For the better part of four years now, the crack bias sleuths at NewsBusters have had something of a monopoly on really awful media criticism. If you wanted to read some of worst, most puerile carping on the alleged transgressions of the mainstream media, all you had to do was head over to Tim Graham's place and read about MSNBC's biased promo announcers, Andrew Sullivan's unforgiveable foreignness, and the Washington Post's anti-“Wolverines!” slant. And let's never forget Matt Lauer's terrorist neckwear.
But it looks like Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood.com is looking to dethrone NewsBusters as the premiere source for asinine right-wing media criticism, and they made a compelling case with one of their “featured stories” this morning which documented the absurd liberal bias in an episode of Sesame Street that aired two years ago.
Just let that sink in for a moment...
So, in the spirit of one of Sesame Street's many iconic characters, let's count the ways in which BigHollywood.com embarrassed themselves this morning:
Add one more soldier to the Left's war on Fox News: Oscar the Grouch.
One!
Later in the episode, Anderson Cooper from 4th place CNN, guest stars as a reporter for GNN. He interacts with “Walter Cranky” and “Dan Rather-Not” - Muppets representing real-life liberal news personalities - and they talk about “Meredith Beware-a” and “Diane Spoiler.” But no affectionate nicknames for Fox News personalities; no Spill O'Reilly or Brittle Hume - nope, and the only disparaging characterization of real-world news is reserved for Fox: Fox is a POX. It is trashy. They didn't even attempt to try “MessyNBC.”
Two!
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.
Three!
The fact that this is a re-run from an episode written during the Bush Presidency only reinforces that this is nothing new. The Left has been doing this for years now. All of us have seen it and felt powerless to mention it, because if we do, we're ridiculed and dismissed (thank you, Mr. Alinsky).
Four!
“Sesame Street” can awkwardly slam FoxNews from the comfort of their stodgy old PBS studios... Meanwhile, we have the cool kids on our side: Dennis Miller, Greg Gutfeld, Andrew Breitbart and yes, even Glenn Beck. And our cool kids are pointing out just how boring, lame, predictable and lazy the other side has become.
Five!
And so forth...
I'd like to think that this is satire of some sort. I really would. But we've all seen how earnestly idiotic these folks can be.