Big Bird goes all Soprano's on Romney

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  1. Lt. Mewa

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  2. AlphaMan

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    Unnngh!

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  3. skinofevil

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    So you'll be voting for him now, right?
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    Black Dove Mildly Offensive

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    Of course he will. He's got binders full of "bitches". Ghetto thugs love bitches.
  5. Prufrock

    Prufrock Disturbing the Universe

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    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.
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    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.
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  7. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you don't believe R&R would touch Medicaid, but you do believe they'd cut PBS.
  8. Lt. Mewa

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    Hello...Romney wants to cut funds to PBS stations.
  9. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Yeah, it is.
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  10. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    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!

    :no:
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  11. T.R

    T.R Don't Care

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    Not to mention that there is an institution called public education and its sole job is to educate children.
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    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    And, every now and then, fuck 'em.
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  13. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Re: Big Bird goes all Sopranos on Romney

    R&R want to slash education budgets as well.
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  14. Lt. Mewa

    Lt. Mewa Rockefeller Center

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    Sesame Street sells licensing agreements to raise money for the show. They don't produce or market the dolls and other Sesame Street items.
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  15. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    You're right.

    They do get licensing money from the dolls, etc, though.
  16. Lt. Mewa

    Lt. Mewa Rockefeller Center

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    No shit. But not the profit from sales.
  17. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    They are a non-profit.

    All that money goes back into more programming for kids.

    Period.
  18. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    It's like you don't understand what you're saying.
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  19. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    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?
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    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    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
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  21. AlphaMan

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    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.
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  22. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    Frontline does some of the best investigative journalism out there. :bailey:
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  23. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    I know. Their piece in that black white supremacist was eye opening, and no one else would have touched it with a 10' Pole.
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  24. Lt. Mewa

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    Black white supremacist?????
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  25. Dinner

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    I'm laughing at anyone who didn't know that was a comedy routine. Dave Chapelle comes up with some good stuff.
  26. Lt. Mewa

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    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!!! :rofl:
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  27. Dinner

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    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.
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  29. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    No, he probably knew it was a skit, but didn't know Frontline is a real show...
  30. Lt. Mewa

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    D'OH!!! :rofl: