ABC Won't Sell Air Time for Ad Critical of Obamacare
By AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16679)
Boston, Massachusetts
August 27, 2009 3:34pm CST
Remember back in June when ABC went inside the White House and turned over broadcasting to President Obama so he could run an hours-long special in favor of his health care reform?
Well, the very same network that brought you that has refused to run an ad from the League of Voters that is critical of Obamacare because, they say, it is "partisan" and they don't run partisan ads.
Could anything be more partisan than airing an evening-long stump-fest on the Democratic health care bill from none other than the Democratic President himself?
Now it must be evident that ABC is not the least interested in bringing you fair and balanced news or information but is simply not going to air anything that is critical of the president because they exist only to promote the political views of the network executives.
NBC has also refused to run the ad. Small, local affiliates of both networks are running the ad but the national networks will not allow it to air on national television.
What's wrong ABC and NBC? You don't want the viewing audience to be exposed to differing viewpoints and information?
If I wanted a media controlled by the politicians, I would move to Chavez' Venezuela. I know that Obama's new FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd just loves Chavez' revolution and admires the way Chavez controls the media there.
I honestly can't believe this is happening in my country.
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@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
27 Aug 09
Since day one the media has never publicized anything that even slightly questions their idea that Obama is some kind of holy deity. I believe in the future historians will just shake their heads in disbelief that we the people allow this to happen to our country. That being of course if we still have a country to be proud of and freedom of speech is still allowed without being censored by so called Czars and sycophants.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
27 Aug 09
I don't know how long it will be before historians will be allowed to write about how the American people just believed a bunch of easy lies and let their freedom be stolen from them before the revolution that gave rise to the New United States of America. I doubt I will live to see it. I know I don't want to see what's happening now.
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@stealthy (8181)
• United States
27 Aug 09
The three old standard national networks, ABC, NBC and CBS have been blatantly pro-liberals and the Democratic party for many decades. This is most obvious during any Presidential election year. It ranges from out and out brow beating and attempted intimidation like Charles Gibson did in his "interview" with Sarah Palin in Alaska to subtle things like body posture during the reporting of "news" to the types of questions asked of candidates during interviews to big smiles if a Democrat is ahead in the vote tally to grim sad faces if a Republican is ahead.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
28 Aug 09
Stealthy, you're completely correct. They are all biased, it's just they usually try to hide it a little bit. Now they don't care if you know how biased they are or not, they are simply pushing their agenda.
Matersfish, thanks for all the really good belly laughs today. :)
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
8 Feb 16
ABC is a prime example of mainstream media being in the pocket of Obama, liberals and Democratic Party. To answer your question, NO!!! ABC and NBC etc do not want to expose audiences to conservative or any viewpoint contrary to the party line of Obama and liberals.