Posted on 10/26/2006 6:56:35 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
**Exclusive**
In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and The CW Television Network Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech
NBC Claims that the Network “Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush”
The CW Television Network that the Network Does “Not have Appropriate Programming in which to Schedule this Spot”
NBC and The CW Television Network have taken a stand against the Dixie’s Chicks new documentary “Shut Up & Sing” a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible political and media fallout that occurred in 2003 after the Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." “Shut Up & Sing” opens in theaters in NY and Los Angeles on Friday and in theaters nationwide on November 10th.
NBC responded to a clearance report submitted by the Weinstein Company’s media agency saying that the network “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.”
The CW Television Network responded that it does “not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot.”
Famed litigator David Boies stated, “It is disappointing and troubling that NBC and The CW would refuse to accept an otherwise appropriate ad merely because it is critical of President Bush."
Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company stated, “It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is sad and profoundly un-American.”
The Weinstein Company is exploring taking legal action.
The rejected commercials for “Shut Up & Post” can be viewed at http://www.shutupandpost.com
Developing...
Eve Weinstein (with Harvey)
March 5, 2001
Eve Weinstein, vice-president of Elegant Films, has not been known for her political involvement. But when Hillary Clinton decided to run for the Senate, Weinstein decided to join the fray. "I'll do anything to get Hillary into office," she told the Washington Post.
During the last election cycle, Weinstein and her husband Harvey, co-founder of Miramax Films, donated more than $300,000 to Democratic committees that supported candidates like Clinton. In September 1999, the Hollywood couple also held a fundraiser for the First Lady in their home in Westport, Connecticut. With guests like Paul Newman and Martha Stewart, the event easily exceeded its goal of $100,000.
Elegant Films, a small movie company, currently has no films in production. The Weinsteins derive their considerable fortune from Miramax, which Harvey co-chairs. He and his brother Bob founded the company in 1979 and developed it into a movie-making empire before selling it to Disney in 1993 for a reported $80 million. Weinstein continues to direct the company's endeavors, producing box-office successes like "Pulp Fiction," "Shakespeare in Love," and "The English Patient." He also owns a share of Talk magazine, which is striving, in the words of editor Tina Brown, to create a profitable "synergy" between periodicals, books, and films.
A Democratic loyalist, Harvey participated in a weeklong flurry of fundraising last September that generated $5 million for the party. Like other movie moguls, Weinstein backed the Democrats despite public attacks on the entertainment industry by Al Gore and Joseph Lieberman, who accused Hollywood of exposing youth to a "culture of carnage." Weinstein made campaign contributions to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Christopher Dodd, both of whom serve on the Rules and Administration Committee. In September 1999, the committee debated the creation of a task force to examine the "decline of American culture" -- a measure that threatened to censure show business.
Now if the Dixie Chicks differed with their fans in the classy way that Beccy Cole did, I'd have fewer issues with them.
Like this: http://www.youtube.com/v/0BZ6aqgvdFI
ROFLOL! You would think that the Dixie Chick would realize they really are poison.
I am surprised the old MSM hasn't figured where the money is at.
Rupert Murdock figured it out a long time ago.
Visa via, FOX NEWS CORP.
You mean NBC actually did something right? NBC?
Since everything must be viewed with Bizarro goggles I would say this is an attempt by NBC to damage the president by making it look as though it gives a shit about something "disparaging to the President" considering the fact that 98.9% of its news broadcasts is devoted to lying aholes disparaging Bush. The rest is devoted to disparaging Cheney.
Hence this looks like an attempt to make the President look thin-skinned. If he were to invite them to sing at the White House I would laugh my ass off. And its pretty big.
speculate on 52
No Weinstein, what is un-American is you and your fat butt.
Harvey Weinstein needs a stomach staple. Maybe he can donate his profits to some of those malawi kids Madonna is trying scam.
"How much is that doggy in the window..."
Madonna: Here's your room. Like it?
David: Uh, couldn't you have given my dad a cool 10 grand? And secondly, I'm not all in to that Kabala stuff, sister. You know what I'm sayin'? (moves head side to side)
Apparently when it looks like they might have to lay-off EVERYONE at their company, they start to see the light...
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