He made no effort to move that issue off the table and start talking about things that matter...
If it was shown during regular commercial breaks you do realize that TV stations sell blocks of air time for advertising on the local and national level and that contracts are signed ensuring that the ads/commercials run, don't you?
Do you have those annoying "ambulance chaser" commercials that get shown over and over and over where you live?
Stations will rarely, if ever, sell only two or three time slots. They sell ad spots in bulk and that's why you see that irritating "ambulance chaser" commercial so many times. He/she got a cut rate by buying so much air time.
If Akin could only buy a "block" of time then there will be "X" number of times the ad is aired no matter what the candidate wants. The most he could do would be to move the time slot in which it is aired.
Once ad space/commercial time is bought the ads are going to run or else the station loses money as they preallocate time in programming for those ads and stations aren't going to lose money by wasting that time space with nothing to fill in on a pulled ad.
See, I know about this stuff because one of my many jobs over the course of my life had me showing those ads and commercials.
[ Where and when was it shown? Was it shown during the regular commercial runs during regular programing or was it part of a news program or something like that? ]
I’ve been seeing it during regular commerical programming. It is a horrible ad. He needs to drop it and move on to something else. He needs to start highlighting Obama’s failed record and tying the shrew to it.
It was shown between 6:30-7:00 on Ch. 5, CBS, and between 9:00-10:00 on Ch.4, FOX, during regular commercial runs during regular programming.
If it was shown during regular commercial breaks you do realize that TV stations sell blocks of air time for advertising on the local and national level and that contracts are signed ensuring that the ads/commercials run, don't you?
Your comment, although interesting, does not address my comment that Akin has made NO effort to move this issue off the table. I wanted an "I misspoke, but here's what we need to be talking about ..." ad; not a cringe-worthy talking head ad.
Don"t start being snarky with those of us who have stated that we will vote for Akin in spite of his comments, and not because of them.