NBC ad refusal: Should there be outrage?

Why is it that you think the left exercising a right is something so sacred, but if someone you don't agree with ever exercises a right you have to insinuate that they're evil?

 

What are you talking about? NBC bitch-slapped the creepshow. Fully within their rights. And now the creepshow is whining. As usual.

 

You free enterprise folks would do well to remember that NBC is broadcaston publicly owned airwaves.

Just sayin'.

 

And let me guess. You want to bring the government down on them and cancel their license, just like the Clinton mob threatened ABC?

 

I don't want anything of the kind. Your continued tendency to jump to ridiculous conclusions and put words in other people's mouths because you only have one counterargument is well noted, however.

But people should be congnizant of it, and at least explore whther they'd be singing the same tune if a different party was in the White House.

Kind of like people should look at Bush's proclamation that he and he alone can decide who a terrorist is and wonder whether they think that would be a good idea if their least favorite politician took over the White House.

That's all.

 

And private companies that manufacture goods or power rely on publicly owned oxygen for combustion.

 

Yes there should be outrage. And it should be an outrage no matter which party line is in power and which is making the documentary.
The defense contracting angle is a solid one.

 

Do you really think that the broadcasting wing of GE (that would be NBC) called any of the other wings of GE that might qualify as defense contractors and asked if they should or shouldn't run the commercial? Shirley you jest.

 

Sorry folks, but censorship is when a government forces someone to say or not say, or write or not write something. You can spout all the conspiracy theories you want, but there's no evidence the U.S. government is forcing or even encouraging NBC to reject the ad.

 

50 Cent is a Republican.

http://www.savethegop.com/archives/2005/11/29/50-cent-is-a-republican/

 

Don't networks tend to shy away from controversial ads in general? Operation Rescue could do a Brady Bunch intro spoof with aborted fetuses, but it doesn't mean ABC's going to run it four times during Desperate Housewives.

I rather suspect they would not buy an anti-Clinton or anti-Gore ad, either. Too much chance of backlash from the other advertisers and general public.

 

Hondo, as always, you're missing the point.

It's not about government censorship, it's about NBC not running an ad because it will piss of its corporate bosses. And they're cowards.

Corporate censorship exists.