Sesame Street Funding: Show’s Co-Creator Slams Mitt Romney

The dynamic duo of Romney and Ryan would drive the entire economy into a nose dive as long as it benefits the richest Americans. They'll even destroy our beloved Big Bird and anything government-funded which stands in the way of making the rich richer. Income inequality is endangering the Middle Class and making paupers of us all who don’t have those millions upon millions of dollars. Read more about the role of Romney’s riches in this election and the power of his sacred undergarments at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/05/mitt-romneys-magic-mormon-underwear.html The working class of our country can’t AFFORD to allow this election to be bought and sold!

it is only a half billion dollars every little bit counts. When Elmo keeps going before Congress and advocating for one political party as do senior NPR execs, who then make hate filled statements about the other party don't act surprised if that other party is not happy with you too. Now Big Bird needs to put his Big Boy pants on and support himself with all those toy sales instead of paying PBS execs almost a million dollars in salary.

That's alright, I have a job for Big Bird if Romney makes into office. Does anyone remember Big Bird's visit to White House during Nixon's presidency? What happened during that visit that was significant.

I love that photo above of a despondant Big Bird holding the sign "Will work for food." That's exactly what Romney wants is for them to earn their own money instead of asking for handouts!

Elmo for president!

Wow, a man who makes money from Sesame Street wants to keep on getting it! There's an objective source!

Just make sure that the little boy you are holding never watches pbs.

Calm down there bald bull. It's too bad all you budget hawks were not around when Bush was spending billions PER DAY on Iraq. The anti war movement really could have used you. Of course the budget does not matter when a republicunt is in office. But seriously, you are in collage and you are bald already? LOL did you eat too many paint chips as a kid?

That's alright mr empty chair wasn't doin any good at all anyway!!

Also those phoney jobs numbers it just shows what you can do if your president is just keep lyin to the public an exspect them to believe him!

Not sure why it could not survive without federal funding.

Jane Miller I have supported PBS with donations for years, besides my tax dollars…………so me and mine can feel free to watch without feeling like hypocrites. How about you?

I have also supported them with donations and my tax dollars. I also realize that the one Trillion dollar federal deficit needs to be reduced. The military spends 740 Billion dollars per year. PBS and NPR get 4 million. So you go ahead and tell me how voting for Romney, someone who wants to go to war with Iran and therefore spend even more on the military, is better than voting for Obama, who gives 4 million to PBS and does not want to go to war. Under Obama the stock market had DOUBLED. The unemployment rate has gone down yet again. America has been healing under Obama and yet you want to vote for the Bush era policies that destroyed the economy in the first place! Where were you budget hawks when Bush was running this country into the ground? Wake up! That child deserves a better future than the one the Republicans will give him!

What kind of insensitive idiot is he,threatening to cut funding for a show that has been a learning avenue for children for so many years. If you were not born rich he see no reason for you to advance Academically. Romney is the devil and those who support him are his spawn.

I do not like everything Romney says, nor do I like everything Obama says. I said nothing about who I will or won't be voting for. I simply said that a man who makes his money from selling his product to PBS is hardly an objective source. I am a Ron Paul supporter….the guy who truly believes in the constitution. I don't know if I will be voting for Romney, but I will not be voting for Obama…….I believe in keeping your campaign promises………and in the right to protest.

"a man who makes his money from selling his product to PBS is hardly an objective source". Well neither is a man who ran a buisness that made money by outsourcing jobs overseas. Any buisness that employs Americans should be rewarded with tax breaks, and any buisness like Bain Capital, which ships jobs overseas, should be taxed heavily. Romney is pushing for tax break for companies that employ oversea workers! I say that if you can't hire American workers than you should get the hell out of America! That goes for Bain Capital and Mitt Romney too!

So I guess that means everything you buy is made in the USA, including your cell phone? At least Romney knows more about money than how to spend that which others have earned. Romney has obeyed the laws, unlike Obama who ignores those with which he disagrees. America is still a free country where you have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness………as long as you don't take what doesn't belong to you. If you can't stand that, then get the hell out and go where they like your ideals, wherever that may be.

