Martin Bashir Worries Puppet Will Starve Thanks to Evil Republicans
Touting Sesame Street's newest muppet character, a young girl living in poverty, MSNBC host Martin Bashir on Wednesday slammed Republican efforts to curb spending and urged: "...perhaps they do well to change the channel just for a moment from Fox News to PBS.... on Sesame Street they will see the sad face of a hungry doll whose family doesn't have enough money to buy food." [Audio available here]
Bashir began his rant by announcing: "One in four children under the age of 6 now lives in poverty.....And it's gotten so bad, that even Sesame Street can no longer ignore it." Despite Barack Obama being in the White House, Bashir attacked the GOP for that statistic: "...as Republicans in Congress push to slash subsidies for home heating oil and work with all their might to cut off unemployment benefits..." [View video after the jump]
Bashir depicted Republicans as stereotypical wealthy fat cats who all watch Fox News and drink expensive champagne: "We're not recommending that they leave any of their opulent salons in Washington, nor decline that invitation to attend a dinner party at the home of a wealthy lobbyist. No, all we're asking is that they change the channel for just a few minutes....And then they can go back to Fox News and the finest Bollinger that money can buy."
Here is a full transcript of Bashir's October 5 outburst:
3:45PM ET
MARTIN BASHIR: One in four children under the age of 6 now lives in poverty. That statistic is not drawn from an African nation, but it applies to children living in America today. Indeed, since the recession began, over two and a half million children in this country go to bed hungry and under-nourished. And it's gotten so bad, that even Sesame Street can no longer ignore it. Meet the newest muppet on the block, her name is Lilly and her life story, as she tells it, seems a world away from the normally happy times on the street.
LILLY: When you don't even know whether you're going to have a next meal or not, that can be pretty hard.
BASHIR: Lilly will appear on a primetime special this Sunday night, it's called Growing Hope Against Hunger. And its stated goal is to raise awareness of this epidemic that has swept across the country.
So as Republicans in Congress push to slash subsidies for home heating oil and work with all their might to cut off unemployment benefits, perhaps they do well to change the channel just for a moment from Fox News to PBS this Sunday night.
We're not recommending that they leave any of their opulent salons in Washington, nor decline that invitation to attend a dinner party at the home of a wealthy lobbyist. No, all we're asking is that they change the channel for just a few minutes, because there, on Sesame Street they will see the sad face of a hungry doll whose family doesn't have enough money to buy food, a fictional take on a factual reality for millions of children in modern America. And then they can go back to Fox News and the finest Bollinger that money can buy.
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In the midst of a childhood obesity epidemic we have
Submitted by Lipton on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:51pm.
starving children and puppets. I don't get it. If so many kids are going hungry than why are we driving all the taste of school lunch programs?
Poverty?
Submitted by BeanMan on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:15am.
Well, fine! Show the puppet in their 3-bedroom home with two cars in the driveway and satellite TV and a 48" HDTV in the living room. That's, I believe, the typical home of the typical poor person in this country.
Or they could show poor in, say, Russia or China where in the big cities one needs to step out of the way of the poor and indigent on the streets. Or in the smaller towns where you can't tell the nice homes from the run-down shacks because they're one and the same.
Maybe they could go to Azerbaijan and walk down the street and the average poor Azeri picks the Westerner out of the crowd (easily done w/Blond hair and blue eyes) and begs $$ from them. Where you see the most beaten down shack and can't imagine someone actually lives there and you see an entire family (Mom, Dad, Children, Grandchildren, Grandfather, Grandmother) all live there.
But looking at that won't get Democrats re-elected, so they won't show it.
Since government is coercion, politics is largely the exercise of deception regarding the intended use of coercion - George Orwell
She could always
Submitted by Bob K on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:55pm.
shack up with Oscar. I am sure he has plenty of food dropped off at his place all the time.
Muppets are starving ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 4:59pm.
... because they are all liberal democrats. They have no brain, and someone else's is hand shoved up their ass moving their mouths telling them what to say.
Kind of like Obama with George Soros using him for a sock puppet.
Marxist Media Empty-suit DEMwits
Submitted by Bodini on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 6:02pm.
whining about starving "empty-suit puppets?" What a fantasy-world these media rocket-scientists live in!
Good one, bubba!
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:06pm.
Shared a copy of your comment with a spacey liberal friend of mine and even he laughed!
Here's a statistic!
Submitted by kata on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:05pm.
The 2009 tax form shows that Sesame Workshop brought in about $140 million in revenues in 2008, with government grants accounting for just over $14 million of that (roughly 10 percent).
