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Is Sesame Street Spreading Left-Wing Propaganda? Exec Admits, Yes

Is Sesame Street Spreading Left Wing Propaganda? Exec Admits, YesWhile the theme song to the kids show Sesame Street encourages people to ask how to get there, one author just finished an expose exploring what’s really in the popular show: left-wing propaganda.

Sesame Street, with its loveable and fuzzy characters, is really a mouthpiece for the left’s agenda. That’s the conclusion of author Ben Shapiro, who after interviewing hundreds of industry insiders found that many of Hollywood’s most popular shows, including the popular kids program, are inundated with secret political messages. And he got top executives to admit it.

Shapiro’s new book, “Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV,” according to it’s description “is the story—told in their own words—of how television has been used over the past sixty years by Hollywood writers, producers, actors, and executives to promote their liberal ideals, to push the envelope on social and political issues, and to shape America in their own leftist image.”

For example, Shapiro quotes Mike Dann, one of Sesame Street’s founding executives, saying it “was not made for the sophisticated or the middle class.” Using the premise, the team worked in all sorts of messages, including Grover breaking bread with a hippie and Oscar the grouch who was supposed to address “conflicts arising from racial and ethnic diversity.” Dann also admitted he used the program in the wake of 9/11 to highlight peaceful alternatives to war.

“Sesame Street tried to tackle divorce, tackled ‘peaceful conflict resolution’ in the aftermath of 9/11 and had [gay actor] Neil Patrick Harris on the show playing the subtly-named ‘fairy shoeperson’,” writes Shapiro, according to THR.

The news may not be surprising considering the left‘s recent use of the show’s cuddly character, Elmo. The furry, red puppet has been Is Sesame Street Spreading Left Wing Propaganda? Exec Admits, Yesused to trumpet free internet, lament job loss, and even plug Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill.

But the left-wing messages aren‘t limited to children’s programs. Adults are inundated, too. The Independent explains:

The TV series Friends undermined family values; Sesame Street taught ethnic minorities about civil disobedience; Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext; and the 1980s cop show MacGyver tried to persuade pistol-packing Americans that guns are bad.

Happy Days? Friends? Believe it. Shapiro even got Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman to own up to intentionally hiring liberals and sending a strong message to conservatives in a popular episode:

Among Shapiro’s most revelatory interviewees is Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of Friends, who recalls how she hired a “bunch of liberals” to run the programme to “put out there what we believe”. In 1999, she admitted casting the actress sister of Newt Gingrich, the prominent Republican, to play a preacher at a lesbian wedding because she wanted to annoy conservatives.

“When we did the lesbian wedding, we knew there was going to be some flack,” said Kauffman. “I have to say, when we cast Candice Gingrich as the minister of that wedding, there was a bit of a ‘fu** you’ in it to the right-wing, directly.”

So how did Shapiro get these executives to say such things on record. According to him, he took advantage of liberal stereotypes.

“There was a certain amount of stereotyping on their part in granting the interview,” he told the Independent. “Many probably assumed that with a name like Shapiro and a Harvard Law credential, there was no need to Google me: I would have to be a leftist. In Hollywood, talking to a Jew with a Harvard Law baseball cap is like talking to someone wearing an Obama pin.”

“I was shocked by the openness of the Hollywood crowd when it came to admitting anti-conservative discrimination inside the industry,” he told the paper. “They weren’t ashamed of it. In fact, some were actually proud of it.”

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  • glennpatstu
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:40pm

    yeah, it would really be tragic if your kids (hope they will at least learn to spell and speak the english language better than you) learn about non-violent conflict resolution and tolerance. These are just such evil messages to be indoctrinating our kids with. Especially when delivered by a cuddly puppet. And Dora!!! My god, she is hispanic! Probably an illegal so my kids won’t ever watch that filth. God you all are such a bunch of paranoid, closet racist, morons. I have never seen such perversion of the english language than on this message board-did you guys miss the episode sponsored by the letter ‘S’? And you wonder why the rest of the country thinks Glenn Beck listeners are stupid-spell check people!

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:02pm

      Read it again, very carefully. The people who make it boast that it meant to convey a leftist message.
      BTW, you omitted capitalising the word “English.”

      YOU FFNNG LEFTARD MORAN!!!!

      How’s that for tolerance?

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    • NYSTREETKID
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:03pm

      You are right,we dont spell very well.but we pay our taxes.We not up on all the large college words used by a think tank like you,but we fight our nations wars.We not the enlight elite,but we are the cops and firefighter that keep us safe.Yeah you right,Thank god

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    • glennpatstu
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:09pm

      I would hardly call the quotes ‘boasting’. See, Glenn has a very clever way of scaring his audiences with scary headlines, if you bother to read into it yourself, you find it is not nearly so menacing. And yes I did go to college, paid my loans and because I am sure I earn more money than you, I probably pay even MORE taxes than you do. And by the way (sorry I am an adult so I don’t use lol, btw, etc) typing in all caps is usually something you outgrow after middle school, maybe you need an anger management class? Take a deep breath, put down the $10k food cellar stocking kit, and try to relax-this is Sesame St. And you spelled moron wrong, moron. It is really hilarious that Glenn can get his mindless sheep to get so upset about something as harmless as Sesame St. It is not hilarious that you all will probably short change your kids on an education because of how afraid and ignorant you are.

