Conservative Rumblings

Ten years ago, NBC would have simply refused to run the ad I mentioned yesterday, and that would have been the end of it. Sure, a few radio hosts and talk show commentators may have beat them up a bit, but they would have been able to operate essentially with impunity.

Welcome to the 21st century, NBC, where every user of the Internet can call you on the carpet for doing something wrong.

Thanks to a huge amount of pressure from the Blogosphere and a little boycott call from Newt Gingrich, NBC has reversed its decision and has agreed to run the Freedom’s Watch ad thanking the troops.

American citizens are becoming more powerful than a multi-billion dollar broadcasting company, and that’s good news for everyone.

Well, except NBC.

The NBC network, continuing its ongoing mission of trashing our military, refused to run an ad supporting the troops.

They claim it’s because they don’t want a political message shown; the ad was paid for by Freedom’s Watch, a conservative organization, and they posted their website address in the final frame of the message thanking the troops.

Click here for the first video and here for the second video.

I have to wonder if the ad was posted by MoveOn.org if NBC would have had the same issue? Not that I think that MoveOn would ever in a million years publish something supporting the troops, of course; it’s just a hypothetical point.

Regardless, this article makes a legitimate point; is the political statement the web address at the end of the ad, or the refusal to run the ad?