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Eight-Year-Old Alabama Girl Cecelia Crawford Gives Romney The Business On Big Bird: ‘You Find Something Else To Cut!’

Posted: October 5, 2012
Eight-Year-Old Alabama Girl Cecelia Crawford Gives Romney The Business On Big Bird: ‘You Find Something Else To Cut!’

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Mitt Romney may have won the debate Wednesday night in the eyes of many Americans, but his comments about cuts to PBS and in particular, Big Bird, did not sit too well with eight-year-old Alabama girl Cecelia Crawford, who penned an angry letter to the candidate — which her mother sent on to the Huffington Post.

Cecelia Crawford may not have an in-depth understanding of the economy or social issues discussed during Wednesday’s debate — and the debate may have even been a bit after her bedtime — but she still managed to vent at Romney after he promised to cut programs like PBS if elected.

During the debate and addressing host Jim Lehrer, Romney took a hardline stance against PBS and Sesame Street, telling viewers that he planned to make cuts to the network. Romney explained:

“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS … I like PBS, I love Big Bird — I actually like you, too — but I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for.”

Crawford admonished Mitt in her handwritten-on-looseleaf letter, telling the candidate that she loved Sesame Street when she was little and hoped that the show would still be around when she has kids of her own.

Little Cecelia said in part:

“When I grow up I’m going to get married and I want my kids to watch it so do not cut it off … You find something else to cut off!”

Indeed, it seems that while Romney made a more aggressive showing at the debate, much of America’s sentiment after echoed that of Cecelia Crawford and her horror at slicing funding to PBS and Sesame Street.

Do you agree with Cecelia that Mitt Romney should find something else to cut off?

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Comments


5 Archived Responses to “ Eight-Year-Old Alabama Girl Cecelia Crawford Gives Romney The Business On Big Bird: ‘You Find Something Else To Cut!’ ”

  1. Benno Karkabe
    Oct 5, 2012

    he won the debate , my sweet a. listen again to all the crap he was exposing th american people to!

  2. Martha Huffman
    Oct 5, 2012

    This letter is so fake…an 8 yr old didn't write this, her mom or dad wrote it. We are tired of giving our money away to keep shows like PBS on the air. Get out and do something with your child instead of sitting them down in front of a tv….

  3. Linda Tracy Williamson
    Oct 5, 2012

    It just shows their intelligence

  4. Howard Michael Mitchell
    Oct 6, 2012

    If you think the parents wrote that then you have some serious problems.

    Also, just an FYI, PBS gets less than one one millionth of a percent of the government's budget. Why don't you worry about something else, like subsidies to oil companies, companies that ship jobs overseas that get tax credits to do it, and maybe the congressional retirement plan.

    There's some cuts that can be done AND make sense to do. Cutting PBS makes 0 sense as it's not even a minor player in the budgetary battle

  5. Martha Huffman
    Oct 6, 2012

    Why don't you kiss it….PBS is always asking for money. Did you not see how much money they get from the government? If you look at the hand writing on the letter it is different, the signature is different that the place like Pike rd at the bottom….you need to wake up. Parents now days dont spend enough time with their children they would rather let the TV do the babysitting or the educating…Your a dumbass