Mr. Rogers owns the Senate

Yea you read that right. Mr. Rogers, the dude from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, lays the smack down at a Senate hearing for public broadcasting funding. Check out the video right here. At first it seems like something is wrong because he speaks so slowly and clearly, but in the end it totally works. He brings up a shit ton of good points. I remember that show from growing up; I loved it.

After watching that I checked out his wikipedia entry. In that entry there’s a great quote from an Esquire Magazine article. Mr. Rogers won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Daytime Emmys. This was his acceptence speech (or at least part of it) as recounted by the article’s author:

Mister Rogers went onstage to accept the award — and there, in front of all the soap opera stars and talk show sinceratrons, in front of all the jutting man-tanned jaws and jutting saltwater bosoms, he made his small bow and said into the microphone, “All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, one minute to think of the people who have helped you become who you are. One minute of silence.”

And then he lifted his wrist, looked at the audience, looked at his watch, and said, ‘I’ll watch the time.” There was, at first, a small whoop from the crowd, a giddy, strangled hiccup of laughter, as people realized that he wasn’t kidding, that Mister Rogers was not some convenient eunuch, but rather a man, an authority figure who actually expected them to do what he asked. And so they did. One second, two seconds, three seconds — and now the jaws clenched, and the bosoms heaved, and the mascara ran, and the tears fell upon the beglittered gathering like rain leaking down a crystal chandelier. And Mister Rogers finally looked up from his watch and said softly, “May God be with you,” to all his vanquished children.

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