ABC Hypocrisy Over Ad Critical Of Nationalized Healthcare
Double standards exposed as network behind White House
health care special refuses to air "partisan"
ad critical of Obamacare
ABC, the network that completely turned over its news coverage
to the government for an Obama healthcare special, has now refused
to air an advertisement that is critical of nationalized health
care, calling it "partisan".
The ad, on behalf of the League
of American Voters, argues the case that a government
run system will ration health care, limit important medicines
and surgeries for seniors and end Medicare.
"It tells the truth and it really highlights
one of the biggest vulnerabilities and problems with this proposed
legislation, which is it rations health care and disproportionately
will decimate the quality of health care for seniors."
Bob Adams, executive director of League of American Voters told
Fox
News.
The ad has been running for a fortnight on local
affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS, with the latter also running
it nationally.
While NBC says it will consider a revised version
of the ad for national output, Disney owned ABC has flat refused
to run the ad.
"The ABC Television Network has a long-standing
policy that we do not sell time for advertising that presents
a partisan position on a controversial public issue," spokeswoman
Susan Sewell said in a written statement. "Just to be clear,
this is a policy for the entire network, not just ABC News."
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So, ABC does not sell time for partisan positions,
however, the network has proven that it is happy to give programming
time over to the government on the issue of healthcare.
Last June, the network excluded
any dissenting opinions to promote President Obama’s
health care agenda in its primetime special ‘Prescription
for America’, hosted live from the White House.
The special itself, as well as the accompanying
programming throughout the day on ABC, was nothing less than
a state run infomercial for the president's proposed policy
on healthcare.
Dick Morris, League of American Voters' chief
strategist, noted this fact in comments regarding ABC's decision
not to air the spot:
"It's the ultimate act of chutzpah because ABC is the
network that turned itself over completely to Obama for a daylong
propaganda fest about health care reform," Morris said.
"For them to be pious and say they will not accept advertising
on health care shuts their viewers out from any possible understanding
of both sides of this issue."
Time
magazine has previously dubbed Besser “the
CDC’s calm-voiced, telegenic acting director,” highlighting
how adept he is at engaging the public on the government's health
agenda.
ABC, the network that completely turned over its news coverage
to the government for an Obama healthcare special, has now refused
to air an advertisement that is critical of nationalized health
care, calling it "partisan".
