PMT: Granholm vs. Gingrich on Jobs… and Big Bird

On last night’s ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’, Piers Morgan welcomed Former GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, along with former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, to debate Wednesday’s first presidential debate.

As we awaited Friday’s job report, Morgan asked Granholm and Gingrich to take an honest look at the unemployment numbers under Barack Obama. “This is the lowest male participation in the workforce since they began keeping records,” the former speaker of the house said. “People have been dropping out.”

“It’s the policies of the Republicans that are completely trickle down, hands off, laissez-faire, which means that you don’t do anything to try to get manufacturing jobs in this country,” she explained. “You want to know why there’s lower male participation in the workforce? It’s because we’ve lost so many manufacturing jobs.”

A more pressing matter to the host of ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ was the still trending topic on Twitter:  Big Bird.

Morgan asked each should Big Bird live or die?

“I would save Big Bird by liberating Big Bird from the bureaucracy,” Gingrich said, to which Granholm replied, “Big Bird lives!”