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    Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins

    Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street

    But They Probably Don't Insult Fox News!

    10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street

    Monday Mornings Are Such Trash

    The Origins Of Your Favorite Muppets, Revealed
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    Image of SUNNY1 SUNNY1
    11/25/09

    In reply to Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins
    "I stained myself"

    That sounds so, so wrong coming from a Muppet.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins
    Sadly the average Fox news viewer probably wouldn't notice since they're already so used to getting their news from puppets.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    11/25/09

    In reply to Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins
    All I ever hear when I turn on Fox News is:

    Anchor: Meep meep meep meep, meep meep meep meep!

    Guest: Mahna mahna!

    Anchor: Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep? Meep meep meep meep!!!

    Guest: Mahna mahna! Mahna mahna! MAHNA MAHNA!!?!!

    Anchor: Meep meep meep meep meep! Meep meep meep MEEP MEEP MEEP!!!!?!!!
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    11/25/09

    @Lymed: Mah-nah mah-nah mah-nah, doo-DOO-dah-doo-doo.
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    11/25/09

    @Lymed: And all their audience members go "Yep yep yep yep yep yep yep yep mhmm mhmm yepyepyepyep yep yep yep yep yep yep."
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    Image of Caeristhiona Caeristhiona
    11/25/09

    @hydrogen_jukebox: So then, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would be Waldorf and Statler?
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    Image of HarpMadness HarpMadness
    11/25/09

    In reply to Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins
    The comb-over is the best.
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    Image of BearDownCBears BearDownCBears
    11/25/09

    @HarpMadness: Or the crew guy losing his shit in the background. Don't think he'll be working today.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Replacement Of Conservative Pundits By Muppets Begins
    Do The Bitters really need more puppets? Isn't Jeff Dunham enough?
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    11/25/09

    @BearDownCBears: I would have thought the entire lineup on Fox and Friends would have covered it. But what do we know, Bear?
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    11/25/09

    @SomeAuthorGirl: Reminds me: as long as we're on the topic of Fox and children's PBS...

    [www.rawstory.com]
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    11/25/09

    @BearDownCBears: NO! Do NOT be hating on Mr. R, creepy Fox people!

    I feel like rocking in a corner somewhere and cry-singing "You Are Special" to myself now.
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    11/25/09

    @BearDownCBears: This. Just. Blew. My. Mind.

    NO ONE puts Mr. Rogers in the corner. That man ought to be sainted.
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    11/25/09

    @icyblonde: "You'll never go down the drain."
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street
    Today's episode is brought to you by the letter V. For Vendetta, vilify, and verdant. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street
    THE YEP-NOPE MARTIANS!!! OMFG i love them so hard. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @pesematology: Yip yip yip yip yip radio! Radio! Yip yip yip yip! #sesamestreet
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    11/12/09

    In reply to Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street
    Sesame Street shouldn't have made the crack that they did. I think even they realize they went too far. However, I can understand the urge to make the joke. Many conservatives do not believe in public television, which is funny because they still sit their kids in front of the t.v. to watch its programming. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @mfnher: I think they weren't really making the crack, at least not as it appeared. Sesame Street is full of puns on real-world things, and rhyming "Fox" with "Pox" was, I think, probably supposed to be just another in-joke for the parents, like the Beatles and the Beetles, or Material Girl and Cereal Girl.

    That said, the joke was admittedly in sort of bad taste... But I still feel like they were just making silly rhymes, classic Sesame Street style. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @Caeristhiona: Didn't they also rename CNN into GNN, the Garbage News Network? Sounds like they were just spreading the insults about cable news in general, not just trashing Fox. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @willwriteforfood: That's right, they were -- and I'm still not sure it's insults. I remember when I was about six, listening to the Beatles for the first time (at least, listening to them and being aware of who they were) and thinking to myself, "Oh, I know them! They're like the guys on Sesame Street!"

    It really gives a kid a sense of belonging in the wider world, to have these sorts of touchstones with the things they see their parents doing on a daily basis. Sesame Street is like the pop-culture version of getting your kid a mini-sized baking set, or car, or shopping cart, or what-have-you. It motivates them toward growing up by giving them a safe arena to practice grown-up things in. And I think that's really what these news network cracks are about. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @Caeristhiona: Frankly, calling Fox Pox is seriously mild, so if O'Reilly is up in arms over this, then he's run out of things to be outraged about.

