Big Bird, Typical Liberal

[Misty]

Damage control, eh Frances? I overheard some kids at the grocery store crying this morning over Mitt's impending murder of Big Bird.

Oh brother. That's how evil you liberals are. Trying to trick kids into thinking Romney is killing big bird. You guys are really shits.

I am sure Ravi was completely serious.

It's not Romney who is ending funding, it's congress and they've been thinking about it for a long time.

Talk about corporate welfare;

"What do the numbers $369,000, $632,233, and $1.2 million have in common?* According to Senator Jim DeMint, those are the salaries received by top-ranking executives of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and NPR in 2009.* When publicly-financed media operations can afford to pay those kinds of salaries, DeMint argues, it’s time for them to pay their own way:

While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are raking in massive salaries, the organizations are participating in an aggressive lobbying effort to prevent Congress from saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year by cutting their subsidies. The so-called commercial free public airwaves have been filled with pleas for taxpayer cash. The Association of Public Television Stations has hired lobbyists to fight the cuts. Hundreds of taxpayer-supported TV, radio and Web outlets have partnered with an advocacy campaign to facilitate emails and phone calls to Capitol Hill for the purpose of telling members of Congress, “Public broadcasting funding is too important to eliminate!”

DeMint calls for end of public financing for PBS, NPR « Hot Air

 

[Luissa]

Oh brother. That's how evil you liberals are. Trying to trick kids into thinking Romney is killing big bird. You guys are really shits.

I am sure Ravi was completely serious.

It's not Romney who is ending funding, it's congress and they've been thinking about it for a long time.

Talk about corporate welfare;

"What do the numbers $369,000, $632,233, and $1.2 million have in common?* According to Senator Jim DeMint, those are the salaries received by top-ranking executives of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS, and NPR in 2009.* When publicly-financed media operations can afford to pay those kinds of salaries, DeMint argues, it’s time for them to pay their own way:

While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) are raking in massive salaries, the organizations are participating in an aggressive lobbying effort to prevent Congress from saving hundreds of millions of dollars each year by cutting their subsidies. The so-called commercial free public airwaves have been filled with pleas for taxpayer cash. The Association of Public Television Stations has hired lobbyists to fight the cuts. Hundreds of taxpayer-supported TV, radio and Web outlets have partnered with an advocacy campaign to facilitate emails and phone calls to Capitol Hill for the purpose of telling members of Congress, “Public broadcasting funding is too important to eliminate!”

DeMint calls for end of public financing for PBS, NPR « Hot Air

Wow! Miss the debate? That is what the thread is about, not congress.
And Demint is an idiot, along with anyone who thinks that paying competitive wages is bad, especially when running a business.
Oh! And do me a favor look up how much CEOs and top executives make at other networks.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I hear Big Bird is now saying he's 1/32 Indian

 

[Misty]

Wow! Miss the debate? That is what the thread is about, not congress.
And Demint is an idiot, along with anyone who thinks that paying competitive wages is bad, especially when running a business.
Oh! And do me a favor look up how much CEOs and top executives make at other networks.

I only read the first and last pages of most threads. I actually run a business and dont have time to read every post.

It seems corporate welfare is okay as long as liberals are the ones doing it.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

I'd rather pay the pittance to help fund big bird than throw money away on unnecessary tax breaks for big oil and their billions in profits. Millions vs billions, but funding a program that actually is a good investment in learning (from watching Sesame Street, I was reading by the time I was 4) instead of further enriching oil CEO's and banksters shows exactly where the right's priorities lie.

 

[Luissa]

Wow! Miss the debate? That is what the thread is about, not congress.
And Demint is an idiot, along with anyone who thinks that paying competitive wages is bad, especially when running a business.
Oh! And do me a favor look up how much CEOs and top executives make at other networks.

I only read the first and last pages of most threads. I actually run a business and dont have time to read every post.

It seems corporate welfare is okay as long as liberals are the ones doing it.

Most of us actually work, your point?

 

[catzmeow]

When Romney is elected, Big Bird wil be sold to the highest corporate bidder and renamed something like "Progress Energy Verizon McDonald's Bird."

 

[Mac1958]

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Well, since some "kids at a grocery store" are traumatized about Big Bird, we should triple the funding.

It's not like PBS could survive without public funding, after all.

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[CrusaderFrank]

When Romney is elected, Big Bird wil be sold to the highest corporate bidder and renamed something like "Progress Energy Verizon McDonald's Bird."

Big Bird is another fake fucking phony Progressive like Guitar player Socialist Tony Morello who's all about handing away other peoples money and efforts but wants the death penalty for people who pirate his music

 

[uscitizen]

PBS is not a church.

