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Desperate Dems Hide Behind Big Bird

bjrkms Wrote: Oct 05, 2012 1:09 AM

PBS received 19% of its funding in 2008 and just 12% of its funding in 2010 from the government and they have fund raisers for the rest. Without the government funding, they will just have more events to raise the additional capital from private sources. Big Bird will be just fine but what will libs do without their precious NPR?

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Desperate Dems Hide Behind Big Bird

Mitt Romney sure ruffled a lot of feathers over his proposal to eliminate taxpayer funding for government-sponsored TV. As soon as the GOP presidential candidate singled out PBS for cuts during the presidential debate in Denver, the hysterical squawking commenced.

Left-leaning celebrities immediately erupted on Twitter. "WOW!!! No PBS!! WTF how about cutting congress's stuff leave big bird alone," Whoopi Goldberg fumed. "Mitt is smirky, sweaty, indignant and smug with an unsettling hint of hysteria. And he wants to kill BIG BIRD," actress Olivia Wilde despaired. "Who picks on Big Bird!!! #bulliesthatswho," actress Taraji Henson chimed in.

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