Topic: Recipes for Big Bird.

[robins111]

Now that there is a suggestion to defund PBS, its only appropriate that in this day and age, we don't allow anything to be wasted.  As such, with Big Bird in the chopping block, so to speak, its important to come up with a good recipe.   I would suggest roasted,   with an orange glaze, with wild rice and fava beans on the side...           

[Pandora]

There must be a use, as well, for the feathers .........

[Predator Don]

First.....You need a big pot.

[Pandora]

Or ....



... a big spit.

[IronDioPriest]

On the serious side, I was pleasantly shocked to hear Mitt put the sacred Sesame Street/PBS bird on the chopping block. I'm equally shocked at the relative lack of feigned outrage and indignation.

Perhaps defending taxpayer funded tv programming in an era of multi-trillion dollar debt has finally come to an end.

[Pandora]

On the serious side, I was pleasantly shocked to hear Mitt put the sacred Sesame Street/PBS bird on the chopping block. I'm equally shocked at the relative lack of feigned outrage and indignation.

Perhaps defending taxpayer funded tv programming in an era of multi-trillion dollar debt has finally come to an end.

Mitt is above all a businessman.  Anyone forgets that at his peril.

Mark Levin stated if PBS programming goes up for sale, he'll personally put together private funding to keep the best performers, like Sesame Street.

Which, imo, would be an improvement -- a way to swing it away-from-left.

[Glock32]

As if Sesame Street needs public funding anyway. It is a very profitable brand, with all the merchandising in toy stores, etc.

[Glock32]

Mark Steyn...the man does have the ability to turn a phrase: Will Big Bird Ever Leave the Government Nest?

Unlike Mitt, I loathe Sesame Street. It bears primary responsibility for what the Canadian blogger Binky calls the de-monsterization of childhood – the idea that there are no evil monsters out there at the edges of the map, just shaggy creatures who look a little funny and can sometimes be a bit grouchy about it because people prejudge them until they learn to celebrate diversity and help Cranky the Friendly Monster go recycling. That is not unrelated to the infantilization of our society. Marinate three generations of Americans in that pabulum, and it's no surprise you wind up with unprotected diplomats dragged to their deaths from their "safe house" in Benghazi. Or as J. Scott Gration, the president's Special Envoy to Sudan, said in 2009, in the most explicit Sesamization of American foreign policy: "We've got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries – they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes." The butchers of Darfur aren't blood-drenched machete-wielding genocidal killers but just Cookie Monsters whom we haven't given enough cookies. I'm not saying there's a direct line between Bert & Ernie and Barack & Hillary ... well, actually, I am.

Okay, I may be taking this further than Mitt intended. So let's go back to his central thrust. The Corporation of Public Broadcasting receives nearly half-a-billion dollars a year from taxpayers, which it disburses to PBS stations, who, in turn, disburse it to Big Bird and Jim Lehrer. I don't know what Big Bird gets, but, according to Sen. Jim DeMint, the President of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, received in 2008 a salary of $956,513. In that sense, Big Bird and Sen. Harry Reid embody the same mystifying phenomenon: they've been in "public service" their entire lives and have somehow wound up as multimillionaires.
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The small things are not unimportant – and not just because, when "small" is defined as anything under 11 figures, "small" is a big part of the problem. If Americans can't muster the will to make Big Bird leave the government nest, they certainly will never reform Medicare. Just before the debate in Denver, in the general backstage melée, a commentator pointed out Valerie Jarrett, who is officially "Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs," a vital position which certainly stimulates the luxury-length business-card industry. Not one in 100,000 Americans knows what she looks like, but she declines to take the risk of passing among the rude peasantry without the protection of a Secret Service detail. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a private jet to fly him home from Washington every weekend.

The Queen of the Netherlands flies commercial, so does the Queen of Denmark. Prince William and his lovely bride, whom at least as many people want to get a piece of as Valerie Jarrett or Leon Panetta, flew to Los Angeles on a Royal Canadian Air Force boneshaker. It is profoundly unrepublican when minor public officials assume that private planes and entourages to hold the masses at bay are a standard perk of office. And it is even more disturbing that tens of millions of Americans are accepting of this. The entitlements are complicated, and will take some years and much negotiation. But, in a Romney administration, rolling back the nickel'n'dime stuff – ie, the million'n'billion stuff – should start on Day One.