PBS is really a fraud. They have endless fundraising marathons, they get public money, and their shows generate their own income like gigantic infomercials.

Many/most of the shows are built by private enterprise and PBS pays to air the shows.

So PBS supports private enterprise.

 

[Luissa]

Wow! Miss the debate? That is what the thread is about, not congress.
And Demint is an idiot, along with anyone who thinks that paying competitive wages is bad, especially when running a business.
Oh! And do me a favor look up how much CEOs and top executives make at other networks.

I only read the first and last pages of most threads. I actually run a business and dont have time to read every post.

It seems corporate welfare is okay as long as liberals are the ones doing it.

Corporate welfare? What are you even talking about?
I am guessing you didn't compare the salaries of PBS executives to other network executives.

 

[Oddball]

When Romney is elected, Big Bird wil be sold to the highest corporate bidder and renamed something like "Progress Energy Verizon McDonald's Bird."

Oh, like Elmo and other CTW characters haven't been fully commercially exploited?

GAFB!

 

[Intense]

Big Bird, 43 years old, has been on public assistance since birth.

A lifetime of exposure to Liberal ideology has convinced him that he is unable to support himself without public assistance. Liberals have robbed him of any ambition to venture forth into the free market.

Big Bird, you're 43 fucking years old, its time you moved out of your Mom's basement. You and your friends are easily worth $1 billion so it's time to grow a pair. Get out there, earn a living and pay your fair share.

Take Elmo, Grover and that creep who is always in the Garbage Can with you too. Oh, and don't send "Veggie Monster" back until he eats Cookies again. Your Liberal friends made a fucking mockery of him.

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Sesame Street - The Economy [MadTV][HQ]

 

[hazlnut]

Big Bird, 43 years old, has been on public assistance since birth.

A lifetime of exposure to Liberal ideology has convinced him that he is unable to support himself without public assistance. Liberals have robbed him of any ambition to venture forth into the free market.

Big Bird, you're 43 fucking years old, its time you moved out of your Mom's basement. You and your friends are easily worth $1 billion so it's time to grow a pair. Get out there, earn a living and pay your fair share.

Take Elmo, Grover and that creep who is always in the Garbage Can with you too. Oh, and don't send "Veggie Monster" back until he eats Cookies again. Your Liberal friends made a fucking mockery of him.

Perhaps if you had watched Sesame Street, you wouldn't be such a worthless illiterate on the public doll.

 

[kiwiman127]

I know this is not going to change anyone's mind but,,,,,

30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational
30 TV Shows That Are Actually Educational | Edudemic

In 2011, the Federal Budget was $3.4 trillion, PBS received $430 million. That's like .0001% of the Federal Budget.

Yet according to Tom Coburn, the wealthy receive $30 billion dollars in taxpayer giveaways each year.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public...&File_id=544ae3e7-195b-40ad-aa84-334fdd6a5e1f

So let's kill Big Bird/PBS, but let's continue to worship the wealthy and let them continue on getting billions of dollars annually that contribute almost 100 times more dollars to the deficit than the cost of helping finance good education for our kids.

 

[Oddball]

Sesame Street received $4 million dollars in public funds last year. Romney is an idiot.

How much in royalties did CTW get from licensing deals, from sales of Sesame Street toys and such?

C'mon, Lulu...Tell us.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Big Bird, 43 years old, has been on public assistance since birth.

A lifetime of exposure to Liberal ideology has convinced him that he is unable to support himself without public assistance. Liberals have robbed him of any ambition to venture forth into the free market.

Big Bird, you're 43 fucking years old, its time you moved out of your Mom's basement. You and your friends are easily worth $1 billion so it's time to grow a pair. Get out there, earn a living and pay your fair share.

Take Elmo, Grover and that creep who is always in the Garbage Can with you too. Oh, and don't send "Veggie Monster" back until he eats Cookies again. Your Liberal friends made a fucking mockery of him.

Perhaps if you had watched Sesame Street, you wouldn't be such a worthless illiterate on the public doll.

I watched it when I had young kids before Cookie Monster went complete Liberal Faggot and became Veggie Monster.

Unlike you, I don't have to go there for news and current events.

And it's dole, not doll, you dolt

 

[Oddball]

 

[kiwiman127]

Why does the far right element of the GOP hate to spend money on education but have no problem with welfare for the wealthy?

 

[Oddball]

Why does the far right element of the GOP hate to spend money on education but have no problem with welfare for the wealthy?

Blow it our your ass.

Not only is that irrelevant to the topic at hand, CTW makes bazillions off of licensing deals to sell Sesame Street.

Talk about your corporate welfare cases!