r/entertainment • u/LogicalBox3116 • 15h ago
Fox News Personality Makes Surprising Claim About ‘Sesame Street’: ‘They Get Super Political’
https://parade.com/entertainment/fox-news-personality-makes-surprising-claim-about-sesame-street-they-get-super-political263
u/ohilco8421 13h ago
The right has politicized every single aspect of contemporary life, from education, religion, media and information, to consumer behavior, science, health, and beyond. The damage to our civic and social environment will last for generations.
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u/Feeez_Shato 13h ago
Don’t forget how they convinced the dupes that using turn signals is feminine.
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u/deschain_19195 13h ago
It's also gay now to have sex with a woman for enjoyment
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u/CorvusCommand 13h ago
Washing your own ass? Super gay.
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u/upfromashes 12h ago
Well, if you're a guy, and then the person who is touching your own butthole is also a guy? Come on, it's logic.
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u/AiReine 13h ago
I’m sorry, what now?!
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u/antinoria 13h ago
In reference to a conservative manosphere influencer, commenting that sexis for procreation and not to give his wife orgasms.
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u/chrisscan456 12h ago
They really said that? So who do they blame when their failure to use a turn signal causes an accident?
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u/Stingray88 12h ago
They want to erode every aspect of American life so it’s cheaper and easier to privatize. They are total leeches on society.
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u/leviathan65 13h ago
Promoting openness, compassion, and acceptance is political now. That tells you all you need to know.
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u/SapphireStar26 12h ago
Don’t forget the crappy stuff about empathy being evil now. I wish I was joking. (Not Sesame Street, but others.)
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u/Exodys03 11h ago
Exactly. I agree that children's programming shouldn't be overtly political but if their promotion of inclusivity and kindness to everyone offends you then, well... you might want to look inward to figure out why that is.
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u/shawhtk 11h ago
Sesame Street was overtly political when it was created back in 69 showing an integrated neighborhood when that still made a lot in this country uncomfortable. That was obviously a good thing.
Sesame Street should always continue in its progressive roots and btw fuck Fox News and their personalities.
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u/myfrigginagates 9h ago
I was a stage manager at Sesame for 4 years in the early to mid 90s, what people call "political" is generally just examples of being a good human. Including the integrated neighborhood. In reality that (integrated neighborhoods) was also NYC in the late '60s when the show began.
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u/shawhtk 9h ago
Late 60s nyc was also not that great a place in race relations. Blockbusting and redlining were all the rage and neighborhoods were changing in short order when a tipping point in racial demographics were reached.
The West Side neighborhood that mostly inspired the show itself was mostly destroyed to make Lincoln Center and other new buildings.
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u/myfrigginagates 9h ago
As far as things like segregation, it's worse now. Between gentrification and school choice it's really awful in the school system.
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u/BananasPineapple05 13h ago edited 13h ago
That politically divisive rhetoric of being kind to your fellow puppets, handling your emotions and learning to read, write and count.
I should have known!!! /s
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u/tullbabes 13h ago
Fox News ain’t news. It’s fucking wrestling at this point.
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u/BronkosAutoRepairing 12h ago
Fox News hasn't been news for decades.
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u/Aromatic-Elephant110 9h ago
Isn't it technically called Fox News Entertainment? Because it's not news?
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u/funkympc 8h ago
It never was news. It was always agitprop and their goal was to muddy the waters enough to put Republicans into permanent minority rule.
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u/lanceturley 11h ago
If every Fox News program had someone run on to the set from off camera and smack the host over the head with a steel chair, i might actually start watching.
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u/Take-it-like-a-Taker 12h ago
They should watch Sesame Street and Mr Roger’s from 30+ years ago and get ready to clutch their pearls
Sesame Street plainly shows a community struggling to keep the heat on. The importance of community is constantly prefaced by the fact that the kid’s family are at work
Mister Rogers showed multiple women breast feeding and a small girl go through most of a standard physical. He also heavily focused on the blow-hard King Friday and taught people to pacify those people by killing them with kindness and focusing on their positive intentions.
