Neil deGrasse Tyson Wrote the Only Thing You Need to Read About Mitt Romney's Vow to Cut Funding for PBS Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/04/12 08:15AM By far the most viral sound bite produced during last night's presidential debate was Mitt Romney's line about cutting federal support for PBS, which was accompanied by the laugh-to-keep-from-crying line "I like PBS, I like Big Bird."