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Obama adviser: No plans
to change Big Bird ad
NBC News, by Eun Kyung Kim
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Posted By:Scottyboy, 10/10/2012 8:23:00 AM
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| A new Obama ad that has ruffled feathers by mockingly portraying Big Bird as a corporate villain will stay on the air, a senior Obama campaign adviser said Wednesday. “I don’t know of any plans to change that ad,” Robert Gibbs told TODAY’s Matt Lauer. The ad sarcastically compares the beloved Sesame Street character, the breakout star in last week's presidential debate, to major white-collar criminals and “gluttons of greed” Bernie Madoff, Kenneth Lay and others. But the organization behind Sesame Street asked the Obama campaign to take down the ad.
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Comments:
Hey, if the Great 0bama can take over GM, he can certainly take over Sesame Street and commandeer Big Bird for his own political use as he pleases. You know you are living in tyranny when your leader begins taking imaginary characters hostage.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Time4AR2, 10/10/2012 8:26:50 AM (No. 8922406)
Eggsellent!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 10/10/2012 8:27:43 AM (No. 8922409)
Big Bird wants off the Democrat plantation, but 0bama wants to keep him down. BB deserves to be a free range bird! Free Big Bird!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
toodles3956, 10/10/2012 8:41:06 AM (No. 8922445)
This ad confirms my opinion that Bammy does not want to win election. He want to be the head of the United Nations where he has more power to really finish off the USA.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 10/10/2012 8:46:55 AM (No. 8922461)
Let's hope the electorate gives Obama "the bird" this November.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chance_232, 10/10/2012 9:07:48 AM (No. 8922517)
The Romney repsonse should be:
"So let me get this straight....you want to raise taxes and borrow money from China to subsidize a program that earns 200+ million per year selling stuffed animals and coloring books. When even the producers of Sesame Street have stated that they dont need the money. Seriously? Is that all you have?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 10/10/2012 9:13:27 AM (No. 8922531)
Chicago politics!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/10/2012 9:15:04 AM (No. 8922535)
This will win him lots of votes. /s
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/10/2012 9:18:27 AM (No. 8922541)
Because, as my childeren say, I have a large brain, I am able to make sophisticated connectionds between seemingly unrelated facts.
But in the case of Bernie Madoff and Big Bird, Einstein himself could not make a connection. It is the silliest political ad I have ever seen. And it smacks of desperation...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sorosisbehindit, 10/10/2012 9:19:02 AM (No. 8922543)
This is the list of things that will continue to receive private funding after we stop borrowing from China:
Sesame Street
Support for Israel
This is the list of things that will not continue to receive funding when we stop borrowing from China:
foreign aid to West Bank
foreign aid to Egypt
foreign aid to Libya
foreign aid to Pakistan
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snowcloud, 10/10/2012 9:22:41 AM (No. 8922555)
Right now it really looks like his entire campaign is imploding. Let's hope this keeps up on the current path. Keep praying and working, everyone. God save America!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
john56, 10/10/2012 9:31:22 AM (No. 8922584)
Big Bird sure is tough.
If Romney or any GOP candidate had used Big Bird in an ad, Sesame Workshop's many and well paid lawyers would be filing lawsuits quicker than they would if some little daycare provider mistakenly painted Big Bird on the wall.
But since it's Dear Leader(US) and the Democrats, all they get is a meekly worded "Please stop" letter. And then they slink away, waiting for their next government check.
Sesame Workshop should be sending PBS a check every month for the opportunity to market their products via publicly owned airwaves.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
doctor P, 10/10/2012 9:37:33 AM (No. 8922600)
Given the massive backlash on the ad by even Big Bird, I hope the party runs the ad constantly.
The feedback about how the enemies of the state on Wall Street were prosecuted by the Bush administration is priceless.
I bet former Gov Corzine - the CEO of a huge fraudulent Wall Street disaster and big Obama campaign bundler - would enjoy the irony if the Obama administration actually prosecuted any real Wall Street enemies.
Yet none of these guys can lose a $ TRILLION a year for four strait years or mis their estimate on the last budget by only half a trillion dollars.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 10/10/2012 9:49:31 AM (No. 8922629)
To quote Rev. J. Wright....
"The chickens are coming home to roost"
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 10/10/2012 9:50:35 AM (No. 8922632)
I'm less concerned about Big Bird than I am about getting Big Tird out of office.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
killerbee, 10/10/2012 10:07:12 AM (No. 8922688)
Well, what else is he going to say? They never admit to doing anything wrong, they just say they never did it and the pathetic puppet media goes along. Like not blaming the video for the Benghazi attack. "We never said that". Do you really think the end result of the reporting is going to be that they lied?
So it will go this time. They will quietly get rid of the ad and then say they had nothing to do with the ad. And the media will aid them in that lie.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/10/2012 10:11:09 AM (No. 8922704)
We can't talk about the economy, national security or all the lies we told about Libya.
We can't mention Syria, Iran, or the unrest throughout the entire middle east.
We're fixated on the bird.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Bevan, 10/10/2012 10:26:28 AM (No. 8922759)
Damn, there goes the 9 and under vote!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Holeymoses, 10/10/2012 10:28:57 AM (No. 8922768)
Not sure l'oiseau wants that much attention. I don't think he likes being a political football with the possible end to his career and the big bucks.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
worstnightmare, 10/10/2012 10:34:00 AM (No. 8922782)
The owners of Sesame Street probably saw this ad and recogized that half of the US population would no longer be buying their children Sesame Street toys. Seriously, why would a company want to tick off 50% of the population?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX, 10/10/2012 8:43:35 PM (No. 8924292)
False indignation by Big Bird's creator and Sesame Street productions, leftists all.
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