NBC Rejects a Conservative Group Airtime for an Ad that Supports the Troops

A conservative group called Freedom’s Watch was recently denied in their bid to buy advertising on NBC. The ad that they wanted to run was an ad to tell everybody to say thank you to our troops over the holiday season. Sounds like a controversial ad to me, doesn’t it. This is ridiculous, and the killer here is the lame reason they gave for not accepting the ad. I would respect them more if they came out and said, “your website supports President Bush and his policies, so we do not want to show your commercial.” That, at least, would be the truth. The reason they gave was that the advertisement was an advertisement for the group’s website. They also called the ads too political.

How obscene is that? Since when can a website not advertise on network television? I see all these lame website commercials every day. So, one can logically assume that NBC is not opposed to running an ad for a website, they are opposed to running an ad for THIS website. One can then assume that the reason NBC doesn’t want to run an ad for THIS website is because they agree with the president’s policies.

Alan Wurtzel, NBC’s head of standards and practices, even went so far as to say that the reason that Freedom’s Watch refused to alter their ad for their own website was because Freedom’s Watch wanted to create a controversy with NBC to gather even more media attention.

What a disgrace.

Here are the ads that NBC refuses to show.

Video Hat tip: Political Vindication

Read the breitbart article here.

UPDATE: NBC has reversed it’s decision and is now running the ad. NBC claims to have changed some policy that they were hiding behind in their decision to reject the ad in the first place.