make it fair?
As if little kids watching the show would have a clue about fox or cnn or anything else political.
the producers of Fux or CNN know either...
Oh yeah. "Service and volunteerism" promoted on kids channels. What horrible leftist brainwashing. Don't those channels also try to promote envioronmental awareness and social equality? God forbid those kids not grow up to be dicks.
As in, a POX on all their houses!
An Apoxalypse!
curse! Thank you! :P
these people do NOT bedwet and shit themselves over?
one hundred twenty two deaths per day due to a lack of medical insurance doesn't seem to bother them much.
Or dead brown people for that matter.
The Muppet Mayhem is much more massive than medical insurance mishaps and mounting casualties in the wars.
Gotta love "concerned" parents. I hope their kids become Dems and independents.
Sure, they have a hissy fit when PBS does parody.
But when Bart on The Simpsons trashes Fox (the network he's on!) they find it quite funny.
Of course, it IS the family values network.......
They did bedwet over the "Family Guy" episode with the "McCain/Palin" button on a Nazi uniform. And Fox is refusing to air the episode where Lois gets an abortion (seriously). It will be on the DVD though, and more than likely show up on Comedy Central.
I hadn't laughed that hard for a long time.
as the "Bush/Cheney" bumper sticker on the back of an Imperial Star Detroyer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blUTIUxh-Mk&fe...
Thanks for the link! I can't believe that anyone would ever mistake a cartoon newscast like that for a Faux newscast... the cartoon announcer did such a great job and nobody at Faux does that!
Bert and Ernie... they're "roommates".... riiiiiiiiiiiight. Just another gay liberal agenda being promoted through muppet brainwashing of our toddlers.
Not to mention all that junk about "sharing" and "cooperation"... This is America goddammit... we don't like that commie crap.
I wrote the same thing to the site team when Susie wrote the post.
Teletubbies look out.
This must certainly be worse than a gay Teletubby. Think of the children.
Methinks puppets are out to destroy America. They should be arrested.
Bush or Sarah Palin, and especially if the puppet master is Dick Cheney!
Hi, btw! :D
Hi Anna. I'm back in Seoul. When I was in Prague I couldn't easily visit C&L because of the time difference and my work schedule. It was no fun once everyone had gone to bed. The GOP seems nuttier than when I left, three short months ago. Self-destruct mode, obviously.
PS Nicole. How are things in Egypt to teach. (Didn't your daughter/neice go there?)
And yeah, they are starting to turn on each other. Looks like it's going to get ugly.
It's a show I don't mind watching.
She is loving it, although it has been a bit of a culture shock for her. She's been learning Arabic and hopes to be placed in a school in Alexandria shortly.
What a fabulous experience for her. It's such a mind-expanding venture. The initial culture shock is usual. Wonderment at the diversity of our planet takes over after that.
I am NOT the same person that left Canada. I am more open-minded, tolerant, patient, and see the world very differently (in a good way.) I also see through the propaganda we were all raised with. (Every country does it.)
cry when this was broadcast? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA2j4SBOKDI
Sesame street was blasted by the right wing when it first aired, because of the number of African American children on the show....
For as long as I can remember right wing scum have hated the fact that Latinos are on the show, and at times there are some bits on the show done in Spanish....
The right despises diversity-
Notice how the right wing parent cited took offense at "Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon."
The right wing believes in exclusion, and the hatred of others..
watching the show in the early 80's, so I'm too young to remember when it first aired. That is ridiculous, and really sad.
Right wingers were in a fury that the show had any non white children, who they regarded as even lower than the puppets/muppets....
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Happy Aniversary SS!
28! Sesame Street had been on the air for about 15 years by the time I watched it myself! :)
I know that it's caused controversy many times over the years, but by the time I got here the show was already an institution, and I missed the initial reaction when the show first aired!
Being 3-4 when it began.
Having siblings 10 years younger than me and then cousins (I used to babysit) 10 years younger than that and then my own kids means that I've been watching Sesame Street directly or indirectly for almost the entire time it's been on the air.
They've always done puns like this--Breitbart is the worst kind of WATB.
My favorite: Norah Jones singing "Don't know why Y didn't come" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEzxchU4RUY
And the Spin Doctors: Little Miss Count Along http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC7zZMj4aNg
And Elmo drives me apeshit. My eldest's first word was Elmo. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyUxVCR0p9g
I was just thinking about that one
And this one's always been one of my favs... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbpuK_H2VY
about 7 years old, my mother babysat a younger child who drove everyone crazy with her rendition of the theme song. :)
Personally I was always partial to Oscar the Grouch. Had an Oscar stuffie I carried everywhere with me. :)
Me too! I loved Oscar and carried my stuffie with me everywhere!
