“The one thing that President Obama can???t run on is his record and so Big Bird, I guess, is a fun thing to talk about.”

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney uncaged his plan at the first presidential debate last week to defund the Public Broadcasting Service, including the children’s program Sesame Street’s character Big Bird, Twitter was aflutter with excitement over the yellow-feathered fowl’s mention. Romney had said that though he likes Big Bird and PBS, he wouldn’t subsidize … Continue reading The Big Bird fallout