![]() Which is why the Americans are inflicting him on their prisoners. That's why there's a website for the Jihad to Destroy Barney the purple dinosaur ( which describes itself thus: "The Jihad is a heterogeneous organisation of people on the internet dedicated to the defamation, humiliation, eradication, killing and removal of Barney the Purple Dinosaur of the television show Barney and Friends from the airwaves and from every human's life." That's why a group of teenagers beat up a man in a Barney suit in a Texas shopping mall. And he's hated by those adults who don't watch the show. He's hated by those adults who watch the show. Either that, or one hopes that the hapless GIs will be issued with personal stereos playing something soothing such as ZZ Top.įor Barney has become a hate figure in the US. ![]() It's just that simple." One presumes, then, that the military interrogators are all parents who knew the effects the song would have, but who were themselves inured by prolonged exposure. From one Barney-bashing website: "Once anyone over the age of two hears Barney begin belting out that miserable anthem of his - 'I wuv you, you wuv me' - the human dies. It's not hard, however, to find anecdotal evidence. It's hard to find scientific evidence to back up the US military's faith in the misery-inducing power of the purple dinosaur's greatest hit. ![]() "In training, they forced me to listen to it for 45 minutes. "Trust me, it works," one US soldier told Newsweek of the use of what Barney-haters term the "I wuv you" song. ![]()
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