No One Is Safe In The O'Conomy
Posted on 10/07/2012 9:17:17 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Robert Gibbs: Mitt Romney Has 'Taken the Battle Straight to Sesame Street' By George Stephanopoulos | ABC OTUS News – 58 mins ago
Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs slammed Mitt Romney's "theatrical" presidential debate performance this morning on "This Week" for what he said was the GOP presidential nominee's lack of detail, calling his performance "dishonest" and saying the only thing Romney would cut from the federal budget is "Big Bird."
"The underpinnings and foundation of that performance were fundamentally dishonest," said Gibbs, an Obama campaign senior adviser. "Look, the only thing he outlined that he would cut in the budget is Big Bird. He's taken the battle straight to Sesame Street and let Wall Street run hog wild."
I spoke to Romney campaign senior adviser Ed Gillespie after my interview with Gibbs and he accused the Obama campaign of acting like a child that just lost a checker game. He also defended Romney for citing that he would cut PBS funding during the debate.
"The Obama campaign, they remind me a little bit of a 7-year-old losing a checker game, and then instead of being frustrated at the outcome, they sweep the board off the table," Gillespie said. "Big Bird, I can tell you, as the father of three children, grown now, but any father who has gone to a toy store knows that Big Bird is a pretty commercially successful entity. "
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No One Is Safe In The O'Conomy
Emo Big Bird's been cutting himself.
Obama’s crew keeps referring to Mitt Romney as “dishonest”; it’s laughable since Obama has fibbed, and fibbed, and fibbed, and yakked, and yakked, and yakked; I guess hoping we’d forget what he told last if he just kept telepromptering.
8 million and some change last year. Would have been higher except they spent 5 million on fund raising...
Robert Gibbs has taken the dialog straight to dooooooshbag land
Marx/Stalin “accuse others of what you are doing yourself”
Also taught by Alinsky.
(Please post any time you see O accusing Romney of lying.)
The Democrats love PBS because it is a taxpayer-funded propaganda machine for them. PBS should have been defunded decades ago.
Big Bird brings in $75-85 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
Tell me again why we are borrowing from China to subsidize it?
it’s everywhere...Romney wants to kill BBird. I say its time he paid taxes. he is plenty old enough and has bilked the nation out of millions.’
Correction : “ Looks like the Muppets made more money on the movie circuit than they ever did on PBS. “
In fairness, Mitt put this issue on the table himself this time.
But it was a good line and good politics this time around I think.
Sesame Street just doesn’t have the name recognition or influence it had 20-30 years ago. It has been completely replaced by the new and/or recent characters on the cable channels like Dora, Calliou, Wiggles, Hannah Montana, etc.
Children and mothers just don’t follow Big Bird anymore now that he has to compete in the marketplace.
Wonder what kind of interest we pay to China on Big Bird’s subsidy. Anyone knows that you have to add the interest to the cost to know what you’re actually paying.
Add the interest to the subsidy, any subsidy, and you get the real cost of these programs.
They are getting away with such dishonesty here.
Obama wants the rich to pay their “fair share” (meaning enough of their money to stop them from expanding and hiring and maybe even sapping their will a la Atlas Shrugged) AND NOW THEY ARE SAYING THE MIDDLE CLASS SHOULD BE GIVING MONEY TO BIG BIRD. Sesame Street makes billions from movie and merchandising. To use Sesame Street as something we can’t cut from funding is preposterous. They don’t need the welfare they get.
And the clown with the teleprompter.
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