Posted on 10/05/2012 7:01:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We’ve come to snuff the rooster.
Big Bird is over 40. It’s high time he left the tattered nest of taxpayer funding. If PBS can’t cut it in the marketplace by now, they deserve to go bust.
I work near the kiddie amusement park Sesame Place. That joint is a license to print money.
Sesame Street WILL DO FINE IN THE MARKETPLACE.
According to Mark Simone (who also works at WABC and PBS but does not mind PBS being de-funded and going private), Production for Sesame Street Costs something like close to $20 Million. Merchandising in the USA alone gave the producers over $45 Million !! ( This doesn’t count WORLDWIDE distribution ).
as long as there are children, Sesame Street will do well ( just cut out all the politically correct crap they’ve been peddling on us recently ).
PBS could broadcast repeats for the next 100 years and no one would notice.
Excellent reference line!
Big Bird? Is it named after the cuckoo which survives by brood parasitism where the mother bird lays her eggs in another bird's nest. Often the chick will end up bigger than the surrogate "parents" demanding more and more food, starving the "parents'" actual offspring.
This needs to be used to expose the democrats and their twisted priorities and unwillingness to compromise on even the tiniest issue.
Every republican in the country needs to be out there making ads that put simple choices to all of America.
Bike paths or food stamps? Choose 1
Big Bird or Granny? Choose 1
Slavery or freedom? Choose 1
Starlings are the same way. I see robins feeding near adult starlings around the yard every spring.
The Democrats cannot find new issues: I remember that when House Speaker Newt Gingerich wanted to trim PBS funding almost eighteen years ago there was an editorial cartoon that featured to panels: the liberal side of the equation showed Big Bird being served up on a platter like a Thanksgiving turkey; the conservative side had Gingerich exhorting the highly profitable “Sesame Street” program, as represented by “Big Bird” to flap its own wings and learn to straighten up and fly right.
Off topic: years ago, I recall Mad Magazine running a wildly funny parody of the leftist “Sesame Street” called “Reality Street.” Mister Hooper, the elderly grocer who used to be featured on the program, was chasing away thieving street punks with a broom.
Osam Bird-Laden
#1 - If we’re going to fund PBS, they should be the one venue where we reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, since the government is paying the bills. So for every hour Tavis Smiley or Gwen Ifill gets, they’ll have to give a Mark Levin or Glenn Beck an hour as well.
#2 - Every child in America has at least one stuffed Big Bird, Elmo, or Cookie Monster. Does all that merchandising money go into the pockets of the Henson estate? Doesn’t PBS get a cut? I ask this because I don’t see Hasbro begging for government money to fund the 30 minute Saturday morning commercials for their toys. So, if Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer want to keep getting airtime, they can pony up some cash to fund PBS.
True, so there would need to be some independent party judging whether they really are balanced, so if they pull tricks like that, they’ll suffer automatic funding cuts.
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