Of course, I got some strange looks because I was 35 at the time.
I was about 5 or 6 at the time, so no strange looks! ;)
Imagine the joy in wingnut households when their spawns' first word is 'Fox'...
I don't know if this is hyperbole, but the thought of that disturbs me almost as much as when I see video of beaming KKK parents holding their babies dressed in tiny white robes... ugh
There was a time only Big Bird could see snuffleuphagus, but some thought that made light of mental illness, so he was made visible to everyone..
I LOVE Sesame Street and I'll pick up some DVDs of it when I come to the States next month. My eldest is 6 but he has a 3 month old brother and I babysit a 4 year old once a week and he will appreciate it. They don't show it over here.
I am 32, so Sesame Street was 8 when I was born, but I watched it. It broke stuff down for little ones without patronising them. Remember when Mr Hooper died? The gentle but real way they dealt with it still makes me cry to this day. They also did this one song/video about how sometimes you just need to cry.
Boy, those old wingnuts would hate where I live. My kids are half-Scottish,half Black American; we live in a racially/religiously mixed area; my eldest kid's best friend is an English born half/Sri Lankan/half Mauritian Hindu girl; a Turkish kid and a Bulgarian kid make up his other best friends; he is learning French and he told his brother to be quiet in Urdu or Punjabi. He's an atheist as well! (On his own accord, we never told him about God.)
Now they've put implants in puppet hands...
No doubt it would promote gaybashing, hatred of immigrants, violence in the shoolyard, and blind obedience to Jesus
this person supposed spawn will grow up to be closted a-holes along the lines of sister Drudge.
fuzz.
Those are the "freedoms" they fear losing.
Who is so sceered about what your kid is watching...
Here's a simple solution Ms. Conservowhinebot:
DON'T use the T.V. as a BABYSITTER.
'Problem' solved.
the TV, she might have to read to or play games with her small children, or take them to the park! The horror!
Just leave the little buggers to watch Fux, porn and the Military Channel. They'll be fine...
"Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon."
Oh the (fluffy stuffed) humanity!! Promoting service and volunteerism? What's next? Encouraging people to care about their communities and those who live in them? The blogger is right--all this liberal hogwash is putting us a dangerous road to eventual civilization. Next thing you know, we will tragically lose our focus on satisfying our personal greed and might even start treating each other with dignity (don't laugh--it could happen). Then where will America be?
Oh come on! We already do that. Well some of us not all. There are some of us that could careless about a hungry guy on the street. Then again is he really hungry or is he just trying to make an easy buck? He might be too lazy to get a job and is just sitting there on the corner swindling us. I know some people do. Oh and if you give him money what is he going to do with it? Drugs, food, beer, or all of the above?
Oh and America will still be the same way she's always been people looking down their noses at the poor janitor who has to come in and clean up the mess you are making in the store where he works all because you know you don't have to pick up the mess you're making. Lazy and not caring. That's were we will be. Amazing. Nothing changes.
I hope the lunatic right keep it up , the more asinine and absurd the better , they are not doing the Repugs any favors .
Oscar the Grouch is the real reason Obama won. That dirty puppets smearing of fox news cost the gop all those votes they needed to win.
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I remember during Bush's presidency that there were tons of commercials with him or Laura talking about volunteering. I think the phrase was something like "When you help your community, you help your country." Big deal. So they think volunteering is good? Good for them. I don't like Bush, but that doesn't make me instantly hate anything he supports as a kneejerk reaction. And if those commercials ever even mildly annoyed me, I certainly didn't change the channel or superstiously fear to ever watch it again. At most, I would roll my eyes.
Why are so many right wingers so terrified of growing up?
life! I wonder what it is like to spend every waking hour hating everyone else? I have come to the point that I no longer care what they say or do. If one tells me some bullshit like this I am just going to tell them that, republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America. They just run away and cry!
Bullies are classically cry babies when they get a dose of their own medicine, or someone calls them on their crap.
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""Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon.""
Yeah, take that, goddamn commies! My kid's gonna grow up to be an ignorant, selfish prick just like me! Jesus Christ! A multi-billion dollar network threatened by a parody on a popular children's show? There really is something wrong with these people.
