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Oct. 9, 2012 9:51am Becket Adams

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during last week’s debate with President Barack Obama said that he would scale back government subsidies to public entities such as Amtrak and PBS.

“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS … I like PBS, I love Big Bird, I actually like you, too,” Romney said to debate moderator and former anchor of the PBS “NewsHour” Jim Lehrer, “but I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”

Oddly enough, somewhere between the beginning and the end of that sentence, someone on the Obama re-election staff decided that they should make Big Bird a permanent fixture on the campaign trail.

“For all you moms and kids out there, don’t worry, somebody is finally getting tough on Big Bird. Elmo, you better make a run for it,” President Obama told a crowd last Friday. “Gov. Romney is going to let Wall Street run wild again, but he’s going to bring the hammer down on ‘Sesame Street.’”

No, really. This is actually a campaign talking point.

Even Former White House Press Sec. Robert Gibbs has gotten in on the action: “The only thing [Romney] outlined that he would cut in the budget is Big Bird. He’s taking the battle straight to Sesame Street and let Wall Street run hog wild.”

Really, someone on Team Obama thinks this is a good line of attack. So good, in fact, that the official campaign of the President of the United States of America on Tuesday released an ad accusing the former Massachusetts governor of having it in for the eight-foot-tall puppet:

Final Thought — Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things.”

Uh-huh.

UPDATE — Shortly after the Obama campaign released the Big Bird ad Tuesday morning, Sesame Workshop issued the following statement:

Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s the second time this week the Obama campaign has been publicly scolded for using unapproved material in a campaign ad.

UPDATE II– Deputy White House Communications Director Jen Psaki on Tuesday told the press gaggle on Air Force One the Obama campaign would “review” Sesame Workshop’s request [emphasis added]:

Reporter: I feel a little odd saying this, but I have two questions about Big Bird. (Laughter.) The first is that as you know, Sesame Street has asked for the ad to be pulled on the grounds that it’s not a political organization and doesn’t want to be drawn into this kind of debate. Will the campaign honor it and pull down that ad?

Ms. Psaki: We have received that request. We’re reviewing it. I will say it doesn’t change the fact that there’s only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo, and he is riding on this plane.

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Mr Sanders
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:19am
PBS should learn about competition and not depend on “tenure” – they’d be better for it.

The P is getting desperate – this is a talking point?

What Mr. Romney said should be said everyday in Big-G [ an oxymoron for them ] if its not value added… its gotta go. A lot has to change to get this debt monster under control…. but our P thinks we can spend, tax, service our debt, and save money…. that isn’t going to work…. not even in my little world of small business. More tax and reg’s just reduces the likelihood of a biz to hire more, hard choices need to be made, especially if those taxes and reg’s change quaterly, or as of late, monthly [ for some industries ]. Pretty simple equation(s).

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- huey6367
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:37am
  Exactly. Simply put, if Socialism is so great then why is Europe on fire?
  
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- fraumj
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:41am
  I like that Romney has set a criteria in order to decide which programs get cut-off. We have to face the fact that we are spending way more than we can afford. So, go Mitt! It’s going to be painful, but we got to get it done already. The sooner, the better. It’s time for some serious recovery now. Just look at Coolidge and what he did.
  
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- Detroit paperboy
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:46am
  The economy went south in January of 07………. The day Pelosi and Reid took over…….
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:12am
  Barrack Hussein Obozo! He’s Fan-Fekking-Tastic….A Romney retalitatory ad that would be funny would be if Barrack dressed up as sad clown and Eric Holder dressed in his Ronald McDonald suit and the two come to the rescue of Obamo phone women who calls Obozo (on her Obama phone) and informs him and Eric Holder McDonald, via 911 that she didn’t get but 37 of her 40 McNuggets and that she wants to prosecute the McDonalds worker for hate crimes.
  
  P.S. Media Matters = PBS = George Soros Soros could buy PBS and run it for a billion years on just half of his fortune.
  
