Few weeks back Sesame St. had a skit they aired poking fun of Fox News with the help of their Grouch News Network.

Oscar, in his duties as a reporter for Grouch News Network, concludes an interview that displeases one of his television viewers, a female grouch. “From now on,” she tells him, “I am watching Pox News. Now there’s a trashy news show!”

and of course a bunch of over-sensitive Republican ninnies had to make a thing of it:

So what gives? PBS — a network partially funded with my tax dollars — has the right to tell my kids that their parents watch “trashy” news? 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.

Here’s that video:

Yes, the writers of Sesame St. are trying to undermine you’re authority by making a joke to your 3yr old. Your kid probably can’t even shit in a toilet yet let alone read or make the connection that you watch Fox news and that it sounds an awful lot like Pox news so it must be disgusting and run by dumpster dwelling assholes.

Well, being the friendly old chaps they are down at PBS, they sent someone on to the Bill O’Reilly show to make amends and set things straight. By introducing the best Sesame St. character of all time.

Quotes from the [NYT]