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Posted on 04/03/2006 9:04:06 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
A liberal activist group's $1.3 million ad campaign criticizing four Republican House members for voting in support of "energy and big oil companies" was rejected Monday by NBC stations in Columbus, Ohio and Hartford, Conn.
The ads paid for by Move-on.org contend that the four GOP lawmakers — Reps. Chris Chocola in Indiana's 2nd district, Thelma Drake in Virginia's 2nd district, Nancy Johnson in Connecticut's 5th district and Deborah Pryce in Ohio's 15th district — are taking money from oil and energy companies and then supporting laws that reward those companies.
Even though two stations rejected them, the ads are being aired by other stations in all four markets. The 30-second spots running for 10 days starting Monday accuse the lawmakers of taking money and then voting against bills that would penalize oil companies for price gouging.
Jean Nemet, a spokeswoman for WCMH in Columbus, said local stations are responsible for the content of ads paid for by third parties, and not the campaign. WCMH executives consulted with their lawyers before deciding not to run the ad, she said.
Move-on executive director Eli Pariser said the stations "are claiming the ads are misleading without saying what is misleading about them." No representative for WVIT in Hartford was available Monday evening.
"Move-on's long planned attacks were derailed before they got out of the gate because they're false and deceptive," said Carl Forti, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "Voters will see right through it."
GOP lawmakers cited in the ads quickly dismissed the criticism.
"One of the stations had already taken it down and refused to air it because it's false and misleading," said Sean Spicer, a spokesman for Pryce, who said the Ohio congresswoman supported legislation that increased fines for price-gouging.
Another congresswoman, Johnson, planned to answer the Move-on ads with ads of her own. That prompted Move-on to say it would increase its Connecticut ad buy in response.
They'll re-package it with Delay in a day or two.
When did leftist thugs ever care about the truth?
So, what does it think it is accomplishing, exactly?
"A liberal activist group's $1.3 million ad campaign criticizing four Republican House members for voting in support of "energy and big oil companies" was rejected Monday by NBC stations in Columbus, Ohio and Hartford, Conn."
I thought most people liked gasoline and electricity?
Remember - Last time not ONE of the candidates MoveOn supported wone their race.
The GOP can get real dissapointing at times. Sometimes I think they only win because they're running against Democrats.
Didn't CT make a deal with Chavez?
If they don't promote the legislation with enough enthusiasm, then they are guilty of being in bed with big oil.
That way they will know how ridiculous they look to the rest of us.
The reason for that is because the Republicans who were slimed by MoveOn.org responded with ads of their own simply linking their opponents to.... MoveOn.org. That's all the Republicans need to do since most Americans are well aware of what MoveOn.org is all about, and understand that the organization's agenda is to help the Democrats turn America into a Euro-style, secular-socialist welfare state. You know - - so America can be as great as France.
Finally big media discovers they may have Republicans in the audience too.
Didn't they support Obama?
Connecticut ping! (One station is WVIT - Channel 30 in Hartford, CT)
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LOL! Yet the fools are using television, radio, and internet; none of which exists without electricity, which requires energy, which means "energy and big oil companies". These fools have no clue as to how good they have it here in the US.
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