{"id":41820,"date":"2018-06-03T22:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/06\/28\/paging-sesame-bert-and-ernie-share-cuddly-moment-of-joy-on-the-new-yorkers-doma-cover\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:09:19","slug":"bert-ernie-share-cuddly-moment-of-joy-on-the-new-yorkers-doma-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/41820","title":{"rendered":"Bert &#038; Ernie share cuddly ‘Moment of Joy’ on The New Yorker’s DOMA&nbsp;cover"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LoganDobson\/status\/350604289229598721\n<p>“<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/2013\/06\/28\/bert-and-ernie-come-out-in-new-yorker\/#.Uc2XPfNziUo.twitter\">No, not even Muppets can be spared a part in this culture war<\/a>,” writes&nbsp;David&nbsp;Harsanyi at Human Events. In celebration of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decisions, The New Yorker debuted this cover, titled “Moment of Joy:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/silviakillings\/status\/350601302134382592\n<p>Ohhhhh. That kind of “roommates.”<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MiaFarrow\/status\/350618781975982080\n<p>We’re pretty sure puppets don’t have sexual orientations and can’t actually get married (but don’t tell Kermit and Piggy).<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/lachlan\/status\/350623666469474304\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/hale_razor\/status\/350613734131122176\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/bethanyshondark\/status\/350611559023771652\n<p>Sesame Workshop doesn’t like it either.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/bert-ernie-celebrate-gay-marriage.html\">According to a 2011 statement<\/a>, Bert and Ernie are most definitely not gay. Also, they’re Muppets.<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mfmusic\/status\/350614785152397312\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/allanbourdius\/status\/350616751253360640\n<p>But more importantly, why is it so dark in Bert and Ernie’s pad?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AmandaBecker\/status\/350616271076864000\n<p>Can we get a fact check on this?<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/06\/28\/paging-sesame-bert-and-ernie-share-cuddly-moment-of-joy-on-the-new-yorkers-doma-cover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/06\/28\/paging-sesame-bert-and-ernie-share-cuddly-moment-of-joy-on-the-new-yorkers-doma-cover\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LoganDobson\/status\/350604289229598721 “No, not even Muppets can be spared a part in this culture war,” writes&nbsp;David&nbsp;Harsanyi at Human Events. In celebration of the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decisions, The New Yorker debuted this cover, titled “Moment of Joy: http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/silviakillings\/status\/350601302134382592 Ohhhhh. That kind of “roommates.” http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/MiaFarrow\/status\/350618781975982080 We’re pretty sure puppets don’t have sexual orientations and can’t actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/41820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bert &#038; Ernie share cuddly ‘Moment of Joy’ on The New Yorker’s DOMA&nbsp;cover<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/15280313593859-bert-ernie-new-yorker-gay.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}