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    • Psychosis
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:41pm

      I wouldn‘t comment on other people’s grammar proficiency if I were you. Your sentence structure is dismal, and your punctuation and run -on sentences are very annoying.

      I wont get into the issue of your views, since your posts don’t have any real message other than personally attacking other posters.

      Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem

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    • glennpatstu
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:59pm

      Just for the record, I am a conservative and a fan of Beck from years ago. I am also disturbed by a lot of what I am seeing today, and I don’t mean a pending Muslim Caliphate. When the attention gets shifted to shutting down Sesame St and PBS because of a Leftist agenda, I can not go along with it. Just a plea to stay focused, that’s all. And by the way, I am also not a child, I am a grown man and will not be left to perish on the windy mountain, or whatever the direct translation is.

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    • paleoconservatarian
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:56pm

      Color me old fashioned, but I learned to communicate with the world through the proactive efforts of my mother and think that type of interaction is the one that ought be the primary influence in the education of children. Who are you to deride those who profess to hold themselves to the same standard? If you hold, as you do in suggesting that to deny Sesame Street is injurious to education, that kids are better taught to read or learn of their world by passively absorbing content from the boob tube, along with whatever core leftist-friendly agenda producers of the show decide to *admittedly* sneak into their benignly leftist pablum of a lesson plan, you’re no friend to conservative thought.

      Count me a skeptic, as well, to your pronouncements of being a Glenn Beck fan even as you lampoon and castigate his audience and conspiratorially decry -his- ‘attack’ on Sesame Street – when Beck hasn’t to date even had a hand in this story. Read the byline, genius. It’s a report on a news aggregation site Beck owns regarding the content of a -totally- different person’s book. It‘s not Glenn Beck’s book, nor is the site his personal blog. His ‘clever hand’ is guiding mindless sheep cultivated to be scared and paranoid? Or, rather, has your paranoid and pathological hatred of ‘Svengali Beck’ been revealed?

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    • MightyMouth
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 11:11pm

      “stupid-spell check people!“ would never hyphenate ”stupid-spell check people” like you just did idiot!

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    • matinva
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:36am

      You clearly don’t get it. Not only did we prevent our children from watching tripe like Sesame Street, we prevented them from being infected by the public schools. We home schooled all (6) of our kids and today we have 6 hard working, tax paying, financially solvent Americans with above average pay who VOTE. 4 of the 6 are self-employed and are actually creating jobs. I am proud that my children have created more jobs than Barry O’blahblah. He continues to spew his leftist BS and gets nothing done. Liberalism is a fraud, period. Sesame Street is the electronic baby sitter for the uninformed.

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    • Bigliardi
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 2:47pm

      @glennpatstu….

      Hey can’t- make- up- your- mind- who- you- are…..What is a stupid-spell…Oh I know…It is what you have been going through for most of your life….If you are going to criticize others for grammar, spelling, etc…How about first using it correctly yourself….?

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:39pm

    People, wake up, Glenn just attacked ‘Sesame Street.’ Does this not ring the bell in your head by now about what a bad person he must be to do this?

    If any of you Blazers are parents / grandparents / great-grandparents, you must have at some point watched Sesame Street with your children/grandchildren. You know it is a lovely nice show.

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    • NYSTREETKID
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:57pm

      I have 6 KIds 20 to 2 years old,I would never let them watch seaweed street. or most of what is on PBS. It has been from the start anti-american,anti-right.pro-social justice crap/from 1969 till this very Day. it was founded by anti-war/progressives.

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:11pm

      People like you, idiots like you, who frequent a site of person they can’t stand, speaks volumes of their ignorance and you constantly proclaim it, good for you and good that we get to see how idiots like you think or better yet, not think. Every one of your posts should just say, “I hate Glenn Beck, nanny nanny boo hoo!”, because that’s all your rhetoric boils down to. LOL, pathetic.

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:40pm

      You wake up!!!…there is NO attack, just facts as the liberals said them in their own words…get over it or cry me a river…their bs is revealed and now people will make up their own minds and YOU dont like that do you?

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    • Bigliardi
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 5:27pm

      Maybe my last post to you should have said Baik old GIRL… you certainly sound like one…You do throw around “lovely” a lot….

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    • BeeAlert
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 9:09pm

      Sorry, no, not anymore. Go on youtube and compare “classic Sesame Street” with the dreck they put out today and you’ll see the difference. Or maybe you won’t, but that would be sad.

      I like “Would you like to buy an O?“ and ”Ladybug Picnic.”

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  • love the kids
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:37pm

    I knew it all along, When I saw Teletubbies, I thought I accidentally turned on one of Obama’s press confrences.

