In case you for some reason missed the Bill O’Reilly Show the other night — God, it really cracked me up to write that — you missed the response of the crew at Sesame Street to the various over-the-top attacks they’ve been undergoing from the cretinous types at Fox after the famous kids show — gasp! — made fun of them.

Yes, as a Yahoo News Blog report details, the We Report You Decide network, in its unimpeachable sense of news timeliness, has been going on about a sketch on the beloved children’s program that aired two years ago. According to the Yahoo report, the sketch that began the controversy featured Oscar the Grouch reporting for the Grouch News Network, or GNN. After hugging and kissing his interview subjects, Oscar is lambasted by an angry caller for not providing news she deems sufficiently grouchy, prompting her to exclaim, “From now on, I am watching Pox News,” adding, “Now there’s a trashy news show!”

In the latest development, the executive vice-president of Sesame Workshop, Sherri Westin, was finally given a chance to appear on O’Reilly’s show to defend Oscar. Westin promptly announced “a new Grouch News Network character to follow in the footsteps of Walter Cranky and Dan Rather-Not: Spill O’Reilly.” Says the Yahoo report, “The new muppet promptly took over the camera, welcomed viewers to the ‘No-Spew Zone,’ and encouraged them to run out to purchase his new book, ‘A Stinky Rotten Pile Of Grouchiness,’ an obvious parody of O’Reilly’s recent book, ‘A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity.'”

You can watch it here ….