Sesame Street and PBS

HBO has announced that new episodes of Sesame Street will now only be available on HBO Max and that the streaming of old episodes will also only be available via their service. And with that announcement goes the Democrats biggest defense against PBS losing public taxpayer funding. Remember when Mitt Romney brought up cutting funding to PBS - the cries were "He wants to kill Big Bird!"

Now Big Bird has moved his nest to a gold-plated gated community.

Don't get me wrong - I do not see defunding PBS (and NPR for that matter) as a big deal because of the relatively low amount of tax funds we're really talking about. And I do see the value of the children's programming on PBS for kids whose parent can't afford to give them iPads as playthings.

But if President Trump ever wanted to defund PBS and NPR - now that Big Bird has flown the coop - it would be the perfect time to announce to cuts.