Posted on 08/27/2009 12:25:09 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House.
The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to the rationing of procedures and medicine, began airing two weeks ago on local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS. On a national level, however, ABC and NBC have refused to run the spot in its present form.
"It's a powerful ad," said Bob Adams, executive director of the League of American Voters, a national nonprofit group with 15,000 members who advocate individual liberty and government accountability. "It tells the truth and it really highlights one of the biggest vulnerabilities and problems with this proposed legislation, which is it rations health care and disproportionately will decimate the quality of health care for seniors."
Adams said the advertisement is running on local network affiliates in states like Louisiana, Arkansas, Maine and Pennsylvania. But although CBS has approved the ad for national distribution and talks are ongoing with FOX, NBC has questioned some of the ad's facts while ABC has labeled it "partisan."
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ABC and NBC still have viewers?
Can’t someone sue these “journalists”?
Doesn’t seem right that they’re using public airwaves for a partisan agenda.
Still got the zero kneepads on.
Yeah... Like ABC wouldn’t want to run a ‘partisan’ ad, that would be wrong. Devoting an entire night on their network to advocating Barry O’s plan, that certainly wasn’t ‘partisan’ LOL
Do these people really think that people are dumb enough to accept their lame and foolish excuses?
Yeah... Like ABC wouldn’t want to run a ‘partisan’ ad, that would be wrong. Devoting an entire night on their network to advocating Barry O’s plan, that certainly wasn’t ‘partisan’ LOL
Do these people really think that people are dumb enough to accept their lame and foolish excuses?
This only serves to further damage these networks, not stop the hemmorhage of support for Obama’s plan (no pun intended.
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PBS’ Lehrer wanted violence against anyone opposing.
NBC and ABC refuse ads.
Why does this not have tax and criminal implications?
They are airing AARP’s “non-partisan” ad...
Who watches them anyway? Not me.
It appears that they have forsaken their “Press Credentials”. Perhaps, if they are still afloat; the next administration will look at their licenses as carefully as this one seems to be looking at FOX.
State Media Organs.
Well there you have it. That's the problem right there
At the end of the ad they should also state the fact that
ABC/NBC will not air this commercial....so people can also
understand that they don’t want you to see/hear/think about
what this doctor is telling you...
“alleged” journalists.
ABC is laughable, so is NBC...shills for ZerO.
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