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I Love Big Bird, but I'm Not Going to Keep on Spending Money on Things to Borrow Uner This Misperception That Sesame Street Is Government Propaganda

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The show has never actively courted controversy, but it has always been willing to not talk around race, but to go there. In the earliest days, you know, sesame street caught flack from the left and the right. You see to this day that politicians, particularly on the right, like to make hay of sesame street and use it as a wedge issue.

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