Big Bird goes all Soprano's on Romney

Wow. Big Bird impersonates Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito. Stay classy, liberals.

Tommy DeVito??? Right.

Where's Ron Paul?


(I love when he gets chumped, then disappears for 10 hrs.)

You lose points for not knowing the film GoodFellas.

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Oh, have you said that to the wrong person!

Wow. Idiots.

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You have a dual?

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The pie chart on that page doesn't tell us much. In fact, it could even be indicating that government funding is about a third of all revenue. Fortunately, unlike Apostle83, I know how to read financial statements, so I downloaded those. Turns out Sesame Street is loaded. They could last for about 10 months if all funding sources were eliminated, without even reducing programming or selling off assets. That's not a bad thing, and doesn't necessarily mean they shouldn't receive government funding. But the problem is that their statements don't breakout the revenue. Of $132 million gross last year, $47 million is categorized in a way that could be government funding. Or it could be something else.

Long story short, your link neither harms nor helps either argument.

Other than the money to run rural stations which would other wise go out of business the rest of the money which comes from the government is competitively awarded grant money which anyone can and does win based only upon merit. It isn't a set aside for PBS as anyone can compete for the grant money.

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apostle probably has me on Ignore again. Even if he doesn't, there's no way he'd click on a link I'd posted because he's afraid of cooties. The goal was to have smart people like you click through to the financial statements, which you did.

You got me. But Tommy DeVito was also the guy that sang with Frankie Vallie and was a founding member of The Four Seasons.

Absolutely. And that type of grant doesn't allow for profit taking. It pays for some of the costs associated with achieving a desired product. Sesame Street has $214 million in unrestricted net assets, but that accumulation of surplus revenue would have to come from fees and licensing agreements, not from government funding. When the government buys a product, whether it be Big Bird or a tank, it's not giving the money away.

Gul, that's all good. But that money is for production. Not broadcasting on PBS.

Sesame Street sucks.

Wordgirl is where it's at!

D'URRR!!!

Well, yeah, I knew about that one, too. But that one wasn't played by Joe Pesci.

Shaddup!! Ya Frankenstein lookin' mutha fucka!!!

Aw, go take a walk in a shitapple orchard!

Shitapple orchard??????

An orchard wherein grow the trees which bear the fruit of the shitapple.

A place of which skin has plenty of experience.

Sure, and that's because I planted the trees.

Probably the most productive thing you've ever done.

Worth leaving a saucer of milk out the back door before you go to bed for.

Don't your neighbors realize that'll only encourage you to piss in the shrubbery?

Nah, my neighbors like me pretty well. They don't call me Hrôdberxtas, and I don't call them Betty or Al. Whoops -- probably just lost you 'round a thought-corner. Well, give it no thought.

I think I need Big Bird to come and straighten you two out.

Whaddya mean, "you two"? It's not garamet's fault I drug her out onto the mental moors and left her there.

You're a lot of things, but "puckish" isn't one of them.

Hey, can't vouch for skin, but I'm having fun. You want to join in, feel free.

Huh? What are you talking about now, old woman?