Neil deGrasse Tyson Rips Romney For Remark About PBS Budget, Big Bird

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Rips Romney For Remark About PBS Budget, Big Bird
The Huffington Post
By Meredith Bennett-Smith Posted: 10/04/2012 4:42 pm EDT Updated: 10/04/2012 4:42 pm EDT

Leave it to Neil deGrasse Tyson to drop a fact bomb in the middle of Wednesday's fiercely debated presidential debate.

The astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City and host of the PBS program NOVA ScienceNOW took to Twitter last night to take issue with Mitt Romney's plan to defund PBS.

Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 4, 2012

The message was retweeted nearly 48,000 times, as PBS funding suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly became one of the hottest topics of the entire evening.

[savebigbird]

1. I'm sorry for bringing back a vintage thread, but...

...this is priceless. PRICELESS.