I'm just kinda in this mood today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY
The Neocons have been forcing their world views down everyone's throats for nearly two decades and they have the nerve to react like this when something like this come along?
noticed but the Sesame Street character Gonzo wears magic underwear. See if you can catch the resemblance to a certain Fox News commentator and his audience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob6TTU1knUM
First, Gonzo's not part of the Sesame Street pantheon, never has..
Second, how's this related to the current brouhaha the neocons are manufacturing?
First, Who cares? A muppets a muppet.
Second, it's a joke. Don't like it? Don't laugh.
..if there's no point to it.
And secondly, the muppets on Sesame Street (apart from Kermit) hardly ever appear anywhere else except for specials like Muppet Family Christmas.
only if you don't get it.
Isn't that dennis miller's mo (more obnoxious)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPW0JY3gYw
..it's just that it doesn't connect in any way with what's up here..
Well I prefer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpcUxwpOQ_A
Anyway.
But then it's all about me, ain't it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL40TLab8Vg
Frankly, I'd say Oscar is lucky to still be walking the streets of Sesame, as this clearly happened under the careful scrutiny of the Bush administration that kept us so famously safe. The word of the day could just as easily have been "Gitmo."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALIAOTtIAM
The Daily Show!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january...
There is a country for the "wingnuts" right here in the heart of America. We don't fly the flag upside down, burn her, and we suport our men and women in uniform. All you lefties want to do is disgrace this nation. You want to attack anyone that doesn't follow your views. You want to beat the crap out of me right now because I'm a "wingnut" and proud of it. You hate me because I love my little xd .40 and I love to carry it and shoot it. You all want to find me and kick my ass cause I'm on this website running my mouth about the way you handle and run "peaceful" protests by having kids on skateboards run into a crowd of inocent men and women holding the flag in suport of our troops. You then take the flag form said men and women and burn it. The American Flag. Your flag and my flag. But there's not country for "wingnuts" right. Maybe you should look at your little activists and find a country that will take you all in cause I don't see why you're not kick out for the way that half of you act.
Yup, if being is a liberal is about anything, it's about wanting to kick people's @sses.
Genius. Pure genius.
knowing that you're ignorant, and cannot help yourself. Perhaps you would do well to look around this site. There have been photos of teabaggers clearly ignoring the Flag Code, something wingnuts are guilty of far more than you know. My father was a veteran, and I am proud of that, but I have no use for your jingoistic platitudes. If you explored the world outside of your "real America," you would recognize that the rest of the world resents American jingoism. People in other parts of the world look upon jingoistic posts like yours in all their illiterate glory, and they laugh.
And frankly, I can't blame them.
Being a former Boy Scout and Airman (E4), I'm always a little surprised at how little flag hags even know about how to properly display a flag.
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I've seen cheap US flags made in China, fluttering on car antennas all faded and torn.
And the funny thing is that the only proper way to dispose of an old flag is to burn it.
But I think the recommendation is you give it to someone like the VFW to do it, but how they do I have no idea. It may very well be a furnace.
wingnuts rant and rave about burning the flag, that's how you dispose of a flag that's seen better days!
Wed, 11/04/2009 - 19:07 — devilwife13
http://www.archive.org/stream/broadstoneofhon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjfdfU-uaPQ&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvhRhWWE44&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUCM5nK87mE&fe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRxV0ayIcyc
What a bunch of sissies!
C'mon weenie...pick on Muppets your own size!
Let's see ya take on Big Bird or the Snufalufagus!
PBS is generally considered educational with a lot of the shows they put on - Nature and whatnot. Why in the world would any Republican want their kids to be educated on a channel that MIGHT SHOW SCIENCE!?!
For that matter, why would a Republican want their kids to watch Sesame Street? Sesame Street hasn't ever extolled greed and selfishness - why would any Republican want their kids to get those characteristics?
and they're just getting around to b*tching about this? Isn't there some statute of limitations we could apply?
Good grief! Would you like a cookie with that whine?
There is no statute of limitations on Stupid.
Why does the GOP always look backwards? Now they are picking on a poor little kids show - I wonder how Beck will cry over this one?
POX News - now that is a good one. Everytime I watch it I get all itchy and scratchy.
After what the "loyal Bushie" Tomlinson did to PBS (but most especially, and spitefully, Bill Moyers), I really don't want to hear any of their shit about Sesame Street.
Conservative WATBs just want to get their cry on and nothing can stop them. Fine by me.
There's an old proverb:
The gracious way to deal with an insult is to ignore it;
If you can't ignore it, top it;
If you can't top it, laugh at it;
If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
Unfortunately, right-wingers are only able to laugh at misfortune (e.g. Limbaugh joking about JFK Jr's death).
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