Fire Sesame Street! Look at these Outrageous Salaries at PBS

What a freaking absolute joke! Another winning issue for Romney/Ryan, spread the word!
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Sesame Street Is the 1 Percent


By Katrina Trinko from National Review Online

October 9, 2012 

President Obama, who has railed against the “fat-cat bankers on Wall Street” and the wealthy, has been an eager defender of Big Bird and public broadcasting this week in light of Mitt Romney’s comments that he would defund it in last week’s debate. But it turns out that many of those behind Big Bird are actually members of the 1 percent themselves (anyone with a total income of $343,927 or more as of 2009), based on their salaries.



At Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the CPB’s 2011 tax forms:



Patricia De Stacy Harrison, president and CEO $361,895



At PBS, according to 2011 tax forms:



Paula Kerger, president and CEO $669,260



Michael Jones, chief operating officer $477,296



Barbara Landes, chief financial officer, treasurer, and senior vice president $402,355



Katherine Lauderdale, senior vice president and general counsel, $381,855.



At Sesame Workshop, according to 2011 tax forms:



Gary Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop until October 2011, $988,456



H. Melvin Ming, current president and CEO, $584,572



Lewis Bernstein $406,387




Terry Fitzpatrick $439,741



Myung Kang-Huneke $389,005



Sherrie Westin $463,892



Susan Kolar $401,425



Miranda Barry $397,175



Maura Regan $379,733



Joseph Mazzarino $556,165



Caralynn Sandorf $354,476



Anita Stewart $455,369



And while the actor who plays Big Bird (Carroll Spinney) doesn’t have a salary that puts him in the 1 percent, he’s not far off: Spinney makes $314,072.



And who’s funding this? Well, in part, taxpayers: the federal government gave the CPB a grant of $444.1 million in 2012.