Many threats threaten America with their threatening threatiness. Terrorism. Socialism. Cooties. Sesame Street.
The Children’s Television Workshop? THE CHILDREN’S COMMUNISM FUCK-YOU-UNCLE-SAM-SHOP. Read this very important blog post and be afraid. Pee yourself. In FEAR!
Wait… I said in FEAR! Not in LAUGHTER! Whatever is WRONG with you? STOP LAUGHING!
Add one more soldier to the Left’s war on Fox News: Oscar the Grouch.
Oscar the Grouch: urban. Proud of living alternative lifestyle (in garbage can). Muppet of color (green). Bad attitude. Traitor to all we hold dear.
Last week, in a re-broadcast of an episode that originally aired two years ago, Oscar starts his own news network, GNN (Grouchy News Network). An irate viewer calls in to berate him that the news is not grouchy enough:
“I am changing the channel. From now on I am watching ‘Pox’ News. Now there is a trashy news show.”
OMIGOD.
If Mom and Dad watch cable news, it’s better than 50/50 they watch “POX News.” 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, 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.
…by the way, why SHOULD I change the channel? This is MY channel, I’m paying for it!
If the Gulag Archipelago were to have been Twittered, it would have been so profound.
But it gets profounder!
Irony is a wonderful thing. Just as the Left elected the perfect Propagandist-in-Chief, their opposition (you and me) got wise, agile and pretty entertaining. With every lame attempt to turn our kids against us, we now call them on it and point out how ham-fisted, clumsy and square they are. The Left’s worst nightmare came true: The conservatives are the hip ones.
“Sesame Street” can awkwardly slam FoxNews from the comfort of their stodgy old PBS studios… Meanwhile, we have the cool kids on our side: Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck. And our cool kids are pointing out just how boring, lame, predictable and lazy the other side has become. No longer will middle-America sit back and feel powerless as these snobs pass judgment on what we find to be informative and entertaining.
We no longer NEED their approval. We see them for what they are: bitter, pompous and desperate.
So. Um. We have Oscar the Grouch.
They have Dennis Miller.
I’m not complaining.
Why would I? I’m way ahead…



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Fake News has no sense of humor because they take themselves seriously. Not sure why that is.
We no longer NEED their approval. We see them for what they are: bitter, pompous and desperate.
Exactly right. A Pox on them and their insipid and childish whining. These phonies are threatened by Sesame Street? Sheesh.
WedThersday!
Cage match between Oscar and Dennis and Dennis goes down in six seconds flat.
You know, I was feeling a little pompous myself today. Must of been the ham and cheese sandwich at lunch.
Oscar the Grouch rules. Fox…not so much.
Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck.
As a follow up, if those are your “Kool Kidz”, I don’t even want to think about your dweebs. More like the Keystone Kops, but not funny.
Oscar can kick Dennis Miller’s ass without ever getting up off the couch.
Oscar the Grouch is the living definition of cool.
You’ll notice that CNN fans aren’t bitching about it. Even though the skit had their namesake losing viewers.
Riiight.
So uh we, Show some Spirt The Grouch is Ours even people who live in Garbage cans can’t sink to the Level of Pox News!
Dennis Miller is still alive?
Faux is going to get stomped on by a Cookie Monster and a really big yellow, pissed off bird.
Little kids are going to ask mommy why does Glenn Beck hate Big Bird?
Fake News has no sense of humor because they take themselves seriously. Not sure why that is.
When you take yourself to Serious you become the Joke?
Could it be that Grover gave Beck his appendicitis today?
I think Cookie Monster snuck him a mickey.
Horrible day tomorrow — must try to sleep. Bon soir all.
Makes me think of the Sesame Street COunting song, you know, where they would pick a number, and then count:
Wow.
“Cool” doesn’t mean what it did when I was in school, that’s fer sure.
Niters.
G’night. Hope it’s better than you expect.
Yeah. I don’t think the word means what they think it does. Somebody forgot to tell them that conservatives are, by definition, the anti-cool.
Wingnuts are, as a whole, “cool” in the same sense that the Sahara is “damp.”
I bet that dude was pissed that the L in Google today was spelled with Big Bird’s legs.
http://www.google.com/
And today is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street!
FUCKING TROTSKYS!
heh.
My bold Conservatives are the hip ones? Yes they dominate Music with their Rap, Rock, Jazz, Blues etc is there any kind of music they have not tried to ban? If a Dem tries to ban music or video games you know he’s a Blue Dog.
The GOP is famous for their humor so many GOP comedians are out there! And their trend toward the Realism of their Tractor homo erotic art of Hitler and surprisingly Stalin has all that Modern Art stuff beat/s
Cool Kids Jane and I have both used that phrase for years GOPer punks trying to steal Lefty Style!
snobs what I thought we were pajama wearing Cheeto eaters make up your minds Sheesh we are only Snobs when we beat GOPers with facts.
I’m actually older than Sesame Street? That’s not how I remember it.
Is it possible to be both astounded and not at all surprised at the fights these people pick?
This is wannerful.
And as useful to our political system and society as spark plugs are to diesel engines.
Quit yer whining. I was a senior in hughschool.
I would say more like sugar in the gas tank.
Ten! Ten Tiny Trotskys! Mu HA HA!
I was a Captain Kangaroo kid myself.
Desperate a sure sign of increasing desperation is a linked increase in Crazy the more Obama does the Crazier your side gets!
