Cookie Monster is Now a Wussy

Came across this article on Foxnews.com today:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152785,00.html

So now the wild, funny, irreverant, mischievious Cookie Monster of my youth is watered-down, candy-assed, 'moderated' version of himself. Leave it up to liberals at PBS to take the joy out of even the most innocent of childhood fun.

When I was a kid the whole point of the Cookie Monster was that he was a bad for eating all the cookies, for not sharing. But he always learned to share and resist his greedy impulses. Not once did I ever get the impression that Sesame Street writers were suggesting that I could eat just cookies. Or if I ever did my mother certainly straightened me out on that.

Sesame Street characters were buddies back then, Bert and Ernie always made me laugh, Oscar was always cool because he loved trash, the Cookie Monster appealed to my sense of fun, very large a that age. Now they're just furry parental replacements, fuzzy propaganda tools for liberals over at PBS. "Get 'em used to leftwing programming early eh? Why wait until college?"

McDonalds and the Cookie Monster are NOT the cause of childhood obesity - parents are. But liberals need for coporate America to be at fault, and so usher in the socialist nanny state. They'll crush any childhood fun, any sense of innocent foolishness in pursuit of that goal. Cookie Monster today, Fat Albert and the Hamburgler tomorrow.

Adios MF,

Doug