Ted Cruz Doesn’t Want Big Bird (or Your Kids) to Get Vaccinated

Sesame Street has long ruffled Republicans’ feathers. In 2011, Fox News host Sean Hannity and commentator Ben Shapiro famously aired a segment railing against the show’s “soft bigotry” toward conservatives and its allegedly gay, liberal agenda. In June 2020, Tucker Carlson attacked CNN and Sesame Street over a joint town hall special about George Floyd–inspired protests and racial equality, calling the program “relentless propaganda.” And now Texas senator Ted Cruz has decided to pick a fight with Big Bird over his (ahem, fictional) vaccination status. After the U.S. approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, Big Bird… Read Full Article