{"id":67,"date":"2005-04-08T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/08\/im-more-worried-about-the-pc-monster\/"},"modified":"2005-04-08T10:13:58","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T14:13:58","slug":"im-more-worried-about-the-pc-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/04\/08\/im-more-worried-about-the-pc-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m More Worried about the PC Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, it’s bad enough that politicians and pseudo-religious figures are claiming that various cartoon and children’s characters are gay or promoting acceptance of homosexuality (Bert and Ernie, Telletubbies, SpongeBob, Baxter). But now the politically correct police are making Cookie Monster treat cookies as “a sometimes food” !?!?!?!?!?!?!?<\/P>
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Now, I was never a fan of children’s television (even as a kid I’d rather watch Three’s Company over Sesame Street), but this is just going over the top. This is a puppet that likes cookies…that’s his shtick. Hell, that’s his name: COOKIE Monster. And now he’s going to nibble on carrots?<\/P>
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Do these people think we’re that stupid that just because a character does something on TV we’re going to mimic its behavior? (in this case, use its puppet hands and cause cookies to fall all over the place…he never actually eats any). I mean, I watched Bugs Bunny: I’ve never dropped an anvil on my enemy. I’ve never painted a fake road onto a big boulder so that my enemy runs into it. I watched the Three Stooges: I’ve never poked another person’s eye or slapped the back of his head (unless he asked, of course).<\/P>
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I know there’s an obesity problem in this country. But Cookie Monster existed decades before our country got fat. If anybody is to blame, it’s the parents, the school lunch programs and junk food lobbyists (remember ketchup being considered a vegetable in the Regan years?).<\/P>
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This country’s turning to shit…and I hope somebody soon will flush the PC Police down the drain.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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