    And I agree with you that it's really less than insulting. For Sesame Street, it's par for the course. It's pop culture and they've been making these jokes for decades. Didn't anyone remember Monsterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cookie? #sesamestreet
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    Image of wtfox?! wtfox?!
    11/12/09

    In reply to Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street
    Why is that blogger letting their kids watch Sesame Street in the first place? I thought being a decent, tolerant, and non-hate-filled human being was against right-wing principles in the first place. #sesamestreet
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    Image of bluebears bluebears
    11/12/09

    In reply to Stephen Colbert Has Something To Say About Sesame Street
    Yes bigoted conservatives, god forbid your demon spawn watch Sesame Street and grow up to not be horrible people. Yeah, I called them horrible people, flame away.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/12/09

    @bluebears: (blowtorches the shit out of you) #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @morninggloria: It's cool, I was kinda chilly. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @bluebears: I think there can be rational, kind-hearted people at any point on the political spectrum.

    I also think that if you're crass enough to complain about a children's television show (with puppets!!) undermining your ideals that you're probably a terrible parent, and not that great of a person, either.

    No flame here. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @lastsinglestanding: I don't know why, but I was laying in bed last night thinking about gay marriage and how people who are against it are bigots and that they have no excuse and I was just getting angrier and angrier thinking about those people being given a platform all over our media and being treated like they had some legitimate political disagreement. Would we treat people who said black people and white people couldn't get married the same? No. They'd be treated like the racists they are.
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    Image of lastsinglestanding lastsinglestanding
    11/12/09

    @bluebears: I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one laying awake at night, pissed off over the powers that be. I read this yesterday and it made me feel a bit better:

    [www.slate.com]

    I hope it's true -- you can't stop progress. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @bluebears: Ya rly, same thing with the birthers--I know this was addressed on Jezebel somewhat recently but I have no idea why the media gives equal consideration to people without a valid point. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @pantsless economist...access RESTORED: I think because the media is more about entertainment than, you know, actually informing people and encouraging constructive dialogue.

    This also makes me angry. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @bluebears: I often wonder about this as well. We have people in political power who are straight up claiming the bigotry like it's some sort of prize, and not that many people calling them out on it. I keep this hope that some day we will look back at this debate the same way we look back at the interracial marriage debate and shake our heads and say "what was everyone thinking!?" But I fear that day won't come for a long long time. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @wooden_shoes: I hope so too. I think we will.

    @pantsless: and its not even that their viewpoint is invalid, its that its actively hate filled. #sesamestreet
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    11/12/09

    @bluebears: I have to agree. I just feel like anyone who looks at someone else and says "you do not deserve the same rights I have" is a bad person, period end of story. #sesamestreet
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    11/10/09

    In reply to But They Probably Don't Insult Fox News!
    Ok, some of those are rather scary looking.

    Does anybody know why each country, or at least the ones listed in the article all have their own different Oscar and i'm assuming other muppets? #oscarthegrouch
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    Image of CrankyOldBroad CrankyOldBroad
    05/27/09

    In reply to 10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street
    Do De Rubber Duck

    and

    I Dance Myself to Sleep


    My kids would laugh so hard at the Honkers, Honking Around the Clock


    and classic 80's spoof time: Kids Just Love to Brush

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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    05/26/09

    In reply to 10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street
    PUT DOWN THE DUCKIE!

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    Image of electric barbarella is a pretty hate machine electric barbarella is a pretty hate machine
    05/26/09

    In reply to 10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street
    Does anyone remember the really cool older animation of numbers with Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) singing it? It was very psychodelic.....Found it!


    And my parents wondered why I did drugs in college....

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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    05/26/09

    @octobersky is electric barbarella: Whoa. Dude.


    I think I may have had a flashback to 1978 there.

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    Image of HistoricUpstart HistoricUpstart
    05/26/09

    In reply to 10 Awesome Moments From Sesame Street
    I'm a dog, I'm a workin' dog, I'm a haaard workin' dog!
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    Image of gangey gangey
    05/26/09

    @HistoricUpstart: Nice call! I sing this song about 3 times a day to my cattle dog who needs to work or he goes crazy. Luckily, I've convinced him that catching a frisbee is work.


    If only he could do the dishes!

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