“I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS… I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too," went Romney's vow.
Since then, Big Bird started a Twitter account, journalists calculated exactly how much of the federal budget PBS actually uses (.012 percent), and our favorite thing of all, this happened:
Poster from Dear World on Facebook.
Thanks to Ann V for the link to Huff Post.
UPDATE: I corrected the percentage of the federal budget that subsidizes PBS.
Of course, PBS is not breaking the bank; it's an excuse to get rid of all those librul commentators and news programs, you know.
ReplyDeleteBTW, you may or may not want to fact check this post; a quick look around the intertubes turns up a varying figure of .012% and .00012%, which is a lot when we're talking millions of dollars. Somebody with even less math sense than me has screwed up the percentage figure somewhere along the line.
Although really, I don't know why anyone cares about such trifles when the entire country is headed straight for "ultimate destruction" any day now, and presumably Big Bird's goose is cooked no matter what: http://www.advocate.com/politics/politicians/2012/10/06/watch-alabama-chief-justice-candidate-say-gay-marriage-will-destroy.
Russ, you're right according to the PBS's figures. I corrected the percentage. It's still a drop in the bucket and will not solve the problem of the national debt.
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