These marches are getting a bit ridiculous

First the Million Man March (which actually was around 250K, but hey, who's counting), the Million Mom March (pushed by that liberal hypocrite Rosie O'Donnel (yes, liberal and hypocrisy, I'm know I'm being redundant, she doesn't want to you have a gun but all her body guards are armed) that also only had a few hundred thousand. Now we have the Million Muppet March!

"Million Muppet March" planned to defend U.S. backing for PBS

(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...

...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...

...Bellavia bought the Internet address www.millionmuppetmarch.com during the debate and discovered Mecham had already started a Facebook page by the same name.

Within 30 minutes of the end of the debate they were on the phone with each other, planning the march.

"I figured, why just make it a virtual show of support? Why not take this opportunity because it seemed like there was already a growing interest in it and actually make it an active, participatory event," Bellavia said. "I literally just said, 'It's happening.'"

Both men consider themselves fans of "Sesame Street," perhaps the best-known program on PBS, which received $445 million of $3.8 trillion in federal budget outlays in 2012.

Coming from rural Idaho, Mecham said he was aware how important public broadcasting was in sparsely populated areas that receive no other signals over the air.

"Romney was using Muppets as a rhetorical device to talk about getting rid of public broadcasting, which is really so much bigger than Sesame Street," Mecham said. "While he was still talking I was thinking of ways I could express my frustration at that argument. Before the debates were over I had put up the Million Muppet March Facebook page."

Hate to slap you two with reality but Big Bird is going nowhere. PBS gets a half billion from the federal government during a time a multi-trillion dollar deficits. It's aluxury we cannot afford. Kids in poverty in this county have access to cable TV but more importantly the licensing rights to the Muppets will more than pay for the federal funding. And again, hate to be Oscar the Grouch on your asses we don't have the money for this anymore and it's no longer needed.

I really found this interesting.

...Mecham is a writer who is studying political science at Boise State University out of his interest in healthcare policy.

Bellavia is president of the animation studio Animax Entertainment, founded by former Second City actor Dave Thomas....

Mecham, if you are interested in healthcare policy, why don't you do something useful and study something in healthcare. Medicine, nursing, hospital administration, etc. Or are you just trying to set yourself up with some BS non-profit and become an "expert" on medicine who has not done much more than put a bandaid on. Kinda like the leaders who pushed Obamacare on us.

Typical leftist crap. I love the Muppets, Sesame Street, etc but the time for federal funding is over. We need to get Big Bird off welfare and get his ass a job!