Thankfully, Rep. Robert Garcia took her to task by using satire to make some points of his own. The gay California Democrat adopted the MAGA cult’s McCarthy-esque rhetoric with some sardonic questions for PBS CEO Paula Kerger.

Democratic congressman Robert Garcia has mocked Republican efforts to defund the TV channel that airs Sesame Street, sarcastically asking if characters Bert and Ernie were “part of an extreme homosexual agenda”.

Democrats ridiculed a Republican-led effort to make the case for defunding American public media at a congressional hearing Wednesday about alleged bias at PBS and NPR. The hearing by the House of Representative’s Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee,