Romney Promises To Fire Big Bird — Big Bird Fights Back, On Twitter

Editor’s note: Read our update – FiredBigBird Now Homeless And Fired After Twitter Suspends Account

Tonight during the first Obama-Romney presidential debate, Mitt Romney promised to fire Big Bird. Romney, talking about the deficit early in the debate, said to moderator Jim Lehrer, “I’m sorry, Jim, I’m gonna stop the subsidy to PBS…. I like PBS, I love Big Bird — I actually like, you too — but I am not going to keep spending money on things [we have] to borrow money from China to pay for.”

Some enterprising individual quickly created a new Twitter account, @FiredBigBird, and as of this writing has 17,725 followers, all in the space of less than two hours.

Here are a few of @FiredBigBird’s tweets:
[<a href=”http://storify.com/davidbadash/romney-promises-to-fire-big-bird-big-bird-fights-b” target=”_blank”>View the story “Romney Promises To Fire Big Bird — Big Bird Fights Back” on Storify</a>]<br /> <h1>Romney Promises To Fire Big Bird — Big Bird Fights Back</h1> <h2></h2> <p>Storified by David Badash · Wed, Oct 03 2012 20:49:57</p> <div>Look what Mitt Romney has done to me… http://twitpic.com/b0syqtBig Bird</div> <div>Mitt Romney will end Burt and Ernie’s right to a civil unionBig Bird</div> <div>. @ABCWorldNews @GMA #SAVEBIGBIRDBig Bird</div> <div>"I worked with Big Bird. I served with Big Bird. You, sir, are no Big Bird,"Big Bird</div> <div>. @DemocratMachine he strapped big bird to the roof of his carBig Bird</div> <div>BREAKING NEWS – BAIN CAPITAL HAS SHIPPED SESAME STREET TO CHINA… STORY DEVELOPINGBig Bird</div> <div>Organizing a Million Muppet March against Mitt… #MuppetsAgainstMittBig Bird</div> <div>#OccupySesameStreetBig Bird</div> <div>#RehireBigBirdBig Bird</div> <div>. @BigBirdRomney <— imposter I think it is Eric Fehrnstrom trying to win back the Big Bird vote…Big Bird</div> <div>Somewhere Paul Ryan is kicking over trash cans in hopes of smoking out Oscar the GrouchBig Bird</div> <p>