South Bend's WSBT pulls Moveon.org Ad

[LisaLynne]

Count Chocola called the Waaaaaambulance. Well, that's what I would have named the article. :) Anyway, they're pulling it, but they're the only station so far to reject it.


WSBT-TV pulls ad slamming Chocola

SOUTH BEND -- WSBT-TV has stopped running a new ad targeting U.S. Rep. Chris Chocola because of "misleading" content, station president and general manager John Mann said Thursday.
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Supporting documents supplied by MoveOn.org, a Washington, D.C., political action group, state Chocola has accepted a total of $5,750 from various PACs representing defense contractors over the past six years.

MoveOn also asserts that Chocola voted in November against changing a bill "to add language that would impose stricter criminal and civil penalties on corporations who intentionally overcharge the federal government for the provision of goods and services in response to a presidentially declared major disaster, emergency or military action, including in Iraq or Afghanistan."

"We've contended the ads are blatantly false and misleading," Chocola spokesman Brooks Kochvar said.

More at link: http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060609/News01/606090339