Voters in Texas were given quite a shock Friday morning when the most controversial furry bird of the election lined up behind them, yellow feathers i...
Three days before the election, hundreds of puppets and people -- toddlers included -- gathered in D.C. to support public television and radio. The id...
Is anyone naĆÆve enough to believe that any network other than PBS would run Big Bird and Mister Rogers for as long as it has? No, it's not the paltry sum of money why conservatives want to get rid of Big Bird, Mister Rogers, and PBS. It's the values for which they stand.
Ever since Mitt Romney told America he's solicited "binders full of women" during a search of cabinet members as Governor of Massachusetts, the Intern...
WASHINGTON -- More than 1,000 puppeteers and public broadcasting supporters have signed on for a march on the National Mall in Washington three days b...
I don't believe the arts can, or should, stand on their own. Even more worrisome than Romney's statements themselves is the ideology from which they spring up. The arts are not nonpartisan.
Barbra Streisand used an appearance at the newly opened Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Thursday evening to ding Republican presidential cand...
We have concluded that Mr. Eastwood did not make our day with his rambling diatribe at the convention. It's not because he tried to diminish the President but because he diminished himself in the trying.
MSNBC's NOW panel on Wednesday discussed Mitt Romneyās infamous Big Bird comments and his wavering views on education, as well as the two schools of...
Big Bird may have scored this year's Betty White-like career comeback following a jovial nod from Mitt Romney during the Oct. 3 presidential debates. ...
Romney says he wants a better future for his children and grandchildren, and for the children in the United States. He's concerned for their future and wants them to go far. But he has a lousy way of showing it.
Mitt Romney's backhanded compliment to Big Bird and Jim Lehrer might have been one of the buzzier moments of last week's debate, but it's not a winnin...
Ultimately, Governor Romney's vision of a sunny America in which he sweeps the clouds of recession away to where the air is sweet is as phony as some sort of imaginary, seven-foot-tall, tuskless woolly mammoth. Any adult can see it doesn't exist.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign is out with a new TV ad, going after one of Mitt Romney's most memorable lines from last week's presidential debate: ...
If you wanted to take on PBS there are lots of ways to do it. Threaten it all and the 2011 federal deficit would shrink from approximately $1,299,000,000,000 to $1,298,555,000,000. It's not nothing, but is it worth the cost?
From children, college students, the disabled to senior citizens, middle class America will be at risk under Romney's plan. The presidential debate should be a wake- up call for the 99 percent of us.