Barely blinking once throughout the entire first presidential debate, moderator and timid minute-counter Jim Lehrer should have taken pointers from PBS colleague Count von Count from Sesame Street, because Mitt Romney ran roughshod over Jim and in the process flattened Big Bird, too.  Mitt informed a stunned Lehrer: "I'm sorry, Jim -- I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS.  I'm going to stop other things.  I like PBS.  I love Big Bird.  I actually like you, too.  But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it." That's right -- Mitt Romney actually had the audacity to suggest that in addition to Sesame Street, fiscal sanity may require eliminating federal funding for vital PBS shows such as Beeswax, Islam: Empire of Faith, Who's Dancin' Now?, and Nerds 2.0.1. In response to the controversy surrounding Seamus' dad dissing Big Bird, Sean Higgins from the Washington Examiner quelled national anxiety when he...(Read Full Post)