"Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids" OMG!! is Grover a Commie?!

[Snoutport]

That's the claim by a right-wing author who says he's exposed a left-wing plot behind some top TV shows.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/sesame-streets-pinko-puppets-brainwash-our-kids-2290418.html

(The Count was Eastern European...he might be).

[Odin2005]

1. Did RWers ever attack Mr. Rogers?

[Snoutport]

3. No, but I did

That sweater made me nervous!

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Yes...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29lmR_357rA

[MrScorpio]

9. … In Response:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9TlaS2EDU

[applegrove]

2. They just start from the centre and go as far right as possible with their

culture wars hoping it will force any kind of change that will favour the right.

[RSillsbee]

5. Clearly, Elmo is red NT

[Ohio Joe]

6. Well...

Richard Hunt and the entire Hunt family certainly were a big influence for me to become a liberal. My next door neighbors growing up... mmmm home made pop corn balls every Halloween :D

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Hunt

[Snoutport]

10. My Mennonite aunt ALWAYS gave out homemade popcorn balls

They always had unpopped corn in them....she was an awful cook and even the popcorn balls were pretty yucky!

[mysuzuki2]

7. I don't know about Grover being a commie but

Oscar is definitely a republican. He hates everybody!

[XanaDUer]

8. Well, bless her little heart

"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 'fuck you' in it to the right-wing, directly."

:evilgrin:

[Snoutport]

11. I didn't know this!