Here are some resources to help parents and caregivers speak with children about today’s events. (PDF): http://www.sesameworkshop.org/assets/1192/src/HereForEachOther_vEng2012Modified.pdf
Sesame Street as public service.
BREAKING: Kevin Clash, the longtime Elmo puppeteer, has resigned from “Sesame Street.”
“Unfortunately, the controversy surrounding Kevin’s personal life has become a distraction that none of us want, and he has concluded that he can no longer be effective in his job and has resigned from Sesame Street.” This is such a bummer on multiple fronts.
Voice of Elmo vindicated: A day after allegations arose that Kevin Clash, the puppeteer known for playing Elmo on “Sesame Street,” had a relationship with an underage male, Clash was vindicated after the accuser’s lawyer recanted the earlier claims — saying it was a relationship between two consenting adults. More details in the Newsbreaker clip above.
Here’s the official Million Puppet March route map! See you in DC on 11/3
So this is apparently happening right now.
As it turns out, Big Bird is a registered Democrat. Well, at least the guy in the suit is.
Caroll Spinney, the 78-year-old puppeteer behind the 8-foot-tall bird, is also very active at the polls.
“He’s very consistent. He votes in not only municipal and gubernatorial races,” said Suzanne Woodward of the Registrar of Voters Office in Woodstock, Conn.. “He votes in just about every election we have. Even referendums.”
Ironic, considering the piece we just read titled “Big Bird is a Republican.”
Sesame 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.A statement from Sesame Workshop • Requesting that the Obama campaign desist in airing an ad featuring Big Bird. Despite leaving the first presidential debate with strong winds at his back, the singular Mitt Romney line that has endured in the days after was his insistence that he’d cut funding to public broadcasting, which President Obama characterized as him “going after Big Bird.” This isn’t the only Obama ad that’s rankled some folks recently, either – a recent ad attacking Romney’s honesty used footage of NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, which the network has asked to be stopped. source
“I WORK FOR JOHN GOTTI. F@*! YOU!” Someone has been dressing up as Elmo and doing their best to offend anybody in their vicinity at Central Park recently — in some cases, using anti-Semitic language. Over the weekend, things got so bad that someone in an Elmo suit left on stretcher. (Key line from the article: “Sesame Street representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.”) You know, compared to this, Leslie Knope’s raccoon problem doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. What do you think? (note: strong language in the video) source
EDIT: Bloomberg’s Jake Beckman points out this Wall Street Journal article that offers some context on what might be happening here.
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In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.
Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”
“The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.”
Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen.
AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo
[Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]
A low point for humanity.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w35p459L1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
In 2003, it transpired that US intelligence services had tortured detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib with music from Sesame Street.
Human rights researcher Thomas Keenan explains: “Prisoners were forced to put on headphones. They were attached to chairs, headphones were attached to their heads, and they were left alone just with the music for very long periods of time. Sometimes hours, even days on end, listening to repeated loud music.”
“The music was so loud,” says Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay and Bagram. “And it was probably some of the worst torture that they faced.”
Stunned by this abuse of his work, Christopher Cerf was motivated to find out more about how it could happen.
AL JAZEERA: Sesame Street music used at Guantanamo
[Photo: REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton]
A low point for humanity.
SUPER, GROVER A familiar TV character walks with Afghans at the French Culture Center in Kabul on Nov. 30. Children in Afghanistan will be able to start their education as millions of preschoolers elsewhere in the world have: by watching the TV show Sesame Street, which begins airing in the country on Thursday. (Photo: Omar Sobhani / Reuters via MSNBC.com)
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We apologize for any inconvenience our audience may have experienced today on our Sesame Street YouTube channel. Our channel was compromised and we are presently working with YouTube/Google to restore our original content. We always strive to provide age-appropriate content for our viewers and hope to resolve this problem quickly.The Sesame Workshop, making a statement about their worst nightmare — their YouTube getting hacked and getting replaced with pornography. All signs point to a revenge attack done in someone else’s name. All we know is that screwing with five-year-olds is childish and evil. Can you tell me how to get, how to get a first way ticket to Jerkville?
hcdragon asks: There was only a 21 second long video when I saw it. They must have changed it to a longer one between the time I saw the page and it got suspended.
» SFB says: Most likely. We’ve seen at least one screenshot (SFW though a little risque) that shows an eight-minute-long video. (7:53, to be exact.)
Youtube porn <3
The Sesame Street YouTube page, allegedly, before it got suspended after an alleged hacking. We’re not posting some of the other images, but word is that an eight-minute-long pornographic video (along with at least one other) was posted on the page before it got suspended.
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