It is so telling about the state of our country that things like this are considered “news”. Easily digestible and irrelevant.

Oh my god say it ain’t predictable!!!!

Publius219 said:
It is so telling about the state of our country that things like this are considered “news”. Easily digestible and irrelevant.

Easily digestible and irrelevant.

Are you referring to yourself?

WCinWI said:
Easily digestible and irrelevant.

Are you referring to yourself?

Typical.

Lefty posts on the topic, Righty posts on the Lefty poster.

Publius219 said:
It is so telling about the state of our country that things like this are considered “news”. Easily digestible and irrelevant.

When libs / progs get pissed off, they’re so cute! They know it’s all about image, it’s not as though they don’t agree with the Schiller, they’re just pissed that he was dumb enough to put himself on display for the middle roaders, who don’t see the tea party people as racist.

BFD said:
Typical.

Lefty posts on the topic, Righty posts on the Lefty poster.

ROFL. I find the comment sections more and more predictable each day…and the thumbs up/thumbs down that go with them.

Mr.Papshmer said:
When libs / progs get pissed off, they’re so cute! They know it’s all about image, it’s not as though they don’t agree with the Schiller, they’re just pissed that he was dumb enough to put himself on display for the middle roaders, who don’t see the tea party people as racist.

I just use the all-encompassing term “bigots”, and qualify it sufficiently so that it’s clear that I’m not referring to all/most, but rather just some. Nuance is the key.

BFD said:
Typical.

Lefty posts on the topic, Righty posts on the Lefty poster.

: )

why so tax payers even fund this stuff? It seems to me if people want to listen or watch NPR/PBS why don’t they just donate money to them, instead of making tax payers?

2003 Mediamark poll commissioned by NPR. Compared to the general public, NPR listeners are 152 percent more likely to own a home valued at $500,000 or more; 194 percent more likely to travel to France; and 326 percent more likely to read the “New Yorker.”

PBS demographics are only slightly more populist. Its viewers are 44 percent more likely than the average Joe to have a household income over $150,000; 39 percent more likely to have a graduate degree; and 177 percent more likely to have investments of $150,000 and up.

Seems to me between that, and the fact that they have about 40+ years of programming already in the can, they can survive on private donors and repeats. Do you really need to produce new versions of Sesame Street? What changes on that show?

sarainitaly said:
why so tax payers even fund this stuff? It seems to me if people want to listen or watch NPR/PBS why don’t they just donate money to them, instead of making tax payers?

2003 Mediamark poll commissioned by NPR. Compared to the general public, NPR listeners are 152 percent more likely to own a home valued at $500,000 or more; 194 percent more likely to travel to France; and 326 percent more likely to read the “New Yorker.”

PBS demographics are only slightly more populist. Its viewers are 44 percent more likely than the average Joe to have a household income over $150,000; 39 percent more likely to have a graduate degree; and 177 percent more likely to have investments of $150,000 and up.

Seems to me between that, and the fact that they have about 40+ years of programming already in the can, they can survive on private donors and repeats. Do you really need to produce new versions of Sesame Street? What changes on that show?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

There should be no money to NPR. There should be no NPR.
Public employee unions are unAmerican and should shut down.
There should be NO money to Planned Parenthood.

gordonbloyershow said:
There should be no money to NPR. There should be no NPR.
Public employee unions are unAmerican and should shut down.
There should be NO money to Planned Parenthood.

There should also be retroactive mandatory sterilization. But we don’t always get what we want, unfortunately.

The timing of this is so delicious. Seems like I was hearing about NPR on Friday, too……..

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/147615-senate-republicans-introduces-bill-to-defund-npr-pbs

sarainitaly said:
It seems to me if people want to listen or watch NPR/PBS why don’t they just donate money to them, instead of making tax payers?

Speaking of that, the other day, I was watching “Nature” on PBS, “funded in part” by David Koch. :)

BFD said:
Typical. Lefty posts on the topic, Righty posts on the Lefty poster.

