{"id":5319,"date":"2009-08-28T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2009-08-28T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T13:22:25","slug":"they-hear-and-obey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5319","title":{"rendered":"They Hear And Obey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC and NBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/08\/27\/abc-nbc-refuse-air-advertisement-critical-obamas-health-care-plan\/\">won&#8217;t air an ad critical<\/a> of <strike>Obamacare<\/strike> Kennedycare:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama&#8217;s health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot &#8212; particularly in light of ABC&#8217;s health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TEHl_RhpMh8\">ad<\/a> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, nothing new there; as their ad revenues have plummeted over the past few decades, they have been resolute in refusing ads from the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC and NBC won&#8217;t air an ad critical of Obamacare Kennedycare: The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama&#8217;s health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot &#8212; particularly in light of ABC&#8217;s health care special aired in prime time last June and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}