This is one of my favorite musical bits from the old Muppet Show:
Category: Video
This Episode of Sesame Street Was Brought To You By the Letter “T” and the Number 2
In circumstances George Stephanopoulos probably never imagined when he gave up a hands-on role in politics to become a broadcaster, two fuzzy, nonhuman members of the “Sesame Street” cast joined him Friday morning on “Good Morning America,” along with that PBS children’s show’s executive producer, Carol-Lynn Parente, to discuss the recent decision at “Sesame Street” to pull a music video featuring the pop singer Katy Perry.
On Thursday, Sesame Workshop, which produces “Sesame Street,” said it would not broadcast a segment planned for the show’s coming season in which Ms. Perry performs a version of her song “Hot ‘N Cold” with Elmo and is seen wearing a low-cut dress.
In her “Good Morning America” interview, Ms. Parente told Mr. Stephanopoulos she was surprised at the volume of disapproving responses the video had generated when it was posted on YouTube earlier in the week.
It appears that some parents are up in arms about Katy Perry’s breasts, because her dress shows a bit of cleavage.
It’s actually fine to my mind, but I’m thinking that if the parents are this freaked out over this, they are going to be raising some sexually repressed kids who will likely be very bad in bed.
Video follows, though the comments at Youtube are prize:
LMAO
2nd City nails it:
Why Yes…
We are being run by assholes:
So says Jon Stewart, so say we all.
Jon Stewart Answers the Questions that Need to Be Answered
We Have Found Obama’s Kryptonite
At a CNBC town hall, hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci asks Barack Obama, “When are we going to stop whacking at the Wall Steet piñata?
Well, Jon Stewart has the answer:
How long will we on Wall Street be hit like a piñata with a stick????
How about until the f%$#ing candy comes out!
How about that!
That’s how piñatas work!
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What you call a stick on Wall Street? I guess Amercans call a Trillion dollar bailout of your industry.
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Until your paper mâché bellies are no longer stuffed with government candy, walk it off!
Jon Stewart is not a man I ever want angry with me.
A Sincere and Honest Takedown of Obama
Blah, blah, blah!
The questioner, Velma Hart is asking for a reason to keep believing:
“I’m one of your middle-class Americans, and quite frankly I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I had been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I’m one of those people and I’m waiting, sir. I’m waiting. I don’t feel it yet, and I thought that — while it wouldn’t be in great measure — I would feel it in some small measure.”
Obama’s response is a laundry list of accomplishments, but this misses the bigger point, which is that people are no longer willing to believe that he is willing to fight for them, because he appears to be unwilling to fight at all.
When looking at situations where there are real malefactors involved, his solution is to find common ground, whether it is health care, Wall Street, or BP, and some times, actually a lot of the time, that is simply not enough.
How Not to Bury an Effective Ad
Robin Carnahan, who is running against, Roy “I f%$#ed a lobbyist and took money from Abramhoff” Blunt released a pretty damn effective ad with Fox News’ Chris Wallace cutting Roy Blunt a new one on his conflicts of interest.
Well, Fox sued, claiming “copyright infringement and that the ad “compromises “Fox’s integrity. (I have to clean my screen now)
Of course, now everyone wants to see the video. Smooth move, Fox.
In any case, here is the video:
Where I Wish I Could Be on October 30
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity
Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive
At Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity on the National Mall in Washington, DC, heckling people at Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Unfortunately, I have a prior appointment, I will be at the SCA event, TNT,* and my kids love that event, so I will be there instead.
Still, I think that anyone who can make there should, because if this outdraws Glen Beck and his racist psychopathic ilk, it shows what his numbers really mean.
*Yes, I know that this year, it’s technically the, “Treaty of Troyes,” but it’s TNT and has been TNT for well over a decade.
And they have a plan…
Why yes, I do find this video disturbing:
Your Friday of Muppets
You’ve just been Rickrolled, and I am an @sshole.
Beating a Bald Eagle to Death With a Koran
Best metaphor for the Democratic Party ever.
I love Jon Stewart.*
*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.
Jon Stewart on Religious Tolerance
Well really, it’s less about tolerance than it is an equal opportunity slam at the extremists in general, noting that when you take the Tanakh, Christian Bible, or Koran literally, you see violence, and hatred, and perhaps the problem is that taking the text literally.
There is also the prize line, “Who’s funding these radical Christian clerics?”
Dummies on 51 Park and Religious Tolerance
Not The Daily Show, but close.
It had to be put up on September 11.
BTW, watch the entire thing. There is this bit at the end that is prize.
Isreali Tank Video Pr0n
The Merkava 4.
I would have liked to see it using its mortar in a city environment, but it is still a fun vid.
H/t ELP Defens(c)e Blog.
I am Forced to Admit That a Mime Can Serve a Constructive Function:
It makes Natalie Imbruglia tolerable.
H/t Salamir Abulamahalamatandra Slitskins.
If This Were Any Cuter, It Would Be Banned in Boston
So now we know that the big cats like catnip too:
H/t Cogitamus.
Your Friday of Muppets
This is so wrong:
The Completely Honest Job Interview
I’m so going to do this one day:
C=MI*
Seriously, It Sounds Like Tertiary Syphillis
And then when challenged by the press, she flees
I don’t know what is going on with Arizona governor Jan Brewer, but I hope that she has a substance abuse problem, because if her opening statment at the debate and her interview post debate are any indication, if it’s not that, she has a serious neurological problem.
Of course, I am an engineer, not a Doctor, Dammit†, but her goes well beyond someone who, thanks to Barack Obama hiring Napolitano, was promoted well past her capabilities, she has a serious screw loose.
Props to here opponent Terry Goddard, who, when accused of being responsible for the boycott, or at least supporting it, responds that when the governor of the state is lying about beheadings, it makes her a part of the tourism downturn.
I still think that Brewer is going to win, particularly with Sheriff Arpaio continuing his attempt to intimidate and harass Hispanic voters in the Phoenix area, but what passes for a mainstream Republican these days just buggers the mind.
*Conservatism = Mental Illness.
†I LOVE IT when I get to go all Doctor McCoy!!!
Because Lying to the American Public is Post Partisan
I didn’t follow the commentary after Obama’s speech, hell, I didn’t follow the speech, I was busy driving back home to help out with a family emergency* but Rachel Maddow nails it:
“And to to have in this speech, as combat operations are ending, to have, as you point out Keith, the president not only not addressing the circumstances in which he we went to war, but these kind words for President Bush, describing his commitment to our security, despite the recklessness with which President Bush discarded that national security in favor of this war of choice, which only diminished our security, and is responsible probably for the Afghanistan war still going on today, for the depths of people who have died in Afghanistan after the time, after which that war would have ended had we not gone to Iraq, not to mention all of the people who died in Iraq,” Maddow continued.
“To talk about him having a demonstrated commitment to our security, having started this war on the terms on which he started it, — I mean, it’s beyond restraint from President Obama and anyone in the pro-Iraq war, pro-Bush camp who doesn’t feel like they’ve been given the greatest political present they never deserved was not listening to this speech,” she concluded.
I understand that Obama is not big into confronting people on wrongdoing, and I understand that he wants to look forward, not back, but he lied.
He sat in the oval office, and he lied through his teeth, because he is such conflict averse that he has to praise George W. Bush.
It wasn’t enough to not say anything, he felt compelled to lie to please people who will always hate him.
It’s truly pathological.
*Wife and kids are fine, but there are some health issues amongst the extended family.