Big Bird is that Roger Ailes moment of ‘Orchestra Pit Theory’: “If you have two guys on a stage and one guy says, ‘I have a solution to the Middle East problem,’ and the other guy falls in the orchestra pit, who do you think is going to be on the evening news?“
Sesame Workshop Response to Campaign Ads
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The Sesame Workshop BlogSesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down….
Well, of course, kids. Because Sesame Workshop is at the mercy of such as Mitt Romney, and can’t afford to be controversial in the least. Too bad, too, since the Obama ad in question is hilarious. (But watch quick, they may be forced to take it down if the Faux Fox Feigned outrage has its way …)
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Roger Ailes should know, since he also invented and runs Faux Nooz. We are now six straight days from the debate with most of the news media obsessed with the latest polling, Andrew Sullivan having a shrieking fit of what Southern ladies used to call “the vapors,” and the breathless BS of the horse-race media, who COULD be covering a very peculiar, stealth American election, but choose, instead, to sit around the pot-bellied stove, chawing terbaccky, telling old stories and speculating about what the future could bring, and spitting into the open grating onto the fire to hear the satisfying hiss.
They began a few days ago, reflexively ATTACKING Big Bird (because, if it is not for us, it must be against us, ergo ATTACK! as predator instinct and not strategic thought).
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And now, the attack shifts ever so slightly, to attempt to move the subject away from Mitt Romney’s stumble into the orchestra pit last Wednesday.
You see, nobody wants to talk about the REAL moment. The real drama as understood by humans and not eggheads.
One: Mitt Romney is against Big Bird.
Two: He looked straight into the elderly moderator’s eyes and told him that he wants to fire him.
You’re FIRED!
Sorry: that’s being a prick who kicks Bambi. And that’s what America saw. Neither the Obama campaign nor the Romney campaign seem to “get” that, as yet another Mittbot 3000 is trotted out, with a new “reintroduction” of the android to the gullible malleable pullable publick. It’s that moment in the recent Gallifanakis/Ferrell comedy film where one candidate, fighting over who gets to kiss a baby in a photo op, attempts to punch the other candidate and belts the baby instead.
It’s falling into the orchestra pit, Ailes-style.
They’re dominating the blogoscreech with their blogobloviating all within the margins of error. That’s not news.
Meantime, a whole segment of the public is figuring out that Mitt actually said that. Just batted his slitted pupil eyes, licked his lips with his forked tongue and decided to threaten the moderator, after ignoring and bullying him. In the aftermath, the “smart” pundits somehow think that the bully won.
Big Bird fans everywhere beg to differ.
And fans of civilization everywhere blanch at the casual cruelty that Mr. Romney displayed towards Jim Lehrer in gratuitously “firing” him — in keeping with the narrative of the workers at the plants he’s closed and pocketed cash from BY closing them. Sixty million Americans know what Mitt looks like when he’s firing you.
And that is falling in the orchestra pit, no matter how you want to slice it.
It’s like the Clint Eastwood thing (which I just re-watched and am EMBARRASSED for Clint the whole way through): that was the Romney campaign falling into the orchestra pit, and those are the headlines. Six days later.
Somebody’s Facebook mashup
Just ask Big Bird.
Courage.
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The Sesame Workshop: The latest example of someone who thinks that cozying up to the bully will save them if he gets that far. Mustn’t annoy or anger the maniac! He might be in control.
Worked for Britain, France, Austria, Russia, and Poland in the 1930′s. Depending on the exact definition of the word ‘work’, of course.
Oh come now. Children’s nonprofits are born and bred without spines. They cannot afford to be any more controversial than milk.
The press release they released was the ONLY POSSIBLE statement they could have made, as predictable as the tides and considerably less consequential. They just have to stand, mute, no matter what they might think of those who would like to fire them for … educating kids.
Thus far, we have pissed on Obama, on Jim Lehrer, on Big Bird and the Sesame Workshop, without getting any closer to the actual jerk we ought to be pissing on: Mister Out of Touch hisownself, Willard Mittens Romney, who is so clueless as to attack the moderator and harmless children’s icon for NO FUCKING REASON, other than to make a minor (and meaningless) point.
If you ever needed evidence that the Mittster is a heartless prick, look no further than that paragraph. Why it confuses so many pundits, I can’t say, unless the pundit class is, as I have long suspected, some reptilian race from a distant star.
I’ve worked in government and in non-profits, and my heart goes out to Sesame Workshop, who are rendered mute, without so much as the capacity to speak out for themselves. Their press release was as pro forma and meaningless as an “FBI” warning on a porn tape.
Ah, I see. The forms have been obeyed. Might’ve guessed, didn’t really want to.
I’m about to laugh myself into the funny farm, because Mr. Forked tongue Etch A Sketch, shouldn’t be neck and neck with Obama. I mean a sociopath is supported by close to half the population? Of a Democratic Republic? Of a free people? It’s insane. Just so everyone knows, the GOP hates big bird because he helps educate people, and they don’t like educated people. Long live Big Bird.
Yup. It’s now Wednesday, and, while memories of the debate fade in the minds of the public, the Battle of Big Bird continues in its eighth straight day. The Rightie clueless and witless attack hounds respond by backing Mitt’s attack on PBS and pooh-poohing the controversy and MItt, true to form doubles down.
It’s pretty clear that they’re against edumacation because they don’t evince any evidence of having had it themselves.
They sure don’t show much evidence of good education, but they didn’t get to where they are strictly by feral cunning. They know what they’re doing, they are just evil.
In the immortal words of Dean Wormer: “Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”