Opinion | HayesBrown: 'Sesame Street' is a favorite punching bag for the right. This time they went too far.
That alone isn’t surprising: The last decades have featured an escalating, one-sided war against “Sesame Street” and it’s supposed liberal bias toward kindness and inclusion. But in their rush to land a blow against that cesspit of urban elitism, conservatives seem to have forgotten that they’re in favor of kids not dying.
The last decades have featured an escalating, one-sided war against “Sesame Street” and it’s supposed liberal bias toward kindness and inclusion Despite tackling some of the most critical social issues of the day in its five decades on the air, “Sesame Street” was for the most part, well, inoculated from conservatives’ ire. Instead, their main target was PBS, where “Sesame Street” premiered in 1969, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As a result, the CPB spent much of the 1980s and the 90s fighting back against congressional Republicans’ attempts to slash its budget."Let's make Barney and Big Bird taxpayer-friendly by transforming them from government bureaucrats into free-market entrepreneurs," then-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif
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