Comments on: Bring-Your-Own-Puppet Million Muppet March planned

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:40:00 +0000

When are we going to stop being distracted by puppets for pre-schoolers and get serious about the civil rights of ourselves AND our children being taken away.

Do you think that pre-schoolers will grow up to be compassionate, involved adults by watching corporate media instead of Sesame Street?

By: MadRat

MadRat — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:26:00 +0000

I have to agree with you but in stronger terms.

This is an idiotic idea. Let’s say that only 100,000 people show up. How much fossil fuel will be burned up, polluting the environment, getting them there? How much money will be spent on this even that could be donated directly to PBS?

What’s happening in the mean time? “Terrorist” women and children on two continents are being crippled and killed by Predator drones blowing up weddings and funerals. American citizens are sitting in prison for months or years without trial. The US government is allowing its police force to monitor its citizens’ phone calls without a warrant. DNA is being collected from American citizens who have been arrested, with or without a trial. The list goes on and on… When are we going to stop being distracted by puppets for pre-schoolers and get serious about the civil rights of ourselves AND our children being taken away.

By: The Life Of Bryan

The Life Of Bryan — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:21:00 +0000

Couldn’t we get Romney to wear a goatee? Isn’t that how an evil twin is commonly denoted in modern drama?

By: John Smith

John Smith — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:47:00 +0000

It’s too bad that after forty years the Children’s Television Workshop hasn’t figured out how to make any money off of these beloved Muppets.

By: Travis Etling

Travis Etling — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:37:00 +0000

This is absolutely at the heart of the philosophical debate: slashing and privatizing those elements that contribute to the common good (education, healthcare, environment, public information and programming) in order to facilitate transfer of wealth and resources from the commons to the Kochs.

By: skyhawk1

skyhawk1 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 03:14:00 +0000

Guy Smiley would have to wear shades, and a false beard to avoid people confusing him with Romney.

By: beemoh

beemoh — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:52:00 +0000

This is absurd. Muppets don’t have legs, they’re not marching anywhere.

By: EvilSpirit

EvilSpirit — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:16:00 +0000

Like it or not, the 2-party system emerges as the natural consequence of gaming our entire system of government. The particular pair of parties we’ve ended up with are the symptom of that, not the pathology itself. A million-anything march is just a fart in the wind when what you’re looking for is a whole new Constitutional convention.

By: jim weed

jim weed — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 01:09:00 +0000

clown event. this is a non-issue. nothing is going to happen to cpb/pbs. romney was just giving a handjob to the tea partiers when he said that.

By: Don Simpson

Don Simpson — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:48:00 +0000

Ian, that’s only because the National Park Service wanted to report that there was no where close to a million men at his march…

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:29:00 +0000

Yep. Oppressed minorities and Muppets.

Well done, folks. Well done.

Does no one comprehend the concept of “optics?”

Nobody?

Farrakhan almost sued the National Park Service over crowd estimates. Who’re the Muppet organizers going to sue?

By: Damien

Damien — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:24:00 +0000

I always thought that yellow bird was Too Big To Fail.

By: rezmuff

rezmuff — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:23:00 +0000

I think Obama and others were correct to mock Mitt on this issue, but the time for that has passed. It’s now just a stale punchline, and a small issue in a big campaign. These people should work on getting out the vote, and bringing more attention to Romney’s disastrous plans for the economy, civil rights, and foreign policy.

By: niro5

niro5 — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:11:00 +0000

Or, you could spend your weekend before election day going door to door convincing your PBS supporting neighbors to vote. Or try volunteering at a DNC field office. If the Obama campaign had a million extra volunteers on the third, the election would be a forgone conclusion.

Don’t like partisan politics? Bring your Muppet to the local town square and while the kids play with them, you tell the parents to vote on Tuesday.

If I wanted to screw PBS, the first thing I would do would be to schedule a useless march the weekend before election day.

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:10:00 +0000

Makes me wish I hadn’t given my Kermit costume away.

By: Tchoutoye

Tchoutoye — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:46:00 +0000

Nothing against Big Bird, but this is a bit trivial for a million march. There should be one against the bipartisan stranglehold of the Democratic and Republican parties limiting real choice in the elections.

By: chenille

chenille — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Is it really such a slap that people find the Million Man March an inspiration for their lesser causes, and so name them in fond reference to it, rather than leaving it an untouched memory? I don’t think it detracts from the original.

By: someoneisafoot

someoneisafoot — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:13:00 +0000

seriously? million muppet march. this is a slap in the face. co-opting names of civil right activism is not cool. why can’t folks be creative and figure out a different name.

By: spacedoggy

spacedoggy — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0000

This will look great in the news. Great defence of PBS by Mr. Rogers, Surprised no one’s mentioned already since it seems to be such an issue in the presidential debate…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q