Elmo, Kevin Clash, The Media - WTF?!

[Troy]

Last night I stumbled across a movie called Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey on Netflix last night. Elmo was more my kids generation than mine. Even they were more into the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers than Sesame Street.

Anywhoo... I decided to watch the movie 'cause Elmo's puppeteer is a Brother.

So I watched the movie it was fine; your basic Brother from humble beginnings makes good -- really good in Kevin's case.

Low and behold I learned later in the news that homeboy actually quit his job yesterday in light of allegations of having homosexual sex with a minor. The first cat took the allegation back and a second dude has now made another accusation. What a shame.

If the accusations are false, look how much damage has been caused. I'm not even sure if the media should report allegations.

Shoot maybe I'm just contributing to the mess -- but I cat is out the bag and I want to make the point that the media should not be able to destroy lives so easily.

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

[Cynique]

Pedophiles are apparently helpless when it comes to controlling urges to tickle young innocents, which is why they are easy marks for extortion by the victims who outgrown their appeal The 2 characters who outed poor ol Elmo were probably motivated by The Penn state debacle, not to mention a hunger for attention and money. Both accusers looked like weirdos, and one of em had a rather shady past.

High profile men who get caught with their pants down, bringing disgrace and embarassment to themselves and their families, while jeopradizing their jobs, are also unable to resist an urge to revert to behavior that is reminiscent of horny high-schoolers.

Sex certainly pervades every facet of life; molestation and adultery and hook-ups and porn. This little blue planet is just one big orgasmic forest, populated by nymphs and satyrs, predators and preys. Good grief! (Is that an oxymoron?? )

[Troy]

True Cynique, but I can even get that far.

Having difficulty believing it all. The first story I heard made it seem like the kids were prepubescent. But they may have been of legal age or presented themselves as such. If that is the case it may just be a case of a gay dude caught out there banging the wrong cats.

Again, in my mind, this is gossip, not newsworthy, and certainly does not warrant a man losing his livelihood. I know I'm biased now because I saw the film and have some insight into Kevin's journey.

I hope he did not take advantage of underage kids...