How will enforced Republicanism change Sesame Street (& other PBS shows)?

[BurtWorm]

Will Bert and Ernie be forced to get separate rooms?



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/02/arts/television/02public.html?ei=5094&en=1085de148e09623c&hp=&ex=1115092800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=

WASHINGTON, May 1 - The Republican chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is aggressively pressing public television to correct what he and other conservatives consider liberal bias, prompting some public broadcasting leaders - including the chief executive of PBS - to object that his actions pose a threat to editorial independence.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Oscar the Grouch voiced by Bill O'Reilly

Elmo becomes libertarian, saves all his hugs for himself.

Cookie Monster changed to "Raw Meat Monster"

Grover's passport revoked, travelogues confined to the US South.

Guest host Bill Frist assures the Count that blood-sucking is not an HIV-transmission vector.

Gordon and Susan lynched.

[BurtWorm]

3. Gordon replaced by Armstrong Williams

(recieving a stipend from the White House)

[Fenris]

2. Mr Snufalufagus will be executed as a Communist spy

[asthmaticeog]

4. He IS red, now that you mention it...

[Fenris]

I get the feeling his friend Big Bird wants to avoid military service...

[flvegan]

5. Orgies and military male prostitutes

Oh, wait, you probably didn't mean THOSE Republican conservative values.
:sarcasm:

[purr]

6. The two aliens dont exist...

they're going to make conspiracies on why they dont.

[Beware the Beast Man]

7. Mad Magazine covered this about ten years ago.

It was a parody called "When Sesame Street Caves In to the Radical Right." It included Bert going to jail for same-sex cohabitation, Oscar losing his trash can after "entitlements" are banished, and Jesse Helms going after the "liberal media elite" Kermit the Frog. Funny stuff!