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Don’t mess with Big Bird.
As if the Twittersphere backlash to Mitt Romney’s presidential debate promise to cut federal funding to PBS—and by extension, Sesame Street—were not enough, Peter Schube, president and chief operating officer of The Jim Henson Co., also pushed back.
During an Advertising Week panel discussion in New York today, co-moderator Paul Lavoie of Taxi gave Schube an opening to vent, asking simply, “Um, has Romney helped Big Bird?”
A visibly agitated Schube, a 24-year veteran of The Jim Henson Co.,
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