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  • DVT
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:35pm

    This is the exact reason conservatives(like huckabee and beck) are now reaching out to and teaching America’s youth thru cartoons and other programs the TRUTH about our Founders and their ideals. Its never too late or too early to combat the progressive cancer in this Nation.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:11pm

      Through propaganda in cartoon form?

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:20pm

      so using the words of the founding fathers is propaganda? only a liberal would think so.

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  • microace
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:33pm

    Best not to let kids watch TV…Sesame Street especially, They didn’t have Sesame Street when I was a kid, I learned just fine without it.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:12pm

      So I see from the stream of intellectual prose you employ to back up your point.

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:22pm

      so some how not watching tv makes you uninformed? as for intellectual prose…maybe you should look at your own ad hominum attacks…

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:33pm

    Remember when we grew up withOUT t.v.? We had radio programs that we could listen to IF our mom’s remembered to call us in from playing outside~~~in the heat~~~without helmets~~~~or kneepads~~~or “juiced up” juices (we drank warm water from a hose….yes, ALL of us playing together in the neighborhood)~~~no special anything….just sticks and bricks and our poor dolls dragging along in the dirt…. band-aids and Mercurochrome streaks on our legs and arms….fresh air… nobody telling us what to think or what to eat except our Moms and Dads! Veggies out of our own gardens….. *sigh*

    Turn OFF the boob toob for the summer, ya’ll, and get your families back. We have so little time.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:49pm

      @kickagrandma
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:33pm
      ‘Remember when we grew up withOUT t.v.? We had radio programs that we could listen to IF our mom’s remembered to call us in from playing outside~~~in the heat~~~without helmets~~~~or kneepads’
      ***************************
      I am sure many parts of Appalachia still enjoy this idyllic setup.
      Southeastern US and Appalachia are our own 3rd World.

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    • TheVOR
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:20pm

      @kickagrandma (which no-one should ever do) Reading your post took me back in time, and brought a certain smile to my face. Those WERE the days, my friend. Unfortunately it looks like they have come to an end.

      @baikonur Did you experience a childhood like kickagrandma describes? If not I feel sorry for you, and it partly explains your point of view. I assure you I did not grow-up in Appalachia. However, I did experience the idyllic type of childhood kickagrandma describes. If Appalachia is still like this, I would suggest that our youth spend a summer there to see the good ole days. And, if Appalachia is 3rd world like you suggest, then the city youth (upper crust, non 3rd world, elitist, etc….) could help to enlighten them ( oh dear God no ). Actually, I think the city kids would learn quite a bit from the Appalachian children, and come back much happier and well adjusted. Do you really think that the children today are better off than the kids that kickagrandma describes from a time gone by?

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    • Bigliardi
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 5:25pm

      @Baikonur…Hey brave one….Go down to Appalachia and say what you just posted….You are a coward, straight up, and could never bring yourself to confront anyone…except on this medium and you are safely ensconsced in your little politically correct liberal palace……A pitiful little creature you are, Baik old boy….

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  • swingenuity
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:30pm

    Defund PBS!

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  • BetterDays
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:30pm

    What’s TV?

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  • Seabee79
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:30pm

    you people just figuring this out now? problem is our tax $$$$$$$$ goes to fund this BS.

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:29pm

    Sesame Street is wonderful, kind, funny, and great. Anyone who has ever watched it, or who has young kids and grandkids knows this is true. It is a lovely influence on our kids.
    The fact that Glenn Beck is so out of touch and morally bankrupt as to attack Sesame Street now should tell all of you who are on the fence about what Glenn and his ‘supporters’ may be.

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:41pm

      Apparently you didnt read the article…the facts came STRAIGHT from the mouths of liberal execs.
      “‘fu** you’ in it to the right-wing, directly.”, what part dont you understand?

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    • Bob_R_OathKeeper
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:50pm

      You’re about as sharp as a bowling ball Baikonure, even when people tell you exactly what they are doing, you still deny it, typical f’n idiot liberal, do me a favor and stay on that side moron.

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    • NYSTREETKID
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:52pm

      I watch it as a kid in the 1970′s.I started to see thing as a child that were not keeping with my family’s ideas and faith. I saw a it are right to not be like them idea.I started too see that it was making me sad. Then if I wanted to be liked and part of this great group of fuzzy moster and friends,I would have to not listen to my father’s views of life,faith and what it is to belong to this family’s past. I would never give in.and turn on my father ways. I grew up strong health on mind. I am in faith with my family and the past.What can the left say it made a lot of mixed up kids the are now drug user,self right aholes.The is because they were told it is ok to do it your own way.you dont need any one but the state I.E PBS

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    • TheVOR
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:55pm

      More bigoted hyperbole. Now that you are outed, let’s provide you the opportunity to provide those facts you talk about. You said, “The fact that Glenn Beck is so out of touch and morally bankrupt”. And, now the facts please.

      What you, and folks like you always fail to recognize is that it is NOT Glenn attacking anyone. It IS Glenn providing quotes, via there printed or spoken word, saying what THEY said and believe.

