Sesame Street mocks Fox News with "Pox News," conservative blogger not amused
source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/sesame-street-trashes-pox_n_345510.html
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Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site is not amused. T
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/sesame-street-trashes-pox_n_345510.html
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Lorea
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I grew up with Sesame Street and I think it was one of the best TV shows ever made. Big bird and Kermit, Burt and Ernie were all favorites when I was growing up. But I never liked Elmo. The character just seemed pretty poor compared to the others. Yes, my friends, Elmo is boring. Sorry. I know this will offend some of Elmo fans out there but it's the truth. I regularly keep up to date with kids websites such as http://www.DozenKids.com, where Sesamestreet's website was ranked as the top E-Learning. Well deserved.
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Lorea
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rockfrek3
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Fox says that they have the highest viewership of any other news station I wonder if they get that for the most part us sane people watch cnn and msnbc for our news and fox news as comedy
- 2 years ago
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rockfrek3
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clarissainjapan
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haha! Everything i need to know in life i learned from Sesame Street!
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clarissainjapan
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Kidryu16
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Pretty sweet.
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Kidryu16
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Minus5scenePoints
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Teaching kids about the world for 40 some odd years! I'm sure they'll make the connect when their older. Pox/FOX=trashy.
Awesome. - 2 years ago
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Minus5scenePoints
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PsychoAlan
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That was extremely low-yield satire, especially compared to some of the Fox News parodies I've watched on other shows. And even then, this whole skit looks like it was parodying cable news in general without having one specific target.
Stage Right's knee-jerk reaction to this is very hard to take seriously.
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PsychoAlan
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zphoenixdownz
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seems to me that sesame street was mocking all news.
hey, doesn't that include bloggers now?
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zphoenixdownz
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Jen_Kuligoski
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Valid point laserdog, but it's still funny.
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Jen_Kuligoski
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margarita_coffee
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LOL! Very nice.
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margarita_coffee
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laserdog
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This is taken out of context. The rest of the episode has Oscar working for "GNN" Grouch News Network. The "GNN" logo is shown over and over again.
The Pox News line was a throw away line reference to another potential grouch-universe news show (where trashy = good).
So it isn't like they singled Fox out here, in fact, it is the opposite of that.
- 2 years ago
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laserdog
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Jen_Kuligoski
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Haha, LOVE IT. So true.
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EmperorThan
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I'm pretty sure conservatives aren't amused by ANY form of satire...
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EmperorThan
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harlequin_girl
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That was funny and cute and that blogger is a fool. Children who are watching sesame street aren't really at a level where they are interested in politics/aware of anything negative going on concerning Fox news/can recognize satire.
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harlequin_girl
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PureEm
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Talk about overly sensitive. This is hilarious! Happy birthday Sesame Street!
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PureEm
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bubl_415
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cute!
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bubl_415
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letlhogonolo
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hahaha this is great!
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letlhogonolo
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lifestudentno83
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Andrew Breitbart is getting his panties in a bunch about a joke. Kids don't even get the reference, and adults that do shouldn't take it any further than satire. Oscar was reporting for GNN (which is supposed to be CNN), however no liberal bloggers have decried the show for mocking CNN.
The real issue here is that this guy takes conservative politics so seriously he can't even enjoy a joke without making it an attack against Right-Wing politics by the Leftist Media. Since when did Sesame Street, a show geared towards toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners, have a leftist political lean?
This is not only over-reactionary, but it's plain stupid. Get off your high horse and learn to laugh at yourself; we haven't stopped laughing at you clowns since you followed Bush around as he drove the short bus conservative movement off a huge cliff.
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lifestudentno83
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FoosMaster
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lifestudentno83:
Good post.
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FoosMaster
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Betico
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awesome!
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Betico
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rufescens
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Looks like people are starting to get their balls back (sexism unintended). This bodes well for our future. Go Sesame Street!
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rufescens
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craigsaid
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rufescens:
Three cheers for some fucking god damn balls!
Hip Hip
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Makavelli45
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Leave it to SS to give foxnews a shot I wonder iBeck will go after Big Bird like he did ACORN www.twitter.com/Makavelligiga
www.myspace.comMakavelliOP - 2 years ago
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Maeveeo
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They should do more cause it is REALLY FUNNY POX NEWS ! LOL ! he he he !
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Maeveeo
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Nettle
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Nice.
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Nettle
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JonRaymond
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Pay back for trying to kill public broadcasting?
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JonRaymond
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notsure
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OK Trolls, Tell us how this is Presedent Obama's fault and that Big Bird is a commie.
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notsure
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tangibleparadox
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notsure:
oh oh, let me try! ummm... obama is brainwashing our children against viable commentary on the FOX channel. :D aaand big bird just looks like a commie. yup, big feathery commie on comrade street.
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tangibleparadox
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desertcat
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notsure:
Oscar: dirty hippie
Bert and Ernie: homos
Miss Piggy: slut
Kermit: addicted to flies
Obama: As a child he wrote a script for a tv show with puppets. Jim Hensen heard about it and signed him on as the first ever under 5year old tv writer The rest is history. Even as a child he knew he would grow up to become President and turn the US into a social state run by commies, gays, pagans, pot smoking gun hating hippies. Look how clever he was concealing his birth in Africa to Hawaii. Graduate of Harvard, I think not more like Hesbadon U.
You liberals just don't know how lucky we got Fox Noise to point out the truth according to Murdock. - 2 years ago
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desertcat
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LadybugLady [removed]
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notsure:
commie big bird WTF.
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HowdyDo
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Couldn't have said it better myself!
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HowdyDo
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pjacobs51
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He he, good ole Oscar.
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Kay_Bee
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You learn so much by watching Sesame Street
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Kay_Bee
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Manatee_man
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Ha ha, trashy news show. It's funny because it's true.
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Nephwrack
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Pox News! awesome. i'm so going to use that!
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Nephwrack
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rockfrek3
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haha god this is funny and so true
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rockfrek3