Followed closely by a lefty posting on the righty.

Publius219 said:
It is so telling about the state of our country that things like this are considered “news”. Easily digestible and irrelevant.

No state run media!

Yes, see the tea party Republicans nitpick at the small items and ignore the big items.

I bet every member of Tea Party will now cancel their local PBS/NPR station membership.

sarainitaly said:
Do you really need to produce new versions of Sesame Street? What changes on that show?

Sesame Street is entirely self-supporting, though many of the local stations that broadcast it is not, but the actual program called “Sesame Street” receives no taxpayer funds. As to what they change, they actually change a lot. It uses a different format than they did when my youngest sister was watching in the 70s and it’s evolved while playing at my house over the last ten years.

Why should I ever have to pay for left-wing bullshit?

sarainitaly said:
Do you really need to produce new versions of Sesame Street? What changes on that show?

Good point , unless they ‘re coming up with new letters of the alphabet . The Henson company makes plenty in licensing and merchandise fees . They can stand alone . The NPR channel will make it just fine without robbing the public each year .

rdbrewer said:
Why should I ever have to pay for left-wing bullshit?

Why should I have to pay to kill brown women and children in the Middle East?

It’s bad enough that NPR abandons journalistic integrity for partisan advocacy. But how shameless to want taxpayers to foot the bill for their propaganda efforts. If NPR wants subsidies, its execs should visit the DNC and demand payment for spreading the party line. Or let individual liberals pay out-of-pocket for fund NPR’s disinformation campaign. But to force taxpayers to pay for this 24/7 spin machine is just too much.

@sarainitaly: I should clarify that “Sesame Street” isn’t underwritten by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting because they are self-sufficient from licensing fees, but they may occasionally get a DOE grant and their overseas broadcasts may get some funding from USAID.

@rdbrewer have you ever listened to NPR? If you had, then you would know that they ALWAYS have both sides on. I like fair and balanced to have both views. Let me decide. I don’t like talking heads to decide for me, unlike you folks on this board.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Why should I have to pay to kill brown women and children in the Middle East?

If enough of your ilk can convince Soetoro to abandon the middle east, you won’t have to. Same thing with PBS, but they’re making it easier every day. :)

The funniest part about all of this is James O’Keefe, a racist video taping somebody else saying something racist. You just can’t make this crap up.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Why should I have to pay to kill brown women and children in the Middle East?

Having trouble sticking to the issue at hand? Never mind. I’ll respond: Ask that champion of bomb laden Predator spy planes named Barack Obama, Einstein.

So the Teabaggers only opposed NPR after this video?

Please.

sarakillselmo said:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

OMG that was so funny! love the avatar!! LOL!

TrollJuice said:
The funniest part about all of this is James O’Keefe, a racist video taping somebody else saying something racist. You just can’t make this crap up.

Yeah, and O’Keefe uses racist video tape he gets at the racist factory that uses racist magnetic oxide and racist polyethylene. Thus, you can’t trust anything recorded on it.

@rdbrewer he also is a felon……do you read other websites?

He also has edited all of his tapes. A known fact!

Where is the story about the hypocrites in WI?

WASHINGTON — At least three of the Wisconsin state Senate Republicans currently demanding that public workers sacrifice benefits, wages and even collective bargaining rights for the sake of the budget have applied for and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal farm subsidies, a Huffington Post review of state and federal records shows.

Where is the story about the FL Governor over reaching?

“The governor doesn’t understand there is a State Constitution and that we have three branches of government,” said State Senator Mike Fasano, a Republican from New Port Richey who upset Mr. Scott with rough handling of his staff during a testy committee hearing. “They are talking about the attitude that he is still the C.E.O. of his former health care corporation, and that is not going to work in this state, in Tallahassee, in my district. The people believe in three branches of government.”

TrollJuice said:
The funniest part about all of this is James O’Keefe, a racist video taping somebody else saying something racist. You just can’t make this crap up.

