I wonder if it's "Orwellian stuff" when parents "manipulate" a child's diet by requiring him to eat his meat and vegetables before he's allowed to have a cookie...
Also:
"Sesame Street Songs Used to Torture Guantanamo Detainees, Al Jazeera Reports"
The man who composed music for the show for many years is upset by this report. In the article linked, he is quoted as referring to "the horror of music being perverted to serve evil purposes". Ha! Look, man, music's been used for evil purposes plenty of times over the course of history. (Propaganda, anyone?) And anyway, making someone uncomfortable with loud (annoying, mind-numbing) music in order to persuade him to give up potentially life-saving information hardly seems "evil"-- especially when you compare it to the sorts of things these same people were/are so eager to do to as many Americans as possible.
(Evidently, music from Barney has been used similarly in the past. I don't know what the guy who wrote that music thinks about it, but I'll be sure to blog about it as soon as I find out. ;o))
