He did this for fifty flipping years.
84-year-old Caroll Spinney is retiring as the puppeteer inside Big Bird. The value over replacement player (VORP) is huge because the operation is so complex. Check this out from the @globeandmail. pic.twitter.com/1ddIeeHTWI
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) October 17, 2018
Continue reading Caroll Spinney (Big Bird) is retiring after 50 years.
You know, a competent administration would have someone on staff whose job it would be to keep track of potentially awkward symbolic moments, in order to keep them from exploding in their boss’s face. Apparently not:
In a letter sent last week to President Obama, U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick contended that the Affordable Care Act had caused Sesame Place, one of Bucks County’s biggest tourist attractions, to terminate health benefits for its part-time employees.
“This law is hurting real people in my district and around the country,” the Bucks County Republican wrote.
A spokesman for SeaWorld, the amusement park’s parent company, confirmed Wednesday that the company was cutting the weekly work limit for part-time employees from 32 to 28 hours. Under the Affordable Care Act, companies can face fines if they do not provide insurance for staffers who work at least 30 hours per week.
Guess Big Bird can try the exchanges, just like every other part-time employee at Sesame Place… what? No, it doesn’t matter that Big Bird isn’t real: the government isn’t checking exchange applications for fraud anyway.
Via Naked DC.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
New ad from the RNC:
…You know, Barack Obama should have reported those speeches to the FEC as in-kind contributions. To Mitt Romney.
They don’t want any part in this one.
Sesame Workshop Response to Campaign Ads
Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down.
I believe that Barack Obama needs to apologize to Sesame Workshop now; don’t you? After all, he approved that message.
I will give FDL at least some credit: unlike 99% of their progressive compatriots, they aren’t afraid to point out when a Democrat has no clothes on.
Let’s look at that litany of Wall Street “criminals” and “gluttons of greed,” which later get juxtaposed with Big Bird. You have Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay and Dennis Kozlowski. So two CEOs prosecuted and convicted by George W. Bush’s Justice Department, and Madoff, whose son turned him in before Obama took office, in December 2008, and who pleaded guilty. So the Obama campaign could not fill a list of three Wall Street criminals that the Obama Justice Department actually sent to jail. Heck, they couldn’t fill a list of one!
Continue reading #rsrh FireDogLake(!) attacks Obama adminsitration over Big Bird ad.
Obama ads like the one found in this Politico article are going to make it difficult for me:
Yup. Somebody thought that this was a good idea. I hope to God that it runs in every swing state, including the ones with a lot of people wondering whether Obama is really as Presidential as they once thought. I also wouldn’t mind hearing whether or not the Sesame Corporation is happy with them being identified with the Democratic party at this point; after all, I have Christmas shopping to do.
Politico, by the way, is not happy:
…the president, as others have noted, and his team have been going fairly small at a moment when Romney is consistent in a message and pivoting toward going bigger (the foreign policy speech, more emotion on the trail, and so forth). And this video is the kind of small ball that Boston smacked over for months.
Ayup.
Moe Lane