Yes, it's time to defund Big Bird.
And here's some reading material : The Hunger Hoax by Thomas Sowell.
Mr Sowell refers to the article : Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? : The NY Times telling us what we already knew.
Mr Bashir I would recommend you spend less time pontificating and more time reading. Maybe Elmo can give you some tips.
more false hunger statistics propagated by liberals...
Submitted by freedomguardian on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:43am.
The truth:
Is America Struggling with Hunger? -- Mises Daily: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by Jeremie T.A. Rostan
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
I am actually a little familiar with
Submitted by kata on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:53am.
the "food security" statistics. I was helping my daughter with a paper on Hunger (or malnutrition) in the US last year and found the terms frustratingly vague and subjective. I also found it impossible to get a hard statistic on just how many people died from hunger each year in the US. Perhaps you know? I pretty much exausted my google-foo on the subject.
Hmmm. Dinner party at a wealthy lobbyist's house.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:12pm.
I've heard of those; I think the going price is currently $38,500 per plate.
LOL!
Submitted by ant on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 2:21am.
I hear they're cheaper at Target. Just bring an AP photographer and your assistant....leave the $500 sneakers, $300 pants, and $42,000 bracelet at home, though, it makes for bad imaging.
Opulent salons?
Submitted by JeffC... on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:14pm.
I thought republicans weren't invited to D.C. salons because the local leftists hate them?
Who Would You Bring In to Cook Dinner? A Stoner?
Submitted by Avitar on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 8:20pm.
Of course Republicans are invited into Washington. Who else will do the work and pay the bills? Republicans are welcome in Washington just as long as they don't bring up any serious subjects, kill the buzz or get too uppity.
Interesting......
Submitted by almostacowboy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:33pm.
...that they are concerned about starving puppets and children when those of us who own homes and have grown offspring are paying for non-property tax paying renters' kids getting three hots a day in schools.
almostacowboy77,
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:09am.
Technically renters do pay property tax in that a portion of their rent is to cover property taxes payed for by the owners. Now, if the local government is giving a tax break to developed properties in certain areas then that is a different issue.
Chew on this Bashir
Submitted by HiHoRando on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:35pm.
As someone who is in the homes of those who are "starving" each and every day, I wonder which stimulus gave them the unlimited access to cigarettes and beer, as well as a cabinet full of every video game, CD, and electronic device.
I make less than $30K a year with a family of 5. I have no debt (and actually save a little each month), have plenty of food in my fridge, but my kids don't have every video game, and I don't sit on my porch with a cig dangling from my lip and a beer in my hand. I must be a terrible dad!
Your Kids Have a Dad in the House!
Submitted by Avitar on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 8:10pm.
The Great Society has rules agianst that sort of thing. Clearly in the opinion of the poverty pimps your kidas ave a bad mother who doesn't sleep around and knows who the father of her children is. Shocking!.
Totally inappropriate
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:36pm.
Sesame Street is geared toward pre-school children. They should focus On teaching kids letters and numbers. What's next, a muppet getting an abortion?
A defector from the former
Submitted by ant on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 2:34am.
A defector from the former KGB explained things like this as part of the destruction of the foundations of an innovative and prosperous America. He said the plan was similar to the Martial Arts idea of fighting a man stronger than you. You cannot stop his attack, so you use his own momentum and force to defeat himself. They cannot stop America from educating it's children, so they steer this reality so that it becomes ineffective or counter-productive. Instead of teaching children useful info, thinking and skills that will aid them (and, by extension, their fellow man) throughout life, such as you said, mathematics, science, etc., teach them sex-ed, multi-culturalism, 'feelings',... leftist-junk, basically. And, viola, we will have rendered ourselves a powerless joke.
Well.......
Submitted by MyDogDarby on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 5:36pm.
Seeing as mess-nbc has a lock on the 'puppet' audience,I suppose at least one of these loony hosts had to speak up for the poor puppets out there!!
Brits go home
Submitted by giatn on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 6:02pm.
I have grown quite weary of the British commentators and their uninformed
judgmental comments about America. Bashir is certainly my least favorite, but LloydWebber, Morgan, Hobbs, Amanpour are equally offensive. If they
disapprove of this country so much, I do wish they would just go home.
Sesame Street
Submitted by Unsane on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 6:49pm.
You know, for al the money Sesame Street brings in via merchandise and other such means, surely they can plow that cash into PBS and thus render it wholly independent of the federal government.
And, though this will come as a deep shock to an interloper Socialist like Mr. Bashir, this IS a charitable country. It's the most charitable country on earth, in fact. If the price of the Sesame Street swag went up, say, 10%, with notices on them stating "All proceeds go to fund PBS programs like this one", I bet even MORE funds would flow into PBS that way.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Hey parents! With garbage such as this...
