Seriously! From Michael Daly of the Daily Beast:
Word that the first presidential debate had made Big Bird a factor in the election reached the puppet’s sole surviving creator at his new home in New Zealand.
“Amazing,” says Christopher Lyall, who assisted the late Kermit Love in producing the first Big Bird, as well as the successors for decades afterward.
Lyall says of the present electoral process in general, “It’s very frustrating having to observe the political games and the lies.”
Lyall and Love were partners in work and life for half a century and in the 1980s traveled with Big Bird to the White House for the annual Easter egg roll. The most momentous results of that presidential nexus were the grass stains on Big Bird’s outsize feet. Nobody could have imagined that this puppet might someday play even the smallest role in deciding who would occupy the Oval Office.
Big Bird has two dads — who knew? Perhaps that’s the real reason why notorious homophobe Mitt Romney singled him out during last week’s presidential debate…
Implicit in Romney’s promise to kill Big Bird, if elected, was that it “flipped the bird” to millions of Americans, and thus, he got two birds with one stone.
They have Chic-fil-a and we have Big Bird; at least our bird is alive and well. The right loves to kill things, coat them in trans-fats and then eat’em. I heard that PBS is about 1 crumb in the budget pie–shows what a total douche-nozzles romney/ryan are.
I hope Biden cleans ryan’s clock tonight.
Gary, PBS made up .00014 percent of the federal budget last year. Romney’s bringing up PBS as a target for cuts was outrageously dishonest in the sense that he was encouraging people to believe that a significant part of the federal budget could be saved by cutting unnecessary things like PBS rather than being honest and admitting that significant cuts can only come from programs like social security, medicare and defense spending.