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:13am
  Mr. Sanders…it’s time for Big Bird to leave the NEST and go out on his own…Jeez he reminds me of a liberal’s kid…how old is he now???
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:15am
  “The main vice of Capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of Sicialism is the even distribution of misery.” — Winston Churchill
  
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:18am
  PBS needs to be cut. Big Bird and Elmo will survive. They are big business in the toy market.
  Obama camp has nothing…..they have to call Romney a liar without specifics when they are the liars without specifics. How does trickle down government work? Where does the money come from to run it? How does middle out work?….we print money to make middle class pay in higher prices of gas, groceries and goods? Hope? Hope for what? Change? Change into what? Forward? Forward to what? How does his plan work….what are his specifics? You can’t take it all from the top percent and fund all the voters he is buying with borrowed money. It is impossible. So how does this top down government, middle out government work? Who funds it ….what government….. China?
  
  They take the worst of who they are and accuse their opposition of it. Romney has been consistent and has offered more of a vision and specifics than we can get from Obama.
  
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- turkey13
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:29am
  Us registered Democrats should have got smart when Obama was going on about Bush driveing the Bus off into the ditch – catchy but dumb. After he took office all he talked about was he had to pull it out and he has let the unions try at the cost of a trillion bucks (TARP) for 3.5 years and it is still stuck in the ditch. A person that had business savey would have used a small non-union construction company and for less tha a half million bucks got it out. One of his problems is all those Clinton minions that he pulled out of retirement didn’t help a bit. Twenty years of sniffing Coke and smokeing joints clouded their brains.
  
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- mersey
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:10pm
  Maybe Obama should send Big Bird in his place to the next debate. The Bird couldn’t do any worse!
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:13pm
  Really? I’ve been saying for years we’re supporting things that can work better in the private sector.
  PBS had some value about 40 years ago, but is no longer viable to anyone.
  Big Bird can make his own way. He’s old enough to be out on his own.
  
  Amtrak is a dismal failure for many reasons. Let Amtrak be run by a capitalist company and it could actually be run more efficiently than it’s ever been. The Government ruins everything it lays it’s hands on, especially the people who go to office to represent us….they have no idea it’s about US not them.. We rode Amtrak overnight a number of times 6-8 years ago and each trip made an impression on us to never, never do this again. I’d love to take the train on a regular basis, but not the way it’s run by the govmt.
  Our Government is taking on too many things they don’t know how to run efficiently. Most of this stuff isn’t even in our Government’s contract to THE PEOPLE.
  Stop all those stupid, expensive things our congress shoves into every bill, running the costs up so high and often have no bearing on the welfare or help for our citizens. Congress does most of this crapola just to get re-elected, if they pad the Bills with phony causes that usually don’t help us in the long run. Who cares about the sex life of an African Ant?…….this is typical too. If we have to know about an ant’s sex life, let’s at least study the American Ants to bring home the bacon.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:16pm
  @jujubeebee
  
  Sorry, but the Mormon savior is a liar. Romney spoke often of his 5 trillion dollar tax break for the 1%, than abandoned it during the debate. Romney’s debate performance was nothing more than a giant Ecth-A-Sketch movement were he denied every position he held for the prior 18 months.
  
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- johnjamison
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:47pm
  Sesame Street is a multimillion dollars company why is get free air time on a public access company anyway. It’s kind of like the lotto winner in Mich. that was still collecting welfare.
  
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- SlushPuppyKing
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:56pm
  And cutting an extremely small program like PBS is the way to make these much needed cuts but giving 2 trillion to the military isn’t?
  
  Yeah…..ok
  
  You want to go after PBS fine by me, but before we cut our own public broadcasting program can we at least end all foreign aid and shave just a **** off that military budget? Pretty please?
  
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- wordsofwisdom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:56pm
  How stupid can you get!
  
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- 13th Imam
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 2:09pm
  Slushpuunky
  Next time Al-Quida attacks America, I hope you and yours are in the direct line of fire. You can call Big Bird for help.
  
