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ABC Censors Pro-Life Ad Exposing Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record
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Posted on 10/11/2008 8:30:27 PM PDT by flyfree

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- The ABC television network is coming under fire from a leading pro-life group for censoring a political radio ad that criticizes Barack Obama's pro-abortion voting record. National Right to Life hoped to run the ad during the nationally syndicated Sean Hannity radio program.

The ad asks Obama when he will apologize for calling the group "liars" for pointing out how he misrepresented his votes in the Illinois legislature against bills that would require medical care for babies who survive failed abortions.

Two nonpartisan groups, FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com have verified NRLC's claims as true -- leading the pro-life group to produce the ad.

On Friday, NRLC received notice from ABC Radio Network that it would not air the ad during Hannity's radio program.

In an email to National Right to Life, ABC Radio Network executives claimed the ad, "while supporting aspects of a Pro-Life position, weighs more heavily toward electioneering."

(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; abc; abcnews; ads; hannity; issues; nrlc; obama; talkradio; wabc
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1 posted on 10/11/2008 8:30:27 PM PDT by flyfree
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To: flyfree

How can they do that to a groups’ ad? They paid for the airtime.


2 posted on 10/11/2008 8:31:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: flyfree

UGH! Well hopefully Hannity will air it on his program anyway.


3 posted on 10/11/2008 8:32:23 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on Paul's vote. - Howie Carr)
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To: Secret Agent Man
How can they do that to a groups’ ad?

CFR, thanks to Maverick.

4 posted on 10/11/2008 8:33:16 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (0bama: Marxism You Can Believe In)
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To: flyfree

Throw the baby in a closet to die.


5 posted on 10/11/2008 8:34:01 PM PDT by allmost
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To: flyfree

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6 posted on 10/11/2008 8:35:53 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s okay, they let Obama get half an hour all to himself in primetime. They’re Fair and Balanced.


7 posted on 10/11/2008 8:36:14 PM PDT by rom (Cold on McCain '08. Enthusiastic about McCain-Palin '08!)
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To: flyfree

It would seem that Hannity would have the final word on this, wouldn’t he?


8 posted on 10/11/2008 8:36:28 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: flyfree

Shoot. If anybody is engaging in “electioneering”, it’s ABC.


9 posted on 10/11/2008 8:37:29 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: flyfree

Why Hannity’s program? They’re preaching to the choir. It needs to paly during primetime.


10 posted on 10/11/2008 8:38:33 PM PDT by DiogenesLaertius
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To: To Hell With Poverty

It would be nice if he used it instead of bumper music for the entire show.


11 posted on 10/11/2008 8:39:04 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Palin 2008 (oh yeah, and McCain too))
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To: Balding_Eagle

Hannity is a broadcaster. He doesn’t working in the sales department.


12 posted on 10/11/2008 8:39:19 PM PDT by Onerom99
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To: flyfree

Oh pshaw! Obama doesn’t lie. Ask John McCain.


13 posted on 10/11/2008 8:39:41 PM PDT by pankot
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To: DiogenesLaertius
Why Hannity’s program? They’re preaching to the choir. It needs to paly during primetime.

Astute observation. Playing it during a show when undecideds are listening makes more sense.

15 posted on 10/11/2008 8:41:18 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (0bama: Marxism You Can Believe In)
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To: flyfree

And abc doesn’t want to get involved in “electioneering.” Nope. No way. Uh uh!


16 posted on 10/11/2008 8:42:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm voting for McCain/Palin so I can look my grandkids in the eye when I tell them I'm sorry.)
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To: allmost

You left off the part Barack Obama worked so hard to protect, the induced labor which forces an alive preemie to be born too soon to survive without heroic medical attention. That wasn’t a bad thing, to Barack Obama.


17 posted on 10/11/2008 8:43:02 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; DiogenesLaertius

I agree, and I was wondering the same thing.


18 posted on 10/11/2008 8:44:16 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yeah. Isn’t that a joke?


19 posted on 10/11/2008 8:45:07 PM PDT by Pinkbell (”This guy is a jerk, an arrogant jerk. A Jerk Messiah.” - Rush talking about Obama)
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To: flyfree

Hey...No free speech anymore. Only liberal indoctrinations are allowed. This ain’t the America your parents grew up in. It’s on it’s way to becoming the United Socialist States of America.


20 posted on 10/11/2008 8:45:29 PM PDT by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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