{"id":192542,"date":"2021-03-06T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=192542"},"modified":"2021-03-06T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:14:59","slug":"graham-triggered-by-dr-seuss-and-the-muppet-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-triggered-by-dr-seuss-and-the-muppet-show\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAHAM: Triggered By Dr. Seuss And \u2018The Muppet Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgraham-triggered-by-dr-seuss-and-the-muppet-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=192542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/5863470B-523F-4CBB-84E3-E352F3F0A10F-1200x800-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The hottest theme in liberal punditry is mocking conservatives for their objections to Woke Culture\u2019s long march through American entertainment conglomerates. It\u2019s not \u201creal news.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NBC late-night \u201ccomedian\u201d Seth Meyers denounced the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, claiming, \u201c(T)he only truly unifying thing at CPAC, the beating heart of modern conservatism, were the dumb, invented culture-war grievances, as evidenced by their complaints about total nonsense, like the Muppets and Mr. Potato Head.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First, let\u2019s not accept Seth Meyers as a champion of nuance. Last May, he compared then-President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush to serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer. Talk about total nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>Second, everyone understands why beloved toys and puppet shows are talked about. They\u2019re well-known by nearly everyone, unlike, say, all the goodies the liberals hid in the $1.9 trillion \u201cCOVID relief\u201d package.<\/p>\n<p>These were called \u201ccancel culture\u201d controversies, but that\u2019s not exactly precise. Hasbro mysteriously suggested it would remove the \u201cMr.\u201d from Mr. Potato Head, but then backtracked. The Disney+ streaming service has added content warnings to 18 episodes of \u201cThe Muppet Show.\u201d That\u2019s not canceling Kermit the Frog.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the publisher of classic Dr. Seuss books announced it would no longer sell six old titles it decided have racially insensitive imagery. Once again, this isn\u2019t \u201coutlawing Dr. Seuss\u201d or banning \u201cThe Cat in the Hat.\u201d But it can be defined as very negative branding of Dr. Seuss and the Muppets. Dr. Seuss and Muppet creator Jim Henson weren\u2019t racist, but these controversies might imply they were.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years ago, I adored Dr. Seuss books \u2014 the drawings and the poetry. Our family watched \u201cThe Muppet Show\u201d every Saturday night when it originally aired. These defined the words \u201cfamily entertainment.\u201d Conservatives are mocking the Left for attempting to turn wholesome products into loathsome products.<\/p>\n<p>This debate needs more precision, not less. What pages in the Dr. Seuss books are objectionable? TV stories on this won\u2019t show any images. Some images of African savages clearly seem like antiquated stereotypes, but others are more debatable. You can\u2019t debate them if no one will show them.<\/p>\n<p>Disney claimed, \u201cRather than removing this content, we see an opportunity to spark conversation and open dialogue on history that affects us all.\u201d Open dialogue? Disney has failed to offer any explanation of what exactly earned a content warning in \u201cThe Muppet Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reports that in the third season, an episode with British comedian Spike Milligan closes with a performance of the song \u201cIt\u2019s a Small World After All,\u201d and Milligan appears for about eight seconds as \u201cas a Chinese person with exaggerated front teeth and a long braid.\u201d That\u2019s surely a stereotype. But he gets repeatedly shooed off the stage by Sam the Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>In one flagged episode from 1980, Johnny Cash performed with several Muppets in front of a Confederate flag. Cash didn\u2019t sing the word \u201cDixie\u201d or speak warmly of slavery. He sang \u201cDirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog,\u201d with the gag aimed at Rowlf the Muppet dog.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, left-wing media outlets such as National Public Radio offered the No. 1 spot in its \u201c100 Best Songs of 2020\u201d honors to Cardi B\u2019s smutty rap song \u201cWAP\u201d (for \u201cWet A\u2014 P\u2014\u2014\u201d), and there are no content warnings for that on YouTube, not even the explicit version with the N-word.<\/p>\n<p>That is not wholesome family entertainment. Naturally, Cardi B doesn\u2019t let her daughter listen to her music. It just pays the bills. But everyone else\u2019s children can access the video on an iPad with no more limitation than five seconds of advertising.<\/p>\n<p>So save us the trigger warnings about people being harmed by Dr. Seuss books or \u201cThe Muppet Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org. To find out more about Tim Graham, and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hottest theme in liberal punditry is mocking conservatives for their objections to Woke Culture\u2019s long march through American entertainment conglomerates. It\u2019s not \u201creal news.\u201d NBC late-night \u201ccomedian\u201d Seth Meyers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274905,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/5863470B-523F-4CBB-84E3-E352F3F0A10F-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: Triggered By Dr. Seuss And \u2018The Muppet Show\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/5863470B-523F-4CBB-84E3-E352F3F0A10F-1200x800-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"GRAHAM: Triggered By Dr. Seuss And \u2018The Muppet Show\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}