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- BYEBYEBIRDIE
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Check this out – Awesome!
  Show your support for Romney and put a Big Bird Target sign in your front yard.
  http://www.cafepress.com/bigbirdtarget
  Here is a picture of it
  http://pinterest.com/pin/298293175288690034/
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:25pm
  Big Bird, Carroll Spinney, is about 88 now. He has lived off of PBS for a little more than 40 years now. If he were smart, like Jim Henson and Frank Oz, he could have spun off of Sesame Street into the private sector, too. i guess he isn’t that smart.
  Don’t be too rough on poor Obama, he KNOWS shat it’s like to be a puppet!
  Romney should make that his come-back statement for this commercial.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:45pm
  Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:25pm
  
  Big Bird, Carroll Spinney, is about 88 now. He has lived off of PBS for a little more than 40 years now. If he were smart, like Jim Henson and Frank Oz, he could have spun off of Sesame Street into the private sector, too. i guess he isn’t that smart.
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  This is the problem with the Right, they have no idea what the issues are or what the facts are. The Big Bird Character is owned by Sesame Place. Henson created them, but gave the trademarks and copyrights to CTW/Sesame Place. Spinney couldn’t spin off Big Bird if he wanted to, he doesn’t own the rights.
  
  TLC is the private sector version of PBS, TLC gives us junk like the Long Island Medium and Honey Boo Boo, PBS gives us Great Performances, Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, etc. The private sector can not provide the quality that PBS provides.
  
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- pennies
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:13pm
  PBS should be on it’s own.If the government will watch the pennies.The dollars will take care of themselves
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:30pm
  When my husband’s hours got cut from 40 down to 32 in order to fire no one at the company he works, I had to rework my budget. I couldn’t continue to spend like I had, because not as much was coming in. I didn’t want to run up my credit cards and have that to deal with when his hours went back up. I cut the fluff….like allowances, cut down on gas and car pooled, or only made one trip in for groceries, etc. It got us through with no added debt. We’ve got a government that is like a Welfare Queen who thinks it’s been a free ride and our children are going to pay for it.
  
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- Azzencinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 5:54pm
  UPDATE III: Big Bird reported missing from Air Force One. President Obama claims he has no idea where he is at on the plane while eating Broiled Chicken with waffles and collard greens.
  
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- ManThong
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 6:42pm
  Vote as if your Miss Piggy parts depend on it.
  
  Because they kinda do.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:21pm
  When obama has nothing else to run on, that’s important to our Country, he turns to nonsense.
  
  If you want nonsense, look at why Jesse Jackson, Rev. Wright and Valeria Jarrett got obama & Michelle together:
  interesting article by JEROME R. CORSI
  http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/jesse-jackson-wright-arranged-obama-marriage/
  
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- SlushPuppyKing
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 5:51am
  @13TH IMAM
  
  I request we end foreign aid and shave some money from the bloated military budget and you hope my family falls victim to a terrorist attack?
  
  Seek help.
  
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- georgette
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 12:19pm
  I think election day and the weeks following are going to resemble the Al Gore dustup…they will delay..they will parse… question every vote….add plenty of confusion….make a shambles out of the entire process…
  
  it’s one of their few skills.
  
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- pforristall
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 2:47pm
  The way I see this BIG BIRD ad and controversy – it is simply another Obama DIVERSION from reality of the RED MEAT in Romney’s comment. What was the content of Mitt’s speech just BEFORE he mentioned PBS and BIG BIRD?” Let me refresh your memory:
  
  MR. ROMNEY: “What things would I cut from spending? Well, first of all, I will eliminate all programs by this test — if they don’t pass it: Is the program so critical it’s worth borrowing money from China to pay for it? And if not, I’ll get rid of it. “Obamacare” is on my list. I apologize, Mr. President. I use that term with all respect.
  
  PRESIDENT OBAMA: I like it.
  
  MR. ROMNEY: Good. OK, good. (Laughter.) So I’ll get rid of that. I’m sorry, Jim. I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you too. But I’m not going to — I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it. That’s number one.”
  
  THE RED MEAT:
  “OBAMACARE”! Obama and team are controlling the conversation! They don’t want the PUBLIC to REMEMBER this point, “OBAMACARE IS ON MY LIST!” Last time I heard, a HUGE percentage of Americans want OBAMACARE repealed. Something like 60%???
  
  Simple as that – OBAMA wants to DROWN OUT the KEY POINT of Mitt’s sentence – REPEAL OF OBAMACARE!!! OBAMACARE is what we CARE about…..not BIG BIRD.
  