I know, it’s pretty cool, isn’t it, one of the most hated men alive among lefties, exposes another leftist asshole in all his glory for all to see. Congress trying to de-fund PBS, and senior honcho Ron Schiller not only explaining to America what a bigoted asshole he is, but claiming that PBS can survive without government funding. You’re right, homes, you just can’t make this crap up! :)

Where is the story about the ethics violations filed for the WI Gov?

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Republican Gov. Scott Walker over statements he made during a recorded prank call.

In their complaint filed Monday with the Government Accountability Board, the Democrats claim Walker violated campaign finance laws by apparently asking for support for politically vulnerable Wisconsin Republican lawmakers from a caller who he thought was a wealthy campaign donor.

Hey trolljuice, put a bag over your mouth and try to breathe normally, that might help.

@Mr.Papshmer…….how much of the tape was edited? Oh, you don’t know from this story, why?

He edits his tapes. Therefore, the people on them didn’t say what they said. Brilliant.

Jelperman said:
So the Teabaggers only opposed NPR after this video?

Please.

This “teabagger” has always opposed state run media.

Mr.Papshmer says:
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Hey trolljuice, put a bag over your mouth and try to breathe normally, that might help.
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That is your immature answer? How old are you? Do you not have others to play with?

rdbrewer says:
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He edits his tapes. Therefore, the people on them didn’t say what they said. Brilliant.
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You are not well read, are you?

Just what I thought, a bunch of immature chubby white guys playing with their key boards!

TrollJuice said:
The funniest part about all of this is James O’Keefe, a racist video taping somebody else saying something racist. You just can’t make this crap up.

You just proved that you can make crap up. In other words, you debunked yourself. ;)

TrollJuice said:
Just what I thought, a bunch of immature chubby white guys playing with their key boards!

Cue personal attacks…

Jeezus. We could have a nice discussion, but there is a child frantically posting, and, even worse, he thinks he’s being responsive.

TrollJuice said:
Just what I thought, a bunch of immature chubby white guys playing with their key boards!

Racist much?

Magister said:
@sarainitaly: I should clarify that “Sesame Street” isn’t underwritten by the Corporation of Public Broadcasting because they are self-sufficient from licensing fees, but they may occasionally get a DOE grant and their overseas broadcasts may get some funding from USAID.

then why do they always say the GOP wants to get rid of BIG BIRD?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/GOP_senators_put_Sesame_Street_on_chopping_block.html

The PBS program Sesame Street’s Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 — nearly a million dollars — in compensation in 2008. And, from 2003 to 2006, “Sesame Street” made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales

Back when there were only 3 main networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, perhaps there was a pressing public need for higher-level, ‘educational’ television back then.

But is that true today when you can get a satellite package of 5000 channels ranging from ‘educational’ television such as The Smithsonian Channel to The Discovery Channel, all paid for by subscription and ad revenue?

We think the time has come to pull the plug on taxpayer-financed kiddie and educational television, sad as that might be.

And instead of running their telethons to raise money for the PBS network, they will just have to start running ads like the 5000 other distributors of entertainment and informational content do every single day in America.

Big Bird and Sesame Street are nice to have when things are running great in the economy and our budgets are in balance. Neither is true today. ~familysecuritymatters

Hey, trog, as long as you have the last word, you win!

TrollJuice said:
That is your immature answer?

Homes, you’re doing the age old, and really retarded, by the way, tactic of flooding a thread with completely irrelevant crap as a way to drive people off. Liberals do this when they don’t want passers by to read other comments. It’s always very obvious when you have a bunch of one line comments all lined up in a row, and really amateurish, by the way. You need some more lessons in how to be a good little proggie over at The Dem Underground.

Mr.Papshmer said:
Homes, you’re doing the age old, and really retarded, by the way, tactic of flooding a thread with completely irrelevant crap as a way to drive people off. Liberals do this when they don’t want passers by to read other comments. It’s always very obvious when you have a bunch of one line comments all lined up in a row, and really amateurish, by the way. You need some more lessons in how to be a good little proggie over at The Dem Underground.

