After Elmo, the young Muppet, proudly received his coronavirus vaccine Tuesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz laid into the long-running children's show for 'aggressively...
Louie, in the clip of him with Elmo post-vaccination, said he had a lot of questions about Elmo getting the vaccine.
“Was it safe? Was it the right decision? I talked to our pediatrician so I could make the right choice,” Louie said to the camera. “I learned that Elmo getting vaccinated is the best way to keep himself, our friends, neighbors and everyone else healthy and enjoying the things they love,” he added, before hugging Elmo.the CDC, Ad Council, and the COVID Collaborative’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative.
“With help from Elmo and his dad Louie, we want to model real conversations, encourage parents’ questions, and help children know what to expect,” Jeanette Betancourt, senior vice president of U.S. social impact at Sesame Workshop,This isn’t the first time Cruz has blasted the children’s program for promoting the COVID vaccine to kids.calling it “government propaganda…for your 5 year old!” after the canary-like 8-foot 2-inch Muppet proclaimed that he’d gotten the jab.
Sesame Workshop gets only a small fraction of its funding from federal grants, and no government official controls its content. A collection of Muppets, including Big Bird, Elmo and Oscar the Grouch, had participated in a Sesame Street outreach effort, including a town hall appearance on CNN., with comedian Aidy Bryant playing Cruz in a cold open.
“As you know, I was mocked for attacking Big Bird on Twitter, simply because I’m a human senator and he is an 8-foot-tall fictional bird,” Bryant says as Cruz.
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