  Don’t let Obama DIRECT the conversation, because that is EXACTLY what he is at
  
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- mernijo
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:44pm
  I totally agree with you. We need to get serious about reducing the national debt!
  
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- damon_k
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 6:09pm
  This add is the product of a desperate campaign. Read more insights at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- damon_k
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 5:32am
  This is a losing strategy from a campaign that is in disaray. Read more commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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Exidor
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:16am
That was pathetic. Let’s talk about Big Bird.

Not the economy or Libya or jobs or gas prices or anything mundane.

Big Bird…..

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- DrunkGOP_Hack
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:23am
  Romney doesn’t have to do anything.
  BO’s camp is basically doing all the work.
  
  I think Oscar the Grouch is running the reelection marketing.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:28am
  Big Bird, and PBS only proves the contempt Romney has for the poor, the elderly, for anyone not in his tax bracket.
  
  TLC was the for profit version of PBS. TLC gives us Long Island Medium and Honey Boo Boo. PBS understands its mission is to educate and inform not to sell products.
  
  The US military wastes more money in an hour than the entire monies given to PBS. The largest impact of the cutting PBS’ budget, won’t be felt in New York or California, but in West Virgina, the Dakotas, and other small markets and rural areas. Places where the 47% live.
  
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- woodyee
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:38am
  Encinom – you speak of contempt, yet most of your posts are negative towards those that love our Country…food for thought.
  
  On the other hand, Gaybama has had nearly 4yrs to do right by our Country; two of those years where he could get anything he wanted passed. What has Obama done in the last nearly 4yrs that makes you splooge uncontrollably for 4 more?
  
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- rickinpa
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:43am
  @encimon Yeah ignore the quote from Obama in 2008
  
  “If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things.”
  
  At least he follows his own advice!
  
  A LEADER FINDS A WAY A LOSER FINDS AN EXCUSE – OBAMA IS FULL OF EXCSUES!!!!
  
  MUST BE THE ALTITUDE…HA HA HA HA LOL WHAT A LOSER!!!!
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:43am
  You mean those people bitterly climbing to their God and guns, Encinom? Also there’s the fact that rural areas tend to overwhelmingly support Republicans so I guess that dastardly Mitt hates hates his own voters! Don’t be a tool.
  
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- Landon410
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:50am
  guys…….. come on, if it only wastes a little bit of money its ok.
  in that vein, ok leave PBS be, lets gut SS Obamacare, welfare, foodstamps, deport all illegals, protect our boarder etc, but they can keep PBS
  
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- OutObamaOut
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:51am
  Encinom, people like you are part of the problem in this country. You clearly have no clue if you think that the military has any money to WASTE at this point.
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:23am
  Encinom you are such an idiot. I can not believe you are this ignorant. Have you ever traveled out west? You make it sound like rural areas have no running water or other amenities. I am almost 61, dude I have cable TV, indoor plumbing, Internet. I don’t watch PBS except on rare, rare occasions. In the day when only CBS, NBC and ABC existed PBS was a way to bring “refinement” aka “the arts” to people who could not attend an opera, or a play, or visit the symphony. Also, free TV still exists. People do not need to buy cable or satellite to watch TV. They have up to 78 channels. In my day we had the three above. In my day we didn’t have the technology we have today.
  
  Most “poor” people and seniors I know have satellite, cable, DSL or other TV/Internet connections with 100′s of TV stations to watch. PBS does not need government funding. It makes plenty with private funding.
  
  Please educate yourself and quite spouting off Liberal indoctrination agenda that doesn’t exist nor is true today.
  
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- sta
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:25am
  encinom- If “understands its mission is to educate and inform not to sell products.” then why aren’t they giving away the Sesame Street merchandise for cost?
  I stood in line for a “Sleep and Snore Ernie” that cost me 40.00, yet the cost to make that product was significantly less. If their mission is to educate and inform, perhaps they need a clue about charity and manufacturing costs.
  
