Just Why Did Comcast Refuse This Ad?

People are wondering.

The following is a message from the
Shirley Golub Campaign ----

Comcast, which has a history of censoring political content is STILL 
abusing their monopoly power to suppress political speech. Last week 
in San Francisco they REFUSED to accept the new Shirley Golub TV ad, 
in her congressional primary challenge against Nancy Pelosi. 

Stop Comcast Censorship Action Page: 
http://www.shirley08.com/petitions/pnum835.php 

Apparently they did not take kindly to Golub's comparison of the 
political behavior of the current Speaker of the House to a rubber 
chicken, for her cowardice in not standing up to the Bush 
administration. But that's not their call, and in the meantime the 3 
major non-cable broadcast outlets ARE running the ad and they all 
think it's a delightful hoot. 

The real problem is that Shirley wanted to place these ads 
specifically to support Keith Olbermann on MSNBC cable, and Comcast 
by their action is making it immensely harder for her to mobilize 
those who are Olbermann's viewers, her natural base. It is simply 
outrageous for Comcast to refuse to air perfectly acceptable 
political speech because THEY don't like the content. We must flood 
them with complaints, or Olbermann himself, with his own 
uncompromising commentary, may not be far behind. 

The action page above will send your message of complaint to Comcast 
CEO Brian Roberts, and let Keith Olbermann and MSNBC know what's 
going on. 

With more that 30,000 YouTube views already this amazing TV ad is 
having a real impact. It was a featured news story for a full news 
cycle the first day it aired. And it is only because of your 
contributions that this is happening. Please watch it again, and if 
you can make a donation to run even more of these spots on the 
stations that are accepting them, we can really put the heat on 
Comcast. 

Rubber Chicken TV Spot: http://www.shirley08.com/rubber_chicken.php 

You can make a real difference right now by telling Comcast that they 
need to back off. 

The courage of Shirley Golub is a breaking news story. With your help 
in a matter of days we can break her out as true national leadership 
figure, and then won't Nancy Pelosi be running scared. 

Paid for by Shirley Golub for Congress 

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed 
to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible. 

If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at 
http://www.shirley08.com/in.htm 
 

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