North Carolina TV Blocks Anti-Obama Attack Ad ("It's Offensive")

[Hissyspit]

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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23596899-5012572,00.html

North Carolina TV blocks anti-Obama attack ad

By staff writers
April 25, 2008 12:27pm

US television stations have refused to run a controversial Republican ad attacking Democratic candidate Barack Obama and those who support him. The ad has been running in North Carolina, which votes along with Indiana on May 7 (Australian time) in the next contests in the marathon Democratic presidential nomination contest.

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The ad criticises local Democrats for endorsing Senator Obama, who it says is "just too extreme for North Carolina". Republican nominee John McCain has distanced himself from the ad, but the state branch of the party has vowed not to pull it.

However some TV bosses have decided the ad is "offensive" - and possibly even racist, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer.

"I just don't think it's appropriate to be on our air," said the general manager of a station in Charlotte, the state's most populous city. "I think it's offensive, and I'm not real comfortable with the implications around race." Another station in the capital, Raleigh, has also refused to run the ad.

[DJ13]

1. I wish MSNBC and CNN would stop showing it

:mad:

[Hissyspit]

3. If I was Rev. Wright, I would sue for slander (libel?).

Taken COMPLETELY out of context.

[AlinPA]

17. That's the strategy: 1. make offensive, race baiting ad

2. have R leader "condemn it"
3. run it on CNN, Fox, MSRNC to "give everyone the story"
4. watch polls of targeted D
5. go back to 2; repeat over and over and over and over and over.

[Triana]

2. Typically Republican. If Democrats ran such an ad they's screeeeem bloody murder..

....and demand it be pulled nationwide. But they expect everyone else to put up with THEM doing it. It IS racist. It's disgusting.

WHY aren't they running such ads against Hillary?

Just asking...

[grantcart]

4. Interesting - its not easy from a legal point of view to refuse to show a political ad

i am glad they showed some guts

[guyanakoolaid]

5. Probably different rules for 527 ads and those endorsed officially by the campaigns

[barbtries]

6. that makes me feel a little better about the state i live in

the ad itself is revolting. it has nothing to do with anything that matters.

[bulloney]

7. This can end up like the Swift Boat ads on Kerry in 2004.

The lazy-ass MSM just sit around and make a "news" story around an ad and play it over and over. The creators and buyers of this ad end up getting more play on the ad and in more states than what's originally intended.

Gee, I wonder why the librul media don't do this sort of thing on the Republican candidates?

[kevinbgoode]

10. No kidding. I'd love to see a Democratic group run a series of

ads featuring the anti-American remarks of Rev. Moon and his ties to the Bush family - AND the Republican party.

Seems like the MSM has let that cult get a free pass for years.

[anniebelle]

8. NPR had an interview with the head of NC Repukes

yesterday and she defiantly said, "We don't care what McCain says or anybody says, this ad is going to run." What a bitch she was (and is) IMHO. This type of crap has been pervasive in our political system since Ronnie Raygun and his gang of thugs invaded our sensibilities.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. not all repigs are evil though... Linda O Shaw ...

There's an article (I have it at Obama Daily News) where GOP is divided over the ad..

Linda O Shaw (a county commissioner in Guilford Co NC) spoke out against the ad.
Linda is on the GOP's national committee.

I know her from work on the voting issue, she was one of the brave ones to try to help
us get 100% paper in her county, but it was an uphill battle. (She and another commissioner who IS a dem).

She said she was disappointed in the NC GOP's state chair's plan to run this ad. I believe Linda is telling her honest feelings, based on my experience with her.

That being said, I'm glad that Linda Shaw is not the NC GOP party chair, elsewise they might be giving us a run for our money here in NC.

The media decision not to run the ads shocked me, but I am glad glad glad and also
proud of our state.

Imagine how shitty it would make our entire state to have that sort of thing on tv here.

We had the racists ads in our state years ago, and thankfully we have gotten better than that.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

12. this is partly why the GOP is in the minority in NC

our state gets more progressive every year!

[Donnachaidh]

13. I heard tha interview -- someone needs to remind this woman it's not the 1950's anymore

I think the word *bitch* most certainly applies to this *chairwoman*

As to how long it's been pervasive, I'd say it's been around longer. It was born with the segregated south, and was taken up as a banner by movement conservatism. You can still see and hear it every night, falling in some form from the mouths of Pat Buchanan and any Fox News talking head. Oh yeah - and Glenn Beck, Mr. Mormon without his personal sheet, expounds on this so much it's laughable. Remember, it wasn't all that long ago that the entire Mormon faith considered the black race as evil. And THAT little ditty was only removed because of political expediency.

Personally, I hope it backfires on them and we see the Republican Party implosion kick into high gear because Ms. Thang put together a commercial of what she considers to be her core beliefs.

[BR_Parkway]

9. Think Congress will pass a resolution condemning this? Like BetrayUs

and the whole MoveOn flap?

[Donnachaidh]

14. They certainly should - but when was the last time they did something that was RIGHT?

I cannot remember.

[Anexio]

15. Hate speech

Thanks for posting that. I watched it and all I could think of is how frightened the GOP is to construct such a divisive and offensive commercial.

They are really panicking to do something like that.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that the NC GOP is terrified that a black man will be the next President of the United States.

Go Obama!

[rainlillie]

16. if you'd like to thank the two North Carolina stations, for not running the latest GOP ad.

Contact them below:

WRAL:
http://www.wral.com/apps/feedback/feedback/?d_id_person=205

WSOC:
http://www.wsoctv.com/station/1928956/detail.html

It would be nice if everyone could send them a note thanking them.

[NoFederales]

18. Done & Done

Thanks for the links. I tell you, though, my activism days will be over if the "Clintonistas" pull off their machinations.

Welcome to DU.

NoFederales

[1776Forever]

19. Thanks for the links - did it!

:hi:

[nichomachus]

20. All the Dems need to do

is to run the photo of Bush and McVeigh hugging and ask -- Do you really want four more years of this?