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Faux News says that Sesame Street is corrupting your children. It must be true. Is it the name? Sesame Street sounds awfully middle eastern. How is Sesame Street corrupting children. Please leave specific details.
That darn sharing. We have to do something about it. Brainwashing in its most obvious form? It must not be so obvious because I missed it. Ah wait, it was Che Grovera!
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Those were freakin’ hilarious, Moon! Fox News people beg to be laughed at, mocked and made fun of.
Sure wish conservatives could find something besides Sesame Street to get outraged over. I guess they prefer Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians. I grew up with Sesame Street, so did millions of us. Big Bird, Grover, Ernie & Burt are endearing for those of us who did. There is nothing wrong with it.
Conservatives are a miserable, unhappy and humorless bunch of people.
Nothing says “liberal campaign strategy” like Big Bird!! 16 Trillion in debt? $4/gallon gas? High Unemployment? Escalating tensions in Middle East? Nah, look here!! Big Bird!!! It’s maybe the intellectual cornerstone of progressive thought….Sesame Street! I like and fully endorse this strategy.
Or…if you are the conservative/liberal/moderate candidate …(pick a day) you can sit down with a bunch of retired generals to learn your foreign policy, drool on yourself and them and then say in the 2008 debates before 9/11 no one even mentioned terrorism.
What planet does this guy live on? At least the electorate has a prayer of remembering Big Bird. He’s probably right on the level of many American voters anyway. Big Bird eats mice for dinner. Run slowpoke.
Big Bird
Never really stopped watching it, didn’t you?
Bwaaahahahaha like YOU are one to talk! @Slow
Actually it was your candidate who injected Big Bird into the campaign.
Is that a real campaign ad? For, like real? Seriously?
That is freaking AWE-SOME. Middle East is burning and the Administration focuses on Big Bird. YES! Blow back will be fun on this one.
Even with fauxcahontas I don’t remember many bankers going to jail…..
If you can’t cut big bird’s Federal subsidy what can we cut or is all the talk about the deficit, debt, sequestration, unemployment blah, blah blah, just that — talk for another 4 years? I would like a list.
Cut defense spending. PBS is a drop in the bucket. It educates people. We can’t have that now, can we?
Who is stalling things, btw?
Romney MENTIONED Big Bird….progressives made him the intellectual cornerstone of Obama’s campaign. Not that I blame you, you have to go with something Obama’s base can understand and relate to.
I think it might be a cut above the three cornered hats and the fife and drums. I hear the Bird is the Word. It great if we employ symbolism. Democrats will use muppets and the Republicans can use bumper sticker slogans.
You can pretty much discuss most of the country’s problems using muppets. I offer up the Count.
Now, in addition to not being serious about our economic issues, I think we might discuss the low honesty quotient Mr. Obama has exhibited. But let me not be accused of racism by asking how he got into Columbia or Harvard or who paid for his education, I do remember the getting over agenda and it is still admired, let Mr Sowell sort it out in a different way for you; worth reading…
http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/10/09/phony_in_chief
🙄 Harvard and Columbia both have endowments for minority students who weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Next question.
Sowell is a dumb ass if he thinks that was ghetto talk. Does he think we are so dumb we don’t know the difference?
I don’t suppose you picked up on Romney’s fake Virginia accent he tried out a few times during his address to VMI? I noticed it in particular on words like “time.” He didn’t do such a hot job with it but he was just a yankee boy trying to fit in. I understand that. I missed hearing Romney talk to the coal miners. I bet he put on his talking to coal miners voice also. That, too, is ok. It isn’t phony. Its trying to fit in. He knows he has nothing on common with coal miners.
I forgot to tell you blue, I have no clue what the last part of your sentence said. Want to translate?
If Obama earned or was otherwise given an opportunity to get an alumni scholorship, he should say so, nothing wrong with that – and stop the suggestion that he did so through their foreign student scholorship programs.
Sowell should be so dumb. Really, all you took from the article was the accent part. Did you read the part about attacking the Stafford Act waiver for New Orleans which he voted against? Its not just that he lied about the issue, its that he lied about his own position on it. It is a more and more a common theme as he gets better vetted this go around.
Utah has an accent that could be confused with with a Virginia accent or be easilly influencedd by a bunch of Virginians around you . Not sure that applies as much to to a Hawian, Indonesion, Harvard educated Chicaoan. I think Sowell took offense to it.
Blue blathered:
screw you Blue. I have no idea what you are talking about and neither do you. I never said anyting about a foreign student scholarship program. Hawaii isn’t a foreign country.
You obviously have never been to Utah. They don’t sound a thing like Virginians ….any part of the state. Now, considering Romney grew up in Michigan this is getting to be an even further stretch. He went to college in Utah. He lived there while working with the Olympics. Maybe you are thinking of Jon Huntsman. He lived in Utah a long time. He doesn’t sound like a Virginian either.
You never answered why you chose this issue to start a fight over. I merely said Romney tried a little Virginia accent at VMI yesterday trying to fit in. What’s wrong with that?
