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Content 'unacceptable' despite search giant's 'Hate Bush' themes © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A conservative book publisher says the search engine giant Google rejected his ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes. Eric Jackson, CEO of World Ahead, said his ads for "Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine" were rejected, without futher explanation, due to "unacceptable content." Jackson says Google's online ad guidelines make no mention of political content being disallowed. He points out that while ads for the anti-Clinton book -- which featured images of the book's cover and...

WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - Lawmakers' pique over the networks' incredible shrinking news hole is prompting legislation that will both shorten the time broadcasters have between license renewals and require full commission review of 5% of all licenses. The legislation was introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Tuesday after the release of a report by the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California found evening TV newscasts contained little coverage of local political campaigns last year. It also would require broadcasters to post on their Internet sites information detailing their commitment to local public-affairs programming, and it calls...

I heard about it from Mishah first, and then it was on yesterday's NTV evening news: a Russian-language web portal called the Russian National Literary Network has issued a "Directive on Limiting the Themes of Literary Works." The Directive mainly concerns two of the Network's writing sites, Proza.ru (prose) and Stihi.ru (poetry). At a glance, the sites resemble a cross between Zoetrope.com and LiveJournal.com, inviting aspiring authors to post their work for review by other members. As of 9 pm today, Proza.ru has 22,313 members, 188,457 stories and 277,077 reviews; Stihi.ru lists 67,115 members, 1,609,066 poems and 2,132,558 reviews. Even...

Yesterday, the Venezuelan National Assembly approved the changes to the new penal code. These changes criminalize dissent, criticism and any activity against Government officials by individuals. In the case of criticism of President Chavez, it is a criminal offense to “offend” the President either publicly or in private. What it means, once it gets published in the next few days and becomes law, is that the Government may go after anyone that tries to express any form of criticism against the Government or Government officials. This is in effect, a limitation of freedom of speech which will be diminished significantly...

A.M. Mora y Leon of The American Thinker is among a group of bloggers who appear to be targeted by the Castroite Chavez regime running the government of Venezuela. So warns the blog Burton Terrace: Venezuelan opposition bloggers, independently financed and edited, are coming under attack in the Venezuelan government run media. Specifically targeted are "Aleksander Boyd in London, Gustavo Coronel in Washington D.C., Daniel Duquenal in Yaracuy, Miguel Octavio in Caracas and A. M. Mora y Leon in the United States of America." The author of a recent article in the government run media service threatens to report these...

Busty blonde Anna Nicole Smith had to be escorted from another stage last night when organizers of the VH1 Big in '04 awards feared she was about to remove her top. The oddball model, who appeared unstable and slurring at last month's American Music Awards, showed off a giant bra she "used to wear" before her lost weight on the TrimSpa diet. But when it looked like she was about to show off her breasts before TV cameras at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, a VH1 crewman was sent out to escort her off the stage. One man who...

EBay to Ban 'Racially Derogatory' Search Terms By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Correspondent November 15, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - The Internet auction giant eBay plans to implement a "pop-up" notification when "racially derogatory" search terms are entered on the website. EBay will formally announce the change on Wednesday, which the National League of Cities has been pushing. John Pionke, a media relations official with the National League of Cities (NLC), declined to offer specific examples of the derogatory words in question, but explained that the campaign was started about a year ago by a member of the organization. Philadelphia Councilwoman Marian Tasco...

"A couple weeks ago, I was in the local Sam's Club. The book "Unfit for Command" was the only book on all the ...

John Kerry's Supporters Again Try to Muzzle His Critics Smear campaign launched against Sinclair Broadcasting after it announces plans to air "Stolen Honor" nationwide The Kerry camp is at it again. After trying -- unsuccessfully -- to block the publication of "Unfit for Command," his supporters are now working to force Sinclair Broadcasting Group to pull back from plans to air the documentary film "Stolen Honor" on its 62 nationwide affiliates later this month. The documentary vividly portrays the impact of John Kerry's false testimony and statements about the Vietnam War. As brave soldiers endured torture, starvation and death behind...

