{"id":7949,"date":"2010-07-16T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7949"},"modified":"2010-07-19T08:50:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:50:31","slug":"us-chamber-of-commerce-ads-attacking-sestak-pulled-off-the-air-for-inaccuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7949","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Chamber of Commerce Ads Against Sestak Pulled off Air for Inaccuracy | UPDATED: Ads Restored!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good for Sinclair Broadcasting, in this case<\/a>, pulling an inaccurate commercial off the air that was being run by the despicable corporate money-launderers of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce<\/a>, attacking Democratic U.S. Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Of course, the ad was run on television before<\/i> it was pulled. The fact-checking was not<\/i> done in advance, so lies such as health insurance reform being “a government takeover of healthcare” were allowed to be aired as if they were legitimate claims.<\/p>\n

Naturally, the campaign of Sestak’s Republican opponent, Pat Toomey, backed up the Chamber’s ads, even as they are not supposed<\/i> to be coordinating with such groups, according to the law. But what do quaint old notions like “the rule of law” really mean anymore in these United States anyway?<\/p>\n

What is underscored again here, is that corporate lobbyists and criminals like those at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are now free to wield millions — even billions — of dollars for or against candidates they don’t like, or who may not meet with their corporate approval for any reason.<\/p>\n

That’s what the U.S. Supreme Court has recently deemed<\/a> “free speech”. And you, dear private citizen of the United States of America, can do nothing about it — unless you happen to have a few hundred million extra dollars sitting around the house and want to exercise your<\/i> “free speech” in producing and airing TV commercials in opposition. Good luck with that.<\/p>\n[Please see, and support, VelvetRevolution.us’ StopTheChamber.com<\/a> campaign to help push back against the anti-American, anti-citizen Goliath that is the U.S. Chamber. Disclosure: The BRAD BLOG<\/a> is a co-founder of VR.<\/i>]\n

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UPDATE 4:04pm:<\/strong><\/em> Looks like the Rightwing corporate bosses at Sinclair may have come down on the local stations. AP is now reporting<\/a> the Chamber says the ads are being restored:<\/p>\n

Two Pittsburgh-area TV stations are reversing a decision to pull a commercial attacking Democratic policies and the voting record of U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Friday that the stations are restoring the ad that the business advocacy group sponsored.<\/p>\n

An official for sister stations WPGH and WPMY declined to comment.<\/p><\/div>\n[Hat-tip BRAD BLOG commenter Philip Shropshire<\/a>.<\/em>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good for Sinclair Broadcasting, in this case, pulling an inaccurate commercial off the air that was being run by the despicable corporate money-launderers of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, attacking Democratic U.S. Senatorial candidate Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania. Of course, the ad was run on television before it was pulled. The fact-checking was not done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,405,420,48,233,313],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-bush-legacy","category-election-2010","category-pennsylvania","category-us-senate","category-us-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7949"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}