These blow hards just want a way to hurt someone that has a platform who is saying something that they don’t like
These people act like it is a truly terrible thing to call a genocider a hypocrite
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u/woolsocksandsandals 12h ago
Conservatives hated Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers and Reading Rainbow back in the day also. In fact, their criticisms have not really evolved much.
I still see reverberations of their criticisms of the self-esteem movement, positive discipline and attachment parenting in their criticisms of shows like Miss Rachel and Daniel Tiger, and of how millennials are raising their kids today
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u/Anna825 11h ago
How could you legitimately hate Reading Rainbow? The message was just read more and learn more. Like, was reading too liberal or something?
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u/Gamma_Goliath17 10h ago
Don't forget conservatives are the ones also banning books. They hate the educated mind.
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u/Single-Pin-369 7h ago
Reading is for the preacher to share the bible with the masses and thats it.
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u/CasinoKnightZone 7h ago
Black guy telling kids to think for themselves and read.
They don't want people to think. They want them to do what they're told.
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u/RandyArgonianButler 10h ago
Some puppet: “Always be nice to people!”
Conservatives: “What is this sick propaganda?”
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u/Stlouisken 13h ago
They only care because they believe these programs and children personalities have different views from them. If they were conservative or Republican they would sing a different tune.
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u/alwaysright60 13h ago
Dumbfounded by the pettiness Fox News has normalized. Even more dumbfounded that they continue to exist.
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u/robsul82 13h ago
Yeah, “share your toys during playtime” and “be nice to others” sure is political
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u/ClimateAncient6647 12h ago
Grown adults bitching about Sesame Street. What the fuck have we come to?
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u/superdupermensch 12h ago
But a president saying he'll"date" a 9 year old in 10 years, totally acceptable.
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u/JellyrollTX 11h ago
They aren’t political, they are kind and considerate… that republicans and Fox News think that is political, speaks volumes about their low character
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u/Choice-Koala-3653 12h ago
The right see any form of pro-Human and humanitarian messaging as 'anti-white' and Communism. And they fear education. So of course they feel threatened by Sesame Street and Ms Rachel.
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u/abgry_krakow87 11h ago
Religious conservatives love raging war to cancel culture everybody from Mister Rogers to Sesame Street.
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u/hamtronn 10h ago
Being kind to others isn’t a political statement.
Being a twat to everyone that doesn’t look like you and molesting children wasn’t a political thing either but the GOP sure made it their thing.
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u/Stevenitrogen 13h ago
When standing up for human decency, community values, understanding cultural differences and leading with a default position of compassion and openness have become political acts against the established order, yes, Sesame Street is political. It's teaching their kids to respect other kids and they don't like it.
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u/Odd_Figure2797 13h ago edited 1h ago
The same people that said Mister Roger's was problem. Yes people Fred Roger's, Foxnews was bashing him and the neighborhood, you know the show that thought us as kids to be kind, to share, to be considerate of others who are different and not fear them, to be a good neighbor, to be a good friend, to be ok with our feelings and how to manage them. Yeah that's a problem for Foxnews. Totally makes sense when you see how they are as "humans"
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u/chrisscan456 12h ago
These assholes hated Mr. Rogers years ago and hate Ms. Rachel now. Danny Go will be on their list soon enough. They are the same people who said empathy is a sin so this is not a surprise by any stretch.
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u/upfromashes 12h ago
Empathy, kindness, knowledge. Why works they broach these controversial topics?
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u/Asta1977 12h ago
"Elmo likes blue waves!" Cookie Monster slides into frame. "Cookie Monster's favorite color is blue!" Both turn towards the camera and Elmo adds, "Kids, tell your parents to vote Democrat!"
I'd love to see it. 😆
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u/nalninek 12h ago
This is the same channel that called Mr Rogers an “evil, evil man” for teaching kids they’re special just for being who they are.
Ignorance propaganda never changes.
