Internet Gets Big Bird’s Back After Romney Says He’d Defund PBS

During last night’s presidential debate between President Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney, the Mittster said he would tighten Washington’s belt by making cuts to federal programs, including subsidies to PBS, which airs Big Bird’s show Sesame Street.

On Thursday, PBS issued a statement about Romney’s remarks, saying that the publicly funded network was “very disappointed” to have been drawn into the presidential debate, defending the Sesame Street character, and noting that the federal outlay for public broadcasting was “one one-hundredth of one percent” of the nation’s budget.