Enemy “Sesame Street”
Why why why? US Republicans ban Elmo, Bibo, Ernie and Bert from their Congress
Popular with children, unwanted by conservative Republicans: Ernie and Bert from “Sesame Street”
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The fact that Bibo, the cult bird from “Sesame Street”, made his corona vaccination public on Twitter, enraged Republicans at the beginning of November. And her resentment against the children’s series is apparently still a long way from gone.
The US Republicans continue their propaganda campaign against “Sesame Street”: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual meeting of ultra-conservative Republicans, announced on social media on Thursday that Elmo, Bibo, Ernie and Bert would be attending their conference are undesirable in the next year.
“Not invited” wrote the CPAC next to pictures of the characters from the world-famous television series for children of preschool age. Then she posted the pictures including the announcement of the event on Twitter in February.
It was certainly clear to the CPAC twitterers that the three hand puppets and their feathered friend shouldn’t feel particularly attracted to the Trump Ultras gathering in Florida anyway. Your posting shows all the more how much the Republicans now regard “Sesame Street” as an enemy.
Bibo is vaccinated – and the Republicans swell the crest
The background to the aversion of the conservatives to the cult children’s series is Bibo’s commitment to vaccination two weeks ago: The big, yellow bird had communicated on Twitter that he was vaccinated against the corona virus. A few days earlier, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received the Biontech / Pfizer vaccine Emergency approval granted for five to eleven year olds, whereupon the makers of “Sesame Street” apparently wanted to subtly advertise the spades against Covid-19.
The Republicans didn’t like it at all. Many supporters of ex-US President Donald Trump’s party reject vaccination, among other things because they doubt that the coronavirus is dangerous or because they believe wild conspiracy theories that condemn vaccination.
So, according to Bibo’s confession, Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas hurried to “the media” as “puppets of the democrats” to brand and shared a post, the one “Propaganda Hell” conjured up. Trump’s former advisor Steve Cortes stamped “this propaganda” as “evil”. And Lisa Boothe, host of the Conservative in-house broadcaster Fox News, wrote about “brainwashing” children.
New “Sesame Street” doll outrags CPAC organizer
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, which organizes the traditional CPAC meeting, was upset about “Sesame Street” for another reason this week: as reported by the news site “Mediaite”: A doll with Asian roots is to appear in the children’s program for the first time. “Our new friend’s name is Ji-Young and is a seven-year-old Korean-American girl,” announced the production company Sesame Workshop on Monday in New York.
Ji-Young is slated to make her debut on Thanksgiving day on November 25th in the Sesame Street special “See Us Coming Together”, which will introduce neighbors from Asia and the Pacific with lots of music. “The mission of the Sesame Workshop is that children grow up smarter, stronger and friendlier,” explained the organizers. The appreciation of every ethnic identity is also very important to Sesame Street.
Matt Schlapp, on the other hand, is more of a thorn in the side of this appreciation. He called the public broadcasting service (PBS), funded by donations and government grants, which will broadcast the special, “crazy” and demanded that their funds be cut.
Sources: Conservative Political Action Conference I., Conservative Political Action Conference II, “Mediaite”, “Huffington Post”