CLEVELAND (AP) — It's "Sesame Street" meets the unseemly side of politics.
With cameras barred from a high-profile corruption trial, a television station has puppets acting out the sometimes-steamy testimony about hookers, gambling and sexually transmitted diseases. In one scene, a furry hand stuffs cash down the shirt of a puppet prostitute.
"I'm horrified," a laughing anchorwoman said after a segment shown this week on WOIO, a CBS affiliate in Cleveland, where the trial of longtime Democratic power broker Jimmy Dimora is the talk of the town.
The station's news director brought up the idea of using the puppets to lampoon the trial and give a glimpse of what's happening …
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