      It would be like someone getting upset if you said that I attacked you and said you used bigoted hyperbole. No need to get upset. I said it, it is fact, and I stand behind it.

      Just like Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of Friends, said “she hired a “bunch of liberals” to run the programme to “put out there what we believe””. She said it, it is fact, and I bet she would stand behind it.

      No attack from Glenn, at all.

      Say what you mean, and mean what you say. And, then when someone quotes it, or plays it back, don’t blame them for letting you take a look at yourself in the mirror.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:07pm

      BALKONUUR,,,You are right.Sesame street is kind,wonderful and great and the children that watch it grow up the same way.Whereas those that read the bible grow up to be gun toting Fascist thugs as is quite evident here.If Sesame street says f#ck you to the right….viva big bird.Bunch of tough guy conservatives being afraid of a kids program..What a joke.

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:38pm

      @ JUMBLES
      Where in any part of this story or in any posts is there a “fear” of propaganda? its pointed out ,there is no fear when you know your enemy. liberal bs is surely being destroyed and you dont like it, so you make personal attacks…proof you’re losing.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:06pm

      DVT…If there is no fear of propaganda by the posters here then why are they talking of censoing therir kids from watching big brother sesame street.Do they think their kids will adopt the symbol of the hammer and sickle and keep the red flag flying high.If you don’t want your kids to be subjected to propaganda not letting them view commercials would be a healthy start then they wont become out of control consumers and run up massive personal debt and be unable to repay,hiking up interest rates.The personal attacks are because you and your kind are a bunch of mad bastards.

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    • paleoconservatarian
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:33pm

      Personal and character attacks come from the personality of he who makes the attack and no other place.

      As to why more and more people are falling into personal debt problems for their ‘out of control consumerism,‘ point rather to the conscientious teaching in many sorted venues where progressives hold sway that there aren’t consequences to be had from actions / bad behavior.

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    • DVT
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:19pm

      @jumbles
      choosing not to watch a particular show doesnt correlate to a fear…do you watch hannity or beck/ I’ll bet not. Why is that? its called a choice with a reason for the choice.

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    • BeeAlert
      Posted on June 2, 2011 at 8:59pm

      Sesame Street started the same year I was born. I grew up on it and Electric Company. Jim Henson did extensive research to find out at what levels of cadence & repetition children learned best to count, recite the alphabet, etc. He incorporated all of that into making Sesame Street as fun & educational as possible. I could read at 4 & I’m sure Sesame Street played a part. Plus a sweet childlike wonder & innocence was infused throughout. (Electric Company definitely snarkier!)

      BUT, after Jim Henson suddenly died (my little brother was 2 or 3 at the time) the show took a nosedive in the early 80′s. First clue — the “Sunny Day” theme song was turned from a sweet children’s song into a funked-out travesty, and the opening credits that showed with it portrayed an empty playground (too many drug dealers?), and all the kids playing in the alley. Second clue, crappy characters added like hyperactive Elmo.

      By the 90′s when I had little kids, SS had truly tanked. The day I decided to ban my own children from watching Sesame Street, the episode ran something like this: Rap theme song, empty playground. Alphabet run through with so many interruptions it was impossible to follow. Sirens(!) and crying babies as nearly continual background noise on the show. Elmo and Zoe shrieking about their feelings. The last straw: “above & below” skit was a Muppet guy being TRAMPLED by a Muppet elephant. How peaceful, PBS!

      Bye-bye Sesame Street.

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  • Chas T.
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:28pm

    One word: “Duh…”

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:27pm

    FYI:
    ~~~~~~~~~~~
    (Jun. 14, 2010) — Obama has apparently confirmed what many have suspected since the presidential campaign: that he is a Muslim, not a “committed Christian,” as he professed during the presidential campaign.

    The periodical Israel Today has reported that in a private meeting with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Obama told Gheit that he is a Muslim. The exchange was aired on Nile TV.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    As IF we DIDN’T know already.

    You can read the whole story at the post & email site.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:44pm

      The above can be found at the post & email under the title of:

      ” Obama admits what we’ve known all along”

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  • whereareyourbrains
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:26pm

    Hollywood and movie people need to be hit in the wallet. It is time we stop going to their new movies and accepting the propoganda. Most of the actors and actresses are for a socialized world. They got our money and now they want us to follow their agenda. We have power. Stop going to the movies and watching shows that push socialism. All of them. I quit….It really isn’t that hard to do.

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    • fvfdgm1
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:37pm

      When I watched Sesame Street w/ my son, I agreed with the things thay said. I also didn’t think anyone would try to indoctrinate my son (38). As time went by, I changed & those beliefs are the opposite of my beliefs – in most cases. I have stopped watching all of the Law & Order shows when I realized that the bad guy was always the Christian or the vet (if the gov‘t hadn’t made him a bad guy)! You are right, if we stop watching those shows, they will end up off the air – e.g. Law & Order franchise!! I will not watch Criminal Intent – Suspect Behavior – ?i see / hear Jeanne Garafalo & all I hear is ‘You are a racist” if you disagree w/ Pres Obama. I will not allow them to succeed if I can help it!

