Posted on 03/01/2012 8:13:33 AM PST by Sub-Driver
DC Metro says it can't remove 'Go To Hell' Obama advertisement By Keith Laing - 03/01/12 10:41 AM ET
Washington, D.C.'s Metrorail says it cannot remove an advertisement in one of its subway stations that criticizes President Obama.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) called for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which oversees the subway system that runs in the capitol region, to remove the ad because it is "deeply disrespectful to the President of the United States."
But the transit agency, which runs trains and buses in Washington as well as the northern Virginia and Maryland suburbs, said it is prohibited from refusing advertisements for political reasons.
"WMATA advertising has been ruled by the courts as a public forum protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution, and we may not decline ads based on their political content," the agency said in a written statement that was provided to The Hill.
"WMATA does not endorse the advertising on our system, and ads do not reflect the position of the authority," the Metro statement continued.
The ad, which appears in a metro station in Virginia, is for a film that is critical of the federal health law and includes the phrase "Go to hell, Barack."
Moran said he was "disappointed" by WMATA’s defense of the advertisement.
"If their current advertising guidelines do not prohibit profane advertisements on taxpayer-funded property, then WMATA should take the initiative and update them," he said in a statement.
“The specific language in the WMATA-approved ad that should be removed is not political, it’s profane," Moran continued. "It defames the President of the United States in a way that coarsens the public discourse."
Its creator, filmmaker Darrow Clements, said in an interview that he stands by the advertisement.
"It was designed to express the magnitude of anger over our move toward socialized medicine," Clements said in an interview with the Patch website in Clarendon, Va.
"I'm extremely upset the government is going to take over healthcare," he continued. "I'm not mildly upset. I'm extremely upset."
Clements said he purchased the advertisement on the Metro system because "can't afford to spend a ton of money like Michael Moore.
"I'm an independent, struggling filmmaker," he said.
“It defames the President of the United States in a way that coarsens the public discourse.”
Not nearly so badly as 0bama has debased the office to which he pretends...
Jim Moran is saying it’s disrespectful? That’s rich!
“It defames the President of the United States in a way that coarsens the public discourse.”
Not as much as the current President has defamed America!
By the way, Got to hell, Obama!
Moran probably ^belly-laughs^ every time he sees re-runs of Obamugabe giving someone the finger-by-stealth!
Congresscritters, regardless of party, are too self-absorbed.
Obama should be mocked, not villified. It will be more effective politically.
Cartoons that mock his failures will have more impact on voters, especially the youth... take away his “cool”.
I am currently fundraising to implement this strategy... and by fundraising I mean buying powerball tickets.
Can someone post a picture of the ad?
I don’t think Darrow Clements knows what this might mean. Audits, film industry snubbing, late night police raids on his home. Anything goes with the kenyan turd administration. The ad will be removed. Give it a day.
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The filmmaker couldn’t ask for a bigger boost for this film. Make the Drudge page and stand back.
Where was Jim Moron when the Left was vilifying GWB and calling him much worse names?
Get over yourself Moron. Most of the country agrees with the ad.
This community organizer is doing what is 100% illegal. Stop him...call your news papers and all of your elected and DEMAND this ad be taken off the air and while you are at it.....Ask why Louis Farrakhan can use his Nation of Islam to go after McDonald's..................!!!!
So, why isn’t Mr Jim Moron not asking for the president to be removed from office, since, he’s deeply disrespectful of the U.S. Constitution and what this country stands for?
Jim Moran clearly does not believe in the First Amendment.
Therefore he lied when he took his oath, and should be removed from the Congress.
Disrespectful’ to the president? And how exactly did his liberal moron minions treat President Bush for 8 years?
Perhaps hard-working, God fearing Americans will respect the President when he respects them....
Your job as President is to SERVE the people and respect them, the onus is always on YOU as you must FORFEIT the right to any privacy and/or expectations of not having people despise you....
Obama is the poster boy for “Generation Me” and just doesn’t get it as evidenced by his thin skin....
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." --Saul Alinsky
Evidently Mr. Moran wasn't around during the Bush years, as this is NOTHING compared to things that were displayed in public about him.
Either that, or he's just another double-standard shameless liberal hypocrite.
In that case it can be assumed that he probably deliberately misspelled his name as well, the true spelling obviously being MorOn.
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