Article Summary

In the article "Don't Mess With Big Bird" by Charles M. Blow he talks about Mitt Romney's comment kind of bashing Big Bird from Sesame Street. Romney's comment was this “I’m sorry, Jim. I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I’m going to stop other things. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I’m not going to — I’m not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for it". Many people were outraged because Big Bird has been such a huge influence in so many children's lives since 1969. The author Charles Blow took offense to it and wrote this article in response. He explains how he grew up with PBS and Sesame Street and how even as a junior in high school taking his ACT PBS helped him. He uses a good balance of ethos, pathos, and logos. Everything he says has something to back it up, whether its a statistic or just his own opinion.