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- 83457, on 11/13/2009, -1/+60They also had GNN - Grouch News Network
- AiR1890, on 11/13/2009, -9/+63When you have a kids show taking jabs at you, you know you are a crappy news channel.
- twiztidsinz, on 11/13/2009, -10/+60I don't blame them if it was intentional.
***** YOU FAUX NEWS for bashing Mister Rogers if for nothing else. http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/FOX_Did_Mr._Roge ... - kleon777, on 11/13/2009, -2/+43Are they hiring? Lou Dobbs is looking for work.
- aosmitty, on 11/13/2009, -1/+40I think everyone is glossing over the fact that the episode was written in 2006, so this is starting to feel like the February-New-Jersey-school-Kids-Obama-Song that got dragged out in August in a fit of Astroturf rage when Obama made the nationwide address to schoolkids.
Sure, there's a grain of controversy there, but why are we hearing about it now instead of 2007 when the episode originally aired? - digghasnoethics, on 11/13/2009, -4/+35The whole of reality is a slam against Fox Opinion.
- lennynumberone, on 11/13/2009, -7/+36Captain obvious here, and I say that was obviously intentional.
- catalysis, on 11/13/2009, -5/+32Sesame Street airs on PBS, a station constantly under attack by conservatives, and it receives government funding. I would assume most conservatives wouldn't allow their kids to watch it anyways, if they really practice what they preach.
- detcade, on 11/13/2009, -10/+33Even kids shows know...
- wsteele, on 11/13/2009, -0/+23As she said, how was it not equal opportunity parody? Grouch news network is better parody anyway. What does Pox news even imply. That they have small pox? Or monkey pox?
This is from the second comment of the orginal rant by Breitbart and I think is particularly accurate:
"If we conservatives are to be successful in the media, we can't keep grabbing our skirts and shrieking every time we are parodied, especially when parodied on a equal level with left leaning counterparts. Man up." -Fargin_Bastage - noahgelman, on 11/13/2009, -3/+20Don't ***** with Sesame Street. They can do no wrong.
- crunchdigg, on 11/13/2009, -4/+20yeah, alphabets are communistic, and Bert and Ernie are gay. Big bird never seems to have a job, looks kinda ... foreign.
- enantiodromia, on 11/13/2009, -4/+20Hey Barackalypse, remember when you said only the Left likes to get offended? I'll keep pointing out examples of your hypocrisy, ok?
This. - mtjohnson, on 11/13/2009, -4/+19No, just the Fox News viewers.
- mbraynard, on 11/13/2009, -4/+19I'm an FNC fan/conservative, etc and I didn't see anything about Sesame Street that was political. They were playing around with words and FNC wasn't singled out at all.
Relax. - EddiePotato, on 11/13/2009, -2/+16Especially since it promotes the idea that inner city living and multiculturalism are OK.
- niradg, on 11/13/2009, -5/+18Sesame Street viewers > Fox News viewers, in terms of intelligence
- joshmoney, on 11/13/2009, -4/+17"PBS's news content is liberal."
Liberal? I suppose that when you're so far to the right anything in the center will look like it's on the left. - Mujokan, on 11/13/2009, -2/+14GNN is not THAT grouchy...
- GrammerPants, on 11/13/2009, -1/+12I don't see anything wrong with it because the kids will find it funny because it is named "pox". They will have no greater understanding of it and really won't get the joke. It's only adults that will be offended.
- whatthefu, on 11/13/2009, -2/+13It was aired two years ago! If you wait until now to complain about it suddenly because the ***** of Fox is in the national spotlight, you're a bitch.
- ironhide, on 11/13/2009, -2/+11@kelon777 if I had a hundred diggs, they would be yours.
- elliotys, on 11/13/2009, -1/+9Hey I have an idea, how about not relying on a kids TV show to raise your kids. Turn off the TV, give em some legos, playdough, coloring books, or even scarier yet, send them outside (if it's not too cold of course). Of course all of these activities require adult supervision, YUCK!
- digitalArtform, on 11/13/2009, -1/+9She went on to say, "Don't worry. We are fully on board with the corporatist agenda. (this message brought to you by the letter G and the number 3)"
- AmazingSteve, on 11/13/2009, -3/+11Even children are laughing at them now.
- RatatRatR, on 11/13/2009, -2/+9And perhaps Barackalypse will undergo a little enantiodromia of his own.
- mejf2loy, on 11/13/2009, -18/+25 "no political comment or comment about Fox News, subtle or overt, was intended!"
Really? Fox news, Pox news....
