Anti-Romney Ad Shutdown by Sesame Stree

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A new add stating that Romney is enemy of BigBird is being stopped my Sesame Workshop.


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But Sesame Workshop – the nonpartisan nonprofit behind Sesame Street – wasn’t pleased. In a statement, Sesame Workshop objected to the ad: “We have approved no campaign ads, and, as is our general practice, have requested that both campaigns remove Sesame Street characters and trademarks from their campaign materials.”
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In our countries current state, should money even be wasted making an attack ad on Mitt Romney for stating he'd cut funding to PBS? PBS only receives $445 million in government funding, which is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to our budget.
 
Skwink said:
In our countries current state, should money even be wasted making an attack ad on Mitt Romney for stating he'd cut funding to PBS? PBS only receives $445 million in government funding, which is just a drop in the bucket when it comes to our budget.
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Should taxpayer funds be used to enrich the 1% when they should be perfectly capable of surviving on their own?
 
DinoDoc said:
Sesame Street Is the 1 Percent ;)

The real point is that PBS should be able to find its way in the marketplace if the programs are as popular as their defenders claim.
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So what? Tax them.

Popular and positive things aren't all profitable. It's public education, essentially, and 55% of polled likely voters think public broadcasting “is a worthwhile place to spend taxpayers’ money." It's great value for a rounding error.

And it would find its way in the marketplace - only 15% or so of its funding is the tax-paid subsidy. What would be likely to get axed is broadcast in the poorer markets where the benefit of having it is even greater.

The fuss about it is completely stupid.
 
The entire point of public broadcasting is that they can create content without having to immediately worry about ratings. That gives it the freedom to do deep dives into the news/documentaries, or create innovative children's programming without commercial interference or pandering. Compare Newshour with CNN. See the difference ratings can make?

Sesame Street would survive without govt PBS funding (although some local PBS stations would close)...although then it would have commercial breaks. It may not have been created in the first place though if the ratings tanked after 5 episodes and focusgroups.
 
It just shows Obama is about the small issues, not the big. Mitt's mention of PBS was part of a broader debate talking point about trimming lots of small stuff to save some big stuff. You have to break some eggs to make an omelet (which any person making financial decisions at any level understands). Obama's point is OMG SAVE BIG BIRD!

It makes the Democrats seem childish and petty. I actually can't believe this got by their strategy people.
 
I can understand their desire to stay neutral, but they have to be aware of the real reason Romney is vowing to cut them.

Sesame Street has long been reviled on the far, far right. I'm stone cold serious about this.

EDIT: I'm sure that most forum users here, even our resident rightists, don't have a problem with Sesame Street.

EDIT2: Don't talk to me about "small issues" when the entire right wing goes through fits of comically over the top horror every time they rediscover that homosexuality is a thing.
 
DinoDoc said:
Sesame Street Is the 1 Percent ;)

The real point is that PBS should be able to find its way in the marketplace if the programs are as popular as their defenders claim.
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The point is that PBS is better than the commercial networks because it doesn't have to cave to advertisers. And because of that, it fills a nitch that commercial broadcasting would never fill. And that makes everyone better off.
 
AlpsStranger said:
I can understand their desire to stay neutral, but they have to be aware of the real reason Romney is vowing to cut them.

Sesame Street has long been reviled on the far, far right. I'm stone cold serious about this.

EDIT: I'm sure that most forum users here, even our resident rightists, don't have a problem with Sesame Street.

EDIT2: Don't talk to me about "small issues" when the entire right wing goes through fits of comically over the top horror every time they rediscover that homosexuality is a thing.
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Hey, you can be angsty about it or realize the blunder. The commercial was a mistake, every second it is on the air Obama's brand is damaged.
 
This is an excellent example regarding how outlandishly absurd and embarrassingly hypocritical the Republican Party platform actually is.

What's a couple of zeros between lead financial analysts on a business network? But let's focus on the argument that $8M is greater than $4B.
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Nah, it's probably not a great ad. It's either nearly ineffective or possibly counterproductive.

I'm 100% serious about the right wing hate for Sesame Street though.
 
I think the show sucks (I thought that when I was a kid too), but I don't harbor and reserved hatred for it.

I bet GI Joe has more rabid lefty opponents than Sesame Street right wing ones.
 
Patroklos said:
I think the show sucks (I thought that when I was a kid too), but I don't harbor and reserved hatred for it.

I bet GI Joe has more rabid lefty opponents than Sesame Street right wing ones.
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I actually really regret the loss of the sort of "30 second common sense lesson" they had at the end of their episodes. FWIW.
 
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