Muppet News Flash

Etymology
The name of a recurring sketch on , as Muppet + news flash.

Noun

 * 1) * 2010 December 13, Gary A. Braunbeck, To Each Their Darkness, Smashwords, unpaged:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2019 July 23, Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority, Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, Regnery Publishing, unpaged:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 2019 July 23, Kevin D. Williamson, The Smallest Minority, Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics, Regnery Publishing, unpaged:
 * 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.