No one attacked big bird you dumb retards We just want him off welfare
Maybe if you were off welfare and had a real job you'd stop drooling and learn to think, sows On Monday, October 8, 2012, Tommy News <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mitt Romney vs. Big Bird: Birders Fight Back > > SNL Video Here: > > http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-big-bird/1419930/ > > By Garance Franke-Ruta > > Oct 4 2012, 6:30 PM ET 99 > > Birthers and truthers, meet the new kids in town: defenders of Big Bird. > > Fired Big Bird @FiredBigBird > I like Sesame Street... the trees are the right heights > 3 Oct 12 ReplyRetweetFavorite > > Move over birthers and truthers. There's a new constituency alighting > on the colorful fringes of the presidential contest, and taking up a > seat on its stoop. Defenders of Big Bird, the giant yellow costumed > character from Sesame Street, are up in arms over Mitt Romney's > remarks about this beloved feathered friend of small children, who has > been entertaining and teaching Americans since today's middle-aged > creative-class types were corduroys and turtlenecks. I say we call > these defenders birders. > > "I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS," Romney proclaimed at the > debate. "I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. > ... 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 Twitterverse immediately coughed up the first big meme of the > evening, a parody account called @FiredBigBird. On Thursday, > @FiredElmo and @FiredOscar joined the pack, though all were subjected > to Twitter suspensions. > > The super PAC American Bridge, which is supporting Obama, quickly > turned to Oscar the Grouch (R) to make a point about housing policy, > while over at The Washington Post's "She the People" blog, writer Suzi > Parker predicted the remarks about Big Bird would haunt Mitt Romney. > "A survey in 2008 noted that 77 million Americans had watched Sesame > Street as children. That's a lot of potential voters to woo. Nostalgia > runs deep, trust me," she noted. "Big Bird, an iconic image, could > serve as a bright yellow reminder that the Romney administration is > keen on deep cuts to beloved institutions." > > Obama quickly integrated a reference into his stump speech, telling > supporters in Denver: "I mean, thank goodness somebody is finally > getting tough on Big Bird. It's about time. We didn't know that Big > Bird was driving the federal deficit." > > Though shown on public television, Sesame Street is produced by the > Sesame Workshop, which is primarily funded by non-government sources. > > "Sesame Workshop receives very, very little funding from PBS," the > Sesame Workshop's Sherrie Westin, executive vice president and chief > marketing officer, told CNN's Soledad O'Brien Thursday. "So, we are > able to raise our funding through philanthropic, through our licensed > product, which goes back into the educational programming, through > corporate underwriting and sponsorship. So quite frankly, you can > debate whether or not there should be funding of public broadcasting. > But when they always try to tout out Big Bird, and say we're going to > kill Big Bird -- that is actually misleading, because Sesame Street > will be here." > > More: > http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/mitt-romney-vs-big-bird-birders-fight-back/263252/ > > SNL Video Here: > > http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-big-bird/1419930/ > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > -- > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. > Have a great day, > Tommy > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New Topic > Messages in this topic (1) > Recent Activity: > > Visit Your Group > <http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/yg/logo/us.gif> > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > . > < http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=22156351/grpspId=1705060376/msgId=41786/stime=1349713502/nc1=5898816/nc2=5191953/nc3=3848627 > > __,_._,___ -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
