In a way, you’ve got to sympathize with those beleaguered folks in the Obama campaign advertising shop. Clearly, they were trying to be funny with the Big Bird ad they released last week, which accuses Mitt Romney of ignoring Wall Street excess and going after PBS, instead. The ad is snide, and in a vacuum, it is funny. It’s hard to go wrong with footage of Big Bird snoring.
And it’s true that the line about firing Big Bird was one brief moment of weakness in Romney’s debate performance. If you’re going to talk about defunding PBS — an idea that has been kicking around Republican circles for years — it’s best not to cite one of the most beloved PBS characters in the same breath. And yes, Twitter went into a sarcastic frenzy after the Big Bird moment.
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Bib Bird is just another diversion for the Obama campaign.
47% of the electorate disagree with your comment.
Thee real issue with Mitt's comment about Big Bird isn't whether PBS can survive without government support. The significance of the comment is that it exposed the strategy Republicans use over and over - take a valid issue (in this case the deficit) and use it as an excuse to get rid of government programs they have always been against. In other words, Romney has no intention of supporting a realistic solution to the deficit, but he will use the deficit to get rid of every program Republicans don't like - while increasing the deficit by allowing tax loopholes for the wealthy to continue.
Pres. Obama had to pick on the Big Bird being told to fund your own with the millions received, because he cannot talk about the last 3.5 years failure.
PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service. Public.
Why do I need PBS when I have three History channels, two military channels, Learning, A&E, and about ten others??!?!?!? Even if you drop the half-billion-dollar PBS subsidy, only some of the stations will close. Most will remain. How many do you need??!?!? Half a billion dollars when the same stuff is down the dial for free...
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Obama Chicago team sent the word out very fast to their campaign workers: Rent those Big Bird costumes. Their presidential team cannot understand & continue with their strategy to disregard the large issues. Obama couldn't even tell David Letterman the dollar number of the deficit!!!!!
What's the message here? Don't use sarcasm? Stop funding PBS? Use Twitter? Leave Big Bird alone? The Obama commercial had more of a point than this article. Tighten it up.