During the presidential debate 2012 the unfiltered Mitt Romney said he wouldn’t hesitate to cut Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) funding. His statement became a worldwide trending topic of Twitter for hours. Sesame Workshop has assured people that Romney’s plan to zero-out federal spending for public broadcasting won’t have such big effect on the show. “Quite frankly, you can debate whether or not there should be funding of public broadcasting. But when they always try to tout out Big Bird, and say we’re going to kill Big Bird – that is actually misleading,” says the show’s executive vice president Sherrie Westin, “because Sesame Street will be here. Big Bird lives on.”Watch the video below Westin explained that PBS receives very little funding for Big Bird but instead money comes from private donors. I thought it was going to be another Occupy moment. Check out the video below for laughs
