For as much love as people have been pouring out for Sesame Street in response to Romney, you'd think they'd have enough supporters to keep the show up and running on donations alone.
Sesame Street isn't entitled to taxpayer money. They have so much merchandising it's actually ridiculous that they are sucking at the National tit. Besides, does anyone truly believe given it's popularity, that at least 50 stations would'nt be vying to add them to their line-ups if they actually were in danger? Tempest in a teapot.
Tch, all you smelly evil bastids learned to read from Sesame Street. And how do you use that ability? To write shitty posts! You make baby Grover cry!
Not to mention that there is an institution called public education and its sole job is to educate children.
Sesame Street sells licensing agreements to raise money for the show. They don't produce or market the dolls and other Sesame Street items.
See, this is why I have to slap my forehead every time I hear some stupid rant against PBS. NEWS FLASH: Sesame Street doesn't get any taxpayer money certainly not directly. What PBS does get a very small amount of money for is to keep rural radio and television stations open as commercially they couldn't survive in such rural areas and this is considered to be a vital service for the public good which, if your honest, you'd agree it is. So when you say you want to cut the subsidy to PBS/NPR you aren't cutting a penny for big bird and instead you're just saying rural people aren't worth connecting to the modern world via TV and radio where they can get news and information as well as public service announcements and emergency information. Why is it conservatives never seem to understand this and instead blab so uninformed nonsense about big bird stealing their money?
Re: Big Bird goes all Sopranos on Romney You seem to be having trouble with your pronouns. Why don't you tell the class what this means to you: http://www.sesameworkshop.org/about-us/financials.html
PBS is much more than just Sesame Street. Every now and then, I like to settle down with an episode of Nova or Frontline. Let me ask you this... Should educational television be subject to market forces? Is that in the best interest of education? I don't think so. One only has to look at tonight's line up of the History Channel or TLC for proof.
I know. Their piece in that black white supremacist was eye opening, and no one else would have touched it with a 10' Pole.
I'm laughing at anyone who didn't know that was a comedy routine. Dave Chapelle comes up with some good stuff.
Apostle will come back and claim it was a joke. He really sucks at jokes. But still...he makes me laugh out loud.....at him!!!
Case in point, Apostle was too stupid to understand that the comedian David Chapelle did a skit as a black white supremist and that Frontline never did such an article.