I'm sorry Jane, but are you sure that you are thinking straight?? I am disgusted by the way the democrats have completely brainwashed everyone in the last thirty years, it really sickens me. First of all, cutting funding to PBS has not been a "recent" debate; this issue has been going on for years, by political and religious leaders for obvious reasons. You believe that cutting the military is a good idea and not cutting PBS who does get money from other countries??? Why would anyone in their right mind cut funding to the military right now? We need military funding; even more so now than ever before as Russia has recently challenged us (Obama backed down from as always) and the ole crazy Iran has expressed to the UN that the United States is the enemy here and should therefore be challenged and eliminated. You want to cut the military? I want someone like Romney in office because I am sick and tired of the United States getting smacked down by other leaders. Bush may have made some mistakes but after 9-11, I felt safe with him because he is not someone you wanted to mess with. He prevented many more attacks from occurring as well as frightened others for ever doing what they did to the United States. Unfortunately, we need someone who means business, that isn’t going to flip flop every two seconds but is going to get the job done while protecting us. I love my country, I love that I can say this on facebook, be whoever and whatever I want, you keep voting Obama’s in, you are going to take away that freedom I love so much and you are going to destroy this country. What disgusts me even more about democrats (I used to deny democrats doing this until I saw it), talking about politicians here, is that they use race, gender, and now sexual preference to their ADVANTAGE. They are using African Americans however they want in order to get a vote; now, (sorry Ellen, please stop saying this guy is awesome) Obama has decided that gays should marry. Really Obama? What do you think Obama’s church would think about that? Give me a break; he just did that to get votes. Recently Biden said, “They want to put you all back in chains.” Hmmm, wonder what he is talking about there. Oh, well, democrats freed the slaves, democrats used to be republicans, that is another of their big lies they feed others. Have you looked into politics? I’m talking about real politics, the ones that they aren’t brainwashing you in school every five seconds but the truth? Look at some books, read on republicans and compare them to now, they are the SAME. They believe in EQUALITY – the democrats are doing the SAME thing they have always done and that is enslave others, brainwash them; this is why every single news channel is a liberally biased news channel. Oh yeah, you will say (they want you to lol), but what about Fox news? Yeah, it is a conservative channel; however, there is just the one. Ever since the government has gotten their dumb hands in stuff, they have messed it up. Sorry for Romney, but I agree with him about the forty or so percent dependent on the government; he wasn’t meaning sucking what they can and taking advantage of the economy, he’s talking about people who need the government to make decisions because they cannot. I do not agree with everything when it comes to Republicans, I think we should all be entitled to healthcare; however, it should be cheaper so that when we do go to the ER or pay for an appt., get medicine, have surgery, stay the night, it is affordable for those who wish not to have insurance. I agree with other things that democrats believe in but I am not a “one issue” voter, I am a voter that sees that the last four years have sucked for me being in the middle class, Obama has tried to take rights away from us, and he has even overstepped plenty of lines that I am not too comfortable with. You may not like Romney and that’s fine, but it is imperative for all of us to vote Obama out; he can’t make a decision, he has flip flopped too many times, and we are worse off now than ever before. Don’t give me the excuse that he needed to fix Bush’s mess, that will only get you so far, soon we have to realize that something else has to change. I also love how dems say that the next president always fixes what the last has done; all of this has proved true to the dems until we come to Bush and he messed that up on his own and that had nothing to do with Clinton. Yeah, whatever guys, but you drones will vote for Obama because your pastor, mommy, professor, friend, etc., tells you without even weighing the outcomes. It is because of you drones that I will be seeing my electric bill exceed my house payment, my food going up, my overall expenses go up and all the while, my employer cutting more jobs in order to make sure they don’t lose a dime and another letter going out to everyone talking about no raises this year. Yeah, you democrats have it all figured out. – How you like that response

Oh my, personal attacks on someone? Typical. Go straight to name calling when you can't win on the issues. How mature of you. Next?

