America is going down the crapper and this is his number one priority?
(The Hill) — Elmo made a cameo appearance before Congress on Tuesday.
“Haven’t seen that before,” tweeted Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.).
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) brought an Elmo prop with him to the House floor on Tuesday morning to help illustrate the difference between the Sesame Street character and Farfour, a mouse character on the controversial Palestinian TV show “Tomorrow’s Pioneers.”
“As we all know, this is Elmo. This guy taught us our 1,2,3s, but he also taught us tolerance and understanding,” Ellison said in his speech. “For the past several years, he’s been doing the same thing for children in the Palestinian territories. Because of the Sesame Street in Palestine, Palestinian kids grow up with the same positive role models we did. But recently Sesame Street has been off the air. Now Palestinian kids are left watching Farfour. . . . He’s a mouse who is the main character of a Hamas TV show. Instead of tolerance and understanding, Farfour promotes violence and anti-Semitism.”
Ellison criticized Congress for holding up U.S. funding for the Palestinian version of “Sesame Street,” which is called “Sharaa Simsim.”