Romney mentions mopologists in debate

[_Morley]

Unfortunately, Clint Eastwood was eerily prescient in debating an empty chair.

[_Ceeboo]

Ceeboo how old is the Universe? You going to give an honest guess like a man or continue to bitch out?

Be careful, friend, sometimes people who post things like you author have to own them at some point.

This is lesson #1 for you.

Lesson two (perhaps I will give it to you soon) will be about how you use term man vs. what the term really means and how one earns this label.

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Bond James Bond]

Ceeboo how old is the Universe? You going to give an honest guess like a man or continue to bitch out?

Be careful, friend, sometimes people who post things like you author have to own them at some point.

This is lesson #1 for you.

Lesson two (perhaps I will give it to you soon) will be about how you use term man vs. what the term really means and how one earns this label.

Peace,
Ceeboo

How old is the Universe in your honest educated opinion?

[_Bond James Bond]

Double post

[_moksha]

I’m used to people saying something that’s not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I will believe it.

He was referring to the Fox Advocacy Group more that he was to apologists. I can see your confusion since they draw procedures from the same well.

[_Bob Loblaw]

If y'all are looking to Big Bird for a recovery after that ass-pounding, you're probably in more trouble than you realize.

Agreed. The Big Bird thing might be fodder for a few jokes, but if that's all they can salvage out of Obama's debate performance, they're in trouble. The folks at MSNBC were not apoplectic because PBS might get cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wgJoepQmS4

[_Equality]

http://teamcoco.com/video/highlight-big-bird-doesnt-stand-a-chance-against-mitt-romney

I'm telling you: a week from now this is all people will remember about the debate. Romney was all sizzle and no steak; all hat and no cattle.

[_Bob Loblaw]

http://teamcoco.com/video/highlight-big-bird-doesnt-stand-a-chance-against-mitt-romney

I'm telling you: a week from now this is all people will remember about the debate. Romney was all sizzle and no steak; all hat and no cattle.

At least he brought his hat. Obama was no hat, no cattle.

[_Ceeboo]

How old is the Universe in your honest educated opinion?

Sorry for the delay in responding, Bond, I just saw your post.

My honest educated opinion is that I don't know how old the age of the Universe is.

As I have told you the last 13 times you have asked me this exact same question (three times on various threads since the Presidential debate took place ), I do not disgard or mock the position or beliefs of my beloved Young Earth Creation brethren.

I also do not mock or digard the position or beliefs of those that speak of the Universe being somewhere north of 13 billion years old............... as if it were absolute fact.

Go now, and sin no more!

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Equality]

From The Daily Kos (which I don't usually read but a tweet in my feed led me to this):

It's official. Mitt Romney won this week's debate on style, Barack Obama won on the facts, but Big Bird has won the post-debate media cycle. Days after the debate, the one policy that Americans are still talking about is Romney's promise to cut funding for PBS.

Lori Rackl at The Chicago Sun-Times:

Let’s channel one of Big Bird’s colleagues, Count von Count, and do some math: The federal government gave $445 million this year to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes that money to PBS and, to a lesser degree, NPR member stations across the country.
That $445 million works out to about 1/100 of 1 percent of the federal budget.

That’s like me saying I’m going to lose weight by trimming my nails.

I realize that $445 million, no matter how small a blip on the budget, is still a lot of cash. But if Uncle Sam put all of our money to this good of use, I’d voluntarily climb into the next income-tax bracket.

According to the AP, Big Bird is the one that got the biggest post-debate bounce:
Big Bird has never been so hot.
"Saturday Night Live," Jimmy Fallon, Piers Morgan, the "Today" show and "Good Morning America" all asked for appearances from the "Sesame Street" character on Thursday after he was unexpectedly thrust into the presidential campaign by Mitt Romney.

TiVo claims that Romney's desire to cut PBS funding was the most viewed moment of the debate. And from The National Constitution Center:
The phrase “Big Bird” was appearing 17,000 times every minute on Twitter. At midnight, CNN reported that mentions of Big Bird on Facebook were up an astronomical 800,000%.
Facebook later said Big Bird was the fourth most-mentioned topic on Facebook during the debate, getting more attention than topics like jobs, taxes, Jim Lehrer and Obamacare.

Alice Hines at The Huffington Post:
Big Bird's popularity also generates sales -- and jobs -- at small businesses like the ones mentioned by Romney at Wednesday's debate. American Plume & Fancy Feather Co. in Scranton, Penn. sells $12,000 to $15,000 a year worth of yellow feathers that go into making the world's Big Bird costumes.
Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon looks at the emotional argument and why it may be trouble for a candidate who's looking to "humanize" himself with voters:
What Romney, in his adorably out-of-touch way, failed to grasp with that statement is that practically every American under the age of 50 has a powerful childhood association with that goofy oversize lug. An entire generation can trace its first understanding of death to the moment that Big Bird let it sink in that “Mr. Hooper’s not coming back.” And another generation learned about loss and community and resilience after 9/11 when “Sesame Street” had Big Bird’s own nest destroyed in a storm. (The show aired Big Bird’s odyssey again after Katrina.) And I defy even a robotic millionaire to get through Big Bird’s choked-up rendition of “It’s Not Easy Being Green” at Jim Henson’s memorial service and not completely lose it when he says, “Thank you, Kermit.” [...]
[D]espite coming out of the evening looking stronger than he has in weeks — Romney made the error of looking like a man who is not on the side of innocence, whimsy, learning or childhood. Nor did he seem to grasp that Big Bird is an integral part of a show that was created for and remains at its core about community and diversity, one that has for decades been an essential tool in helping low-income children prepare for school. Going after Big Bird is like putting down baseball and rainbows and YouTube videos of otter pups. You just don’t.

Suzi Parker at The Washington Post:
Obama was not his best Wednesday night, but he could leverage Big Bird. That is if the Obama campaign is smart. A survey in 2008 noted that 77 million Americans had watched “Sesame Street” as children. That’s a lot of potential voters to woo. Nostalgia runs deep, trust me.
Big Bird, an iconic image, could serve as a bright yellow reminder that the Romney administration is keen on deep cuts to beloved institutions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/05/1140464/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Big-Bird-Edition