Who says Governor Mitt Romney doesn't talk specifics? It may have ruffled some feathers, but last night Romney offered some straight talk about how he plans reduce the deficit -- namely, cutting the federal subsidy for PBS. You may wonder why he only felt compelled to give this one, single example of a program he would eliminate, but as Politico noted, PBS funding accounted for a whopping .00014% of the federal budget in 2010. Romney followed up that comment by saying, "I love Big Bird" (see above, a parody account for the Sesame Street resident didn't take his intentions lightly).
Johnathan Chait was also skeptical about Governor Romney's logic, writing in New York Magazine, "So Romney is a candidate of a 20% cut in tax rates, a new plan to cover people with preexisting conditions, and higher defense spending, and he will accomplish it all by eliminating federal funding for PBS."
While this is not the first time Romney brought up slashing PBS funding, he did back some new policy positions during the debate. The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger called it "The Romney Reboot" -- as the Governor settled on a series of more moderate positions without explanation. Watch the first segment of today's show as Alex takes the panel through Governor Romney's policy transformation:
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I love you President Obama, you are not selling your soul and lying to win...."anything gain in dishonest God is not in it and it won't last. Look at the Bush presidency!
The real reason Mitt Romney wants to kill Big Bird has less to do with Big Bird than it has to do with PBS. Public Broadcasting is part of the 20% of the media that is not owned by a few companies. Dan Rather says that the few own 80% of all media in the United States. These media tycoons believe that any competition to their holdings is bad. In state after state, these tycoons own most, if not all, of the media - tv, radio, books, magazines, etc. The one glaring exception across the country is PBS. The tycoons have been trying to "make it go dark" for years, but their efforts have been beaten back, The pressure from the Right to break up PBS has never been so intense. It is imperative that we keep PBS and their programming, but it is also imperative that the media cabal be broken up. Save Big Bird, yes!! But break up the media concentration as the same time. Fox News is what can happen when there is no restraint on the censorship and distortion of the news. Break up the media cabal and restore free speech to America.