New Twist in the Romney vs Big Bird Debate

                                           Cousin of Mitt Romney condemns his plans 
                                                to cut funding to fellow Muppets. 
 

In a surprising development in the ongoing dispute between former Massachusetts governor and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and Sesame Street denizen Big Bird, a family member of Romney’s has come forward with a statement of his own.

Longtime Muppet intellectual Sam the Bald Eagle addressed a crowd of raucous puppet reporters yesterday in what is fast becoming a hot-button issue in the presidential campaign. “I find it appalling that (Mitt Romney) has turned his back on his own plush and blood.  By cutting funding to Public Broadcasting, Romney will be effectively choosing Wall Street over Main Street; Main Street in this instance referring to Sesame Street. My support on this issue is firmly at the back of Big Bird, both as a fellow Muppet but also as a fellow large flightless avian.”

Sam recalls growing up with the young Mitt Romney, “Willard and I were as inseparable as cousins could be. I taught him how to count and he taught me how to furl my brow. Back then I never would have believed that he would betray his family, and dare I say it, his own kind the way he is intending.”

The news conference ended abruptly when a banana cream pie was thrown by a member of the audience, hitting Sam square in the face. With whipped cream dripping off his beak, Sam let out a long sigh, shook his head and walked off stage.