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- Balpit
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Actually, ever since Tickle Me Elmo became popular, the Elmo’s World segment has always taken up the last 20 minutes of Sesame Street. One could rightfully say it encourages kids to want Elmo products, toys, etc.
  
  So, ironically, Sesame Street, which was/is praised for not being commercial, became commercial as a result of Tickle Me Elmo.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:11pm
  ENCINOM/MONICNE/’SLEAZY HIPPO/ad nauseum….your post was comedy gold. It was such a rich display of unhinged liberal hackery that I believe you’ll have trouble ever topping it.
  
  No really…tell me again how Big Bird is on the mind of every American without a job and will affect his/her vote in November..LOL. Stretch away clownshoes.
  
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- vtxphantom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:41pm
  Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Cookie Monster, and the other puppets are all 1 per centers. They make more money than most of the people reading this. Why doesn’t obama apply the Buffet rule to them?
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:14pm
  Does anyone besides me think that idiots like encinom just love it when we get all riled up at his posts? He is not trying to have a conversation, he is trying to pi$$ us all off. The only purpose he serves it the purposes of the likes of media matters.
  
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- I Luv America
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 2:04pm
  Exidor, you are exactly right. What this shows is the extent of the desperation of the left. This election has been turned into a circus show freak act mainly due to the immaturity of the liberals. Big Bird is a fictional character. I loved him when I was a kid, but I have grown up. This is what liberals, including the “big zero himself” needs to do – grow up.
  
  Where I work, I just spoke with a client who is an immigrant from Chile. He made mention about Obama fixing the country in the next 4 years. I pointed out that he has messed this country up in the last 4 years and asked him what makes him think that in the next 4 Obama will fix it. He had no answer (the typical liberal response). I then pointed out that he came to the U.S. to escape socialism, so why does he want to go back to socialism. He actually had no idea that Obama is a socialist – he was that far in the dark. Hopefully, I convinced him to take a good look at Romney.
  
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raisingkidsforthetruth
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:16am
That ad is so asinine…so I guess it is fitting for the campaign! Made me laugh so hard I almost felt sorry for them. Chicago political machine has to lean on Big Bird to get their message across…Bwhahahahahaha!

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willingtoupe
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:11am
Repeal Dodd-Frank!

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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:29am
  Cause, Wall Street doesn’t need oversite, but Sesame Street that is what collapsed the economy.
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:49am
  Wow double strawman! You’re getting good Encinom. First, yhe only people equating the impacts of Wallstreet and PBS is the left. Apples to oranges. Secondly, somehow you assume getting rid of D-F means absolutely no regulation whatsoever, which again, nobody is talking about. There will still be regulations, just not as many ill conceived vague and uneccesarily burdensome ones.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:56am
  Encinomom
  We can point you out to the chillren and learn that way. Your idiocy is free, and on display daily. The sock puppet can say ” the moral of the story, is don’t be a whiney cry baby encinomom and do for yourself”. It’s all bout the chillren any way.
  
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- COFemale
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:29am
  ENCINOM It was Liberals on WALLSTREET that brought the economy down. The man who ran MF Global into the ground losing client money John Corazine (Democrat) also ran Goldman Sachs. So wake up and realize your monsters on WALL STREET and with Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac are DEMOCRATS. BARNEY FRANK said they were sound. Your people, ENCINOM. your people and their policies, which they blame on Republicans are the cause of the financial collapse. Wake up and smell the coffee. FACE IT YOUR GUYS SUCK!
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:15pm
  It’s called useless spending ENCINOM/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO/ad nauseum..kind of like what happened with your “education”.
  
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Scugz
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:07am
Obama appears to be more of willing dupe rather than a brilliant mind.

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- huey6367
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:43am
  I don’t believe Obama is calling the shots of his own campaign. I believe it is his campaign staff. Obama has no idea what is going on. He spends all his time relishing in the celbrity of being President and NO time leading or attending his intellignet briefings, etc. It showed in the debate.
  
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- floridareader
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:06am
  And Obama campaign is hoping for Joe Biden to save the day on the debate with Paul Ryan!!!!
  One don’t know what is worse: Obama’s ineptitude, the campaign’s desperation or Biden’s always amusing gaffes.
  Thursday night is going to be another memorable moment.
  
