George takes a swipe at Big Bird

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I'm leaning more and more left these days, mainly because the right seems to be moving even further right. I love NPR, but admit I don't watch PBS at all these days....although I would love my own kids to watch Sesame Street and the like. I realize that my reasons for wanting the gov't to support these services is because they are good for me, which is a very self-serving reason. I used to be against all kinds of gov't funded things. Let's face it, if Sesame Street were kicked out of public television, a bidding war would ensue and some network would snap it up.

Taking what you said waaaay out of context...
I do fund public television, and NPR, and my local musuems, and I loved public broadcasting for my son when he was a wee one.
However, now with my nephew, we watch the other channels more. PLay with me Sesame is on Noggin, and they run the old Sesame street bits from when we were children.
Have you seen Sesame street recently? Its not the same as what you remember. (at least not the same as when I was a child) They seem to assume now that those of us the same as Sesame street had a longer attention span than the kiddies now.

My point... other networks do have part of it. Noggin airs the Play with me show.. and a lot of the other childrens programming that used to be delegated to PBS stations only.