Posted on 10/26/2006 6:56:35 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
**Exclusive**
In an Ironic Twist of Events, NBC and The CW Television Network Refuse to Air Ads for Documentary Focusing on Freedom of Speech
NBC Claims that the Network Cannot Accept These Spots as They are Disparaging to President Bush
The CW Television Network that the Network Does Not have Appropriate Programming in which to Schedule this Spot
NBC and The CW Television Network have taken a stand against the Dixies Chicks new documentary Shut Up & Sing a behind-the-scenes look at the incredible political and media fallout that occurred in 2003 after the Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Shut Up & Sing opens in theaters in NY and Los Angeles on Friday and in theaters nationwide on November 10th.
NBC responded to a clearance report submitted by the Weinstein Companys media agency saying that the network cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.
The CW Television Network responded that it does not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot.
Famed litigator David Boies stated, It is disappointing and troubling that NBC and The CW would refuse to accept an otherwise appropriate ad merely because it is critical of President Bush."
Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company stated, Its a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is sad and profoundly un-American.
The Weinstein Company is exploring taking legal action.
The rejected commercials for Shut Up & Post can be viewed at http://www.shutupandpost.com
Developing...
Rove has obviously threatened NBC with his NBC Media Death Watch Add-on to his weather/gas prices/diebold machine..
Since when did NBC come to the defense of President Bush??
I smell BS
Yes - there's something definitely missing in this setup.
LOL! true. Rove is everywhere keeping the DUmmies pulling their hair out.
Looks like Lodi's Umer Hyatt.
I'm waiting for the backlash against the NFL. Cmon, the Ancient Bones at the last stupid bowl, Mean Day/U3 at the New Orleans Superdome debut, with drug use commentary by Spike Lee?
Looks like the media dumped the chixlets for more profitable viewership, aka the NFL.
Whats next? George Michaels waving the flag with Barney Frank at Daytona?
Freep the chicks blog at
http://www.shutupandpost.com
What a grotesque, hideous piece of artwork.
David Gregory, AKA Howdy Doody, is playing trix on the chix.
Get outta town!!
This is simply amazing to me.
You could be right.
Keith Olbermann is deeply saddened. His whole schtick is being demeaning towards Bush.
Harvey Weinstein and Senator Hillary Clinton
Miramax Film founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein, bought Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," after Walt Disney Co. refused to let Miramax release it.
Joining Moore as chief promoter of the film is Harvey Weinstein, a top Democratic donor widely seen as the foremost strategist in Hollywood's annual campaigns for Academy Awards. Over the last decade, Weinstein and Miramax have transformed the Oscar balloting into a bare-knuckle brawl resembling a political campaign, with costly ads and accusations of negative attacks dominating the race.
Moore's agent, Ari Emanuel (whose brother, an Illinois congressman, is another former Clinton White House operative), charged in that story that Disney was concerned that releasing the movie would imperil tax breaks for the company's ventures in Florida, where Bush's brother is governor. Disney denied it, and said it had informed Miramax a year ago that it would be barred from releasing the film because of its partisan nature.
That explains it....
I can only believe this means that NBC is instead going to run the ads for free as a MSM "Public Service Announcement".
NBC and CW Television Network heard what FR did to the Dixie Chicks, and now they are afraid to even air ads for their movie?!
Who knew we were so powerful?
I honestly don't have a problem with this being aired...once the election is over. Showing them now seems politically suspicious (intentionally so, and it is just so typical of liberals to cry "politics" when somebody prevents them from speaking yet in the same breath claim innocently that their whole issue is about "freedom of speech", not politics).
So, Shut Up And Wait. Come November 8th, you can spew your bilge on any network you please. Otherwise, you are simply one more loophole in the whole McCain-Feingold canard and you should have no more right to speak just before an election than a myriad of other interest groups with a political point of view.
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