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Million Puppet March takes to the streets of DC
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Thousands come out to support public broadcasting stations
- Duration 1:46
- Date Nov 4, 2012
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Well there weren't a million puppets on the streets of Washington DC but at least a thousand people many of them with cloth and furry friends.
Turned out for what they called the million puppet march.
-- the million puppet march was organized as a response to a debate comment made by Republican presidential candidate.
Mitt Romney who was expressing concern over mounting federal deficits dialect PBS -- -- big bird actually like it -- But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for.
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Many of the puppets were characters featured on public television programs aimed at children welcome to have march.
Look at all these make people here -- -- or PBS -- we were told their respects.
Though it.
-- -- -- -- We love them not but we loved Sesame Street dealers cannot let my son lives and cutting that is just as a catastrophe for a moment without somebody in the crowd might have gotten his.
Presidential elections next no no little anger quite deliberately brought a puppet of the -- president Richard Nixon.
Even Nixon was a supporter of the yards in the NEA in public broadcasting.
And even Nixon does as -- of that crime miss some that our country needs big time but the evidence I might say you know there there -- these huge budget deficits.
What would you cut.
-- you can't cut kids out of everything and regardless of budgets we've we've got to -- defense spending or whatever it is that we got to spend.
Education is most important to everybody the two Internet organizers of the million -- march who had never met.
Did ask members of the crowd to make donations to public broadcasting -- -- watched John Henry fox five.