Sponsored by the Number 47: 'Big Bird' Pecks at Romney at Rural Iowa Event

Now, this is politics.

A week after being threatened for extinction by Mitt Romney, Sesame Street's Big Bird was clucking mad at a campaign appearance by the GOP nominee in Van Meter, a ribbony dirt-road pass through in rural Dallas County.

The characters chanted anti-Wall Street lyrics at the cars full of Romney supporters turning onto Meadowview Avenue and entering the rally site.

The Des Moines Register caught the lyrics some of the protesters were singing:

“Stormy days/taking our jobs away/we did not wreck the e-con-o-my/Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Wa-a-all Street?”

The whole Sesame Street gang was there, although this group didn't come from PBS, the public television people who Romney said in last week's debate with President Obama should come off the public payroll.

No, this gang was from Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, an advocacy group that has made more of a habit of protesting against Big Wall Street, Big Money and Big Business rather than for Big Bird.

Word from The Register is that MoveOn.org will even have an airplane banner flying over Romney’s event reading “Crack down on Wall St., not Sesame St.”

Stay tuned.

The protest, CCI activist and Elmo impersonator David Goodner told The Register, was sponsored by the number 47.