Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 12, 2012
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling President Mitt's Sesame Street Mitt: Just look at this place! Disgraceful! Big Bird: President Mitt, we're just trying hard to help educate children. Many families can't afford preschool! Aa Bb C Gg Hh I Nn O Mitt: That's great, but America's in fiscal crisis! We can't afford the $100 to keep you around anymore! Elmo: Shucks! Elmo suppose if it's a crisis... Grover: Hey, who's moving in? Mitt: My friend, Mr. Moneybags. Mr. Moneybags: Hi! Mr. Moneybags: Yes, I'm building my third mansion here because President Mitt cut my taxes by $1,000,000! Elmo: But President Mitt, Elmo thought we were in a fiscal crisis! Mitt: Ha-ha! We are! I'm paying for that tax cut by closing loopholes! Count: Vait a minute! I did the math, and loopholes can't pay for those tax cuts vithout raising the tax burden on the middle class! Mitt: Ha-ha! Silly fact-checkers! Count: OOF! Mr. Moneybags: Hey, my company just got a $500,000 military contract, and I'm adding a guest mansion! Fairy: B-but...education and... Mitt: Now, this is the way Sesame Street ought to be! Cookie Monster: Spare a cookie? The End
kapock about 12 years ago
Y’know, with that widow’s peak, maybe Ryan is the Count’s evil, innumerate twin.
Linguist about 12 years ago
Yeah, Ryan does have that wild eyed look about him. The difference is that the Count teaches us real math not fuzzy math.
wcorvi about 12 years ago
Did you ever wonder why the Romney-types don’t want to cut military spending? They want us to be safer? Hardly! They get the lucrative military contracts that really do little for our safety. THAT is their part of the gummint handouts.
jsplegge about 12 years ago
The Count’s evil twin? Evil, sure… but he’s still Eddie Munster to me.
NDeeZ about 12 years ago
Ryan IS the Count’s Evil Twin; Count Badly!
joe vignone about 12 years ago
Mitt IS a corporation, my friend.
kapock about 12 years ago
“Will you throw me into debt, into debt on Sesame Street?”
cipactli77 about 12 years ago
With all due respect to The Who
Ryan know what it’s like to be the bad man to be the sad man behind blue eyes.
larryrhoades about 12 years ago
Parents know we got our money’s worth with Sesame Street.
rini1946 about 12 years ago
I am in the minorty again but PBS should have commercials. I mean they have some good shows and it is about time they help pay for themselves. There are tons of companies that would pay to advertise on some of thier shows and they can use the extra from the muppets to pay for painting shows
wumpus Premium Member about 12 years ago
ronald rini – If PBS had commercials it would be the same as any other network, and would be beholden to advertisers to produce shows that hit the proper demographics. Or to put it another way: Why don’t the current networks produce shows like those on PBS, if they would attract the advertising dollars of ‘tons of companies’?
Davepostmp about 12 years ago
And all the money the oil companies get from the government! The taxpayers should get a piece of that pie, too! But all they get is the shaft of $4 and $5 gallon gasoline.
pam Miner about 12 years ago
Mitt and Paul are out to get rid of the poor. Leave them without healthcare, take away their kid’s schools, They think there are too many of us. I used to think the government paid for hearing aids, no they don’t and the little help we get, Romney is going to take away. We are supposed to be of , for, by, the people. It has changed already and is by, for, and of the rich. The real re-distribution of wealth has been going on for years, and it is not tricking down but flowing up.
MiepR about 12 years ago
If medical journals weren’t dependent on pharmaceutical advertising we would have unbiased publishing of clinical trials for drugs. If PBS took ads, we would have educational programming biased by the preferences of the advertisers.
knoahu about 12 years ago
If that is supposed to be the Muppet News Anchorman, he’s got to be related to Bert ….
ickymungmung about 12 years ago
When we pay taxes to fund our fire departments, do we demand our money back if our own house does not burn down? If we are not invaded by an opposing force do we seek refunds from the military? If everything is quid pro quo, what do we get from monetary extremists who conjure profits from arcane language in byzantine financial deals? Keep Sesame Street, and chase out the profit-addicts who would turn the United States into a dystopian casino.
thebaldtexican about 12 years ago
I thought you progressives were all against federal subsidies for rich people… “Sesame Street” brings in hundreds of millions, and don’t need federals subsidies…
fenneuter almost 12 years ago
On Sesame Street, the character Mitt looks most like is Guy Smiley, man of many occupations – most memorable singing “Gone with the Wind” as everything and everyone blows away!