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   Justice22 said, 7 months ago

   They can ive him a new identity, but I doubt if they can change his apperance enough to hide him from Romney
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 7 months ago

   Romney and his 1% friends have strange fetishes.
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   onguard said, 7 months ago

   Big Bird will be just fine without Tax money.
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   Robert said, 7 months ago

   In 1972 The Learning Channel was created by NASA and the Health Department as an educational channel. It was privatized. Now it shows Honey Boo Boo.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

   I’m a bit too old to watch “Sesamstraße” (as I knew it back in the days) anymore, but I always wondered – when seeing Big Bird as a cultural reference – how they keep these two or three not-quite-in-shape feathers on the head so fluffy and bouncy. They must have some real good prop-masters at CTW…
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   Radish said, 7 months ago

   Big Bird was very polite on SNL.
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   Jase99 said, 7 months ago

   @onguard

   “Big Bird will be just fine without Tax money.”
   
   Never mind the small local broadcasting stations who need and receive the most of the government funding for public television.
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   Eryx said, 7 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   You DO know that Big Bird is not ACTUALLY a big bird, don’t you? See, it’s a costume with a puppeteer inside. You know, like Romney?
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   Bruce4671 said, 7 months ago

   In a time when our president said we must all share the burden of reducing our national debt, it would seem that every government agency would be only to happy to step forward and trim their budget.
   
   The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is a non-profit corporation created by an act of the United States Congress and funded by the United States federal government to promote public broadcasting. Between 15 and 20 percent of the aggregate revenues of all public broadcasting stations have been funded from federal sources, principally through the CPB
   
   Public broadcasting stations are funded by a combination of private donations from listeners and viewers, foundations and corporations (59.4% of 2010 total revenues of all stations), state and local taxes (21.8% of 2010 total revenues), local and national underwriting, and federal funds, principally through the CPB (15.5% of 2010 total revenues).
   
   Sesame Street – a product of The Children’s Television Workshop – has become a huge success AND i since 1998 it has corporate sponsors.
   
   As a result of Cooney’s initial proposal in 1968, the Carnegie Institute awarded her an $8 million ($51 million in 2012 dollars²) grant to create a new children’s television program and establish the CTW,³³⁸ renamed in 2000 to the Sesame Workshop (SW). Cooney and Morrisett procured additional multi-million dollar grants from the US federal government, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations CPB and the Ford Foundation.
   
   In 1998, the CTW accepted corporate sponsorship to raise funds for Sesame Street and other projects. For the first time, they allowed short advertisements by indoor playground manufacturer Discovery Zone, their first corporate sponsor, to air before and after each episode.
   
   Big Bird is doing fine and will continue to prosper without the funds from government.
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    lonecat said, 7 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    But Bruce, we now know that nothing you say can be trusted.
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    Dycel said, 7 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    So that is your assumption! Proving it with a fictitious bird is equating Nitty with reality!
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    Eryx said, 7 months ago

    @Bruce4671

    You obviously don’t know that both the PBS and NPR serve areas outside the metropolises where most of their donations come from. This is despite the fact that you and I discussed this only months ago.
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    churchillwasright said, 7 months ago

    Maybe if libs were reminded that Big Bird is a dirty one-percenter, this overused meme would go away.
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    Eryx said, 7 months ago

    @churchillwasright

    See above. It’s a person wearing a costume. How much do you think he makes a year?
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    38lowell said, 7 months ago

    …and if you believe all that, I have a bridge to sell you!
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