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.

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