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"You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird" - Mitt Romney

Romney hits Obama on Big Bird focus

Politico
Emily Schultheis
10/9/2012

Excerpt:

"Mitt Romney, speaking to a crowd of about 1,200 on a farm here in Van Meter, Iowa, criticized President Obama's recent focus on Big Bird on the campaign trail.

"You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird," he said. "I actually think we need to have a president who talks about saving the American people and saving good jobs." - (bold emphasis added)

Romney's not the only one, as my colleague Dylan Byers notes, criticizing the Obama campaign for focusing on a "small" issue like Big Bird."

View the complete article at:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-...us-137912.html

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Sesame Street wants Big Bird out of Obama campaign ad

New York Post
S.A. Miller
10/9/2012

Excerpt:

By S.A. MILLER
Last Updated: 12:54 PM, October 9, 2012
Posted: 12:12 PM, October 9, 2012

"WASHINGTON – President Obama has ruffled some feathers at PBS by putting Big Bird in a TV ad attacking Mitt Romney.

“We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down,” Sesame Workshop, the PBS-affiliated non-profit behind Sesame Street, said today in a statement.

“Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns,” said the statement.

An Obama campaign official said that the campaign “received and will review their concerns.”

The 30-second spot mocks Romney for saying in the presidential debate last week that he’ll cut the federal subsidy for PBS.

The movie-trailer style ad sarcastically touts Romney as a hero ready to go after Big Bird, which is described in the ad as the “evil genius” behind Bernie Madoff and other real life Wall Street “gluttons of greed.”

“Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about, it’s Sesame Street,” the baritone narrator says in the ad. “Mitt Romney. Taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest.”

Obama has practically made the loveable Big Bird character an unofficial campaign mascot since Romney gave the giant puppet a shout out in the presidential debate last week in Denver."
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View the complete article, including video, at:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...Zrz2FgrligZJEP