[cripplecreek]

We’ve come to snuff the rooster.

[txrefugee]

Big Bird is over 40. It’s high time he left the tattered nest of taxpayer funding. If PBS can’t cut it in the marketplace by now, they deserve to go bust.

[ontap]

We don't need to cut funding to PBS just pass a law that they have to fire half their liberal journalist and hire conservatives and they'll leave voluntarily!!

[KarlInOhio]

Big Bird? Is it named after the cuckoo which survives by brood parasitism where the mother bird lays her eggs in another bird's nest. Often the chick will end up bigger than the surrogate "parents" demanding more and more food, starving the "parents'" actual offspring.

[PBRCat]

The Democrats cannot find new issues: I remember that when House Speaker Newt Gingerich wanted to trim PBS funding almost eighteen years ago there was an editorial cartoon that featured to panels: the liberal side of the equation showed Big Bird being served up on a platter like a Thanksgiving turkey; the conservative side had Gingerich exhorting the highly profitable “Sesame Street” program, as represented by “Big Bird” to flap its own wings and learn to straighten up and fly right.

Off topic: years ago, I recall Mad Magazine running a wildly funny parody of the leftist “Sesame Street” called “Reality Street.” Mister Hooper, the elderly grocer who used to be featured on the program, was chasing away thieving street punks with a broom.

[Boogieman]

#1 - If we’re going to fund PBS, they should be the one venue where we reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, since the government is paying the bills. So for every hour Tavis Smiley or Gwen Ifill gets, they’ll have to give a Mark Levin or Glenn Beck an hour as well.

#2 - Every child in America has at least one stuffed Big Bird, Elmo, or Cookie Monster. Does all that merchandising money go into the pockets of the Henson estate? Doesn’t PBS get a cut? I ask this because I don’t see Hasbro begging for government money to fund the 30 minute Saturday morning commercials for their toys. So, if Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer want to keep getting airtime, they can pony up some cash to fund PBS.

[IronJack]

Excellent headline!

[Kansas58]

Can someone with an artistic, Photo shop bent do a picture of the vampire, “The Count” from Sesame Street, maybe in that red and blue Obama motif?

With the caption “MATH?” underneath it?

[rollo tomasi]

Why can’t you deduct Tickle Me Elmo dolls etc. if the taxpayers are subsidizing PBS? At least be consistent.

[Vaduz]

Eliminate taxpayer funding for government-sponsored TV.It’s got my vote and pull the spending for the arts too.

[longtermmemmory]

Big Bird is part of the eeeevil 1%

seriously,

think of royalties
copyright
television rights

Big Bird can finance it all.

he is probably registered to vote too.

[bert]

The day PBS dies or perhaps the week before, Disney will buy Big Bird and create the Sesame Street Channel.

Big Bird will not die, Big Bird will grow