It seems more like the anti-Obama people are desperate.

oh thank you for caring so much about this terrible horrible thing oh yes ugh is the word

so is bird, bird is the word

one debate and the entire campaign is imploding. They're finished. Get used to saying President Robme. It's over, no Dem will win the White House for at least a millennium.

Obama 'lost' a debate we are screwes!!!!!

A little too obvious for my tastes OP. But enjoy your stay, I guess.

It must be tough, living life so timidly. Let us not do anything that anyone wishes us not to! Let's cower to everything, shall we? That'll show the backbone that was missing from the debates.

Seriously. If you paid attention you would know this was a web ad not going to be playing anywhere. The Obama group is doing fine.

we are so discouraged,

what's the point of even CARING any more?

chirp chirp

cluck-cluck-cluck

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And never put it up in the first place. Now, they look pretty foolish.

so they had to say something, note it came a day later than it had to and the ad is viral.

I think they're on our side

All it did was to give the news something more to talk about with Sesame Street meme. Seriously it actually helps PBS and Obama did them a favor.

You're right it helps PBS!

they've always tried to be above politics.

Even when Kermit the frog was forced to talk about politics on Colbert, kermit remained non partisan.

Politics has nothing to do with Sesame Street so they're right to ask not to be dragged into campaigns.

The Obama campaign gets to make their commercial, and Sesame Street gets to reaffirm their non-partisanship, thus reassuring the Teabaggers that Big Bird is not some kind of socialist plot to turn their children into people that care about one another or something Communist like that.

We get to have our birdseed milkshake and eat it too.

...it adds to the 'conflict' aspect of elections that media love to cover.

... to stop using their music without their permission.

Rage Against the Machine and Paul Ryan comes to mind first.

Haven't seen you around for awhile; good to see you and your humor.

understandable that they might formally object, but it would also be completely understandable for obama to keep running the ads.

Didn't see it live but I saw the BB/Weekend Update clip. *Someone* from the SS brass would have had to give BB the OK to show up there and film it.

above politics.


I meant SNL is entertainment not political)

and the gang are for all children. By using Big Bird in this ad the Obama campaign is in a sense linking Big Bird to not just politics but a political party. Educating kids like Sesame street does can't have any association with one political party or another. They do need to stay neutral.


Now I think a good replacement ad would just be Romney's whole speech about Jim I like you and Bird bird but I'd get rid of money--or however he said that and I would than have voice over with picture of average americans especially children and remind voters that Obama supports the good shows of PBS that have entertain and educated you and me for 50 years. Remind the viewer of the good they felt watching Sesame street and the lot.


You want to call me a troll for saying this I accept that BUT I can respect Sesame Street's request. It wants to educate all children regardless of income, class and party. THIS CAN NOT be done if it link like this to one particular party.

Romney's words alone will do the damage this ad will do without linking Big Bird to a party.

Seriously the Ad was a playful ad meant for the web. The Obama camp just did it for the web. It was meant to poke fun of the moment and it did. Obama group is having fun RELAX.

it got "free" air-time because of the whining network pundits.

It did what it was meant to do and is a funny ad. It was never meant to be a long aired ad just set up for political shows.

Plus, all of us who have sent it out via FB have spread it far and wide.

Haven't seen the ad (no teevee) but I don't like the idea of painting Big Bird as a shady character in any context, so although I like the idea of using Big Bird in an ad, I don't like the description of this one.

PBS is right to remain nonpartisan and in the right to ask them to remove the ad.

Keeps the real scandal alive, which is a good thing.

He's his usual chirpy self while the voiceover makes it look like Willard is equating him to an arch criminal who has to be 'taken out.' It's clearly showing him as his typical cute, charming, and harmless self. Wall Street looks bad and Willard looks like his priorities are very suspect.

"Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down," Sesame Workshop said in a statement.

for every child in this country, not just Dem children. If the radical churches of this nation want to class it as teaching Communism to children, it is their children that lose vital education, and it is at their choice. Instead, just put out a commercial using the Twit's own words, just like the 47% clip. It would be much more effective. My grandson was in the other room and heard him say it. My daughter had a hard time calming him down for bed because he was so upset. So play it over and over again. Let him defeat himself.

I agree. Take it down!

But you can imagine it.

They were having too much fun with it.

Huffpost is at it as usual. There is nothing in their statement that indicates "their level of happiness" with Obama. It is a straight forward response about being non-partisan.

So Mr. Obama stands up for PBS/Big Bird, but the jello spines at CPB want to take a neutral position ?

The whole big bird thing has been heard by all and was used by several comedians. I think that Obama officially using it - unless he really wants to get into a quality of life argument on funding of all things educational, cultural, etc - is not really moving any message.

While I think there is a good argument there, it is not what Obama is running on - and it takes a sophisticated argument to defend this type of funding. (It is odd that no one needs to defend giving public money to help buid sports arenas - when the argument behind doing so is similar.)

it trivializes all the other stupid things Robme has said. Let's move on.

Can't they see that they're only going to BENEFIT from that ad?

As far as that "non-partisan" claim, I think they ought to start educating people by proving what kind of scum the repukes are and what the Democrats have done for the people.

Truth has a liberal bias so it's only necessary to expose the repukes for what they are and encourage people to vote for the only real political party.