Huffington Post: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have some ground to make up before November if he hopes to gain more support among female voters, a majority of whom have consistently shunned him in the polls. But his comments during Wednesday's debate about cutting funding to PBS are not likely to do the trick.
"I like PBS. I love Big Bird," Romney said. "But I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for."
The comment provoked a strong, emotional reaction among some parents. "As a mother of two young girls (5 and 7) raised on PBS, my jaw dropped when Romney made that statement," Liz Gumbinner wrote to The Huffington Post. "The more I thought about it, I went from shock to outrage. It alienated an entire nation of parents."
Willard said it's not right to borrow money from China to subsidize PBS. But we can borrow far more money from China for massive tax cuts for the rich, subsidies for oil companies, and horrific, counter productive wars. We can borrow money from China to bail out Willard's Wall Street billionaire buddies. But when it comes to Sesame Street, well, you heard the man, Big Bird, and Oscar the Grouch, they all get the axe. Hopefully enough parents and other people who are not total scumbags will vote to keep Mitt - Montgomery Burns - Romney out of the Whitehouse and far away from Big Bird. And oh yeah, pay your fucking taxes Mitt. Help us pay for the national treasure that is public broadcasting. Deadbeat.
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