Here’s what Sherrie Weston said:
“We are able to raise our funding through philanthropic, through our licensed product, which goes back into the educational programming, through corporate underwriting and sponsorship,” Sherrie Westin, executive VP and chief marketing officer of the Workshop, told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien Thursday. “So quite frankly, you can debate whether or not there should be funding of public broadcasting. But when they always try to tout out Big Bird, and say we’re going to kill Big Bird – that is actually misleading, because Sesame Street will be here.” [Emphasis mine.]
Look, this is a real policy disagreement and normally wouldn’t count as a “rumor”, except first it’s such a great example of the Washington Monument Gambit, and second, frankly, because it’s getting passed around so much.
If it can be done before Thanksgiving, the low-income residents of Sesame Street could partake in the best holiday spread in the history of the hood.
I only go to Romney rallies for the deep fried big bird.
Dude.
I got to thinking about it and came to the conclusion that Big Bird is the Sesame Street version of Sandra Fluke. They’re both about the same age, they both have never had a job, they both are dependent upon government handouts, neither one of them pays taxes, and they both are trotted out by democrats when a victim is needed to criticize proposed cuts in wasteful federal spending.
Sandra Fluke is Big Bird.