On the same day that Congress agreed to cut $39 billion in spending in an attempt to stave off national bankruptcy, it was announced that we would spend $20 million of your tax dollars to produce a Pakistani version of Sesame Street.
How do you say WTF in Urdu?
The BBC has the details:
In a new effort to win hearts and minds in Pakistan, USAID — the development arm of the US government — is donating $20m (£12m) to the country to create a local Urdu version of the show.
The project aims to boost education in Pakistan, where many children have no access to regular schooling.
The show is to be filmed in Lahore and aired later in the year.
“The programme is part of a series of ventures that is aimed at developing the educational infrastructure in the country,” Virginia Morgan, a spokesperson for USAID, told the BBC.
“Education is one of the vital sectors that need help in Pakistan.”
The show will be set in a village in Pakistan — rather than the streets of New York — with roadside tea shop and residents sitting on their verandas.
The remake will star a puppet called Rani, the six-year-old daughter of a peasant farmer, with pigtails and a school uniform, according to Britain’s Guardian newspaper.
We can’t wait to see the hilarious antics of Osama the Grouch, The Zionist Cookie Monster, Bert & Emir, and Kermit the Suicide Bomber.
Source: BBC
This post was last modified on April 13, 2011
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This is just going to be porn for the Pakistanis, I mean look at the search data for this country, the highest for animal sex, bestiality and other depravities! Sesame street just brings children in on it too!
@michaelht1
Hate to break the news to you but when I last visited my country (USA), three years ago, someone asked a question and this woman said "look around you, it's 40 million" but nobody wants to talk about it. They (the politicians, the news media) keep touting the 10~12, or as you said 20 million.
I could see it because I hadn't been back to the US in a very long time. The US is being over run by Illegals, and it is a sad state!
Wait till they find out Bert and Ernie are gay.
LOL!! ;-)
Will the cute muppets be chopping heads off ? The purpose of that show is to teach the next generation so I imagine there will be head chopping.
I'm not saying it's a good idea to spend the money, but, I think porting U.S. television to other countries might have a more productive effect in the long term than spending millions and billions dropping bombs on people. I've seen articles reporting how U.S. TV shows can have people in hellhole countries have a more positive view of the U.S. Some people might call it "propaganda." It'd be westernizing the world via TV. Who would want to kill someone who gave them Big Bird as a kid? :) ...just something to consider.
Wes, for the sake of argument, let's say that in just ten years time we become just another one of those hellhole countries as a result of all that expensive propaganda we 'port' to these other hellhole countries, would you like us better then, or would you move to a small island in the Carribean? Comrade Big Bird is nothing but a f***ing marxist-socialist doxy, why are we porting that feathered f*** anywhere?!? :-( ...just something to consider.
(Forgive my snarky cynacism Wes, but I don't want my blood, sweat, and tears being siphoned off for some traitorous, marxist-socialist venture, especially when we need good paying jobs here in the US. Of***me needs to pull his collectivist head out of his commie rectum and smell the effing coffee!) :-|
I really love it when my money gets used so irresponsibly... If Obama's ass kising and bowing is not going to win over the hearts and minds of the kids and adults of the muslimhood then sesame street is not going to cut it either.
Hell KQ, there ya go thinkin' with yer noggin again!
And this inherently is why these types of orgs must be defunded. These people are stuck in the 12th century and are content to stay there. Why spend this kind of monies on people that just don't care if they live in mud huts?
Will Miss Piggy be wearing a burka? This is bullshit. That 20 million would pay for a hell of a lot of vouchers so that kids here, stuck in hell hole substandard public schools, could get a decent education.
Maybe Miss Piggy will be Miss Goat! Hopefully she doesn't get stoned.
"Maybe Miss Piggy will be Miss Goat! Hopefully she doesn’t get stoned."
She'll probably just get eaten.
If she's lucky.
Miss Piggy wearing a burka would be the least of her problems in a Muslim nation. But I do have a correction, Miss Piggy was on The Muppet Show, not Sesame Street. But that said, they were all Jim Henson creations. I also hated Miss Piggy, never like her at all.
Will Pakistani Zionist Count be a sexual pervert like the US one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-Wd-Q3F8KM
WTF in Urdu looks like this: ما الأمر!
Read it from right to left, like all arabic languages are written, and it makes perfect sense.