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Are you ready for the ‘Million Muppet March’?

By Editorial Staff
Published October 15, 2012 1:54pm ET
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One of the most important issues of the day will be addressed en masse at the National Mall in Washington, DC just three days before the election. Unemployment? No. Massive debt? Negative. Ballooning dependence on government? Nah. Steady decline in middle class income? Nuh-uh. Terrorism? Don’t think so. This will be an event to draw attention to an even bigger problem that could bring an end to America as we know it — or 12 percent of PBS’s funding, whichever comes first: Mitt Romney’s plan to slash federal funding for the home of Sesame Street:

Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television’s “Sesame Street,” from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the “Million Muppet March.”

The demonstration is planned for November 3 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., three days before the general election.

Before the presidential debate between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had concluded on October 3, two men who had never met each floated the Million Muppet March idea on social media. They immediately united to defend public broadcasting.

Romney pledged during the debate to end the U.S. federal government’s subsidy for the Public Broadcasting Service despite his professed love for Big Bird, one of the characters on PBS’s 43-year-old children’s educational program “Sesame Street,” which features the Muppets.

Michael Bellavia, 43, an animation executive from Los Angeles, and Chris Mecham, 46, a university student in Idaho, separately came up with the Million Muppet March idea in response.


The last time Big Bird went to a protest he got a little out of control, but he’s pledged to behave himself this time.

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