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Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:06am
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- starman70
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:18am
  Words from an adult with a 5 year old mentality!!!
  
  Just goes to show what we are dealing with in Washington. 16 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT and the president talks about loving big bird?
  
  YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!!
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:31am
  PBS represents pennies toward the debt. Yet Romney is still pushing forth a 5 trillion dollar tax break for the wealthy, yet will not say how he is going to pay for it.
  
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- DrunkGOP_Hack
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:40am
  E – and all the monies they take in as a TAX EXempt Org and if a corporation does this they are bad and evil?
  
  Pull your head out of Grovers butts
  
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- Farmhand82
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:56am
  Tax revenues historically go up when you lower taxes, to a point. Regan recovery anyone? The highest tax revenue during the Bush years were after his tax cut. Its almost as if vilifying, over regulating, taxing and generally treating business like crap then demanding that they produce so people have jobs and the government has revenue isn’t the best pro growth strategy in the world. Who knew!?
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:00am
  Then there is the marketing of the sock puppets all over kiddy world. We pay for the shows, then PBS markets and sells its products, and then has drives for mo money on top.
  
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- SidneyDave
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:37pm
  Encinom- Where can I find how Romney’s plan for the 5 trillion tax break for the rich works? Please inform us as where you get your information. Thank you.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 8:32pm
  Here is the budget busting tax cut that Romney is lying about:
  
  “Previously, Governor Romney has said that his tax plan would cut all individual income tax rates by 20%, eliminate the AMT, eliminate the estate tax, and eliminate taxes on investment income for low- and middle-income taxpayers. He would also extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts that are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012.
  
  Those tax cuts would reduce federal revenues by $480 billion in 2015 over and above the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts. Allow for some growth in income, and the total comes to over $5 trillion over ten years.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2012/10/04/about-mitt-romneys-5-trillion-tax-cut/
  
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Scugz
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:06am
With the glimpse the public got of Obama’s debate performance, big bird may be an attempt to bring the Obama’s campaign to his level.

I afraid that we finally got a look at the real Obama.

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- RedeyeBlind
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 2:24pm
  Take 100% of the money from the 1% and you can run the gov for 4 months We have a spending problem. And for Heavens sake how many times do it have to be said….Stop feeding the trolls! Let them swing in the wind hoisted by their own petard.
  
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Kate6667
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:04am
Oh my! I have no words…

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- USA5
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 4:24pm
  That was exactly my words…after watching this ad…Oh My!
  
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- concerndAmerican
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:28pm
  @ Encinom, Maybe you would like it to go back the 70% tax rate it was under Carter, There are way too many coincidences that our current administration has in common with the administration that took office in 1977. If you give tax cuts you put more money in the consumers pockets….THEREFORE the economy will thrive…..Don’t vote Democrat just because you are one…….Vote American to help restore our country
  
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Gonzo
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:03am
If Big Bird is so popular, why does he need a taxpayer subsidy to exist? He doesn’t.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:13am
  Mitt knows that Big Bird is part of the 47% who will never vote for him anyway. Just another on the dole idiot with his wing out wanting it to be filled.
  
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- thesource
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:18am
  Because he would change. Look what happened to TLC when it got into private hands. Now it has honey boo boo. Seriously, with all that is wrong in the world and he picks on PBS. Google Mister Rogers when he spoke to congress and watch that. I like a lot of the policies of Republicans but sometimes they shoot themselves in the foot. Ouch!
  
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:30am
  Thesource is wrong. PBS should not be funded by the government. Private money can do it. It will survive on its own if it is good.
  They need to cut money from alot of programs people like.
  This is one example. People like their stuff but the real question is who should be paying for it.
  The obama team b*tches about specifics when they have no vision, no plans, no budget. They buy their votes with taxpayer money. Where are their specifics? How is trickle down government funded? How does middle out work~ do you print money so that the middle class has to pay more for everything they do…gas, groceries, goods? Hope? Hope for what? Change? Change into what?
  Forward? Forward to what? Where is the Obama plan? All we have heard is tax the rich~well the rich can’t fund what Obama is spending! So what is the plan, the vision, the specifics and the budget Obama has?
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:28pm
  Right, Thesource. They would probably have Big Bird doing Viagra commercials. Face palm.
  Captain Kangaroo did pretty well without taxpayer funding.
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:34pm
  And another thing…If you’re so damned worried about Big Bird, donate your own stinking money during one of their telethons! Don’t force me to pay for crap I don’t care about. I’m sick of bed wetting liberals thinking they have the right to decide what I “need’ to spend my money on!
  