Death Camps, Brain Washing, the Census is a plot Katie Couric was mean to Sarah, Obama is a Secret Muslim we are not desperate enough to Lie Punks get over yourselves.
Yep. Me, too.
I am also shocked that you are older than Sesame Street.
Me, not so much.
Manfred the wonder dog!
The resemblance to a drunk in a bar, or a hopelessly deranged street person, is uncanny. I actually had a fight with a street person last week that reminded me very much of the rightwing’s fights. Nothing made any sense, including when he reached out and touched me, and I smacked him down, only to then be called “fa&&ot.” Entirely irrational, inconsistent, and without foundation.
“We make our own reality here” is something Karl Rove said once in an entirely different context that the wingnut-right has taken too much to heart.
Howdy Doody!
All the cool people are. I would never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, or gender but I hate everyone who is younger than me. “g”
When little kids laugh at your lies I think its over and Oscar has legions of little kid fans. Is Rush next up to denounce the Grouch? Is Oscar going to have to go on Keith O and respond to these charges?
You ever get the impression Howdy and Buffalo might have been closet cowboys?
I was fine with Captain Kangaroo, but I was always suspicious of Mr. Greenjeans. :)
Born in ’62, I had the benefit of the Captain, Sesame Street, (thought Mr. Rodgers was creepy so I wouldn’t watch it) and ZOOM! I Loved ZOOM.
BREAKING!!!!!!!!!!
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The Yankees win!!!!!
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Soupy Sales (RIP)
Okay, now you make me laugh harder!!! Back to read.
Don’t forget Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!
Is that some kind of sports thing?
A correction: Sesame Street is not shot at “PBS Studios”, it is done at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY.
The golden age of Saturday morning TV.
At long last, the Comrade’s Telepropaganda Sweatshop has unleashed its evilest plan…More evilest than the Count counting backwards by 6′s, even.
They’re so cool I’m gonna call them all culos.
;>)
You didn’t like Rodgers, how about Hammerstein?
Well, the certainly seemed to have a very close relationship.
Yes – such a formative time. Which is why I often think of republicans as the “Mystery of the Lizardmen”
-How did these people emerge from the sea?
-Why do they hurt all our peoples and steal all our shit?
-Why do they pick on brown people, and blow their shit up?
Time for me to toddle off. Take care all.
Fortunately their relationship never splintered.
G’nite.
I eventually got over them – both.
The nuns too.
Zoom-zoom-zooma-zoom!
;>)
I didn’t realize Jonny Quest was made in ’64-’65. When I watched it in the late ’60s it was apparently reruns. It was a trailblazing program for “alternative” lifestyles.
Actually, I have to admit, I LURVS the Sound Of Music! I really really do.
I make the Mr. watch it, but only every 2 years now. For which he is profoundly grateful.
I’ll get him to Salzburg one day, and make him cry after I show him the Hohenschlosse and the Felsenhaus and make him feel what it must have been like to have to run away from such a beautiful place.
I can’t decide which is scarier, clowns or nuns. Combine the two and you’d have a killer Halloween costume.
Zoom! I loved the fact that they had a secret language; ubbi dubbi language! I was hooked.
RF: “Tell the folks, ‘Goodnight,’ Bob.”
Bob: “Goodnight Bob.”
See y’all.
Yeah, draws the viewer in and engages them. Very upbeat for its time – I didn’t watch another kid’s show until Pee Wee came along.
;>)
Mekka lekka high, mekka hiney ho!
Breaking II: Hideki Matsui, Beerfart’s favorite player, wins MVP. First Japanese and first full-time DH to win World Series MVP.
Wow–you sure they’re that cute? lol
Dennis Miller is a douche nozzle.
Remember kids, when you hear the magic word you gotta scream real LOUD! I loved watching that with my older son.
Not when they take their masks off and let us see, I suppose.
;>)
Wait. Michelle Bachman is hip?
I was never into Sesame Street as a kid or parent. My kids weren’t either. Mean anything?
Just wanted to stop in and gloat with you good people. Get warmed up for work tomorrow. That’s gonna be some serious gloating. Gotta stop on the way in and get my locker room shirt. they look pretty cool.
Night all.
We were way more into Reading Rainbow, now gone.
Fanny Dooly hates douchebags but she loves douchenozzles.
-G
That was another favorite, Chris. So sad it’s gone.
Or, in the 80′s, READER RABBIT emerged. Computer learning game. My 21 yo can still give the exact voice.
I also heard that Oscar the Grouch is into S & M and Elmo is gay! It all makes so much sense now! Those damn Muppets and their homo agenda! And what about Ernie and Bert!? What the hell are those two up to? No way would two straight puppets be shacked up together like that! I bet they’re a couple of fruity puppets! (You know they get hands shove up their asses, don’t you!)
After the show “Milk” my four year old could identify cows as “Holstein Friesians” – shocked the adults!
Sure if your into crazy drunk chicks but then you realize she is not drinking and you wonder if she wore an old coat and stood on a street corner just how long would it take before the police were called to take her away.
Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck.
the four whores-men of the All-Fox-all-lips
Punaise you crack me up.
:~)
how’s the peninsula treating you these days?
Punaise for the win.
well, oscar DOES sing about his “rusty trombone”.
i’ll let you look THAT one up yourself.
You think it can’t get any weirder, and it does.