Sesame Street’s introduction of the Bill O’Reilly based Muppet, “Spill O’Reilly” has sparked media outrage and internal dissension within the Fox ranks.

Network executives at msnbc and CNN issued statements calling for equal Muppet time. They also questioned the propriety of a publicly funded television network such as PBS tacitly endorsing such a controversial figure as O’Reilly.

Glenn Beck, promoted his growing, “Just Say No to Spill” campaign on his Twitter page releasing the following tweet:

“While I have the utmost respect for Spill I am very disappointed that PBS has decided to go with his Muppet and not my “Big Mouth Beck”

He also released the following statement on his web site:

I proposed a “Big Mouth Beck” Muppet to “The Street” months ago. The mouth would get bigger and the rhetoric of “Big Mouth” would get more outlandish with each show. I even had an entire “chalkboard sub-plot”

When it was pointed out that most children watching Sesame Street are not old enough to comprehend his type of “rhetoric” Beck retorted:

“Like my wildly popular Fox show, “Big Mouth” will yell a lot and make no sense. All kids can identify with that.”

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter also took issue with “Spill” during a recent radio interview stating she had her own Muppet in the works and that her Muppet, “Too Cool Coulter” had already written three sure to be NY Times bestsellers.

Executives at msnbc were outraged. Keith Olbermann stated:

“We have documented a noticeable trend of Sesame Streets episodes to the right with each season since former president George Bush Jr. appeared on the show.”

When it was pointed out the former President Bush never appeared on Sesame Street and it was in fact former first Lady Laura Bush, Olbermann replied:

“That’s what the far right wants the American public to think. What we have is a far right Sesame Street conspiracy and Bush Administration cover-up far worse than 9-11. I can prove that it was really George Bush in drag.

Fringe Extremist Anti-Muslim Blogger Debbie Schlussel even chimed in stating:

“I have definitive evidence that Sesame Street is nothing more than a subversive Muslim plot to radicalize our youth turning them into young Radical Muslim sleeper cells”

She went on to say that every time Sesame Street aired, The Muppets were using secret radical indoctrination hand signs combined with an over-the-air signal being beamed into the household that could be used to activate a sleeper cell.

Schlussel promised that she would be filing a motion in Federal court to have the Sesame Street Muppets declared a national security threat and immediately taken off the air.

White spokesman Robert Gibbs called an emergency press briefing. He stated that with the Spill O’Reilly announcement, the White House no longer considered Sesame Street legitimate puppet programming for children and henceforth the Muppets would be barred from all presidential puppet shows.

Stay tuned for further developments