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  • Drum Man
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:24pm

    Time to take Bert, Earnie and Big Bird out behind the woodshed…

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  • whereareyourbrains
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:23pm

    Spread the word. Stop showing your kids these programs.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:23pm

    I always thought shows like Sesame Street were ruining our children. All this limp wristed pablum had to be rotting their brain. It surely took little boys and turned them into sissies. Warner Brothers cartoons were just fine for kids, or on Saturdays they had Roy Rogers or Sky King. Even the commercials were better for kids. Boys had the Matel Guns like the Fanner 50, or they had the Mighty NO battleship or even a Red Ryder BB gun or a wood burning or slot car set. Little girls had dolls & the easy bake oven, as it should be. That was real America.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:30pm

      @teddrunk
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:23pm
      ‘I always thought shows like Sesame Street were ruining our children. All this limp wristed pablum had to be rotting their brain. It surely took little boys and turned them into sissies.’
      ************
      And that is why you will never have custody of your children.

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    • TheGreyPiper
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:59pm

      Ha ha, at least he‘ll have children that don’t come out of a test tube.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:11pm

      Baikonur is a prime example of what happens when parents don’t monitor their children adequately, as well as what happens when said child has been dropped on his head one too many times. Bless his little heart.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:54pm

      BIOHAZARD….Letting your children watch NASCAR and FOX news will only encourage them to be rednecks and have sex with each other.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:23pm

      @mujmbles, you’re funny! Did you think of that all by yourself? I hope it didn’t hurt you too bad. Again, it’s been fun. You’re entertaining, to say the least. But why don’t you get out of your bunker for a while and enjoy the fresh air? A little sunshine might help you get quiet down those evil voices. Just a suggestion. Have a groovy day!

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  • hologram5
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:22pm

    And this is further evidence to defund NPR and PBS. They can garner support from sponsors like everyone else does. If they make it then great. If not then I guess it was never meant to be.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:21pm

      Exactly! this is proof that NO public money should be going to PBS. I don’t want my tax dollars at work indoctrinating children to believe what I think is morally wrong.

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:43pm

      So Angelcat, it is morally wrong to have a world with no war and no bigotry, a world where families live together forever.
      You Blazers are beyond help. Instead of just believing everything your fed, have a think about it, which of Sesame streets values are morally wrong?

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  • let us prey
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:22pm

    It is on PBS there is no surprise there.

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  • Texas Grasshopper
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:21pm

    what TV …got rid of the TV years ago …have Netflix so we can decide what to not let someone else decide

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  • Dandylyon
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:20pm

    The left wants to teach our 5 year olds how NORMAL gay sex is why not indoctranate them with big bird.

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  • HappyStretchedThin
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:18pm

    Don’t let the boob tube teach your kids for you. Period.

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    • bigjack940
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:27am

      Thank you, Yours is the first I’ve read that addressed the problem, with truth. Parents, if in act are parents, owe their children to be their teachers . Not letting anyone or anything hold that position. Why do you think the youth now has gone astray? Not too hard to understand. When they watch the movies and the tube every day, and theres nothing but demoralizing trash , what else would they learn, but that?

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  • Hiswill
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:17pm

    Most countries that want to make changes start with the children. They are clean slates and easily manipulated. Why would the left in this courntry be any different?

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  • 4smohrs
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Yeah not new, my kids do not watch Dora or Sesame Alley!

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    • TumbleBumble
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:28pm

      Same in this house. Plus add Caillou to that list. That one has the same affect on me as nails to a chalkboard.

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    • 777jenn
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:02pm

      Shame….cuz I grew up on Sesame but back in the 70s it was edgy and ACTUALLY helpful at teaching me to read at a very young age. I have not found ANY great tv programming for my kids….so…they do not watch! I DID, however, find they really enjoyed a dvd set of Liberty’s Kids which used to be on PBS years ago, believe it or not1 Good for all mine, which range in age from 6 to 13.

      a thought….Is oscar not GREEN for nothing ??? Hmm? & Elmo is RED! hahah!

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:15pm

    “Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext”? Bullhockey.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:50pm

      Not Happy Days, just the series M.A.S.H. was definitly against the Vietnam War.

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    • Entropy
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Is anybody else having their text on the Blaze stories “column over” to the right? With the text being strung out with few words per line but with many lines? Is there a problem at the Blaze? Never encountered this before.

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    • wigg
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:39pm

      I agree. Grew up watching it. Don’t see the connection.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:45pm

      SNOW LEOPARD….M.A,S.H was anti Vietnam even though it was set in Korea?

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:49pm

      ENTROPY…The problem is on the right so you can’t blame Obama for this one.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:30pm

      Jumbles the Clown , the French Clown. Forgets that before the DEMOCRATS got us involved in Vietnam, the French ran like the cowards they are from Vietnam. The French, English, Spanish and Portugese were the Slave bringers to the new world. The Americans at that time were Native Americans and they only enslaved other tribes, and rural settlers.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:47pm

      13THIMAM….The faux patriot…
      Amerigo Vespucci gave his name to this country and it’s colonial settlers.The natives were not known as Americans but Indians.What the hell are you talking about slavery for? You are confused, Man!that inbreeding causes some pretty severe mental disorders.And I am not French you f@#$ing ingrate.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:25pm

      Mumbles is a frog? Who knew? It explains a lot, though.

