NBC Rejects CatholicVote’s $1.5 Million
About a week ago, CatholicVote launched a national media campaign titled “Life: Imagine the Potential” where they combine an ultrasound, kick-you-in-the-gut sappy music and our newly elected and inaugurated pro-choice president, Barack Obama.
CatholicVote was prepared to pay NBC $1.5 million for a commercial slot in the Superbowl and while NBC is home to MSNBC and left-wing political pundits like Keith Olbermann and my personal favorite, Rachel Maddow, it’s no surprise, really, that NBC rejected to air the controversial and in my opinion, completely out-of-left-field ad, considering it puts a pro-choice president in a pro-life campaign. However, NBC does not discriminate against distasteful ads, unluckily for us, but they do refuse to air commercials that promote political or activist agendas.
Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org reacted saying:
“There is nothing objectionable in this positive, life-affirming advertisement. We show a beautiful ultrasound, something NBC’s parent company GE has done for years. We congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the first African-American President. And we simply ask people to imagine the potential of every human life.”
Keep in mind that the people of CatholicVote and the Catholic and other major religious people and organizations as a whole were the same people warding the masses not to vote for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign against John McCain based on the fact that he is pro-choice. This ad is hypocritical for the fact that they are congratulating Obama on becoming the “first African-American” president; not just for becoming president, but for becoming the first African-American president that they merely see as an opportunity to use in a campaign without a second thought that their message completely goes against their “star’s” personal beliefs in the first place.
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