Fox News v. Sesame Street: Beck, O’Reilly fans angry over Oscar’s parody
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On the eve of its 40th anniversary, Sesame Street is courting a strange political controversy. A two-year-old episode featuring Oscar the Grouch as a (what else?) grouchy TV news reporter for (who else?) the Grouch News Network has caused a minor Internet kerfuffle among steamed fans of News Corp.’s (NWS) Fox News.
In the episode in question, Oscar the Grouch is a reporter covering, in breathless cable-news fashion, the trials and tribulations of Horatio the Elephant, who’s trying to extricate himself from a bathtub. Oscar’s quest for “all grouchy, all disgustin’, all yucky” news goes awry when there’s “breaking news” — namely, Cookie Monster breaking a cookie.
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Tech billionaire Tom Siebel survives an elephant attack
So, what did you do on your summer vacation? This benign question is sure to be asked of students throughout the U.S. as they head back to school from their summer vacation. Well, Tom Siebel has a more interesting story than, “We went to the beach.”
According to a yarn that Siebel spun for the San Jose Mercury News, he and a tour guide were attacked by an elephant during a safari in the Serengeti last month. Siebel and his guide were observing the elephant on safari when it decided to charge, attacking Siebel and his guide. Siebel, who created Seibel Systems software company, state, “It was all happening so fast. There was no place to hide, no place to run.”
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