And by the way the word is college not collage. A collage is an art form.

Big Bird makes more money than I do, he can fend for himself. LOL With all that marketing I think they can handle less money from my tax dollars and money borrowed from China. Silly to borrow money from a country that doesn't like you to pay for a children's show. I think Mittens will clean house rather well.

Anyone who still believes we need to spend 10x more money on the military (or more as you indicate) than the next nation (china is 2nd with 60billion) is a bit delusional. We need to defend our own borders until our economy strengthens, and not try to pick fights with other countries. I am sorry, but if you think Russia has the ability to sustain a intercontinental conflict with the US, your idea of how strong Russia's economy is different than the rest of the worlds ( GDP listed as 9th in the world 13trillion behind US).

I HOPE IF HE DOES GET ELECTED THEY CAN STAND ON THEIR ON. I LOVE PBS I WATCH IT EVEN WHEN I HAVE CABLE. I LOVE THEIR COOKING SHOWS AND MY SON LOVES CURIOUS GEORGE. PBS LOVERS LIKE ME WILL STEP IN AND DONATE IF WE HAVE TO EVERY CENT COUNTS ALOT OF PPL WORK AT PBS NOT JUST RICH PPL BUT CAMERA MEN ACTORS KIDS COOKS WRITER DIRECTORS EXTRAS AND ETC. ITS LIKE HES ABOUT TO FIRE MORE PEOPLE.

He just wants them to get their own funding instead of borrowing from China to pay for it. What's so great about a channel without commercials? Get corporate sponsors to pay for PBS. They are doing that right now anyway.

Especially since PBS is only 15% funded by the government. Shouldn't be hard to make that up. I like a lot of PBS shows and watch it regularly, but that 444 million could be used more efficiently elsewhere. How far would that go to helping our veterans?

ALL PRESIDENT'S LIE! They have since the 1st Continental Congress – my biggest complaint with Romney is he wants to make it a law that I must share or abide by his same personal beliefs. His personal beliefs are his alone and should be kept as such! I don't ask him to follow mine, so why should he have the right to mandate mine. Also he can't accomplish financially what he claims without raising taxes or deleting vital government programs – some that would affect you as well. Careful brother, that Dog Bites!

Don't fall for it folks…Romney was only trying to appeal to NPR haters. His image needs a little less "waffling weirdo mormon" and a little more hard nosed tree killin' good ole boy. Taking shots at NPR wins votes.

Romney is appealing to those who know we can't afford more debt. What does his religion have to do with it? I find it so very telling that those who claim to be Catholic while rejecting almost every principle of the Catholic Church using religious prejudice against others. PC cowards. You want to do whatever you want without giving up that which says you can't.

Maybe I wasn't clear. Romney is trying to appeal to the average republican voter with pot shots at NPR. Being Mormon is an issue for Romney. Religious affiliation is a major issue for voters, especially republicans. Romney is running as a republican.

I apologize if I misunderstood your post. As a non-Mormon who grew up in Utah, I would never have believed I would be defending them………..but 35 years later…..here I am. As someone who was raised Baptist, I find the Mormon church to be no less "wierd" than the Catholic, or the Unitarian, etc. Mormons are people just like everyone else, some are wonderful people, some are not. I am just really offended by people making fun of his religion. He didn't turn Mass. Mormon.

Catholics…the first Christians being lumped in with mormons and unitarians! LOL…No need to apologize. You are right people are making fun of his religion. His image consultants are most likely working on a way to make him more appealing to the average Christian voter whether they be Baptist or Catholic.

Shouldn't be a problem. People actually believe Obama is a muslim!

Agreed! Attack his policies, attack his record, attack his speeches……………..but leave his religion and his family out of it. He is the one running for office……the same goes for Obama. When their wives are out there campaigning, what they say and do is open for debate……..but not their personal lives and children.

step in and donate – just because you are financially secure doesn't mean the rest of the country is. And for many children, Sesame Street and other programming like it is the only pre-k instruction some children get.