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October 12, 2008
ABC Censors Pro-Life Ad Exposing Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record
ABC Censors Pro-Life Ad Exposing Barack Obama's Pro-Abortion Record
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
October 10, 2008
The ABC television network is coming under fire from a leading pro-life group for censoring a political radio ad that criticizes Barack Obama's pro-abortion voting record. National Right to Life hoped to run the ad during the nationally syndicated Sean Hannity radio program.
The ad asks Obama when he will apologize for calling the group "liars" for pointing out how he misrepresented his votes in the Illinois legislature against bills that would require medical care for babies who survive failed abortions.
Two nonpartisan groups, FactCheck.org and PolitiFact.com have verified NRLC's claims as true -- leading the pro-life group to produce the ad.
On Friday, NRLC received notice from ABC Radio Network that it would not air the ad during Hannity's radio program.
In an email to National Right to Life, ABC Radio Network executives claimed the ad, "while supporting aspects of a Pro-Life position, weighs more heavily toward electioneering."
However, the ad is paid for by the NRLC political action committee, which is allowed to do "electioneering" under federal law.
"ABC's rejection smacks of being a politically motivated gag order," NRLC communications director Derrick Jones told LifeNews.com. "It seems that the pro-Obama leanings of the mainstream media have overflowed into their sales departments as well. To reject a political action committee's ad because they think it is too political, borders on the absurd."
Jones pointed out that, four years ago, the group ran similar radio ads on the ABC network without any censorship from its executives.
"Four years ago, NRL PAC ran electioneering ads supporting George W. Bush. ABC's lame excuse this year fails to hide their true motivation of helping Barack Obama conceal his extreme pro-abortion position from the American public," Jones added.
Douglas Johnson, the legislative director for the group, points to a recent analysis showing the mainstream media have barely touched Barack Obama's abortion position. He calls the ABC rejection of the ad another part of the media campaign for him.
"The ABC gag rule is part of a broader pattern of behavior in which the mainstream news media filter out or distort the extremes of Obama's pro-abortion record," he told LifeNews.com.
He accused the media of not wanting to discuss "his actions to block legislation to protect infants born alive following abortions in Illinois, his commitment to enact the so-called 'Freedom of Choice Act,' which would make partial-birth abortion legal again and nullify all parental notification laws, and his support for requiring taxpayer funding of abortion."
At issue is the bill that Obama opposed that would provide medical care for newborn infants who survive abortions.
Obama says he voted against the bill because it didn't mirror a national version that had language making it neutral on Roe v. Wade -- even though Obama voted for language in committee to make the state legislation conform.
The National Right to Life Committee released documents exposing Obama's misrepresentation and the pro-abortion presidential candidate later accused the group of "lying" in a terse interview.
"We find that, as the NRLC said in a recent statement, Obama voted in committee against the 2003 state bill that was nearly identical to the federal act he says he would have supported," FactCheck indicated after reviewing the documents.
Wild Thing's comment..........
ABC - The All-Barack Channel
ABC is making it clear that they have no intention of adhering to the First Amendment of the Constitution. I would feel no remorse an accusing them of thuggery and promotion of communist principles.
And there is also the part Barack Obama worked so hard to protect, the induced labor which forces an alive preemie to be born too soon to survive without heroic medical attention. That wasn’t a bad thing, to Barack Obama.
And Obama sycophants don’t care!
I went to the site and sent an email to them.
ABC, Inc.
500 S. Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521-4551
(818) 460-7477
Posted by Wild Thing at October 12, 2008 05:47 AM
Comments
They are the blind being led by the conquering hero off a cliff. They have no care about human life or themselves. Why would we want these dimbulbs in charge of anything is beyond me.
Posted by: Lynn at October 12, 2008 08:14 AM
If I didn't know better I'd think the deck was stacked against us. Of course it is in every election. These democrats are a bunch of cheats, liars and thieves.
You know we got to win this election. If anything happens to obama, biden is next and if he were to croak, then ...no he'd have to pick a vp. Not yet Nan.
Either way it is a bad scenario and we get the dirty end of the stick.
So that makes it clear we must win this thing, everything. We must take our country back.
Posted by: Mark at October 12, 2008 02:27 PM
I wouldn't be surprised this week if shortly after the last presidential debate that ABC, CBS, NBC, and much of the rest of the MSM declares Obama the landslide winner of the yet to be held November 4, 2008 elections. They will display the following graphic to confirm their report.
http://ourworld.cs.com/viewer2k/liberalutopia/obamalandslide08_.jpg
Posted by: Les at October 12, 2008 05:46 PM
Lynn yes they only care about the lives of the corrupt like the killers in jail they let out. But innocent babies and people they have no worth to a dem.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 12, 2008 06:30 PM
Mark, I agree, they have it all on their side to win, we have always had to fight harder.
This time it almost feels like he is a plant or something from a team like Soros leading or something. I can imagine Soros paying off big wigs to not fight this when Hillary was kicked out.
We can win, because we have good on our side. But it will be a battle all the same.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 12, 2008 06:35 PM
Les tanks for the image.
The media would love to do that.
The other day I freaked out, I heard on the radio Obama had almost all the electorial votes he needs to win. I about fell out of my seat. They put this propaganda on the radio like that and people believe them. It is not over yet no way.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 12, 2008 06:39 PM
ABC = Anti Birth Channel!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at October 12, 2008 07:24 PM
Darth, yes it sure does.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 13, 2008 12:39 AM
