White House solicits Sesame Street characters for Easter Egg Roll four days after bid to end PBS

[EarthFirst]

White House solicits Sesame Street characters for Easter Egg Roll four days after bid to end PBS funding

The White House asked Sesame Street characters to appear at its annual Easter Egg Roll just four days after President Donald Trump’s administration proposed ending all funding for PBS and the Sesame Street program.

PBS confirmed to The New York Times that the White House made a last-minute request for Sesame Street characters like Big Bird or Elmo to appear at this year’s event.

Sesame Workshop spokesperson Elizabeth Weinreb Fishman revealed that one costumed character would be appearing at the event, a departure from the multitude of Muppets that have showed up for the roll in recent years.

Just four days before PBS confirmed its participation, the Trump administration had released its budget plan to eliminate all federal funding for PBS.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/white-house-solicits-sesame-street-characters-for-easter-egg-roll-four-days-after-bid-to-end-pbs-funding/

[benld74]

1. 0 I count 0 days since last embarrassment! Hahaha

[BumRushDaShow]

2. ...

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Mrs. Trump, who lives in New York and has had a limited presence in Washington since her husband was sworn in, has been slow to hire a staff for the East Wing, which typically takes the lead on the Easter Egg Roll. She named a chief of staff and social secretary in early February but has yet to announce a director for the Visitors Office, normally the crucial player in the daunting execution of the event.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/us/politics/white-house-easter-egg-roll-trump.html

They really don't care. I have said it over and over - they really didn't want this "job", just the title and trappings.

[lindysalsagal]

3. Elmogate. Please stand with us, Elmo!

[lindysalsagal]

4. (In Elmo voice) "What does the president do?"

Steal from poor children.

[Mr. Ected]

5. I fully expect John Oliver to be all over this story

Sounds like it's right up his alley.

[WePurrsevere]

6. Now 'that' takes some might big brass ones.

I wonder how long it took for the Sesame Workshop people to come up with as nice a reply as they did.

I wonder which one character they'll send... Oscar the Grouch might be good considering Trump wants to trash the whole planet or maybe better yet would be Rosita who's a pretty and friendly bilingual girl monster from Mexico... but... OTOH they might try to deport her.

[B Stieg]

7. PBS, please, please, PLEASE...

...for all of us living with disabilities who this President, the Speaker of the House and their party want so badly to cast aside, send JULIA!

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/white-house-solicits-sesame-street-characters-for-easter-egg-roll-four-days-after-bid-to-end-pbs-funding/?comments=disqus

[duncang]

8. Or the muppet Donald Grump

Why do I get the feeling him wanting to remove funding from PBS is just a normal revenge factor from dipshit.

[demmiblue]

9. That would be a really great choice. n/t

[Different Drummer]

10. A woman I've known for most of my life...

posted on Facebook awhile back that Sesame Street clearly crossed some sort of line by referring to "Pox News" as "trashy" in the clip I'm posting the YouTube link to here. She lives in South Carolina and, in another Facebook post, expressed pride in Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" at President Obama.

[L. Coyote]

11. Trump is just itching to go on a Big Bird hunt.

Obama killed Bin Laden, Trump wants to kill Big Bird.