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    • paleoconservatarian
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:15pm

      Happy Days as a show wasn’t thematically anti-Vietnam war, but like most contemporary entertainment shows of the era such a message was evident. Being against the war was -the- backdrop assumption within Hollywood then and it shouldn‘t surprise that such attitudes would find their way in venues you wouldn’t normally expect it.

      @Jumbles
      Re M.A.S.H being set as an allegory of the Vietnam War

      Decidedly so. As per the director of the movie on which the show was based. Both iterations of M.A.S.H. were thematically set in opposition to the Vietnam war. How you, or anyone, could have missed this is astounding, since the message was practically brought home with a sledgehammer.

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    • sing it out
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:33pm

      Entropy: yes, it was working earlier, but now mine is doing the same thing.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:06pm

      “Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:50pm
      Not Happy Days, just the series M.A.S.H. was definitly against the Vietnam War”

      Speaking about M.A.S.H., the one thing I hated about that show was its perpetual, sickening self-righteousness.

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  • sing it out
    Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:14pm

    This isn’t really new…

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:23pm

      You are corect .. if parents would sit down and watch it with their children they would know .. and if you see who they invite as “guests” there is no doubt also.

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    • Cerealface
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:27pm

      Kids that normally watch this have no clue anyway.

      Look at the pretty colors

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:37pm

      My kids never watched Sesame Street. Not when they had other things like Veggie Tales, Max and Ruby, and Blue’s Clues. And, of course, Fox News, the NHL, MLB, Indy Car racing…….

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:38pm

      ^____^____^
      I love cookie monster!

      Yea but kids do absorb it and it will effect them in someway. Whats being done here is similar to whats being done to the country. We cant be beaten militarily or on the capitalistic front so we get infiltrated very slowly and subtly. “They” are doing the same with children so one day out of our kids mouth we will hear “you are guilty of thought crimes”.
      Hey radicals I have a warning for you.. STAY AWAY FROM CHILDREN!

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    • LittleMac
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:43pm

      Agree. Slow news day?

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Nothing new here, except the part where now they are indeed admitting to manipulating American culture to spread the leftist – socialist – progressive agenda.

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    • theonefromabove
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Well yeah PBS is publically funded.

      http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos

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    • nothingbuthetruth
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Matt Damon’s movie HEREAFTER” does the same think, they point out unions and have the TV in the movie say bad things about Big Corporations. Then Matt closes his locker and you can see
      Che on a sticker on the locker, same with 70′s show and Real Hosewives with that tool Slade wearing Che t-shirts. Dont they know he killed people in cold blood? I use to think they were just stupid, now I think they are un-American

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:58pm

      The TV series Friends undermined family values; Sesame Street taught ethnic minorities about civil disobedience; Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext; and the 1980s cop show MacGyver tried to persuade pistol-packing Americans that guns are bad.

      No sh@t Sherlock. I could name about every TV program on today that has a liberal/ communist /anti-America or anti-family slant…so whats new? Its been going on for years and getting worse.

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    • Jim Ed
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 12:59pm

      It just like the original Planet of the Apes was supposed to be a commentary on race relations, problem was no one got it!! They just saw a guy come back from outer space to find apes running the planet. The left think they are so clever!

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:00pm

      That‘s why it’s so important for parents to watch with the children. It’s the ones that use the TV as a babysitter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbXPpBLlc1U

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    • ByrdsofMisssouri
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:03pm

      What was the first clue? When Bert and Ernie came out of the closet. I sincerely urge all concerned parents to find out what your children are watching on TV, and doing on the net, another favorite propaganda tool!

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    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:12pm

      I think we all knew this was going on… this is why I stick to Blues Clues for my 5 kids…
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:16pm

      My kids don’t watch this leftist dribble.

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    • stifroc
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:17pm

      I don’t let my kids watch TV. I read to them, and I have them read on their own.
      The result? My kids are extremely creative, excellent spellers, excellent readers and have a profound vocabulary for a 7 and 5 year old. They also have this nasty habit of thinking independently and they do not have a “herd” mentality.

      Turn off the TV and pick up some books. Your kids learn, and your kids get some quality time with you. Win Win

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    • wordsworth
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:24pm

      Not exactly a scoop.
      Sesame Street promotes liberal values…and duh?

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    • nptden
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:25pm

      Nothing new. Hollywood has been Commie since the McCarthy era. The fruition now is that TV, the Discovery and History channel are spinning Leftist History. Notice how it is framed with ‘historic’ , ‘iconic’ and ‘transforming/. All right out of Karl Marx and Engels. That with taking over the Dept of Education in brain-washing our kids. What do you expect. To bad the ‘working’ Americans and tax-payers didn’t realize the infiltration. They are coming out now, the ‘transformation’ from ‘civil rights’ to ‘social rights’ and ‘universal rights’.

