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  • A Messenger Who Does the Shooting (Stephanie Cutter, who came up w/Big Bird push!)

    10/13/2012 10:41:05 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    The New York Times ^ | October 12, 2012 | Amy Chozick
    TWO days after President Obama’s first debate against Mitt Romney, Stephanie Cutter, a deputy campaign manager for the Obama re-election effort, decided to tweak Mr. Romney for his attack on federal funding for PBS. On Twitter, Ms. Cutter, known for her dry sense of humor and sharp edge, circulated a photo of Big Bird outside an Obama rally with the hashtag #ProtectSesameStreetNotWallStreet to her 42,700-plus followers. The Big Bird attacks started to take on a life of their own. The following week, the Obama campaign introduced a tongue-in-cheek ad that compares Big Bird to Bernard L. Madoff and other corporate...