ABC, NBC refuse ad critical of Obama health plan...

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• In June, ABC gave its airwaves to broadcast propaganda for Obama's health plan. And from the White House no less. Why not?

It's standard procedure in banana republics. ABC and NBC won't air an ad from the League of American Voters which asks how the country will treat 50 million additional patients without any new doctors.

• The White House run networks feel such questions are too 'partisan' or not factual. How was the free infomercial not partisan? A case could be made that it was illegal unless the network provided the same airtime for opposing views.

"The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House.

• The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to the rationing of procedures and medicine, began airing two weeks ago on local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS.
  

On a national level, however, ABC and NBC have refused to run the spot in its present form.

• "It's a powerful ad," said Bob Adams, executive director of the League of American Voters, a national nonprofit group with 15,000 members who advocate individual liberty and government accountability. "It tells the truth and it really highlights one of the biggest vulnerabilities and problems with this proposed legislation, which is it rations health care and disproportionately will decimate the quality of health care for seniors."

Adams said the advertisement is running on local network affiliates in states like Louisiana, Arkansas, Maine and Pennsylvania. But although CBS has approved the ad for national distribution and talks are ongoing with FOX,

• NBC has questioned some of the ad's facts while ABC has labeled it "partisan."

"The ABC Television Network has a long-standing policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents a partisan position on a controversial public issue," spokeswoman Susan Sewell said in a written statement. "Just to be clear, this is a policy for the entire network, not just ABC News."

• NBC, meanwhile, said it has not turned down the ad and will reconsider it with some revisions."...from Fox News via Drudge Report

"Controversial?"

• photo from Gateway Pundit taken at McCaskill town hall.