Stanek Sunday funnies: “Occupy Sesame Street” edition
During his October 3 debate against Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, in describing how he would curtail government spending if elected president, told PBS moderator Jim Lehrer “I’m sorry Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS, I like PBS, I love Big Bird, I actually like you too, but I am not going to keep spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.”
Oh, dear. You’d have thought Romney was threatening to serve Big Bird for Thanksgiving dinner. As a matter of fact…
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Funding of PBS and Planned Parenthood have got to go.
Excellent cartoons. It’s amusing how desperate some people are to find a flaw in Romney’s debate performance.
I refuse to believe that Democrats are so ignorant and/or stupid as to believe that cutting taxpayer funding from PBS necessarily means that PBS or any of its shows are going to be cancelled. It’s clearly arm flailing desperation on their part, and it’s very unbecoming.
PBS can get funding from other sources.
“By 2008, the Sesame Street Muppets accounted for between $15 million and $17 million per year in licensing and merchandising fees”
– Davis, Michael, 2008: Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.
This is the persistently trumpeted assumption of the Left — that if the Federal Government reduces its funding for a thing, that thing will wither and die horribly.
They simply cannot imagine a thing can survive on a tighter budget, or that other money can be found. Only Federal tax dollars will do, and they always need more.
When Obama cut 100% of MedicAid to Texas after Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, the Texas State legislature adjusted their budgets to move money toward healthcare for the poor. Full-service health clinics provided care to the poor women who used to go to Planned Parenthood (not a problem: PP already referred women to these clinics for mammograms and such).
PBS can find donors or sell advertising or just shut down. Sesame Street would be picked up by a major network or kids’ cable channel. Elmo ain’t goin’ nowhere.
No more state-funded population control propaganda and guilty-white-liberal-elitism?
If only all PBS shows were as nice as Big Bird, but they’re not. I’ve donated to shows I like, so let the marketplace decide.
the obamateur said “everybody here is incredible professionals, they’re such great friends and they just perform flawlessly, night after night. I can’t always say the same.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/07/obama_pokes_fun_at_debate_i_cant_perform_flawlessly_night_after_night.html
If last weeks presidential debate had been an olympic event the obamateur would have been disqualified for failing to compete or maybe that was just the best that b o can do.
obamaphiles are offerring all kinds of excuses for their gods apparent failure.
Some say b o was executing a ‘ropa dope’ strategy hoping to get Romney to reveal all his weapons and tactics. Some say b o over prepared, others that he underprepared.
Some obamayomammamanicas say Romney cheated by useing a handkerchief to outwit their savior. [Maybe the obamateur saw the hankie, stopped trying and just waited for Romney to roll over and wave the white flag in submission to their hero.
[Is it inherently ‘racist’ to associate ‘white’ with temerity?]
I suggest that the psychophants bring a large white towel to the next Romney campaign event and at the first sign the obamateur is floundering…toss it in the ring.
Why did Obama debate poorly? Think about his life experiences. He is comfortable with one-sided demonstrations. A speech or debate in college, or on the quad, with supportive faculty and like-minded students. In govt where someone controls who has the floor, uninterrupted.
He grew up knowing how to get out pamphlets, broadsides, and editorials. He knew how to have ‘discourse’ with an Astroturf crowd and a bullhorn.
He has not faced debate, or testy business meetings and such where the issue of the day is not a matter of flaunting rhetoric, bur true face-to-face equal-footing debate.
He finally had his chance to meet toe-to-toe with The Man (large business-owner who has fired ppl and a high govt official who has had the veto option hundreds of times), and tell it like it is. He has never done that before.
My prediction is that he will do better in some ways next time, but overall is not comfortable. His views need to be heavily edited and shaped, and that is why in all interviews he makes hundreds of pauses. He cannot come out and say what he truly believes, although there are you tube videos out there showing him in more accepting, comfortable home-turf supportive audience situations.
With no teleprompter, and having no idea what Romney might bring up, Obama will again be on guard and tentative.
He will have to be more energized and animated, but now it will look manufactured. So, he must look really natural doing this, or risk look scripted and reactive to media comments.
Sesame street gets very little funding from PBS anyway…its not like they will suffer! They make $ from selling merchandise and also from sponsorships. I don’t want it moved to a commercial channel because then there would be COMMERCIAL BREAKS….something that should not happen.
The only show I watch on PBS is Arthur…its a cute show about the 8/9 year old Aardvark and his friends…. I watched Reading Rainbow when I was a kid (really wish that show would come back) and even Square One, which was all about Math…really wish that show could come back, too.