Turn Right To Sesame Street!

The far-right outraged that Sesame Street does vaccine town hall with CNN.

 

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Erica Hill and Dr. Sanjay Gupta host the CNN special with Big Bird and The Sesame Street family.

Sesame Street taught children to be kind. The extremists don't want to be kind. They want to be chaos agents and bad faith agitators. The extremists continue this culture war nonsense. It's sad.

President Joe Biden offers thanks to Sesame Street for encouraging Americans to get vaccinated.

Good on ya, @BigBird. Getting vaccinated is the best way to keep your whole neighborhood safe.

— President Biden (@POTUS) November 8, 2021

When a network like CNN is trying to encourage vaccinations in the sake of public safety, Fox and the far-right often uses this as another attempt to undermine public safety. Then they have the audacity to brag about ratings. Mediaite and Media Matters cover the controversy. I mean this is what the folks over at Fox obsess about. 

The Muppets. 

Didn't they get upset when the Jim Henson Studios removed a dozen or so episodes The Muppet Show because they were deemed too controversial to air?

Fox's general audience is old folks so I don't see why they're bragging about how they're leading in news when their base of viewers are dying everyday from the coronavirus.

I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it'll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.

Ms. @EricaRHill even said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird. I had no idea!

— Big Bird (@BigBird) November 6, 2021

Elmo was so happy to talk to @DrSanjayGupta at the town hall today! Elmo learned that Elmo's friends can get the COVID-19 vaccine now, and soon Elmo can too!

— Elmo (@elmo) November 6, 2021

Super Grover may have many special superpowers, but he also knows when to ask a friend for help! Thank you @KizzyPhD for teaching us aaaaall about COVID-19 vaccines at the town hall today!

— Grover (@Grover) November 6, 2021

The Sunday morning Fox & Friends panel slammed a pro-vaccine CNN special featuring the Sesame Street characters, saying it was “really creepy” to push “propaganda” at children, even as they slammed their rival network’s ratings and expressed doubt anyone had watched the program.

Karen Campos-Duffy introduced the topic by mentioning “the authoritarianism we see creeping into our society and our culture,” saying that what was “most disturbing is what we’re seeing done to our kids.”

Parents were upset, said Campos-Duffy, about “propaganda about vaccines being not directed at parents” but “directly to the kids in some really creepy ways, including Sesame Street.”

Rosita gets vaccinated.

She then cued up a clip of Big Bird interviewing one of his Muppet pals, Rosita, about getting vaccinated during the CNN special. CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is also there chatting with the characters about the benefits of the Covid-19 vaccines “to stop the spread of Covid and keep everyone healthy.”

“That was weird,” reacted Campos-Duffy, saying Gupta “should be talking to mami and papi and not to little kids on this, what looks like a Big Pharma commercial.”

“It’s so creepy!” she added.

Karen Cain quipped that it was a “big step up” for Gupta to go from CNN to Sesame Street, and Karen Hegseth replied, “thankfully nobody saw it, CNN has historically low ratings.”

“I wonder what the demo is for 5 year olds watching CNN on a Saturday? Probably zero. Not very effective,” said Hegseth, going on to criticize the “targeting of kids” to get vaccinated.

“No long term studies,” interjected Campos-Duffy.

Cain brought up a tweet posted on Big Bird’s account where the yellow avian said he had just gotten the vaccine and his “wing is feeling a little sore,” but the shot would give him “an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.”

“The science on risk to kids from Covid is stark and clear,” said Cain. “They’re not at risk to transmit or get seriously sick from Covid.” He also complained about the lack of “long term studies” of the vaccine on children.

The parents of the nearly 600 American children who have died from Covid would disagree with Cain. Children have gotten severely sick from Covid, have been hospitalized, and have sadly even died. The delta variant has been blamed for the increase in hospitalizations among children in recent months.