If Romney had possibly said Barney not everyone would have been as upset.

Quite frankly the Big Bird thing went over my head. I was so aghast at the rapid fire lies and Mitt's expressions had me almost exploding with laughter. He looked like a sad puppy dog that for some reason had to hold in a fart, it was comical. So, I had mixed emotions to say the least. It was the weirdest thing I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of weird stuff. Anyway, I am just catching on to how bad saying firing Big Bird is and a lot of people haven't heard yet, I know hard to believe. So, we need to get our SAVE BIG BIRD signs out to make sure everyone knows about this.

Already we are seeing parents who are upset post videos of their kids. Twitter hit a record number just when he said it. The Comment is moving and growing. What is happening is the kids are overhearing adults speak and as they do the kids get scared. As the kids get scared the parents see the reality of what is happening on their child's faces. That is where it hits. It's everyone who is effected by Big Bird. We all grew up with him in our childhood. Big Bird is as loved as Howdy Doody was. Think about what happen when kids woke up and found their puppet not on the air of tv that day. That is what Mitt Romney's comment is doing.

of growing up,

And that face is of an adorable, adored, feathered, Muppet friend to millions in multiple generations.

Willard shot first and aimed later. AGAIN!

It's the dominant force running through the internet.

Dude is a straight up gaffe-machine! At least the president didn't say anything nearly as dumb as Romney did with that damn Big Bird line. You just wait until the Town Hall debates...

The OVERWHELMING support of PBS is PRIVATE FUNDING! Public funding for PBS 'drains' .01% of the budget! Yup, That would really make a difference! NOT! But mittens still supports giving billions and billions in subsidies to oil companies and has said he put companies offshore to help people avoid taxes, etc.

I bet these are a laugh riot there:

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Rick Santorum said he not only wanted to kill Big Bird he would then proceed to eat him.

But it's Santorum, and his brain is full of spiders:

“I’ve voted to kill Big Bird in the past. I have a record there that I have to disclose. That doesn’t mean I don’t like Big Bird. You can kill things and still like them, maybe to eat them, I don’t know. That’s probably that."

Absurd - Big Bird is a damn Muppet, the imagery of Romney "firing" Big Bird" is just ludicrous as the flood of image macros over the last couple of days has shown. Plus it's so incredibly petty and spiteful, especially coming from Romney's background as Mr. Bigshot CEO. I wonder if he had to be talked out of cackling "Excellent" while rubbing his hands together when they wrote that bit.

Sentimental - What's the first thing that politicians learn to say at politician school? "Children are the future of our country," followed by "My highest (actually lowest) priority is educating our young." Any of you cinephile or history nerds that have seen Triumph of the Will know that even Hitler was an ace at kissing babies and smiling. So here's Romney, all relaxed and fired up for debate, but hampered by poor likeability polls. He's running circles around Obama with his unholy mixture of carnival barker/Reaganomics, when he pauses, looks into the eyes of America and says "and by the way, Kids, Fuck you." So now Youtube is hammered with adorable kids mad at Romney for being mean to Big Bird. How could he have possibly thought there was any upside to this? Plus, Big Bird has been a beloved part of our culture for nearly half a century. Gens X and Y grew up with him, and the Boomers that raised us are fond of him for being a good role model. I thought the jokes about how Romney is a robot that doesn't 'get' human emotion were just a humorous exaggeration, but now I'm not so sure.

Serious - Republicans have been playing this shell game as long as I have been following politics (around Iran-Contra, though I remember being aware that my parents were disappointed in the 80 and 84 elections). They complain about the profligate spending of the Dems, and lecture about fiscal responsibility, but when pressed about what spending they would cut, it's always some chicken-scratch thing like PBS or the NEA that won't make a dent in the budget, and which produce cultural (and often raw economic) benefit far out of proportion to the small investment. Meanwhile any talk of doing anything that might actually significantly lowering the deficit, like raising taxes on the wealthy, or reining in our defense budget is obviously crazy talk from people that want America to fail. Romney is trying to claim that he can solve our budgeting woes while also delivering a huge tax cut to his friends by slashing 1-2% (if he's lucky) of the budget on a grab-bag of stuff the GOP already hates.

Rick Santorum said he not only wanted to kill Big Bird he would then proceed to eat him.

Firefox decided to crash right in the middle of my response.

Was that an off the cuff gaffe? It was yet another Golden ticket for sure!

I doubt Romney was stupid enough to practice the Big Bird part. What I think happen is Romney went in thinking he was on fire and added to the zinger.

I think Romney had all these zingers planned for the things he expected Obama to say during the speech. Instead Obama didn't really say much of anything and Romney had no clue what zingers to use when during his part of the debate. So after awhile Romney just relied on all the stuff he's been using for his campaign speeches, which btw work well with the faithful but not with the undecideds, and somehow he put Big Bird in the middle of the bulleyes.

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stupid! They don't think twice about throwing away our tax dollars on subsidies to big oil, but oh my god it's a sin to help PBS. They reap what they sow!

I'd say pathological and petty. Too many godless liberal free thinkers watch public tv I guess.

"They reap what they sow!"
Indeed B Calm, indeed.