Bingo. Problem is, it works. I’m outta’ here.

I wish you rightwingers would all take your guns and seeds and retire to your bombshelters while the rest of us get on with our lives. Every civilized country has universal health care and a subsidized or partially subsidized radio and television network which they take great pride in like the BBC, etc. All you want to do is continue the Balkanization and privatization of everything including, probably, turning our armed forces into a mercenary army. All it indicates is a poverty of imagination and a lack of pride in your country. Also, most of you rightwingers don’t listen to NPR. If you did you’d have some understanding of what a civil society is all about. Imagine Glenn Beck on NPR selling gold futures. What a bunch of barbarians you are.

I will say one more thing that might actually be good for those who need a little help with objective self-assessment and reality testing: Dunning-Kruger Effect. Read up on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Magister said:
It uses a different format than they did when my youngest sister was watching in the 70s and it’s evolved while playing at my house over the last ten years.

really? cuz it looks almost identical to me. same puppets, same sets, same streets, same games…
Except maybe some of the guests are less dressed then they used to be, like Katy Perry.

sarainitaly said:
OMG that was so funny! love the avatar!! LOL!

Why thank you.

bealzebubba said:
ROFL. I find the comment sections more and more predictable each day…and the thumbs up/thumbs down that go with them.

What are thumbs?

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Why should I have to pay to kill brown women and children in the Middle East?

Because you voted for Obama.

sarainitaly said:
then why do they always say the GOP wants to get rid of BIG BIRD?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0311/GOP_senators_put_Sesame_Street_on_chopping_block.html

The PBS program Sesame Street’s Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 — nearly a million dollars — in compensation in 2008. And, from 2003 to 2006, “Sesame Street” made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales

I’m not sure of the question, it looks like a blogger put something in a headline and someone in Jim DeMint’s office found a factoid that they fely would boost their cause, but Sesame workshop has said in the past when someone points toward their licensing arrangements that they recieve no CPB funding and if you look at their website, CPB is only mentioned in conjunction with “Electric Company” and a show they produced for the children of the deployed.

Now on the other hand, the “War on Sesame Street” title could be factually correct because as the fellow in the video — who says that HIS JOB would be easier without federal funding — points out, a lot of stations in rural and poorer regions could go dark. I mean, if the states are having a hard time meeting their current obligations, then an added burden may be too much to handle and in some cases, “Sesame Street” and other eductional programming would disappear.
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Not to mention that once again, someone from NPR finds theirself in trouble, but the conversation turned to PBS because it’s the more familiar product, I guess.

sarainitaly said:
OMG that was so funny! love the avatar!! LOL!

Love yours too.

Do you like hairy red guys?

ganymede said:
I wish you rightwingers would all take your guns and seeds and retire to your bombshelters while the rest of us get on with our lives. Every civilized country has universal health care and a subsidized or partially subsidized radio and television network which they take great pride in like the BBC, etc. All you want to do is continue the Balkanization and privatization of everything including, probably, turning our armed forces into a mercenary army. All it indicates is a poverty of imagination and a lack of pride in your country. Also, most of you rightwingers don’t listen to NPR. If you did you’d have some understanding of what a civil society is all about. Imagine Glenn Beck on NPR selling gold futures. What a bunch of barbarians you are.

If you are so enamored of what every civilized country has, why are you still here?

ganymede said:
Every civilized country has universal health care and a subsidized or partially subsidized radio and television network which they take great pride in like the BBC, etc. All you want to do is continue the Balkanization and privatization of everything including, probably, turning our armed forces into a mercenary army. All it indicates is a poverty of imagination and a lack of pride in your country.

I think it is you that has lack of pride in your country…

I think America is the best country in the world. You apparently think America is worse off because they don’t have universal health care and BBC?

Did you ever consider that everyone in the world flocks to America because of the many things that set them apart from “every other civilized country” in the world?

sarainitaly said:
really? cuz it looks almost identical to me. same puppets, same sets, same streets, same games…
Except maybe some of the guests are less dressed then they used to be, like Katy Perry.

