just wondering--it looks like mittwit's threat to Big Bird is causing a bigger stench than his "47%"

[niyad]

disgusting idiocy. Will Big Bird finally be the thing that brings him completely down?

[Lint Head]

1. Big Bird is a BFD!

[Kalidurga]

2. Even if Big Bird isn't what brings Romney down, that will be the story I stick to.

cause, it's the funniest.

[MADem]

3. It's "trending" as they say, like mad!!

http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20121007/VIEWPOINTS/310070009/Wilson-Big-Bird-comes-home-roost-Romney?odyssey=nav%7Chead

Romney’s offhand comment about Big Bird had, well, legs. Google’s top headline on Thursday, following a search for “Big Bird and Will Work for Food sign” generated this: “News: Big Bird will haunt Mitt Romney.”



http://www.theroot.com/buzz/mitt-romney-s-big-bird-blowback

On Wednesday, the star of PBS' Sesame Street got a social-media boost no one expected after Mitt Romney dismissed the channel and Big Bird as frivolous. "I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it," Romney said during Wednesday's debate with President Obama. New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow won't stand for Romney's attack on Big Bird, like many others on social media, where a meme swirled around featuring the yellow-feathered children's hero holding a sign that he'd been put out of work, thanks to Romney.

http://www.businessinsider.com/screwing-with-big-bird-might-hurt-romney-2012-10

De-funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long been a cause célèbre for many Republicans, so GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney probably felt safe using it as his sole specific example of what he'd do to solve America's fiscal problems.
But his decision to declare his "love" for Big Bird even as he promised to put the yellow Sesame Street icon's job in jeopardy was a bridge too far for, well, "practically every American under the age of 50," says Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon.
Twitter was certainly having none of it, with parody Big Bird accounts popping up to excoriate Romney's heartlessness, and even President Obama managed to work a line into his stump speech about how Romney would "get rid of regulations on Wall Street — but he's going to crack down on Sesame Street."
Williams argues that this will actually hurt Romney....

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[niyad]

7. this particular statement doesn't even make sense--it is completely backwards:

"I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it,

[MADem]

8. Sounds like something a person on uppers would spit out, while blinking at 40 MPH! nt

[niyad]

12. that person would probably make more sense

[MADem]

17. Well, spittin' Mittsy looked pretty 'amped' to me, I gotta say. He blinked enough to create

a breeze.

[Historic NY]

4. Yup, Mitts stepped in it this time, he likes Wall Street & hates Sesame St.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Big Bird needs to picket Romney public events & fund-raisers.

...and make sure it's video taped.

What are they going to do? Arrest Big Bird?

I don't think so.

[BellaKos]

6. Red meat to the base and his usual inept dunder-headedness. n/t

[bigdarryl]

9. I heard a rumor he's already BACK TRACKING on this statement when 67 million viewers saw him

[LiberalFighter]

10. I try doing my bit using twitter. Every day since Wednesday.

[niyad]

14. damn, I may have to break down and get twitter and facebook--ugh

[LiberalFighter]

18. I don't mess with Facebook. Don't trust them. Concerns about privacy issue.

With Twitter I believe I can reach a wider audience. Or limit it to just those that I want.

[HopeHoops]

11. You don't fuck with Big Bird. Everyone under the age of 50 (and some older) loves him.

That was one of the biggest mistakes he's made, and that's saying something considering the others.

[niyad]

13. apparently this has reached other countries as well--everyone is upset

[HopeHoops]

15. Sesame Street is broadcast (with translation) in roughly 138 countries.

Yeah, that was a major rMoney fuck-up.

You don't mess with Big Bird.

[whistler162]

16. If you thought messin' with the Mouse was bad

wait until you see what happens when you mess with the bird. Tippi Hedron thought she had a bird problem!

[HopeHoops]

19. Well, I know this won't sit well with younger voters, and probably not with older ones.

My parents are 70 now and they didn't mind using Sesame Street (and other educational PBS programs) as a babysitter because they knew we were LEARNING! I don't believe it's related to PBS, but the "School House Rock" videos were awesome and I still remember most of them by rote ("Conjunction Junction, what's your function?" - "I'm just a Bill and I'm sittin' here on Capitol Hill", "Five, Ten, Fifteen, Twenty...", "My hero Zero", etc.)

Reagan hated educational programming. His solution was to kill the requirement for amount of educational content to a mere mention of something beneficial to children, which meant that after killing everything in sight, the animated GI Joe just had to say something like "Remember kids, don't do drugs" at the very end. Then again, he also decided that ketchup counted as a vegetable.

[bushisanidiot]

20. Yep. That comment is going to bring his campaign down.

Anyone around my age or younger (46) remembers when Sesame Street started.

We grew up on Big Bird. We are nostalgic so we want our kids and grandkids to have it
around to enjoy as well.

Maybe the 1% doesn't allow their kids to watch Sesame Street, or PBS in general.
But the rest of America grew up on it and as adults, we donate to help keep them
afloat.

Romney is sinking his own miserable ship.