Utah Station Refuses to air Sheehan ad

[friesianrider]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050822/ap_on_re_us/bush_ad_refused

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son's death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch....

However, a national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that it was an "inappropriate commercial advertisement for Salt Lake City."

In the ad, Sheehan pleads with Bush for a meeting and accuses him of lying to the American people about Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction and its connection to al-Qaida.

"I love my country. But how many more of our loved ones need to die in this senseless war?" a weary-looking Sheehan asks in the ad. "I know you can't bring Casey back. But it's time to admit mistakes and bring our troops home now."

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[libhill]

1. Maybe we should boycott A.B.C. -

I never watch the mainstream media whore, Bush boot licking, pond scum bastards anyway -

[Maddy McCall]

2. More conservative than the bible belt. Look at the election returns...

and recent surveys. Utah is a pocket of Bush Kool Aid drinkers. Even the buckle of the bible belt is turning on Bush. Not Utah, though.

[Pepper32]

3. I bet they feel very patriotic....

:sarcasm:

[gratuitous]

4. "Inappropriate" for Salt Lake City

Well, what WOULD be appropriate? An ad for how lecherous old goats can marry pre-teenage girls so they can produce their forever children, and cloak it all with the cover of "religion"?

Who does KTVX think owns the airwaves on which they are allowed to broadcast?