Martin Hoke: “we would not possibly kill Big Bird if we wanted to kill Big Bird. Nobody wants to kill Big Bird. The fact is that Big…”

“we would not possibly kill Big Bird if we wanted to kill Big Bird. Nobody wants to kill Big Bird. The fact is that Big Bird generates hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue every single year to the great benefit of the people that created it, and any suggestion that Big Bird is going anywhere is crazy. We cannot go 1 week, 1 day without another new ethical allegation that is made against a member of the Cabinet. Today it is Henry Cisneros and his problem with Housing and Urban Development. Over the weekend there was a problem with Ron Brown and apparently Federico Pena had hired Mr. Brown using FAA funds to lobby on behalf of Denver back in the late 1980's or early 1990's. There is a pall, a cloud of ethical problems that hangs over this administration. It is certainly no secret that it is, let us call it in the politically correct language of the day, the most ethically challenged administration of the 20th century, perhaps of both centuries.”