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Krauthammer Not Sure Whether to Laugh or Cry in Response to Obama Campaign’s ‘Big Bird’ Attack

Oct. 10, 2012 1:28pm Becket Adams

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer during a Tuesday broadcast of Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” seemed both troubled and amused by the Obama campaign’s decision to spend time and money on a Big Bird-themed attack ad.

“This could be the worst ad I’ve ever seen. I make an appeal to people in Chicago: run this ad every night over and over again, spend all of your money and time on this. This is an ad that is trivial, it diminishes the presidency,” said Krauthammer.

“It assumes, of course, that everybody wants to subsidize a company that, as we heard from Shannon [Bream] is a third of a billion dollar enterprise,” he added.

Here’s the ad Krauthammer is talking about [note: Sesame Workshop has asked that both campaigns stop using Sesame Street characters and trademarks. The Obama campaign has responded by saying they would "review" the request]:

Krauthammer continued:

And for Obama to be talking about it — I love the way he said this is the biggest driver of the debt. The biggest driver of our debt, according to Obama himself, is Medicare, he’s done nothing on that. And it was the same rip on Medicare that Romney mentioned PBS as the way to say we’re going to go from the biggest expenditures to the most trivial expenditures because we have to go after everything when we have a deficit this large.

“And just as an additional thing for anybody to run an ad that reminds people of the worst debate that any president has ever had, I think is a big mistake and I hope they just keep running it until the end of time,” the conservative columnist added.

The Bird Bird talking point is based on a moment from last week’s presidential debate when Republican candidate Mitt Romney proposed ending Federal subsidies to 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.”

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Comments (26)

n9jxu
Posted on October 12, 2012 at 10:17am
Big Bird is part of the 1% and does not need the cooperate welfare. He and the rest of the Muppets made a quarter billion dollars just in toy sales alone! Tell PBS and Big Bird they are doing just fine without my tax dollars! PBS should come up with a new Muppet “Fat Cat.”

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sbs21078
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:30pm
I refuse to comment on such childish nonsense.

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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 9:26am
The millions that PBS generates and we are borrowing for programs like this? Big Bird generates his own cash and need not have subsidies from the backs of hard working Americans. Ridiculous ad.

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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 11:56am
  Try hundreds-of billions world-wide!! Don’t need no stinkin Govt-help!!
  
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freenj
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 8:16am
So which one in 0′s administration dreamed this ad up, “Goebbels” Axelrod?

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Devildog0166
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 2:17am
The Dims should have run Big Bird in 08 instead of Obirdbrain! He is a good speaker, respected by adults and kids love him! I have never seen Big Yellow reading off a teleprompter or race baiting anyone and when he is wrong , he admits it!
Then again, Big Bird is too smart to be a damnocrat!
Semper Fi

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christos
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:52am
…The left took the Big bait and fell for the whole Bird,,,now they are left with ruffled feathers & speaking incompetence as usual,,,Dry Bird,,,,the few seeds they plant leave a path of thatch leading to Hell.

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dcubed
Posted on October 11, 2012 at 1:27am
It’s a shame the President didn’t spend as much time protecting our Ambassador to Libya as he has protecting Big Bird.

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david3755
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:20pm
obama is the pile that big bird has left behind.

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tozniak
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 9:12pm
Big Bird has more redeeming value or substance than Obama, the empty suit. What a sad joke.

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Chrison
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:59pm
This just shows how bankrupt of ideas the Obama campaign really is. All they have left to throw at Romney and Ryan are “You’ll kill Big Bird!” (somewhat like they claimed Romney “killed” that steel worker’s wife), and “everything Romney says is a lie!” (at the same time they lie through their teeth about just about everything).

That’s okay, though. I still have Hope & Change! I HOPE there’s a CHANGE in who’s President after November 6th!

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wrightclick
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:52pm
And did they pay royalties to Big Bird for using him in the ad? No, they just took what they wanted. They’re special that way.

There’s more than enough rich liberals out there to easily make up the $400 million a year to NPR and PBS—about 15 percent of the two entities’ combined budget. Nancy Pelosi probably has half that in change on her dresser.

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edrebber
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:59pm
If Obama doesn’t have the backbone to rebut a a so called lying cheating Mitt Romney during a debate, then how is he going to deal with the likes of Putin, Ahmadinejad , Kim Jong-un or Hu Jintao

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Jenasus
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:12pm
Big Bird is more sense than Obama.

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- RWCT
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 8:00pm
  Obama is the smartest man in the room, except when BIG Bird is there. Heck it is doubtful Barry is the smartest man in the room, when he is ALONE!
  
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- Dorugremon
  Posted on October 11, 2012 at 12:32am
  Big Bird is more mature than Obama.
  
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LibertarianYankee
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 7:09pm
don’t get me wrong, big bird as absolutely adorable as a character. but to politicize that fact over and over again is really pandering to emotions. ‘vote like your lady parts depend on it!’. ‘vote for obama or your child wont see big bird anymore!’ – c’mon, really?

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KangarooJack
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 6:48pm
Mr. K is now hammering O on Benghazi.

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fuzzy20841
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 6:46pm
November is the time for voters to give Barry the “Big Bird”!

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Malrick
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:39pm
**** man worked for Clinton, Romney might need his own big bird, in a nice suit and a giant cigar, chasing Obama’s campaign with a sign saying “The 1% at sesame street thank for you for corporate warfare”

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AmericanPatriot
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:37pm
This ad is as pathetic as the liberals in this country. Shame, shame, shame!

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Viking64
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:25pm
Sorry libs, Charles has more common sense than all your hero’s put together, only idiots would talk about Big Bird, when the country is going down the tube and the entire middle east is on fire. Liberalism is a disease and many have it! Obama and his desperate followers are scrapping the bottom of the barrel! Romney will destroy him, he has the talent and Odummbooo has the excuses

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:51pm
And Ambassador Stevens rape and murder are just a bump in the road, and big bird is an issue, it would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and frightening………

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- AvengerK
  Posted on October 10, 2012 at 4:36pm
  Chicago..sorry..is that racist?
  
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11:11
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:49pm
wow i really thought that ad was a spoof ad from the daily show? OMG i agree they should run that ad till it exhausts, it’s so funny, especially the part when it show’s big birds shadow outline on the wall!!! too hilarious!! yeah keep running that ad barry, it preceeds your reputation!

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huey6367
Posted on October 10, 2012 at 3:48pm
Sesame Street is now a political talking point. Can you see the similarities?

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