When campaigning in Iowa on Wednesday, Mitt Romney announced his plans to line Sesame Street with billboards.
In a pledge to reduce public spending, Romney announced that some government subsidized programing had to go -- calling out the Corporation of Public Broadcasting as an example.
But don't worry, the grandfather of 16 assured constituents that he isn't a monster (and not of the cookie eating variety).
"We're not going to kill Big Bird," Romney said in a deli, "but Big Bird is going to have advertisements, all right?"
Public broadcasting has ruffled Republican feathers for years. In March, senators proposed legislation that would cut funding for PBS and NPR, which receives a whopping 0.00014 percent of the government's $3.456 trillion budget.
Romney's rationale: "is a program so critical that it's worth borrowing money from China to pay for it?"
Now on to the big questions: is Cookie Monster going to be eating Chips Ahoy! or Famous Amos? When asking, "Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?", should one consult a Garmin or a Magellan?
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