Saturday, October 6, 2012

VIDEO: Big Bird 'Fights' Mitt Romney at Florida Protest

Before Gov. Mitt Romney took the outdoor stage in downtown St. Petersburg for a campaign rally Friday, Big Bird tried to upstage the GOP presidential candidate.
It was not the Big Bird of "Sesame Street" fame, but a costumed protester from the Florida Consumer Action Network and MoveOn.org.
The protest groups lampooned Romney and his pledge to cut PBS funding by staging a mock boxing match between Big Bird from "Sesame Street" and a caricature of the former Massachusetts governor. (And yes, that's the same Romney puppet used at the Sarasota protest.)
At Wednesday's presidential debate, Romney told debate host Jim Lehrer that he intended to eliminate funding to PBS, the public network, where Lehrer hosts the "NewsHour."
The Associated Press reported:

Yes, Bird. During Wednesday's debate with President Barack Obama, Romney called

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