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 7:01pm.
Hey parents! With PC garbage such as this, it's time to seriously consider whether television is suitable at all for children, whether they're rug rats or teenagers. There is growing evidence that heavy TV viewing among children is a major factor in autism, developmental disabilities and ADD/ADHD (possibly due to the radiation coming out of a TV set). Besides, PBS, Nickelodeon and other major children's TV providers are more interested in indoctrinating children than teaching them, as this Sesame Street character proves. The best thing to do: turn the TV set off and teach your children about the joys of reading. You won't regret it...
Mary,
Submitted by NavyBuckeye on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 7:07am.
I agree with your message on reading. But the amount of radiation absorbed by the body while watching is well under 1 microrem a year. You can acquire the same amount while walking to your car from your front door on a sunny day.
I must have been thinking about those giant old TV sets
Submitted by Mary Louise Turner on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:04am.
Today's TV sets are probably much safer that the behemoths of long ago. I grew up with those gigantic TV sets, with their bazillion knobs and tubes. I also remember being warned about not sitting too close to them. But it's still a good idea not to let children watch TV...
Don't
Submitted by grammajane on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 8:03pm.
we hear daily that a third of the kids are over weight? McDonalds have to stop Happy Meals according to the Gov because of all the fat kids. where does this guy come up with his statistics. Some kids live in poverty because their parents are to lazy to get a job and support them. All these poverty programs that have been going on for years, supported by libs, appear to be complete failures.
Hold Preschooler Up For Liberal Bullying, Support The Muppets!
Submitted by Avitar on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 8:02pm.
And yet there will be five year olds in kindergarten that will face ridicule when they notice that try as long as he wants Martin Bashir is not going to get that muppet to eat anything, not even cookies.
The Facist unionized school teacher will not point out to the class that the muppets are just being silly and that muppet gets exactly the same food as any other. Instead the teacher will imply that the child lacks compassion because he doesn't feel for a doll.
A disclaimer dhoulf be required of all of the Children television Workshop programs to stop the facists from jerking around the emotions of five year olds.
Jim Henson is rotating in his Grave!
Wow. I can't believe these
Submitted by rbosque on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:23pm.
Wow. I can't believe these liberals take this seriously. They're frik'n nuts!
Okay, who's going to break it to Martin
Submitted by panzerakc on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:25am.
that puppets CAN'T eat because they're NOT ALIVE.
Sock Puppet demagogues Sock Puppet
Submitted by ACLUmember on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:52am.
Sock Puppet demagogues Sock Puppet.
Bashir always looks like a colitis pained Stalinist TV hate-speech propagandist in a 1973 Kazakhstan Newscast.
Which, of course, he is.
Bert & Ernie
Submitted by 767pilot on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 2:38am.
I swear I read something not long ago that the geniuses at PBS were going to have Bert and Ernie come out of the closet as gay muppets. They already have one muppet with AIDS. Do muppets have blood?
Martin Bashir has run out of
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 9:53am.
Martin Bashir has run out of rope. Citing a children's show with fantasy characters as example? How can anyone, including liberals take that doofus seriously. Oh, that right...we're talking about the dozens of MSNBC regular viewers who are too stupid or lazy to actually change the channel.
fantasy characters
Submitted by Agnostic on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:02am.
Maybe he is nostalgic and grew up with Jihad Mickey
It's a puppet, you idiot! It
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:07am.
It's a puppet, you idiot! It can't starve It can't eat. It's a friggin puppet! Did this fool go to school for this?
Too many hits of LSD?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:30am.
Too many hits of LSD?
Go to school?
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:08pm.
The short answer is "yes"
Next thing he'll try to
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:31am.
Next thing he'll try to justify a "fat tax" by listing the benefits it will have for Santa Claus.
So share
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 10:57am.
some of that 2-3 million bucks MSLSD pays you, Bashir, and FEED THE DAMN PUPPET IF YOU'RE SO WORRIED. Frickin' hypocrite. Most real Americans had to look up "Bollinger" to know what you meant, you champagne swilling pile of Paki-Brit crap. Shame on your pompous ass for trying to blame our economic situation on the House Republicans. Your hero President Obysmal is the author of our demise, and you can't stand it. Tell the truth or go home, loathsome slime.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Other than Cookie Monster's
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:32pm.
Other than Cookie Monster's cookies, Big Bird's birdseed, and Bert's pigeons, what do Muppets eat? Other Muppets?