Forget the White House vs. Fox News. Today's newest media war is being waged with Fox News, but this time the enemy is Sesame Street and its puppets.
On a two-year-old episode of Sesame Street aired last night, Oscar the Grouch starts his own news network: GNN (Grouchy News Network). After an interview featuring two puppets who appear to be the king and queen of a foreign, albeit English-speaking country, an angry (puppet) viewer calls in to complain about all the "hugging and kissing."
The damning line: "That is it. I am changing the channel. From now on, I'm watching Pox News--now there's a trashy news show."


Perhaps predictably, an anonymous blogger named "Stage Right" over on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood blog is not happy. In one of his more dramatic paragraphs, he writes:

The message is clear, I can’t even sit my kids in front of “Sesame Street” without having to worry about the Left attempting to undermine my authority. And don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.”  There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single major network, including Disney and Nickelodeon

It's almost so extreme as to be a satire, except, well, it's not.
At the very least, happy 40th anniversary, Sesame Street!