so i know how important that is. mountains of debt, threats to our sovereignty, chipping away at your rights, chipping away at your freedom, and now they re attacking our second amendment rights. but you can stop them. right now, defend freedom, defeat obama. that is a new ad from the nra attacking president obama nearly one week after the group endorsed mitt romney for
hammer on sesame street. elmo has been seen in a white in a white suburban. he s driving for the boarder. here on the panel after a hellish commute mother jones washington bureau chief david corn author of the book 47% uncovering the romney video that rocked the 2012 election. it ain t a over but that video did its share of rocking. before big bird hit the scene. exactly. david, let s talk about the big bird ad. a good thing for team obama to be using or a bad thing? you know, i ve always been a fan in politics of what i call strategic derision. and this ad made me laugh. i mean, i m not sure it s the best pivot point at this point in time. i like the ad based on the 47% video, but i m biased. this may just be, though, i think a little slap that will come and go very fast. i don t think it s going to be the focus of their advertising for the next week or two. you know, it does highlight the
importance of sesame street to early childhood education and the role it plans. to john s point, this is kind of we have serious issues at hand. exactly. and the chock is ticking. feel like i want to bring in mr. rogers and talk about my feel approximationp we should be talking about education and infrastructure, it is a tiny number but representative of something larger. two things to say about this ad, only one good thing, it s not running in any battleground states, only cable bait, and the bad thing to say about it is, it says nothing about anything that is of relevance to real lives to real people. nothing. you can we it s funny, i like it. president obama making the jokes on stage are those are funny lines. elmo in the white suburban is a good one. the idea that this ad given not just in some pies way which is i m with this is not addressing the big issues we face, it s just for a swing
big bird. big bird. big bird. it s me, big bird. big, yellow, a nmenace to ou economy. mitt romney knows it s not wall street you have to worry about it s sesame street. i m going to stop the subsidy to pbs. mitt romney taking on our enemies no matter where they nest. that is a new ad from the obama campaign, cheekily taking on governor romney s vow to end federal subsidies for pbs. public broadcasting funds support shows including sesame street that provide educational programming for children especially those that cannot afford to go to preschool. the total money going to pbs accounts for roughly .00013% of the federal budget. that s a very small amount. despite utterly nominal amount of money on the table the president has been trumpeting the big bird message since the debate. thank goodness somebody is finally getting tough on big bird. governor romney plans to let wall street run wild again but he s going to bring down the
voters, undecided swing voters if this ad were running they would be like this says nothing to me about anything that matters in my life. i will say i think one other good thing about the ad watching big bird go to sleep at night which is the cutest thing that happens. the state of the race, certain amount of hysteria right now about just how well mitt romney is doing and i point to erick erickson writing, i still haven t been able to calculate how many calories mitt romney consumed eating barack obama s lunch that day. i mean, that s pretty amazing. andrew sullivan saying i m trying to see a silver lining but when a president self-immy lates on live tv and his opponent shines with lies and smiles and a record number of people watch, it s hard to how a president and his party recover. i hear the polls have romney up by 67 points today. i think hysteria is a good word and i like andrew sullivan as