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CBS REJECTS ANTI-BUSH SUPER BOWL COMMERCIAL
Ad Age ^
| January 15, 2004
| Ira Teinowitz
Posted on 01/15/2004 3:54:38 PM PST by Prodigal Son
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising.
Network policy A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super Bowl or the ad's specific issue but was because the network has had a long-term policy not to air issue ads anywhere on the network.
A MoveOn spokesperson said the group hopes to appeal the decision within CBS.
Produced as a personal project by Charlie Fisher, creative director of the Copenhagen, Denmark, office of Publicis Groupe ad agency Leo Burnett, the spot is critical of the Bush administration's fiscal policies.
Anti-Bush contest MoveOn is airing a 60-second version the commercial, which was selected through a contest calling for anti-Bush ads, in advance of President Bush's State of the Union address Jan. 20. The group has purchased $300,000 worth of air time on Time Warner's CNN that starts Jan. 17 and runs through Jan. 21.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2004; 2004election; ads; agitprop; antibushad; bushbashing; bushhaters; campaignad; campaignlaws; cbs; election2004; electionad; fec; goodcall; morondotorg; moveon; moveondotorg; partisanpac; presidentbush; propaganda; superbowl; superbowlsunday
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To: Warren
Betcha Dan Blather is not happy. I didn't think of that! Betcha you're right! LOL.
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posted on
01/15/2004 4:37:45 PM PST
by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: Prodigal Son
must be that VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY at work yet again...couldn't be that the ad was horrible, in bad taste and just plain salacious...could it?
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posted on
01/15/2004 4:39:19 PM PST
by
Jinjelsnaps
("Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana" - Groucho Marx)
To: Prodigal Son
CBS's decision aside, don't downplay the effect of these ads on voters. way too many freepers strutting around as if this election is going to be a landslide, it isn't.
To: Timesink
"It would have no effect except to make millions of people hate the left ..."
Ergo SeeBS's decision.
64
posted on
01/15/2004 4:43:30 PM PST
by
optimistically_conservative
(A couple of guys with boxcutters in Germany posed no imminent threat until Sept. 11 2001)
To: Prodigal Son
They'll run it some other time. And given that the deficit question, may in fact look and sound perfectly reasonable, the over-the-top Hitler ad would have been better from our point of view.
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posted on
01/15/2004 4:44:10 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: Prodigal Son
Could CBS have learned something from "thereagans"?
To: dpwiener
I do not like the huge deficit either but a lot of the money is going towards fighting an ongoing war. Be that as it may, we didn't need a perscription drug benefit.
Having said that, the Democrats said throughout the 80's and early 90's that Reagan's deficit would last generations as well, but it dwindled after the Republicans got control of Congress. Let's give this one a little time to see if an improving economy can shorten it. Still, no new social spending, please, Mr. President!
To: You Dirty Rats
That's what I was thinking.
68
posted on
01/15/2004 4:46:30 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: Dog Gone
I would love for them to run those ads. I believe the lefties attempts to compare Bush and Hitler are doing more than anything to move voters our way.
69
posted on
01/15/2004 4:47:09 PM PST
by
BJClinton
(Vote Democrat, it's easier than thinking.)
To: onyx
Geeeee .. I'm hurt .. didn't they like receiving our emails ..??
70
posted on
01/15/2004 4:47:36 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
To: hattend
$2.4 million per 30-second block this year.
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posted on
01/15/2004 4:49:45 PM PST
by
BJClinton
(Vote Democrat, it's easier than thinking.)
To: Reagan Man
The Demlibs are desperateOver at the DUmp, their talkin' "boycott!" and trashing that Right Wing, Fox News wannabe CBS outfit.
I wish 'em the best of luck, they don't seem like the bunch that could organize their way out of a wet paper bag.
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posted on
01/15/2004 4:57:37 PM PST
by
woofer
To: onyx
This about makes me faint! I figured that the ads would be a shoe-in for CBS although maybe the people at CBS Sports think different then the CBS News folks! I can only imagine the uproar this would have caused during the Super Bowl if they had run the ads.
73
posted on
01/15/2004 5:07:01 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
To: southernnorthcarolina
I love it when flyover country gets to Championships -- drives the networks nuts.
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posted on
01/15/2004 5:07:52 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
To: You Dirty Rats
Either they allow all issue advocacy ads or none at all. As long as they are fair, I don't care which.
To: Prodigal Son
they'll save the anti-w for cbs eve news
To: Alas Babylon!
isn't soros running ads on CNN preaching to the choir?
77
posted on
01/15/2004 5:21:46 PM PST
by
avital2
To: Prodigal Son
Poor Soros.
Thanks CBS....(did I say that?)
78
posted on
01/15/2004 5:22:56 PM PST
by
wardaddy
("either the arabs are at your throat, or at your feet")
To: Prodigal Son; MeekOneGOP
"A MoveOn spokesperson said the group hopes to appeal the decision within CBS." Hasn't anyone told these people Saddma no longer works for CBS?
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posted on
01/15/2004 5:24:55 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(Liberty does not tolerate lawlessness and a borderless nation will not prevail.)
To: Glenn
It takes more than a couple million for 30 seconds. I say, let them spend it. As fast as they can. They'll be broke by April.If only it were true. George Soros is bankrolling these loons, and to him, a couple of mil is like the change we find under the sofa cushions.
80
posted on
01/15/2004 5:28:42 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
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