VIDEO: Sesame Street Tells Obama To Stop Big Bird Ad
The economy is imploding, the Fed is printing, wars are waging and the only thing the Deficit President has talked about this week is Big Bird. Someone needs to tell Obama that with trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, if he can't cut a subsidy from a profitable venture like PBS, we know he won't cut anything.
Obama ad highlights the massive failure of Eric Holder.
The folks on Sesame Street aren't happy with the Obama campaign, and they put out a statement on Tuesday asking the campaign to cease and desist with an ad that prominently features Big Bird, stating an objection to having its characters used in a partisan context.
But that's really just half the story. The Obama campaign is apparently so braindead with regard to main street anger regarding the lack of Wall Street prosecutions that they didn't even notice that they were inadvertently highlighting their own massive failures.
David Dayen nails this point at FDL:
There’s only one thing that sticks out to me about this ad, though the casual viewer probably won’t notice it. Let’s look at that litany of Wall Street “criminals” and “gluttons of greed,” which later get juxtaposed with Big Bird. You have Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay and Dennis Kozlowski. So two CEOs prosecuted and convicted by George W. Bush’s Justice Department, and Madoff, whose son turned him in before Obama took office, in December 2008, and who pleaded guilty.
So the Obama campaign could not fill a list of three Wall Street criminals that the Obama Justice Department actually sent to jail.
Heck, they couldn’t fill a list of one!
This is despite Eric Holder telling students at Columbia University (read the speech) in February of this year that his Justice Department’s record of success on fighting financial fraud crimes “has been nothing less than historic.”
But not historic enough that his boss could point to, well, one Wall Street criminal behind bars as a result of DoJ’s actions.
That’s painfully telling. Nobody from Bank of America or Wells Fargo or Citigroup or JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs or Bear Stearns or Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch or even Countrywide or Ameriquest was available to stand in as a “glutton of greed” in this advertisement.
Literally no major figure responsible for the financial crisis has gone to jail. So the campaign has to use two CEOs from a decade-old accounting scandal, and a garden-variety Ponzi schemer. The financial crisis plays no role in this advertisement trying to juxtapose cuts to PBS with the financial crisis!
Late Tuesday:
Oct 9, 2012 at 5:29 PM
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http://politicker.com/2012/10/ohio-obama-rally-features-rap-rendition-of-sesame-street-theme-song/
This is all Obama has talked about all week. Big Bird and Sesame Street.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/09/big-bird-wants-out-of-campaign-ad/
WSJ take on the story.
"You have to scratch your head when the president spends the last week talking about saving Big Bird," he said. "I actually think we need to have a president who talks about saving the American people and saving good jobs."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/romney-hits-obama-on-big-bird-focus-137912.html
I'm pretty sick today, which accounts for the lack of posts and links and everything else. Hoping it's not the flu, just trying to take it easy, sleep and fight my way thru it. Hopefully the fever breaks tonight and I'll be back at it full bore tomorrow.
http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2012/ag-speech-120223.html
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/10/04/Big-Bird-Richer-Than-Romney
www.washingtonpost.com/...troops-to-jordan
Panetta: U.S. Sends Forces To Jordan
BY Llita C. Baldor and Pauline Jelinek | Oct 10, 2012 | 11:16 AM EDT
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country's military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers in Brussels, Panetta said the U.S. has been working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordan deal with refugees pouring over the border from Syria. The troops are also building a headquarters for themselves.
But the revelation of U.S. military personnel so close to the 19-month-old Syrian conflict suggests an escalation in the U.S. military involvement in the conflict, even as Washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in Syria.
US sends military troops to Jordan in case of Syrian escalation, says Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
New York Daily News - 3 hours ago
The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to help build a headquarters in Jordan and bolster that country's military ...
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