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Thursday, January 27, 2005
What is it with the right wing and cartoons? First SpongeBob, now this:[New Education Secretary Margaret] Spellings, who has been charged with the difficult task of fixing the nation's troubled public education system, took time out on her second day on the job to fire off a letter to PBS CEO Pat Mitchell expressing "strong and very serious concerns" about the "Postcards From Buster" episode. Specifically that, in the episode, called "Sugartime!," the animated asthmatic little bunny visits Vermont and meets actual, real-live, not make-believe children there who have gay parents. Because PBS is quaking in its sniveling coward boots, it had already decided not to distribute the episode, which includes this highly subversive content. In the episode that knotted Spellings's knickers, Buster goes to Vermont and meets children from two families, who show him how maple syrup and cheese are made.
At one of the homes, Buster is introduced to all of the children and to the two moms. One girl explains that one of the women is her "stepmom," whom she says she loves a lot.
One of the women asks the kids to get some maple syrup and some cheese for dinner, and to stop by the other home to borrow a big lasagna pan. In the other home, Buster is introduced to the whole family, including two more moms. Then the kids head off to get the ingredients, and Buster learns where syrup and cheese come from. Shocking, indeed.
Meanwhile WGBH, the Boston PBS affiliate which produced the show, is airing it, and is making it available to anybody else willing to stand up to nimrods like Spellings. Good on them. KQED, we're waiting.
Update: KQED will be showing Sugartime! February 2nd at 4:30 pm, its originally scheduled time-slot. Good on them.
posted by jeev |
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