{"id":5979,"date":"2005-12-02T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2005-12-02T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:22:42","slug":"dnc-billboard-rejected-for-being-too-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/dnc-billboard-rejected-for-being-too-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC billboard rejected for being ‘too negative’"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) lashed out<\/a> at Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), calling him a “coward” for advocating troop redeployment in Iraq, the DNC had an idea: Schmidt and others like her deserve a billboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From this day forward, the Democratic Party will commit to putting up a “Shame on You” billboard in the home district of any Republican who attacks a veteran’s service in order to score political points. <\/p>\n

The first billboard will go up near Jean Schmidt’s district office in Portsmouth, Ohio. The message: “Shame on You, Jean Schmidt: Stop Attacking Veterans. Keep Your Eye on the Ball — We Need a Real Plan for Iraq”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dems responded well to the idea and 7,000 people donated to the project, more than enough to pay for the project. The billboard was set to go up this week — until Lamar, an ad company in the area, said the billboard was “too negative.” DNC Executive Director Tom McMahon said today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, at about 10 AM, we got two phone calls — the first came from Lamar’s Cincinnati office informing us that because of the content of the ad, they are refusing to continue to work with us. The second call came a few minutes later from Lamar’s Huntington, West Virginia office, informing us that despite our signed contract, they were also rejecting our ad. This reversal came more than 24 hours after the DNC had signed a contract with Lamar, and 48 hours after they had accepted the artwork for the billboards you helped pay to put up.<\/p>\n

By rejecting these ads, Lamar has limited your right to be heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed it has. The DNC is threatening a lawsuit, which makes this a controversy worth watching.<\/p>\n

On a related note, is it me, or is this part of a trend? Fox News rejected<\/a> an anti-Alito ad; CBS rejected<\/a> a MoveOn.org ad; CBS and NBC refused advertising from the United Church of Christ because the church’s open, tolerant message of inclusion was labeled “too controversial<\/a>“; and a Clear Channel station refused to air<\/a> an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan.<\/p>\n

What ever happened to “the public’s airwaves”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) lashed out at Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), calling him a “coward” for advocating troop redeployment in Iraq, the DNC had an idea: Schmidt and others like her deserve a billboard. From this day forward, the Democratic Party will commit to putting up a “Shame on You” billboard in the home […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}