Jun 08 2009
Times’ Nancy Gibbs: Obama-Warped?
Wikipedia states that a locally produced version of Sesame Street was produced in Indonesia in Feruary, 2008, when Barack Hussein Obama was running for the President of the United States. However, Nancy Gibbs at Times, apparently didn’t do her research, before writing the article “Tickle Me Obama,” and stated that Barry and his sister had grown up watching Sesame Street, or Jalan Sesama , as it is called in Indonesia.
First of all, Sesame Street’s original production premiered November 10, 1969, and Barry was 8 years old. The Indonesian-dubbed version, Open Sesame aired in 1976, when Barry was 15. Do 15 yr-olds watch Sesame Street? His sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, was born August 15, 1970, when he was 9. So, if he watched Sesame Street with his sister, then she would have been 6 and he would have been 15; however, he claims in his memoirs that he left Indonesia, when he was 10 to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii.
It appears that the Times’ senior editor, Nancy Gibbs, is just another hoodwinked journalist. she says: “It (Sesame Street) creates citizens of a highly globalized, post-racial world. “The only kids who can identify along racial lines with the Muppets,” genius puppeteer Jim Henson observed, “have to be either green or orange…(a little more propaganda from Gibbs): “Given the hard choices, does the President think we’re ready to handle complexity and delay gratification?” (Promoting his “we must all make sacrifices?”)
All words, just words. This writer is not much of a journalist to be writing gibberish at what used to be an honorable news media, Times. At another time, Gibbs “compared Obama in Time to a prince born in a manger”, according to Newsbusters
Here he is spewing his propaganda, making it up as he goes along:
