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01/15/2004 Archived Entry: "More goddam cowards."
More goddam cowards.
I can only shake my head when I see what a bunch of cringing cowards the US media has turned into.
Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising.A CBS spokesman said the decision against broadcasting the spot had nothing to do with either the Super Bowl or the ad's specific issue but was because the network has had a long-term policy not to air issue ads anywhere on the network.
A MoveOn spokesperson said the group hopes to appeal the decision within CBS.
We should all remember that they had no problem running those insipid 'buy drugs, help terrorists' ads on last year's SuperBowl. Morons.
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I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water'd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with my smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree
Posted by william blake @ 01/15/2004 06:44 PM NY
How about airing the MoveOn ad after the State of the Union address?
Posted by Jim Shirk @ 01/15/2004 08:12 PM NY
Not cowardly at all! The corporate owned media is brazenly presenting only those things that accord with their interests. And they don't give a damn what you think about it.
Posted by richard @ 01/15/2004 08:43 PM NY
I'm not trying to start anything, but did that Super Bowl that featured the "drugs=terra" ads actually appear on CBS? And I think it would've been during the 2002 'Big Game'(I think I have to call it that because I'm not an officially licensed sponsor), when paranoia levels were still pretty high. Like I said, I agree with the message. But I thought I'd get the rudimentary facts out there so it can't be claimed by THEM that, "This is why you can't believe a single thing those angry irrelevant unserious Saddam-cuddling evildoing liberals have to say!!"(with more misspellings, of course.)
How long until someone takes up the chore of monitoring CBS and noting how many public service announcements they actually air?
Posted by Filipino Elvis @ 01/16/2004 09:26 AM NY
