Romney Promises To Fire Big Bird — Big Bird Fights Back, On Twitter
During the first Obama-Romney presidential debate, Mitt Romney promised to fire Big Bird. Romney, talking about the deficit early in the debate, said to moderator Jim Lehrer, “I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS…. I like PBS, I love Big Bird — I actually like, you too — but I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for.”
Some enterprising individual quickly created a new Twitter account, @FiredBigBird, and as of this writing has 17,725 followers, all in the space of less than two hours. Source
