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campaign ad to date, IMHO. Love it. Funny, sarcastic, cutting, and so, so true.

Pour the ridicule Mitt deserves on him.

and I'm sure people who are seeing thousands of ads a day just tune out. This one grabs attention a little better.

One of the memes that the Rethuglicans put out there is that they are the adults in the room who should be given control again, and focus on Big Bird doesn't make us look terribly grown up. I remember this weekend, Gwen Ifill started and ended her show with a Big Bird doll, that disturbed me a bit.

But I have to admit, a cynical grown woman like myself actually felt a little sad about Big Bird getting dissed like that. I haven't thought about Big Bird since I outgrew Sesame Street back in the 1970s. But now that my memory has been refreshed, I feel like jumping to the fictional character's defense. It is a funny psychological phenomenon, for me, at least.

Big Bird is simply the face on Willard's plan for the total destruction of PBS and NPR. He's used to show the absurdity of not going after the real problems, but rather focussing on culture wars.

I brought this up on debate night. There were some who said it was stupid then and time to move on. Take it from a old marketing person, this has legs. BIG legs. And they're attached to an icon, beloved by millions. There are plenty of other issues in play and being discussed. That doesn't mean this subject has no weight or meaning to many. It needs to be discussed, right up until Election Day. It needs to be visible. Words aren't even needed. A Big Bird graphic will do it.

No, it's not time to "move past Big Bird."

It shows that he would cut a small tiny part of the budget that does a lot of good for what, a few more bombs? It is Mittens and Co. who wish it would stop.

Remember this only happened Thursday night and it's Tuesday morning (at least it is for you guys in the US). A few days of playing this ad is worth embarrassing a grown man.

for no reason other than spite. It's about standing before Jim Leher, who works for PBS, and saying, "Dude, I'm gunning to shut down your company and kick you to the curb!" The only thing Big Bird did was provide a friendly, familiar, and sentimental face to Mitt's ugliness.

Milk it, and milk it, and milk it, and milk it.

mikey_the_rat

very clever

a really great ad

are all about. They r the reason we can't have nice stuff in this country!

They showed it on The Toady Show, too. I hope they use it on air, rather than just on the Internet.

Mitt made such a huge gaffe there - for a "winner."

This riff has legs!

They jump up on every wall in sight, all on their own. And just stay. And stay. And stay.

Recommended.

Great ad. Romney attacking Big Bird kind of sums up the incredible meanness and ultra right craziness that his whole campaign has been about.

I'm taking my BIG BIRD doll with me when I go vote.

Whenever anyone does a piece on ridiculous politicians, this will make a come-back.

Future generations will know this one: They'll forget it was Romney who said it, but they'll know the ad.

Wall St vs Sesame St.

Brilliant.