Help Big Bird

Added on October 16th, 2012 by #makecasemdsgreatagain | Report Post
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obama’s new budget involves killing big bird,
in november remember to vote for Romney

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Nurgen (#177884)

11 years ago

WTF? Romney already said he’d cut funding to PBS.

Ricardo (#)

11 years ago

He am Bizzaro world from

Aquaman43 (#85320)

11 years ago

yeah, but obamas gonna use step cells to bring julia child, fred rogers and bob ross back to life so…

Jac H (#)

11 years ago

Please let there be a God so he can help us all

tsj (#)

11 years ago

Have to wonder what ever happened to even a pretense of truth in politics. Seems today its about telling so many lies so fast that you swamp the fact checkers.

Gerry (#)

11 years ago

The guy who plays Big Bird makes over $300,000 a year. All of the Mupeteers are in the 1%

….and yet they suck off the government teat.

$fracked again$

fracked again (#6878)

Reply to Gerry

11 years ago

Why do you hate successful people? What should a nationally syndicated kids show performer with recognized voice acting and puppetry skills make in your sick utopia make?

Wildman7316 (#)

Reply to fracked again

11 years ago

Not “Hating on ’em”, just acknowledging that Sesame Street is NOT in any danger of going off the air. At WORST, they move to a regular TV Network (and yes, show commercials) and get even richer. See no reason to provide them with a venue (at taxpayer expense) when private enterprise would be more than willing to do the same.

Why you gotta insist that ONLY Government cna provide?

tiki god (#1) (MCS+)

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Reply to Gerry

11 years ago

afaik Sesame Street is not funded by public funds:
www.google.com/search?q=sesame+street+funding

for the most part it’s corporate sponsorships and private donations.

crewmanguy (#47015)

Reply to Gerry

11 years ago

Sesame Street is extremely profitable. The Merchandising alone could probably fund PBS, Forget the movies (the Muppets were launched around Kermit, who started on Sesame St) or the theme parks. There was a thing a while back about why the Jim Henson Company doesn’t profit share with the the network. I don’t know how/if it was ever resolved. PBS would go under without government funding, Sesame St would just move someplace else. Since Disney owns Jim Henson now, my guess is either ABC or the Disney Channel. If it’s ABC, I can see some great marketing to promote the move.

TsJ (#179366)

11 years ago

Tiki is right, Sesame Street is well funded, as is Nova and American Experience.

The PBS federal funding mostly goes to keep local stations open in smaller towns. So if Romney does cut PBS funding the big cities likely won’t notice, it the small towns that will get cut.