This just in from our friends at ArtsBeat: “An executive for Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization that produces Sesame Street, said a segment on that show that upset political conservatives was ‘equal-opportunity parody,’ making fun of CNN as much as it was making fun of Fox News.” The segment in question, which aired last week, featured Oscar the Grouch playing a reporter for the Grouch News Network (GNN). When he does to upset one of his female viewers, she tells him, “From now on I am watching Pox News. Now there’s a trashy news show!” Zing!
Correction: Totally inadvertent zing! They swear.
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Remember those pics I wanted to see of Heidi and Spencer in their honeymoon swine flu masks? Bam! [via Gawker]
Listen to a leak of the Causes 2 Compilation featuring Decemberists, LCD Soundsystem, Sharon Jones, and Black Moth Super Rainbow. [via MTV]
1oo Days of FOX News Hatin’ (video) [via BuzzFeed]
Drawdio: A Pencil That Lets You Draw Music [via Wired]
The vampires of Facebook (aka all of those people you’re friends with, but only in the virtual sense) might be sucking you dry. [via SF Gate]
In honor of his 110th anniversary of his birth, the Duke Ellington Orchestra took to the A train. (slideshow) [via NYT]
Is it wrong that I want one: “The photo at right shows the dog under ultraviolet light, glowing red due to the influence of fluorescent genes.” [via MSN]
We just read the (factually incorrect!) headline, “New Fox Show for Hilary Duff” and were horrified to discover the she isn’t, in fact, getting a Fox News show, but is joining the cast of NBC sitcom Barely Legal. It’s not really that scary that she’s going to be on TV again — we’re mostly concerned at how normal we found it that Duff might be the newest addition to Fox’s ace news team.
Duff has proven that she can take a stand against homophobic language, and there’s already a T-shirt announcing her presidential candidacy that’s enough to get you on Fox News, right? Just remember: Joe the Plumber’s newest job title is “War Correspondent.”
