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richardhutnik on 14 October 2012
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badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:

Yes, the GOP that wants to cut funding going to Sesame Workshop, is going to approach them to use a character to support a campaign to cut their funding.  And of course, Sesame Workship is going to be more than happy to do that.

I'm not sure why they would even care. They make a ton off of merchandising and licensing. One of the dumbest arguments floating around is that they take so little money from the government, Romney can't kill Big Bird even though he really really really wants to. But he doesn't really really really want to kill Big Bird. He just thinks that we shouldn't be giving money we don't have to something that can so easily stand on its own two gigantic bird feet.

If they got paid for licensing it for the ad, that would be a different story.  But, I don't see where they would give permission for use for free, when a candidate says he is going to cut their funding.