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u/mishma2005 12h ago
I remember when Alisyn Camerota said Mr Rogers was "evil" on Fox and Friends. They've been at this for years
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u/bluehawk232 12h ago
Even republicans used to see value in sesame street and Mister rogers. He testified before congress and got them to approve funding for pbs. Those days are gone
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u/ryohayashi1 11h ago
At this point, I feel like woke just means anything with a heart and soul or empathy
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u/bwoah07_gp2 11h ago
Anyone who works for Fox News should not speak up about this. They are right wing propoganda.
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u/Alert_Front_9948 11h ago
Hardly surprising. People on Fox News believe anyone who holds an opposing opinion to them is "being political". I'm shocked they didn't call Sesame Street and Miss Rachel "woke" or "leftist".
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u/DrapedInVelvet 11h ago
Anything to get their drones not to realize they are poorer and less healthy and less safe under conservative leadership. Letting the rich rob them blind is manly.
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u/WebbityWebbs 11h ago
Because to Fox "news" being a decent person is deeply partisan attack on conservative values.
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u/APraxisPanda 10h ago edited 10h ago
My douche bag MAGA brother told me he and his wife don't let their 4 year old kid watch Sesame Street because they are legitimately afraid it'll make him a godless gay or trans person. He is so afraid of this that he is trying to get him into a private Christian school.
Here's the kicker, he is literally an Atheist!
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u/midwest_riverman 10h ago
All these guys thing things like being kind and helping children feel loved are political acts because they are assholes. That’s the key. These dudes a just self righteous assholes. If something doesn’t fit their narrative it’s because it’s political. Never do they consider for one moment it’s because they are in fact dickheads.
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u/Tebasaki 10h ago
"LMNOP.QRS,TUV"
Jesse Watters: Trans people have no rights! Now watch me sexually objectify what I think a woman is.
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u/BienPuestos 10h ago
They’re always shilling for one letter of the alphabet or another. Totally biased.
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u/Long-Blood 9h ago
Pretty sad the right wing has been able to turn "be kind to others" into a political statement but here we are.
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u/RapBastardz 8h ago
When you make being anti-math, anti-science and anti-human your policies, everything seems political against you.
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u/Fishtoart 13h ago
If somebody put you out of a job you’d probably be pretty political about it too
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u/Button-Down-Shoes 13h ago
Oligarchs trying to keep the focus on the cultural war and distract from the class war that’s actually destroying the world.
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u/rmarkmatthews 12h ago
Yeah I remember watching as a kid and Bob was always trying to teach Big Bird about labor power and the modes of production.
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u/NeutralLock 11h ago
The broader question that always comes up whenever someone says "this person should stick to [whatever it was that made them famous]" is then whom are we allowed to look up to?
FoxNews is entertainment so not them. Politicians are definitely not meant to be admired..... who's allowed to have opinions these days?
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u/ObviouslyUndone 8h ago
So Ms Rachael is inculcating pre-verbal children and toddlers? Are they serious?
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u/CasinoKnightZone 7h ago
Fox News said Mr Rogers was evil.
That is all you need to know about them.
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u/1cem4n82 7h ago
The obsession with our children has got to end. This is the numero uno issue to tackle. They are so obsessed with our children and quality media of any kind reaching their little minds.
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u/BabyGodx42069 7h ago
Everything is political. Also the bible states that rich people are going to hell, this includes president drumpf and his sycophants. My sources are Luke 12:20, Luke 16, and Matthew 27.
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u/VinylmationDude 6h ago
I just rewatched the first episode a bit recently, and holy mother of God folks, they indoctrinated the youth with the idea that a W could also be an N which could also be a V which could also be an I.
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u/Ktrout743 3h ago
A great litmus test for if you are the bad guy in a given situation is this: if teaching kindness and empathy is a red flag: you are the bad guy.
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u/AccountHuman7391 1h ago
To be fair, teaching children to be kind is political. It’s unfortunate, but one political party abandoned decency, so yeah, it is political now.
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u/DASynnthetik 16m ago
They teach sharing and that's socialism! Cookie Monster should pay for his own addiction, nobody else should have to give him their cookies! /s
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u/Improper_Usage 14h ago
Hard men of free speech fear kids puppets