What's Behind the War on Big Bird?

It was such a weird, seemingly off-the-cuff remark by Mitt Romney in the first debate: that of all the items in the budget an axe-wielding privatizing plutocratic president could hack away at, he pointed to a children’s television show and the debate moderator, Jim Lehrer (who certainly deserves to be fired from something).

Stephen Markley

October 16, 2012