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Romney to Lehrer: I will pull PBS funding

Mitt Romney told longtime PBS anchor and debate moderater Jim Lehrer tonight that he would cut federal funding to PBS.

"I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS," Romney told Lehrer during tonight's presidential debate. But, he added, "I like PBS. I like Big Bird" -- [the Sesame Street character] -- "I like you too."

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In August, Romney told Fortune Magazine that he would cut the PBS subsidy from the federal budget, a plan PBS CEO Paula Kerger called "“extremely disappointing."