Salon.com > G.I. Joe http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Six examples of the right’s war on children’s characters http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/six_examples_of_the_rights_war_on_children_characters/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/six_examples_of_the_rights_war_on_children_characters/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13031266 AlterNet Mitt Romney's comments, during Wednesday night's debate, about cutting funding for PBS despite his “love” for Big Bird, immediately got a response from the Internet: FiredBigBird popped up on Twitter shortly after the comments and was quickly joined by Sesame Street colleagues FireMeElmo and FiredOscar, as well as BigBirdRomney.

PBS has long been a conservative target, despite the minuscule amount of savings that cutting it would actually produce. As Laura Clawson noted at Daily Kos, “Romney's setting up the need for $9.6 trillion in non-defense cuts. His answer? Fire Big Bird to save $445 million.” Big Bird and his cohort are just collateral damage in the Right's war on anything public; Romney can sadly shake his head and say that even though he loves Big Bird, the big yellow guy just has to go because of the deficits!

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