The governor’s office has cited examples of PBS content unfit for children and objectionable to parents:
- A segment of “Let’s Learn” featured a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess reading a children’s book called “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.” (available on Amazon.com, BTW)
- A “PBS Newshour” segment touted parents’ support for various gender care treatments including puberty blockers,
- A gay character featured in “Work It Out Wombats” which airs on OETA,
- PBS Kids’ “Clifford the Big Red Dog” featuring LGBTQ characters,
- Pride Month programming aired on OETA, including a special about a town of Christians and drag queens who “step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes,” and
- A same-sex wedding featured on PBS Kids’ “Odd Squad.”
“When you think about educating kids, let's teach them to read and their numbers and counting and letters and those kind of things,” Gov. Stitt says in the video. Networks that don’t rely on taxpayer funding (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.) are free to pick up the shows, if they think they’ll be popular, the governor said.