I really don’t want to go into the format changes, but the short answer is that they famously switched over to having defined segments in predictable and scheduled blocks, rather than sticking with a storytelling method. They’ve also dealt with death, fear of natural disaster, they made Snuffy visible and they’ve put Cookie on a diet just to name a few.

PS) In response to Sen. DeMint… Dora doesn’t teach anything except a couple of Spanish words, while the PBS lineup teaches numbers, letters, math, science, phonics and logic.

O’Keefe also has a history of creative editing and the opening line — that NPR gets $90 million from the government — is not factually correct. NPR receives only about $2.4 million directly, with the rest coming from member stations (who also receive federal funding grants), sponsorships and fundraising.

Which part of this is not true?

The former head of NPR’s fundraising arm says in a surreptitiously recorded video by a conservative activist that members of the tea party movement are xenophobic and racist and that NPR would prefer to do without subsidies provided by the federal government.

Magister said:
PBS lineup teaches numbers, letters, math, science, phonics and logic.

No Teapartiers in that bunch.

Magister said:
logic

Or Righties in general

@Mr.Papshmer Ha! You poor middle aged waste……you can’t help yourself. You need to feel superior because your daddy didn’t treat you like a man. He treated you like a weak little girl that you are. Grow up!

Religion of Peace says:
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TrollJuice said:
Just what I thought, a bunch of immature chubby white guys playing with their key boards!

Racist much?
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It is always the ones that are using religion as a crutch to call someone else racist. No, you are the racist. You watch Beck and Fox. That is your light and you cling to it like a moth.

One more…

As a comparison, here’s the video page for “Dora” and here’s the one for “Between the Lions“, a show that gets some taxpayer funds.

O’Keefe was arrested last year for his involvement in another would-be undercover camera stunt in which he helped colleagues pose as telephone repairmen in order to gain entry to Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office.

sarakillselmo said:
Love yours too.

Do you like hairy red guys?

depends… are you ticklish?

sarainitaly said:
Did you ever consider that everyone in the world flocks to America because of the many things that set them apart from “every other civilized country” in the world?

There’s an old saying about how you can judge the character of a nation by what would happen if you opened the hypothetical floodgates. Would the flow go in, or out?

TrollJuice said:
You poor middle aged waste……you can’t help yourself. You need to feel superior because your daddy didn’t treat you like a man. He treated you like a weak little girl that you are.

Wow, you really got me on that one. Jesus, I feel incomplete now. Imagine, being taken down by a second grader!

Magister said:
they’ve put Cookie on a diet just to name a few.

WHAT!? How can you have a cookie monster be on a diet? Is he the arugula monster now?

Magister said:
Now on the other hand, the “War on Sesame Street” title could be factually correct because as the fellow in the video — who says that HIS JOB would be easier without federal funding — points out, a lot of stations in rural and poorer regions could go dark. I mean, if the states are having a hard time meeting their current obligations, then an added burden may be too much to handle and in some cases, “Sesame Street” and other eductional programming would disappear.

When things get as bad as the in-your-face Democrat campaign PBS has become, then it’s OK to throw the “baby” out with the “bathwater” because the “bathwater has become SO foul as to warrant it.

The world can easily survive without Sesame Street being broadcast in rural areas. Not blaming Sesame Street for this, but the education of American youngsters was documented as far superior to the education since Sesame Street was first produced.

TrollJuice said:
O’Keefe was arrested last year for his involvement in another would-be undercover camera stunt in which he helped colleagues pose as telephone repairmen in order to gain entry to Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-La.) office.

No kidding, really? Wow, first I’ve heard of that. :)

ganymede said:
wish you rightwingers would all take your guns and seeds and retire to your bombshelters while the rest of us get on with our lives.

Who would pay for your free cheese, dummy? And your union slush funds to the democrat party, dummy?

