NYTs OP-Ed by Charles M. Blow: Don’t Mess With Big Bird
Dont Mess With Big Bird
-snip-
I know that you told Fox News this week that you were completely wrong for making that now infamous 47 percent comment, but probably only after you realized that it was a drag on your poll numbers. Your initial response was to defend it as inelegantly stated but essentially correct. Thats not good, sir. Character matters. Big Bird wouldnt have played it that way. Do you really believe that Pennsylvania Avenue is that far away from Sesame Street? It shouldnt be.
Let me make it simple for you, Mr. Romney. Im down with Big Bird. You pick on him, you answer to me.
And, for me, its bigger than Big Bird. Its almost impossible to overstate how instrumental PBS has been in my development and instruction.
We were poor. My mother couldnt afford day care, and I didnt go to preschool. My great-uncle took care of me all day. I could watch one hour of television: PBS.
When I was preparing for college and took the ACT, there were harder reading passages toward the back of the test. Many had scientific themes themes we hadnt covered at my tiny high school in my rural town. But I could follow the passages meanings because I had watched innumerable nature shows on PBS.
-snip-
Full article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/06/opinion/blow-dont-mess-with-big-bird.html?_r=0
A Good Read