Big Bird Stars in Sarcastic New Ad from the Obama Campaign: VIDEO

"Mitt Romney knows it’s not Wall Street you have to worry about, it’s Sesame Street. Mitt Romney, taking on our enemies no matter where they nest."

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UPDATE: Sesame Street has asked the Obama campaign to pull the ad.

Conan O'Brien Visualizes Romney's Takedown of Big Bird: VIDEO

These are Palin-esque tactics.

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Sesame Street has responded:

Sesame Workshop exec vp Sherrie Westin scolded the next morning, on CNN.

“Sesame Workshop receives very, very little funding from PBS,” she explained.

“We are able to raise our funding through philanthropic, through our licensed product, which goes back into the educational programming, through corporate underwriting and sponsorship," Westin added.

Sesame Workshop, meanwhile, issued a statement Thursday: “We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization. We do not comment on campaigns, but we’re happy we can all agree that everyone likes Big Bird!”

Zac Efron on Sesame Street: VIDEO

This week, Zac Efron paid a visit to Sesame Street to teach Elmo about something often in short supply in our world of instant gratification.

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