‘The Daily Show’ Rips Fox News For Slamming ‘Sesame Street’; Jon Stewart Goes Full Muppet: Video

COMMENTS (12)

• “Fallout”? LMAO. Trying hard much? If that’s your best talking point against Mittsy post-debate, you boys are trying way too hard to make lemonade out of lemons.

  Comment by Jack — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 8:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• Finish this sentence: The government should confiscate by force the fruits of my labor and give them to the people who make Sesame Street because _______________ .

  Comment by rob — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 9:22am PDT  Reply to this post

  • accessible education for children is important to this country and is one of many services that elevates our people.

    Comment by "by force" — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 10:18am PDT  Reply to this post

  • …they’re “confiscating” less money from you than you’d bother to pick up from the sidewalk.

    Comment by sffan — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 10:49am PDT  Reply to this post

  • better them than 99.99% of the organizations that confiscate the fruits of my labor by force (army, oil companies, federal government in general, etc.).

    Comment by Paw — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 11:31am PDT  Reply to this post

  • by contributing a small investment in the education of the future generation of the country, we increase the abilities of future individuals, and with it the advancement of modern society.

    On the inverse, we can have a “its mine and you can’t have any” attitude, and you will eventually max out on your potential, then die, and society will have nothing to show for the fact that you lived.

    Comment by No One Of Consequence — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • educating children is a public good which benefits all of society, and literacy is a prerequisite for an informed populace capable of civic engagement. Furthermore, education of children is the sort of long-term investment which the market, with its focus on quarterly earnings and ever-increasing profit margins, is not well suited to provide.

    Comment by Josiah Rowe — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 8:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hilarious.
  I like PBS, watched it as a kid and watch it now as an adult. It’s kind of nice not having a corp. try to sell me something, at least for a few minutes. But clearly PBS is the reason the economy crashed and continues to struggle. It must be the reason, otherwise Mitt wouldn’t have singled it out in his “brilliant” debate. Bravo Mitt, bravo.

  Comment by Anchorboy — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 9:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• I love how the Fox News footage from “Sesame Street” was actually footage of “The Muppets”. Had they actually checked their facts, they would know that “The Muppets” was produced/distributed by Disney, and that “The Muppet Show” originally aired on CBS – - Neither being PBS. Just because they both have muppet characters, does not mean that they their funding comes from the same source. They are 2 separate brands entirely. Quality Journalism right there.

  Comment by Fact Checker — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 11:17am PDT  Reply to this post

• Educational? Have you watched PBS lately? Aside from Sesame Street, it’s just embarrassing how bad children’s shows have gotten over the last few years. Long gone are the days of Reading Rainbow, Newton’s Apple, and 3 2 1 Contact. Now we have Dora the Explora, and this British import that makes Teletubbies look like Masterpiece Theater.

  PBS used to be about education, but now it’s simply a dumping ground for leftist pundits, and horrid shows like Call the Midwife that no one else wants. If not for DA and the Great Performances series, PBS would be a total wash.

  Comment by Nervisrex — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 11:48am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Dora the Explorer is Nickelodeon, not PBS. It is a perfect example of why we can’t trust the private (sponsor based) sector with the educational programming of the future.

    Meanwhile, PBS provides the children of today with a platform for Sesame Street, Super Why, The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That, Martha Speaks, Curious George and Arthur (just to name a few). As the father of a 5 and 2 year old, I can tell you pretty much anything for kids on PBS is far superior educationally to anything on Nick or Disney channel (and I say this as a lover of Phineas and Ferb).

    Comment by No One Of Consequence — Tuesday October 9, 2012 @ 12:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Or maybe as parents we can stop being lazy and using the TV as a babysitter (I’m guilty at times) and go to a park, play a board game, read a book…I miss Mr. Wizards World most of all. Father of 3 young children.

  Comment by NTC — Wednesday October 10, 2012 @ 1:50am PDT  Reply to this post