The holidays really do bring people together! Mediaite and conservative media watchdog Newsbusters find themselves united today in one belief: CBS shouldn’t have messed around with Frosty,
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So the videos are the latest example of what’s become a mini holiday trend. (See,
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OK, so first thing: I think the videos are funny, I’m sorry. (Well, I think the HIMYM video is funny, undoubtedly because I like that show better than Two and a Half Men. Also maybe because I watched it first and the joke only sustains for a minute or so.) I don’t share Newsbusters’ take that the video was “disgusting.” And I’m skeptical of Rachel Sklar’s argument at Mediaite that (while she thinks the videos are funny), the fact that CBS was responsible makes it more likely for kids to find it in a Google search. If a private citizen had made the mashup and it went viral, the search engines would take note: that ship has sailed.