Look what I found on my crazy liberal website:

Pete King, America’s new McCarthy

Let us call Congressman King’s House hearings on ‘homegrown Muslim terrorism’ what they are: a bigoted witchhunt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/03/congress-islam

Oh, don’t tell me it is racism coming from the right!

Mr.Papshmer says:
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TrollJuice said:
You poor middle aged waste……you can’t help yourself. You need to feel superior because your daddy didn’t treat you like a man. He treated you like a weak little girl that you are.

Wow, you really got me on that one. Jesus, I feel incomplete now. Imagine, being taken down by a second grader!
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Ha! Fail!

Magister said:
I’m not sure of the question, it looks like a blogger put something in a headline and someone in Jim DeMint’s office found a factoid that they fely would boost their cause,

Everytime this comes up, the Democrats trot out some puppet from Sesame Street or some show, saying the GOP wants to kill of Sesame Street.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49651.html

sarainitaly said:
Everytime this comes up, the Democrats trot out some puppet from Sesame Street or some show, saying the GOP wants to kill of Sesame Street.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49651.html

It’s all for the kids, afterall.

It appears that Mr. Schiller was right:

Tea Party Racism: An Evangelical Ex-Congressman and A Southern Baptist Pastor Speak
February 9, 2010

Speaking at the National Tea Party Convention, former United States Representative Tom Tancredo proposed a “civics literacy test” as a prerequisite to voting and announced that “people who could not even spell the word ’vote’ or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House.” A former Roman Catholic turned evangelical, Tancredo is a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Tancredo’s offensive comment invoking the memory of the Jim Crow South is definitely not his first racist rant. Not too long ago, Tancredo asserted that immigrants must adopt “White, Anglo Saxon culture.” Without a doubt, the Tea Party organizers knew what they were getting when inviting Tom Tancredo.

TrollJuice said:
Look what I found on my crazy liberal website:

Pete King, America’s new McCarthy

Let us call Congressman King’s House hearings on ‘homegrown Muslim terrorism’ what they are: a bigoted witchhunt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/03/congress-islam

Oh, don’t tell me it is racism coming from the right!

Islam is a race, now, huh, dummy?

I say it’s past the time that liberals pay for their own liberal causes.

Defund NPR sign the petition, it’s free: http://page.townhall.com/DefundNPR/

Help Scott Walker defund the PEU slush fund to democrats: http://www.americansforprosperity.org/walker/

Let liberals pay for their own abortions: http://defundplannedparenthood.org/

And pi$$ a troll off all in one.

sarainitaly said:
WHAT!? How can you have a cookie monster be on a diet? Is he the arugula monster now?

Cookies are now ‘sometime food’.
Here’s a “Cookie” musical number.

Magister said:
Cookies are now ’sometime food’.
Here’s a “Cookie” musical number.

looks almost identical to the old stuff… ;O)
it’s weird though, all the voices are different! haha

Can we also defund AP, the NY Times. Deomocratic Media…?

How’d you all like this Deceitful Administration – what they hid in the Health Care Takeover.

Remind everyone you know – they’re Chicago Dirty, a bunch of gangsters, as President bachmann pointed out!

@sarainitaly: Other than references to federal funds being eliminated to Children’s Television Workshop (Sesame Workshop’s predecessor) I’m having trouble finding anything too specific and legitimate about Sesame Street’s funding under all of the noise about cutting the funds.

The closest that I can come at this minute is the http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesame_statement_02152011“>statement released last week, which once again says that CPB “recently provided critical grant support ” for “Electric Company” and the program geared toward military families. It also says that through licensing proceeds and corporate sponsorship, they’re able to produce “Sesame Street” with 93% of the costs covered and I assume station broadcast fees makes up the rest.

As I said somewhere before, if stations go dark, then “Sesame Street” disappears, but they’re really just a political football being played from both sides. The anti-PBS lobby can point to all the toys and the muppets make good photo ops for the pros.

ndanielson said:

And pi$$ a troll off all in one.