Ms. Barry must think we are all complete idiots. - Langford, on 11/13/2009, -3/+10Fox News may seem funny to you or me, because it makes it's self ripe for parody. It isn't a matter of political affiliation to recognize they are a crummy station. When your high rated star likes to cry on cue, don't be shocked if people make fun of you.
- ironhide, on 11/13/2009, -9/+15I don't know..do you watch Fox News?
- enantiodromia, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6you know, you may be the first person in my last 10,000+ comments to actually understand my screen name.
i chose this screen name for that very reason: i enjoy watching people get so extreme, they wind up turning into the thing they hate so much. :)
+100 - AgeofMastery, on 11/13/2009, -1/+7The episode was originally aired in 2007, but it's still Obama's fault...
You really are insane - Caffeinate, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5Age, you just owned spider-man.
- Mujokan, on 11/13/2009, -1/+6I guess for similar reasons, since the WH-FN beef is kind of current.
- TheDrewboy64, on 11/13/2009, -0/+5http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dknu9gSnhqI
Now THERE's a trashy news channel! - quirkopatra, on 11/13/2009, -2/+7little ado about nothing
- RatatRatR, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4The concept (and the word itself) stuck out to me during my Jung phase in college.
Cheers. - seraphim72, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4So then do also think that they will believe that all of CNN is grouchy too?
You also want to make 2 arguments that don't agree with each other:
A) Kids are smart enough to put two and two together and figure out this grand slur on Fox News
and
B) They are dumb enough to believe it and never ask an adult about it.
I worked as a preschool teacher for years and I can tell you that never ONCE did any parody done by a childrens show, PBS, Disney, Warner Bros, or anybody ever come home to roost in a kids head. If it ever even got close they would always ask an adult and guess what an adult who thinks Fox is a good news source is going to tell them?
How about you turn your Offend-o-Meter down a few notches and consider your "Think of the Children!!" Hysteria Card punched for the week. - UselessTrivia, on 11/13/2009, -3/+7Sesame Street has been doing parodies for 40 years. Not that big of a deal, but it will fuel the myth that PBS is part of the liberal media conspiracy.
- Swift2, on 11/13/2009, -0/+4Syphilis used to be called "the pox," but I'm sure that's not what they had in mind.
I think it's true, from the 5-year-old level. Parents watch reputed "news" programs and start screaming at the TV. Kid gets anxious. What he understands sounds pretty depressing and scary.
I grew up with bad dreams about Russian bombers overhead in the middle of the night. This generation will grow up dreaming of Glenn Beck. I had it easy. - Falldog, on 11/13/2009, -2/+6Remember when FOX promoted and caused controversy over a school play months after it took place, and only when it helped their 'Obama Indoctrination?' agenda? Like that.
- FredFredrickson, on 11/13/2009, -5/+9Rational thought is a slam against Fox News.
- bbtweb, on 11/13/2009, -1/+5WTF blizzardice1? ironic how the super right didn't give a crap when the episode first aired, but now (2 years later I might add) it's suddenly become an intentional and aggressive attack on fox news issued by Sesame Street. But you don't hear any complaints from CNN viewers. Regardless of that even, what kid is going to have the cognitive ability to read so irrationally far into it - as you have - and feel that fox news has been attacked?!?!
- scoottie, on 11/13/2009, -3/+7No
- Laminarcissus, on 11/13/2009, -6/+9And when Fox News was caught by the Daily Show putting footage of a much better-attended rally in place of a poorly attended rally, Sean Hannity called it an "inadvertent mistake."
In your words, Mr. Hannity must think we are all complete idiots.
So I think the truth is very simple: by getting caught at doing something they intended to do and then lying about it afterwards, Ms. Barry was simply continuing the parody of Fox News. - rgersmrk, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3The better question of all of this is....Who cares? It's a damn kids show. Most kids who watch Sesame Street wouldn't know the difference between Fox News or the local news. The only people that need to get over it are all the idiot adults who are actually offended by this.
- FinalStriker, on 11/13/2009, -3/+6Grundgetta Grouch FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- FredFredrickson, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3Pointing out that a *****, untrustworthy news station is ***** and untrustworthy is not an opinion. It's a fact.
- EddiePotato, on 11/13/2009, -0/+3Shouldn't it be the letter G and the number 8?
- asnider, on 11/13/2009, -4/+7Considering that earlier in the week the PBS Ombudsman was quoted as saying something along the lines of, "It was one of those opportunities for satire that was just too good to pass on. But it should have been passed on," I find it hard to believe Barry's quote.
- nedzeve, on 11/13/2009, -1/+4I suppose PBS does air far more content about science and the arts than they do religion and NASCAR.... kinda sad those are reflective of the respective "liberal" and "conservative" mindsets.
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