Read the rest.

[IronDioPriest]

On the serious side, I was pleasantly shocked to hear Mitt put the sacred Sesame Street/PBS bird on the chopping block. I'm equally shocked at the relative lack of feigned outrage and indignation.

Perhaps defending taxpayer funded tv programming in an era of multi-trillion dollar debt has finally come to an end.

Mitt is above all a businessman.  Anyone forgets that at his peril.

Mark Levin stated if PBS programming goes up for sale, he'll personally put together private funding to keep the best performers, like Sesame Street.

Which, imo, would be an improvement -- a way to swing it away-from-left.

Which is exactly why they'll fight. They don't want it swung away.

[robins111]

Big Bird recipe humor aside, the funding of a broadcaster by the government is a horrible idea.  In Canada, we have the CBC which receives in the excess of 1 billion dollars in public money, and has become a landing strip for lefty a$$holes.  In addition, they have a real economic impact on the private media with the ability to outbid, and essentially economically destroy organizations which challenge the lefty world view.  In a very real sense, they were responsible for decades of socialist domination of Canadian politics by their financial control of the market.  To best describe the situation, always think of  times 10, when comparison between countries.  What do you thing would happen to the media if your PBS was given 10 billion dollars annually, with the ability to underbid  private television, for advertisement, and further, could dictate to independents, what was news under threats of economic punishment if they strayed.

[IronDioPriest]

Big Bird recipe humor aside, the funding of a broadcaster by the government is a horrible idea.  In Canada, we have the CBC which receives in the excess of 1 billion dollars in public money, and has become a landing strip for lefty a$$holes.  In addition, they have a real economic impact on the private media with the ability to outbid, and essentially economically destroy organizations which challenge the lefty world view.  In a very real sense, they were responsible for decades of socialist domination of Canadian politics by their financial control of the market.  To best describe the situation, always think of  times 10, when comparison between countries.  What do you thing would happen to the media if your PBS was given 10 billion dollars annually, with the ability to underbid  private television, for advertisement, and further, could dictate to independents, what was news under threats of economic punishment if they strayed.

As a side, note, in case it has gone unsaid, I'm really glad we have the perspective of a Canadian conservative among us.

[Libertas]

There must be a use, as well, for the feathers .........

 

Tar?

 

Rally at DC!

 

Somebody bring some rails!

[robins111]

Thanks for the nice compliment..  We are often in this together.. with similar issues..

[AlanS]

On the serious side, I was pleasantly shocked to hear Mitt put the sacred Sesame Street/PBS bird on the chopping block.

My outlook on Mitt is improving all of the time. I'm down from a bottle of tequila to a 12 pack forcing me to vote for him.

[Libertas]

If this keeps up it might just be a mimosa in the morning and off to the polls.
 

[ToddF]

Even the president mocked Romney for "finally getting tough on Big Bird" – not in the debate, of course, where such dazzling twinkle-toed repartee might have helped, but a mere 24 hours later, once the rapid-response team had directed his speechwriters to craft a line, fly it out to a campaign rally and load it into the prompter, he did deliver it without mishap.

 

[Glock32]

H/T: Moonbattery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol1ucduWj0Y

[Predator Don]

S ::rolllaughing: stinkin funny.

[LadyVirginia]

Even the president mocked Romney for "finally getting tough on Big Bird" – not in the debate, of course, where such dazzling twinkle-toed repartee might have helped, but a mere 24 hours later, once the rapid-response team had directed his speechwriters to craft a line, fly it out to a campaign rally and load it into the prompter, he did deliver it without mishap.

 

 

As a side note the campaign theme for today was apparently Obama was "too kind" during the debate.

[Alphabet Soup]

Even the president mocked Romney for "finally getting tough on Big Bird" – not in the debate, of course, where such dazzling twinkle-toed repartee might have helped, but a mere 24 hours later, once the rapid-response team had directed his speechwriters to craft a line, fly it out to a campaign rally and load it into the prompter, he did deliver it without mishap.

 

 

As a side note the campaign theme for today was apparently Obama was "too kind" during the debate.

Oh goodie - now we can look forward to "tough" Øbozo - which is indistinguishable from "snotty" Øbozo.

I'm gonna have to find someone with a boob-toob for that one