@Moon-howler
“He knows he has nothing on common with coal miners.” Now that is funny, like Obama does.
Truth is that Romney has a lot more in common with coal miners that Obama does, from their interest in clean coal technology and energy independence to being hard scrabble, hard working, traditional family values, patriotic, independent and responsible country folks. Obama will not win Ohio or Pa with their votes.
🙄 again.
The problem was, Obama wasn’t talking to the coal miners, Romney was. Again, Romney has nothing in common with coal miners. No one was criticizing him. So why are you trying to pick a fight?
Do you seriously think that most coal miners are interested in clean coal technology? Coal miners want safe jobs. Romney wants to be elected. Let’s not create a relationship here.
Afraid I don’t know what it means to be “hard scrabble.” As for the other attributes you slathered on coal miners, don’t you think that probably varies a bit from individual to individual? Probably not a good idea to call an election. You have no freaking clue who is going to win and neither do I.
@Moon-howler
As you said, “You have no freaking clue who is going to win and neither do I.”
We can agree on that.
Unfortunately, with all the bad / sad economic statistics, political divisions, etc, Obama is still in the fight. That alone is an historical anomoly that they will write books on for years. I do have a sense of the two directions one will go over the other. One is a serious and experienced leader who has the money to stand down and relax, but is concerned for our and our children’s future. The other is and always has been a political hack who too many of us placed our hopes on. Other than expanding the big govevernment welfare state, he has refused to address any of our structural problems. He could have been the Nixon goes to China domestic, economic and cultural President. Instead, he turned out to be Daffy Duck on Air Force One with a 14 handicap.
Serious and experienced leader? Perhaps in some areas. More than Romney, who I just think will say anything for a vote, I worry about “the base” who I find just horribly offensive along so many lines.
Where do you see yourself in all this, Blue?
Our primary goal is to improve the economy and help create jobs, not cut the deficit.
Ask your candidate for his list. The only item on Romney’s cut list is Big Bird.
How the hell is your candidate going to cut the deficit by increasing defense spending, lowering taxes and cutting PBS? Do that, and the deficit is supposed to magically disappear? Hah.
You all are the ones drinking the Koolaide.
@Starryflights
The difference between a liberal, Starry, and a puppy, is that as the puppy grows up it stops all its whinning, takes its training to heart and acts like a dog.
@blue
Evasion of the issue duly noted, “blue”, along with your ignorance of the subject matter.
Like “Hope and Change”?? or “Forward”, bumper sticker slogans like that? Or did you mean bumper sticker slogans like “War on Women”?? Crack me up.
Uh-Oh. Sesame Street has asked the Obama campaign to stop using big bird in campaign ads. Awwww, poor liberals!! NOW what are you gonna do?
Well, I don’t know about you Slow, but as a warrenfauxlib, I am going to demand $18,000 for my Viagra. Its about my needs and the quality of life not just the bare bones.
I know, I know, Moon, “Screw you blue.” so sorry.
Actually Viagra is covered under most health care plans, unlike contraception. Not that I begrudge you…if that’s what it takes…..
I don’t know if PBS should be subsidized still, I’d like an intelligent discussion, but that clearly is not possible with people who still defect onto issues like how Obama paid for school. Who gives a shit. Will that solve our economic issues? No.
O.K. cut PBS spending, now what? End federal funds to Planned Parenthood. End legal abortion. Will that decrease those unwanted pregnancies, now taxpayers can pay MORE into welfare. Wittle away at all the small programs that help the poor. Now what? So only have defense and energy in the pocket of government. Is this the society you want? End social security, have people depend on the stock market and saving accounts. Will this ensure a viable senior population? End Obamacare, have it go back to it the way it was before, is that a sustainable path to control healthcare costs? Turn medicare into a vouchr program and give seniors 6 grand a year. Does anyone here pay out of pocket for their insurance? Do you have any clue what individual health care costs if you are not not 100% healthy?
Turn back regulations on wall street, give tax cuts and cake to everyone! Yes, lets implement the wish list of republicans and see how that works out.
ok, lets cut this $450 million from the budget. Where does the next 950 Billion (or more) come from to reduce the deficit to zero. And, he has stated that he is going to build 15 Navy Ships per year – that might get some on this blog excited – but how does the math work out – I have all the time today to listen to the math…..
Too bad Romney used a well known figure like Big Bird, who actually gets little of this money, instead of using a smaller program – and cutting the funding of the primary source of educational programming for low-income children and adults.
@SlowpokeRodriguez
Slow, Romney got exactly what he wanted by injecting BB into the debate. He now sounds more like a conservative.
8 mentions of Big Bird.
5 mentions of Elmo.
0 mentions of Libya.
0 plans to fix the economy.
If this is the best Chicago can come up with. We’re screwed cause Romney will win.
@Elena, I don't know either if pbs should be subsidized but I'm damn sure Big Oil shouldn't be and Slow, I can be sure Romney was lying during the debate, his lips were moving.
