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Romney: Slap Ads on Freeloading Sesame Street

Candidate says he'd stop subsidizing PBS

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2011 1:10 AM CST

(Newser) – America is too broke to subsidize ad-free TV for toddlers, Mitt Romney says. The candidate, while campaigning in Iowa yesterday, promised to balance the budget by cutting certain programs, and by requiring PBS to carry ads, forcing Bert and Ernie and the rest of the Sesame Street gang to start paying their own way, the Raw Story reports.

"You might say, ‘I like the National Endowment for the Arts.’ I do,” he said. “I like PBS. We subsidize PBS. Look, I’m going to stop that. I’m going to say that PBS is going to have to have advertisements. We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird is going to have advertisements, all right?”

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jeffreygideon
Dec 30, 2011 6:29 AM CST
Thank you for differentiating yourself from President Obama.  Mitt, your position couldn't help clarify the difference between the Republicans and Democrats more.  The amount of support received by Sesame Street through CPB is minimal compared to the amount the government pisses away daily. If we are trying to educate preschool children who can't afford to send their children to toney 1% prep programs, your answer would be to allow the 800lb gorilla to brainwash them with Mikey D and sugared cereal.  How many commercials are children in expensive daycare programs exposed to?  Just pollute the minds of the middle class and poor.
YetAnotherCollegeKid
Dec 29, 2011 6:24 PM CST
Wow, how stereotypically, cartoonishly evil can you get? If a movie had the villain do something like this, it would get laughed out of theaters as anviliciously campy.
NoddaAndYou
Dec 29, 2011 3:22 PM CST
One corporation telling kids to cry at their parents for material shit they don't need, one, vwahahahaha.  Two, two companies threatening to pull funding if Elmo doesn't mention their new for-girls toy line, two! Vwahahaha. Three, three super-PACs threatening Sesame St. execs over alleged bias concerning the colors of the letters and how none of them are white, three. Vwahahaha. Four, FOUR  shell companies run by Romney and Co. force PBS to go public only to later short-sell the company out of existence and liquidate all the assets and send any left-over jobs to North Korean factories at a tenth of the wages in order to still retain some semblance of a past where children were actually able to obtain useful knowledge on the TVs and computers they were going to be staring at for hours on end anyway but now are mitigated to watching nothing but the equivalent of soylent green BS corporate-run, mind-numbing sewage that can only be dishonestly referred to as children's programming. Vwahahahaha.

 
Mitt Romney • PBS • National Endowment for the Arts • Sesame Street • Mitt Romney 2012

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