Buster the bunny pops on his backpack, visits lesbian family & starts row

[NVMojo]

January 28, 2005

To the untrained eye, Buster is just a bunny, an innocuous cartoon character on American educational television. Each week the animated rabbit puts on his red backpack and trainers to visit a slice of real America - dropping in on a native Indian reservation in Wyoming, or maybe a Hispanic family in Los Angeles and sending a video postcard of the event to his friends.

The series, designed to show the diversity of the modern family to primary school children, is produced with $100m (£53m) of federal funding by the public television network PBS. It has a mandate to promote tolerance.

But then, Buster Baxter visited a farm in Vermont to learn about harvesting maple syrup. His hosts on Sugartime! were a lesbian couple and their children. Although the parents remained in the background - as they do during all of Buster's travels - their very appearance on children's TV was too much for the education secretary, Margaret Spelling.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1400470,00.html

[Nitrogenica]

1. Coming soon... Buster goes to Iraq to convert Iraqi citizens to

Christianity. Buster kills some insurgents along the way. Margret Spelling will approve that one.

[Moderator]

2. locking

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