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(Reuters) - Plans to save Big Bird, the fuzzy yellow character on U.S. public television's "Sesame Street," from possible extinction are taking shape in the form of a puppet-based protest next month dubbed the "Million Muppet March."

The demonstration is planned for November 3 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., three days before the general election.

Before the presidential debate between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney had concluded on October 3, two men who had never met each floated the Million Muppet March idea on social media. They immediately united to defend public broadcasting.

Romney pledged during the debate to end the U.S. federal government's subsidy for the Public Broadcasting Service despite his professed love for Big Bird, one of the characters on PBS's 43-year-old children's educational program "Sesame Street," which features the Muppets.

Michael Bellavia, 43, an animation executive from Los Angeles, and Chris Mecham, 46, a university student in Idaho, separately came up with the Million Muppet March idea in response.

COMMENT: Oh dear Lawd.  The head of Sesame Street makes almost $700,000 a year.  The thing is a gold mine.  It doesn't need a federal subsidy.

Once again we have the classic scare tactic, a specialty of the Democratic Party.  Elect Romney and Big Bird will wind up on someone's Thanksgiving plate. 

Big Bird will go on.  So will Sesame Street.  They aren't in danger.  This is a hoax, and should be called what it is. 

Ironically, if Republican policies and values on education were followed, this nation's children would be far better served than they are today, living under the thumb of a political party beholden, not to parents and students, but to teachers' unions and fast-hustling TV entrepreneurs.

October 13, 2012