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    • jumbles
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:38pm

      BIOHAZARD….So you don’t have a problem with your children being indoctrinated as long as the indoctrination fits YOUR agenda.Why not give your children classic literature and let them find their own minds?

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    • De minimus
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:00pm

      Oh yes it is to some people! Brand new. Because you see we are generally, a trusting people. Unfortunately we are finding out that none of the mainstream and entertainment media are to be trusted. Then of course, their are the government schools…

      Which is exactly why Glenn is going after them. Somebody has to tell them the truth and the media are doing everything they can to hide it. Because it empowers them and of course, the Marxist cause.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:05pm

      Nothing ever changes but the weather ….
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5782608898/in/photostream

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    • chazman
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:06pm

      I’ve been watching TV since Captain Kangaroo, and if anything my disgust for Liberalism is off the charts! I guess their tactics didn’t work on me.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:19pm

      I grew up watching Sesame Street. How sad. First Bert and Ernie are gay, and now all of them are commies.

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    • Obama Bin Lying
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 2:52pm

      Gee Liberals out to intentionally annoy Conservitives, I am shocked…no really, this is news to me. You wanted proof the Left is indoctorinating children. Here it is

      Pitiful

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    • booger71
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:32pm

      Sesame Street was produced by socialists, so naturally the message would turn out that way.

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 3:35pm

      Today’s threat is brought to you by the letter P, for paranoid.

      Sesame Street has secret coded message for indoctrinating young children? Tell that to the mental health professional and ask for a diagnoses.

      The message of Sesame Street isn’t secret, it’s right there on the surface: take pride in who you are, accept others as they are, love your neighbor, resolve conflicts peacefully, stay in school and whatever else. Yep, that’s a liberal message, but there’s no effort to hide it. That‘s what the show is about and that’s why the show has remained popular for the last fourty years – parents watch it with their kids and like the program content.

      BTW, Sesame Street has earned 18 Emmy Awards, more than any other TV shows.

      But you may want your kid to watch Deadly Ninjas instead. Go for it.

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:19pm

      @mumbles,

      Just because I won’t allow my children to watch that blowhard Matthews or that poster child of civility Ed Schultz or permit them to swallow the admittedly left-wing propaganda being pushed by PBS, that means I’m doing my kids a disservice? LMAO!!! Nice try. It‘s funny how you automatically assume that since I mentioned Fox that that’s the only news outlet they are exposed to. There are more ways for one to get the news these days, in case you haven’t noticed. But I guess in your little mind, that dastardly Fox WOULD be the only news source, bless your heart.

      I teach them to question the source. They are also very well read and have a more rounded POV than most of their peers. They are also not allowed to watch network TV or anything government funded for the reasons stated in the article. You know, the one that had the words of the libs responsible for all of that drivel. Too bad you wouldn’t know about anything outside of the Daily Kos or your daily trolling expeditions here.

      It’s been fun, thanks for playing. Good day to you.

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    • newrepublic7
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:27pm

      At Least someone admits it! Now what ? do we change it? No we go back to sleep. I am dusting off my tin-foil hat folks. Elmo is watching you! Turn the crap off! Veggie-Tales

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    • newrepublic7
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:33pm

      @ jzs

      When lefties give, Lefties awards, it doesn’t count. Just like with the Nobel PEACE prize. Oh yeah Libya, does Obama have to give it back now?

      18 Emmy Awards, who else are they going to give them too? 700 club?

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    • outsidethebox
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 4:35pm

      Yeah, we already know Elmo sold out and became a socialist. No surprise here

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    • redracer
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:07pm

      No surprise. I remember asking my youngest daughter, when she was about five years old why she watched Mr Rogers, but not Sesame Street. She told me that Sesame Street was ‘dumb’. She didn’t like it because Sesame Street tends to talk down to the children while Mr Roger always talked to the children. She is now 19 years old and a staunch conservative.

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    • the_zazzy
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:41pm

      Hey Jumbles,
      Why don’t you set the example for all of us and show us how to truly be open-minded. I’ve got this great book called Broke, by Glenn Beck. You take it and read it to your kids and let them decide for themselves. I think it is so inspiring when people on the left preach to us conservatives the need for us to be open-minded. Let me know what your address is so I can send you that and many other great reads!!!

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    • cassandra
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 5:56pm

      the holly wood crowd is rich because of the evil capitalism that they complain about what a bunch of hypocrites

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:35pm

      How dare sesame street push radical leftist ideas like alternatives to war, cultural diversity and *gasp* tolerance of gays.
      Its true that reality has a liberal bias.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:41pm

      This is what’s called brainwashing, something I thought libo’s were against. My mistake. They’re even more stupid than I thought.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:45pm

      funny, live right by big bird’s actual house in woodstock ct. Big bord also runs a nudist camp in the summer. No kidding look it up. 5 years ago one of big bird’s criminal employees kidnapped a jogging woodstock ct teacher, raped her and killed her. Again look it up. Lots of weird things going on at big bird’s place.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:59pm

      “survivorseed
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 6:35pm
      How dare sesame street push radical leftist ideas like alternatives to war, cultural diversity and *gasp* tolerance of gays. Its true that reality has a liberal bias.”