<p>Looking for your copy of "Unfit for Command"? Having paranoid thoughts that Bookstore employees are hiding, damaging, or flat-out lying to you about the availability of the book?</p> <p>Ah, quickly, dear readers! Before it goes away or crashes, let us visit that Shangri-La of Tolerance, the Border's Bookstore Employees Union Forum. There we shall find all manner of reasons for you to dust the tinfoil off your beanie, and place it proudly on your head...</p>

They are pathetic. They are telling listeners to go to bookstores and move the book "Unfit for Command" to the fiction section.

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam. At a fund-raiser attended by about 750 people, Kerry said the attacks by a group of Vietnam veterans and former Swift Boat commanders have intensified "because in the last months they have seen me climbing in America's understanding that I know how to fight a smarter and more effective war" against terrorists. "That's why they're attacking my credibility. That's why they've personally gone after me. The...

Tucker Carlson just said that CNN has been notified that the Kerry camp will seek to have the goverment pull the Swift Boat veterans for Truth ads.

They’re at it again, the right wing creeps who are happy to smear democrats, and even their own, like John McCain, are now one of their slimeballs, former Gov. Mark Racicot is suggesting that Kerry is losing it, that he’s wild-eyed, irresponsible.... Scott McClelland says Kerry is "losing his cool., should not be an excuse to lash out at the president with false and baseless attacks." Atrios quotes Racicot describing Kerry."I think they have comepletely unhinged..." and suggests that they used the same strategies, in 2000 to attack John McCain and to suggest he was unstable. This labeling of a...

8/20/2004 5:16:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004, 202-464-2800; Web: http://www.johnkerry.com WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Kerry-Edwards campaign spokesman Chad Clanton released the following statement today about the new Swift Boat Veterans for Bush ad: "This is another ad from a front group funded by Bush allies that is trying to smear John Kerry. The newest ad takes Kerry's testimony out of context, editing what he said to distort the facts. He testified as a 27 year-old Vietnam veteran. He opposed a war that, at that point, cost...

Media Matters for America Asks Top Booksellers to Review Policies on Selling 'Unfit for Command'; David Brock Calls AntiKerry Veterans Book 'the Hitler Diaries of this political season' To: National Desk, Political Reporter Contact: Naomi Seligman of Media Matters for America, 202-756-4108 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On the heels of the August 19, 2004 Washington Post article shining the light that a key allegation in "Unfit for Command" is false, Media Matters for America (MMFA) called on three of the nation's leading booksellers to, at the very least, inform customers about the book's false allegations and lies. David...

WASHINGTON — Chief movie lobbyist Jack Valenti defended smoking in Hollywood films, but senators insisted the industry must do more to stop the practice. "I don't believe that whatever the director does ought to incite the intervention of the government in any form," Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association of America, told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing yesterday. "I've got to tell you I believe it is his right to tell the story as he chooses to tell it." Some lawmakers were dissatisfied by his answers. A study last year found that teens who watch movies with smoking in...

Shanghai. (Interfax-China) - China will install a special surveillance system for all Internet cafes nationwide by the end of 2004, according to an official statement from China's Ministry of Culture (MOC). Once installed, this new surveillance system will require all Internet cafes customers to enter personal information, such as name, age, and their national citizen identification number, before they are allowed to log onto the Internet. New supervisory centers will also be set up around the country to monitor the online activities of Internet cafe customers. To date, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi provinces have already completed installing this...

(CBS) In the religion of advertising, the Super Bowl is a mecca, a nirvana for nachos and a bonanza for beer. With 90 million viewers at stake, sometimes the competition between commercials is better than the competition on the field, but, as CBS News Correspondent Lee Cowan reports, this year it's gotten nasty. "I think it basically amounts to censorship." CBS refused airtime to at least three Super Bowl hopefuls: the animal rights group PETA for one. Turning down advertisers is nothing new. But this year one jilted suitor is turning up the heat. "What's at the core of it...

Teenage anti-smoking activists want the province to slap an "R" rating on all movies showing tobacco -- meaning no one under 18 would be allowed to see films featuring smoking. The recommendation was part of the Lung Association's Youth Tobacco Team's report on how to curb youth smoking, presented to the province's health ministry last week. Michelle Tham, 18, of Mississauga, said the group wanted to focus on what made teens want to light up in the first place. "Everyone talks about peer pressure being the problem, but sometimes it's an individual person," Tham said. "Maybe it's one girl who...