That’s funny coming from the Queen of the Mediaite Trolls.

When you reply, don’t forget to use one of your IQ balanced sobriquets such as “dummy”, or “clown”. It makes you seem so…..adult.

NORBIT Jr. said:
President bachmann

Someone has already drank up their money for meds, and its only the 8th. It is going to be a long month.

I hope Big Bird ends up on spit in the backyard. Talk about obnoxious characters, Sesame Street has ‘em all.

TrollJuice said:
Oh, don’t tell me it is racism coming from the right!

What race?

sarainitaly said:
depends… are you ticklish?

Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee
Tee Hee Hee

So what’s the progressive counter to this latest outrage? Attack the messenger?

I send good money off to the government for them to fund organizations declaring me racist for my political affiliations? Congress needs to defund NPR yesterday.

Paleoconservatarian said:
So what’s the progressive counter to this latest outrage? Attack the messenger?

(Update)

Before posting, I hadn’t yet clicked into Tommy Christopher’s latest contribution, so there’s that.

So predictable.

TrollJuice said:
Religion of Peace says:
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TrollJuice said:
Just what I thought, a bunch of immature chubby white guys playing with their key boards!

Racist much?
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It is always the ones that are using religion as a crutch to call someone else racist. No, you are the racist. You watch Beck and Fox. That is your light and you cling to it like a moth.

So, if I made a comment and referred to you as a “chubby black guy” you wouldn’t call me a racist? Stfu, you’re a joke.

Pablo said:
What race?

Tea Party hates black….

sarainitaly said:
looks almost identical to the old stuff… ;O)
it’s weird though, all the voices are different! haha

Time is a sad fact of life, as is the passing of great voice actors and puppeteers.

Sesame Street always has a soft spot in my heart. It taught me a lot as a young child, including how to read and count to 100 before I turned three.

Tea Party hates black….

Black what?

Don’t fear the Muslim Brotherhood
Those stoking fears that the Islamic group will take power in Egypt don’t know much about it.

actually we need to read more about Muslim brotherhood in egypt and every where, this is their english website its called “ikhwanweb”, read every thing about them and about what they claim to be in Egypt after the egyptian revolution

http://ikhwanweb.com

pakattak said:
Time is a sad fact of life, as is the passing of great voice actors and puppeteers.

Sesame Street always has a soft spot in my heart. It taught me a lot as a young child, including how to read and count to 100 before I turned three.

I was always partial to Grover. *hey, hey kermie babyyyyyyyyy*

Magister said:
As I said somewhere before, if stations go dark, then “Sesame Street” disappears, but they’re really just a political football being played from both sides. The anti-PBS lobby can point to all the toys and the muppets make good photo ops for the pros.

You don’t think any other network or channel would pick it up? Between all the Discovery, TLC, Animal Planets, cartoon, Disney, etc. networks, I find it hard to believe no one would at least pick up the 40+ years of reruns, if not bring over the “self sustaining” show entirely. A franchise that pumps out $211 million in merchandise sales alone seems like something any network would want to get their hands on.

Achtung! Seig Heil!!

IF the Tea Party failed to respond to this caricaturization, I’d be surprised.
Even if they are under educated, xenophobic, Bible thumpers- they enjoy a good rumble.
It’s a great fund raising opportunity.

Re: NPR and the popularity of their reportage, you only have to look at Mediaite’s own ranking of radio personalities to see that NPR is the only viable alternative to the Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity trifecta.

If the Tea Party can cripple it’s only competition, you may as well toss out your radio.
It will have become mono-thematic.

These Tea Party Patriots kill me..They all run around in their Paul Revere hats and revolutionary war uniforms yet march to the drum of the Kock Brothers and multi-national billionare companies. I’d say the majority of them are to dumb to know what they are rooting for but the top Tea Bagger Generals clearly know their master.
Oh and I can’t wait to see how loud all the angry white voters under 55 are when they comprehend what they thought was the medicare they were going to get……………d’oh. The whole bunch of them are going to be like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.