      You’re a rather loose cannon as far as what you consider and credit as “radical leftist” ideas. Cultural diversity and tolerance of gays? Get real.

      Then, Sesame Street is “pushing ‘alternatives’ to war”? I don’t think so. It’s only pushing its own, one-sided ideas, not alternatives (such as what, anyway, surrender?) Thing is, it shouldn’t be “pushing” anything in particular.

      Reality has a liberal bias? Wake up and smell the leavings, dude.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:21pm

      even as a kid I never liked Sesame Street and now I know why!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:23pm

      I can see the headlines now “Beck at Blaze Bashes Big Bird.”

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    • nosycophant
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 7:26pm

      Why the two Ghouls with the Muppet’s?

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 8:49pm

      Propaganda also is being slipped in on Comcast’s main news page. It really irritates me to daily see an ad that proudly states that “THE PRESIDENT” is getting you a great mortgage or allowing you to buy a home. Shameless political messages that are duping poor people who actually think they owe allegiance to Obama for any money they receive to purchase their first home. Yep, let them think they are getting some of that Obama money.

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    • ByrdsofMisssouri
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 12:47am

      STIFROC
      Posted on May 31, 2011 at 1:17pm
      I don’t let my kids watch TV. I read to them, and I have them read on their own.
      The result? My kids are extremely creative, excellent spellers, excellent readers and have a profound vocabulary for a 7 and 5 year old. They also have this nasty habit of thinking independently and they do not have a “herd” mentality.

      Turn off the TV and pick up some books. Your kids learn, and your kids get some quality time with you. Win Win

      : This may well be the best answer! Just imagine a world full of un-indoctrinated young minds. I believe propaganda is also the reason for the rise in home schooling. Minds that are free to explore truth instead of being brain-washed, wonderful concept. I hope people will take your idea and run with it. I find myself watching very little TV, almost every show usually ends up pushing a gay agenda, or the language is horrific.

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    • sundance_sp
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 2:31am

      Oh gee,,,, suprise, suprise.. This is a shocker! What to do, what to do….

      This story has to be one of the biggest yawner‘s Iv’e seen on,,, The Blaze, yet! True conservatives have known this crap for years. I haven’t watched an ABC, NBC, CBS show in years,, not to mention PBS,, well, at least with PBS, you know what you are getting up front, by default. Why not do a real expose on lets say “The Comedy Channel”, “Bravo” (The gay channel)(hey, i’m not knockin,, they do have some good mainstream shows), and least,,, but most importantly,,, he who writes history…. “History Channel” (this would be the greatest story of them all). I would like to know about the history of the “History Channel” and how it became soooo,,, liberal, dare I say?

      Ok, I admit, it was a good peice, but, I think a little deeper digging needs to be done to expose the real conspiracy going on. It’s bigger than we think! … Well, I think anyway..

      For what it’s worth.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 3:49am

      I heard that Oscar the Grouch was based on Dick Cheney…

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    • CaptMickeyd
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 8:32am

      Nothing new. Has anyone watched Playhouse Disney with their children lately? How about Hand Manny? You know the liberal agenda is playing out.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 9:33am

      Wow, I had no idea. Oh yea, that’s right. This is why my daughter watches veggie tales or just elmo’s world, since that is just about the “science” of things and not theories on life.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 10:32am

      I challenge you to watch Cartoon Network on any given Sunday night, when they air what seems to be SOLELY anti-Christian shows, one after another, mocking religion, and more specifically, Christianity. I’m thinking of not even allowing the kids to watch CN during the day.

      Running out of options, though as Disney/ABC gets further and further in bed with the left, while they charade as wholesome (presumably conservative).

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    • rlmeals
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 10:56am

      @TomFerrari: I hate Cartoon Network, but I found something I love on there! Looney Tunes, the ole ones. I used to watch The Bug Bunny and Tweety Show on Saturday morning cartoons, and they don’t play anything good like that anymore on Saturday mornings, but they do play the old Merrie Melodies cartoons on Cartoon Network during the day. I won’t let my kids watch anything else on CN, but I do DVR Looney Tunes, and I’m hoping I can put them on a DVD later and edit out all the commercials for non-stop Merrie Melodies!

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    • greenherring
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:04am

      I heard that Harold the smartass was based on Tifosa…

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 12:07pm

      It makes fearing what your children are exposed to in college look bland, hey?!?! My mom hated Sesame Street when I was younger. She felt there was passive aggressive undertones with the puppets and it was never on in our home. My oldest is 30 and my youngest is 7 and all my children are smart and survived without Big Bird and Mr. Hooper.

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    • Timbotim
      Posted on June 1, 2011 at 1:09pm

      Today’s news is brought to you by the letter…DUH!

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