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- JayCee
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 6:02pm
  Hey Gonzo,
  Your post was just discussed by Glenn on the TV show.
  
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TammyD
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:03am
So, are we to understand that Sesame Street is the only thing aired on PBS? What a waste of money! Only a sample of what has been taking place in DC for the past 4 years.

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- JayCee
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 6:06pm
  Mitt should have cited Bill Moyers Journal.
  That is blatantly leftwing Obama supporting programming.
  
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Oneirishman
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:03am
Mitt will win in a sweep. Can’t wait to see the Lame Stream mourn the death of the communist party in America! Nov. 2012

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- U.N.hater
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:44am
  It’s not the MSM that is going to get violent. It’s the city dweller’s. They will blame the rich and white people. When obama loses thing’s are going to get very ugly very quick. The MSM will stroke the fires. People better wise up race has become the main issue again in this country and alot of us have had enough. Just how do you think they are going to react to obama only getting 1 term? This is going to have a negative affect on race relations in this country for decades…..
  
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amerbur
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:02am
More waisted money from the Obama camp. They sure know how to throw the money away.

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starman70
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:01am
OF COURSE OBAMA LOVES BIG BIRD – - – ALL CHILDREN DO!!!

rqd. lc

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Temporal
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:01am
The Administration lays off thousands of men and women serving in our armed forces, but funding Big Bird is a national priority…

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- lisa2994
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 12:23pm
  Thank you!
  
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drattastic
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:00am
Pathetic.
obama please waste more of your campaign money on this kind of stupidity . I love it.

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huey6367
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:00am
This campaign is showing how desperate they are. Using Big Bird in a campaign ad just shows how pre-K they are.

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barrygoldwater
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:00am
Big Bird is in the 1%. End corporate welfare to puppets who have more money than Romney! Occupy Mr. Hooper’s Store!

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HKS
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:00am
Only a liberal would consider this an important story in today’s world. Big bird is a private figure making money for a private company and liberals think it needs tax dollars? No wonder we have Solendra and the like. And liberals still have the gall to bitch about a tax break for oil exploration. Amazing ignorance indeed.

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TXGal
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:00am
Poor Obama, he can’t stand on his record so he uses Big Bird/PBS to make this stupid ad.

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the bean
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:59am
Wow! that is really dumb….and pathetic too.

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dcgirl
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:58am
PBS (and NPR for that matter) should not be receiving taxpayer money. PBS used to have no commercials, but now they have commercials, “sponsors”, beg-a-thons, and merchandising dollars. They have no need for taxpayer funding.

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- Fubared
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 11:05am
  Exactly!
  
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- RightThinking1
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:30pm
  DC Girl,
  I refer to their fund raisers as extortion, i.e., “If you don’t send us money, we’re going to continue the non-stop Yani marathon until you pay up.”
  If I have to flip past one more Celtic Women extravaganza I think I’ll just block the channel altogether.
  
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MaleneSBrown
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:58am
The undecided group will actually pay attention to tat add, and take it seriously. Just as they get their news from SNL.

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politicianssuck
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:58am
oooooookay?

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SamIamTwo
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:55am
The shameless one can’t control himself…and the sheep love it.

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- HKS
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 10:01am
  Life is hard when you’ve had the “cool” slapped off of you. Obame is floundering.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:55am
Huh? Another nonsensical desperation ad from floundering candidate obama.

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- MaleneSBrown
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 9:59am
  @TRI-OX
  It’s becoming more obvious everyday, they’re panicking.
  
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- Pontiaku
  Posted on October 9, 2012 at 1:32pm
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxs09eV-Vc
  Vote Obama’s video’s down.
  
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