Meaning of Muppet News Flash | Babel Free

Definitions

Used ironically to introduce a sobering truth.

informal

Examples

“Well, I got a Muppet News Flash⟳ for you, pal; it is possible for a three-year-old girl who loves to watch⟳ ducks and collect⟳ sea shells to feel⟳ bad, and then a bit worse, and then a whole helluva lot worse, and finally lousy in a way that requires machines and tubes and pills and catheters and before you know⟳ it you’re sitting in the front pew at good ol’ St. Fracis de Sales Church on Granville Street along with your wife and parents and inlaws and X-amount of your balding schoolboy chums listening to some second-rate organist eviscerate Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze”[…]”

“Many horror writers cry⟳ that it’s the Curse of Categorization that keeps horror trapped in the literary cellar, and readily point⟳ to the publishers on whom they are all too willing to lay⟳ blame⟳. Here’s a Muppet News Flash⟳: it isn’t only publishers who categorize our fiction; it’s also the readers, the editors, and even (sometimes especially) the writers.”

“My views are indeed controversial, even among my fellow pro-lifers, who take⟳ the general patronizing and pusillanimous position that young women in difficult circumstances are basically indistinguishable from thumb-sucking preschoolers who cannot be treated as whole and competent human beings morally accountable for their actions. Muppet News Flash⟳: I’m an extremist.”

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