"Million Muppet March" planned to defend U.S. backing for PBS

Reuters ^ | October 12, 2012 | Daneil Trotta

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(Reuters) - Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's "Sesame Street," from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the "Million Muppet March."

The demonstration is planned for November 3 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., three days before the general election.

Before the presidential debate between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had concluded on October 3, two men who had never met each floated the Million Muppet March idea on social media. They immediately united to defend public broadcasting.

Romney pledged during the debate to end the U.S. federal government's subsidy for the Public Broadcasting Service despite his professed love for Big Bird, one of the characters on PBS's 43-year-old children's educational program "Sesame Street," which features the Muppets.

Michael Bellavia, 43, an animation executive from Los Angeles, and Chris Mecham, 46, a university student in Idaho, separately came up with the Million Muppet March idea in response.

[psjones]

Satire?

[EEGator]

Nope.

[Drango]

From another source....

On the Facebook page, Mecham also shared a letter he’d received from Idaho Republican Congressman Mike Simpson, who said in part: “I am a member of the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, which is responsible for the funding of CPB. Rest assured, I will continue to work with my colleagues on the Subcommittee to ensure CPB receives adequate funding.”

[cruise_missile]

The democrats are satire by definition. This is a planned event. Marijuana and Big Bird. It will be like a giant Woodstock. ;-)

[FlingWingFlyer]

Krazy Kommie Kollege Kidz. These two pixies need to be deprogrammed.

[psjones]

Do these people know we’re subisidizing a bird that’s a member of the 1%?

[cruise_missile]

We need a big fat cat to take care of that big bird!

[hitkicker]

“Extinction”? Ridiculous. These people are utterly beyond parody.

[ShasheMac]

Woodstock? No, sorry, that would be the Million Peanuts Characters March. ‘)

[Sarah Barracuda]

Wait, this is a joke right? They can’t be serious? LOL LOL this is how you know the Dems are DONE..this is all they care about

[psjones]

I noticed it was from Reuters, but some things are just so hard to believe, that you just gotta make sure it’s for real.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Big Bird is going bourgeois.

[bert]

......Do these people know we’re subisidizing a bird that’s a member of the 1%?.......

Not true. Big Bird is a totally different group. That group is very very rich non profits. Big Bird pays no taxes

[HiTech RedNeck]

If something stood to be eminently merchandise-able, surely classic Sesame Street does.

[Daffynition]

How are they going to skirt around the copyright issues?

[Unam Sanctam]

I thought this must have been the Onion...

[workerbee]

Do these people know we’re subisidizing a bird that’s a member of the 1%?

They don't know, nor do they care. Somebody on TV said that "Republicans are bad." That's all it takes.

[KittenClaws]

These are people that need the issue to be Big Bird because it fulfills the fantasy they call life.

To remove themselves from childish fantasy and defenses would cause them to perhaps, glimpse the real world, and that can not be borne.

[ETL]

Keep Obama in president. You know. He
give you a free phone. You on disability
and welfare and stuff...

[Vince Ferrer]

Me? Work? HA!

[dalereed]

What’s a muppett, a hair lip puppet?

[ETL]

[PGR88]

"Million Muppet March."

The grand total will wind up being about 15 Code Pink hags, with their vagina costumes and red wigs.

[KarlInOhio]

Occupy Sesame Street.

[EEGator]

Oh, I checked more than once. I couldn’t even laugh, due to how dumbfounded I was.

[GeronL]

WIll they actually be giving their own money voluntarily?

[NCDave]

Hmmm... I thought they said they get/need little funding from the guv. I guess they lied about that. Or they would show how independent they can be. I see how much they are being syndicated.../sarc on last statement..lol.

[ETL]

LOL! Very good.

[RegulatorCountry]

Von, von trillion, two, two trillion ... can ve count to seventeen trillion dollars, children?

[GeronL]

That pepper spray image is awesome

[rawcatslyentist]

[stars & stripes forever]

The Dems are going to trot out the children. It’s for the children. Each participant will receive a special commeneration picture of the President and his wife with Big Bird.

[RegulatorCountry]

Lol.

[ETL]

[RegulatorCountry]

Occumuppets? Mupputards?

[Cheerio]

The ME is afire, we are facing the largest tax increase in history, and the military buget will be gutted putting hundreds of thousands of high paying employees out of work, and all the RAT party can worry about is SAVING BIG BIRD?

This is a pretty sick political party and a fairly sick country at this stage.

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[ETL]

[ETL]

"I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day"

Todd Rundgren - Bang on the Drum All Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA

[KittenClaws]

You know who I'd march for?

Bugs Bunny.

Bugs had plenty of enemies. Among them, Daffy Duck (Biden) and Elmer Fudd (Obama)Did he let it phase him?

No way. Bugs was cool and confident with hinself. He let his enemies act like fools, which usually led to their demise.

My point is, if you're gonna march over a cartooon character, by golly, make it worthwhile!

[ETL]

[hosepipe]

One trillion, two trillion, three trillion.. four trillion..

[ETL]

LOL. I had bird crap on my car the other day. Stuff dries like cement.

[griswold3]

I cannot believe that the libs are now going to defend the ‘1%’. The guy that operates Big Bird earns $315,000. Go figure.!?

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[Gator113]

LOL... Outstanding!

[Safetgiver]

Just pay the taxpayer royalties for all the merchandise they have profited on for the past two generations of, say, 16% and call it a draw.