He never wanted to lower the tax rate for his friends and big business …oh yeah and the coal miner employers didn't force their employees to join Romney's stump speech. If it wasn't so important for the nation I would hope that Romney will win just to watch all you supporters get a taste if what it would mean like all our tax deductions would disappear and we would be starting wars in the middle east but alas it would be an economic disaster that we couldn't recover from (but if it's what you want, keep supporting him)
And this is in response to…….what?
All subsidies should be ended. ANY time the government screws with the free market, it screws up…..EVERY time.
But I haven’t made any points like “Romney wasn’t lying”….my point is that making Big Bird a campaign theme is like walking around with a sign pinned to your back that says: “Kick Me, I’m an Idiot”.
I don’t think that Sesame Street has screwed up at all in the past. It is incredibly popular after 40 years. The characters really havent changed.
I don’t think Big Bird is a campaign theme. It is just a little hay making while the sun shines.You could have worse mascots, by the way.
I would have chosen Kermit for the Prez.
Some musical jag-off like Springsteen tells a Republican not to use their song, they say “OK” CPB tells Obama not to use Big Bird, and they respond “Maybe”.
@slowpoke, and you don’t see the difference? How would all those muppet costumes be controlled at a rally? That is a stupid pissing contest for Sesame Workshop to get in to.
All those toys and Halloween costumes out there? Runaway Big Bird.
BTW, Patriot Springsteen is de BOSS. He rules!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkEU3JjNARs&feature=related
He takes care of his own
@Moon-howler
Have you seen any of Obama’s stump speeches that last couple days? It’s a campaign theme alright.
That doesn’t bother me at all. It beats watching Romney sway from side to side every time he changes his mind. He was for it before he was against it.
Sunny Days…
Sunny Days
Sweepin’ the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get,
How to get to Sesame Street
I think I will just keep on Counting.
BTW, whats that big slithering snake I saw you with? Is that YOURS? ***~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<:< HIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Which is why they’ll be just fine without taxpayer dollars. And yes, big oil doesn’t need taxpayer dollars.
What about NOVA – that is a show that probably does not get enough outside funding to survive – I actually do watch it now and again.
NOVA is an excellent show. I should watch it more often. This week is about Viking swords.
I think I really resent Republican cheapness. They spend billions on various wars, nation building. magnificent weapons 10 times over. However, when it came to getting our troops the state of the art equipment to keep them alive…where was it? Kevlar jackets? Remember the frackas over that? I remember the bills no one wanted to pass for the 9-11 responders who had life-threatening illnesses. How are the Vets fairing with the jobs bill? How about medical services, especially PTSD?
It makes you wonder why that cheapness spills over onto public TV, the only decent programming many people get.
I used to be bi-partisan about many issues. It seems that some of our folks on here have taught me the error of my ways. The prejudice, cheapness, and partisanship here almost rival the dark screen. There are folks who make a special trip over here just to be rude to me and Elena.
That’s ok…I have been turned…I have seen just what I supported at one time it won’t happen any more.
@Pat Herve
The line to sponser NOVA would be around the block. I would bet a month’s pay that big oil would be at the front of the line.
No, we had a reptile party for my oldest, who turned 5 Sunday. The kids really enjoyed the show. Bobby G Reptile party shows. the kids all got to touch and learn about snakes, lizards, and a couple of different arthropods.
They just come to your house for the duration of the party? What a neat idea. I bet I know someone who would like that party. They will have to ask their other grandfather to have the party there at his house.
8 million Americans watch Sesame Street each week.
1 one hundreth of the national budget given to PBS. $445 million dollars annually.
Candidate Romney really showed us some budget reduction. I at least wanted him to give up a stealth rather than add 15 battle ships annually.
@SlowpokeRodriguez
Big Bird is such a dude!!!!!
wowowowowowowoowwo Big Bird. Let’s hear it for the Mups!
I guess if Obama had put as much passion into defending our consulates and embassies on 9/11/2012 as he has put into defending Big Bird, our ambassador might be alive today.
What an incredibly shitty thing to say. Leave it to you Emma.
Proud of that one?
Whos Snarky ?
One of the new muppets.
Can I steal that Emma for use on my Facebook??
Absolutely, Marin.
I firmly support Big Bird: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ol1ucduWj0Y
I keep looking for proof that Big Bird told Obama to knock it off. I haven’t been able to find it.
“Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns,” the group said. “We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down.”
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters today that they’re reviewing Sesame Workshop’s request to pull the ad.” – CBS
Thank you.
Actually BB wasn’t endorsing anyone, was he?
I don’t really care. what’s one commercial. It was priceless at the moment. Now, how will the Republicans stuff all the genies back in the bottle? Sesame Street has no control over who wears a costume to the stadium or to a rally. They have no control over hand made signs carried by individuals. I wouldn’t want to have to walk that one down.
@marin
Is Big Bird male, female or androgenous?