If you pick on Big Bird, you answer to me or something
Big Bird and his friends also showed me what it meant to resolve conflicts with kindness and accept people’s differences and look out for the less fortunate. Do you know anything about looking out for the less fortunate, Mr. Romney? Or do you think they’re all grouches scrounging around in trash cans?
I know that you told Fox News this week that you were “completely wrong” for making that now infamous 47 percent comment, but probably only after you realized that it was a drag on your poll numbers. Your initial response was to defend it as “inelegantly stated” but essentially correct. That’s not good, sir. Character matters. Big Bird wouldn’t have played it that way. Do you really believe that Pennsylvania Avenue is that far away from Sesame Street? It shouldn’t be.
Let me make it simple for you, Mr. Romney. I’m down with Big Bird. You pick on him, you answer to me…
I don’t really expect Mitt Romney to understand the value of something like PBS to people, like me, who grew up in poor, rural areas and went to small schools. These are places with no museums or preschools or after-school educational programs. There wasn’t money for travel or to pay tutors.
Blowback
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I happen to like some PBS and NPR programming.
That said, there is no need for taxpayer funded media in a non-socialist state. In fact the only countries I can think of that have taxpayer funded media are socialist-communist (UK, France, Germany, Venezuela, Russia, China).
Sink or swim biotches.
CorporatePiggy on October 6, 2012 at 4:56 PM
I think the letter the little girl wrote to Romney was more critically intellectual.
RepubChica on October 6, 2012 at 5:36 PM
I enjoy NPR’s music shows very much.
Same with PBS.
Moesart on October 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM
Big Bird: Future spokesperson for Church’s Fried Chicken. LOL.
kingsjester on October 6, 2012 at 6:02 PM
Sad to say, both NPR’s and PBS’ music programming has declined in quality and quantity over the past 20 years.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, NPR had tons of great music programming on the weekends, and one could find nearly any type of music imaginable. They especially had some great live music shows, like “Blues Stage”, hosted by the late great blues singer Ruth Brown, and also a great live jazz series. They even ran a weekly show about New Orleans music.
But now a lot of the music programming on NPR has disappeared, except for classical music. Even the flagship NPR station in Boston, WGBH, has abandoned its longtime folk and blues music shows, which had been on the air there for decades.
Del Dolemonte on October 6, 2012 at 6:10 PM
Charles Blow has the most perfect last name on Earth.
Schadenfreude on October 6, 2012 at 6:14 PM
The whole premise behind this article is FALSE!!!
Big Bird and/or Sesame Street is a franchise which is carrying PBS…not the other way ’round!! They can and DO fend for themselves just fine with their toys, games, appearance fees, movie revenue, etc: NONE of which have anything to do with PBS.
PBS has some good shows, but their has been a precipitous decline in quality. Even their documentaries are infected with liberal memes: often these are just ‘thrown in’ and have nothing to do with the main subject of the documentaries. PBS constantly preaches that humans are evil, government is infallible, global warming is YOUR FAULT, and you are killing all kinds of “vital” mice, rats, and other vermin and endangering the planet by simply being alive.
I don’t believe anybody on PBS has ever actually met a conservative. They consider “balance” as a condition where both sides agree with their views.
The “P” in PBS has come to stand for “Propaganda”. The sooner we let the liberals support their own propaganda arm, the better! No public money should be spent on PBS.
landlines on October 6, 2012 at 6:30 PM
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