The 10 Least Avoidable Memes Of The 2012 Election
Unemployed Big Bird
Not everyone gets that riled up when Mitt Romney talks about, say, axing Planned Parenthood altogether, but we as a nation get up in arms when Sesame Street is threatened. After Romney simultaneously declared his love for big bird and his intention to cut funding for PBS during the first presidential debate, photoshops of destitute, unemployed Big Bird cropped up almost immediately, and once again, the Obama campaign got in on the free publicity.