It Has Begun. State-Run Media Refuses to Run TV Ads Critical of Obamacare (Video)

GatewayPundit ^ | August 27, 2009

[Steelfish]

August 27, 2009

It Has Begun. State-Run Media Refuses to Run TV Ads Critical of Obamacare (Video)

ABC and NBC have refused to run an ad critical of Obamacare.

This is after ABC aired a half hour Obamacare infomercial from the White House earlier this year and refused any response from conservatives.

The networks refuse to run this ad by League of American Voters:

FOX News reported:

The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House.

The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to the rationing of procedures and medicine, began airing two weeks ago on local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS.

On a national level, however, ABC and NBC have refused to run the spot in its present form.

[CottShop]

Gee- I wonder what would happen IF Fox News refused to run pro-obamacare commercials liek htey have been FORCED to do?

[wolfcreek]

Don’t know if it was ABC but, AARP was running a *don’t believe the myths* pro-Obamacare commercial this morning.

The AARP are some lying bastards but, if you’re a member, you get some sweet discounts on rentals, hotels, etc.

[Little Ray]

I keep wondering if people have it wrong. Perhaps, instead of a State-Run Media, we have a Media-Run State...

[Tarpon]

The TV networks audience is disappearing ... why waste the money.

Radio is far more effective.

[flash2368]

I would think there would be legal remedies available to force them to sell equal time for an opposing view...

however since our legal system has apparently been taken over by communist thugs... guess that won’t work.

Can anyone smell CWII yet??

[ransomnote]

Maybe they refuse conservatives time on the air until they pretend to have a change of heart and enact a ‘Fairness Doctrine’ to ‘protect’ us.

[paulycy]

[Kimberly GG]

Hopefully everyone is watching Glenn Beck! This falls right into play with his show yesterday, and probably today.

[mmichaels1970]

I would think there would be legal remedies available to force them to sell equal time for an opposing view

Wouldn't that be the same as calling for a fairness doctrine?

I'd think they'd have a right to sell or refuse to sell commercials to whomever they choose. But we'd also have the right to turn them off and affect their ratings because of those choices.

[marron]

Just a reminder.

The media isn’t “biased” toward the DNC. What we often refer to as the major media “is” the DNC. They don’t support the DNC, they are the DNC. They are DNC propagandists, to be sure, and they are a favored client group but they are also a major force within the DNC’s leadership.

If you watch ABC, NBC, CNN to get your news, you may as well be reading DNC press releases because in fact you “are” reading DNC press releases. If you are complaining that Republicans aren’t getting a fair shake on these networks, brother, sister, you need to grow up. A Republican is never going to get a fair shake in a DNC press release.

The question is not, then, why don’t Republicans get a fair shake, but rather why after all these decades are Republicans still letting DNC activists read them their news, and still crying about it, and still not doing anything about it?

As soon as you figure out that a news source is nothing more than a DNC broadsheet, you should tune it out and turn it off. Kudos to the Robinsons for building an alternative, and kudos to others who are engaged in building other alternatives. Thank God for the radio, and watch in the next year as the DNC tries to shut that off as an alternative, and watch them go after the internet. They aren’t going to give up their monopoly without a fight. We shouldn’t let them seduce us into watching their junk broadcasting in the meantime.

[roses of sharon]

Hey, I have been calling them the media-run State for over a decade.

They are a war room made up of the MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia running 24/7/365 propaganda campaigns...political and cultural, for 40 years running.

Look at the TV this moment...a man who worked AGAINST America (and FOR the enemy) all his life is being honored with a flag draped coffin and the US Military are being used as pall bearers.

[Vendome]

WTF!? I have been watching a commercial with an Ambulance and cars surrounding it for the last week.

here it is by AARP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNrUAve-opU

[Vendome]

WTF!? I have been watching a commercial with an Ambulance and cars surrounding it for the last week.

here it is by AARP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNrUAve-opU

[LucyT]

Thanks, Vendome.

Ping to article, also #11 and #13.

[SaraJohnson]

Think of something we can do to get even with them when we regain power...

Or maybe we ought to pull an ACORN on some anchors so they can see the glory of fascism from the other side. Make their lives as miserable as they are making our lives.

[Sparko]

AARP = Administrators Against Retired Persons

[Candor7]

Map the transmission towers,Call out the welders.

Or even better, junk you TV and start a throw your TV out movement. Get hundreds to goto the ABC and NBC studios and leave your junked TV right there in front of their offices!!!

Huge piles of them!!!

Easy for me to say, I threw mine out in 2004.

[Vendome]

Thank you. Hope you don’t mind. Your ping list is bigger than mine.

[ArrogantBustard]

1) You can get some sweet deals on rentals etc. by being a member of AAA, NRA, and a host of other organizations.

2) Even if those lying socialist gun-grabbing bastards at AARP manage to swing a better deal ... it ain't worth selling my soul by associating with them.