NBC Censors Anti-Bush Dixie Chicks Ad

[Ezekiel in Exile]

Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks were ant-Bush before anti-Bush was cool. Now the Chicks have a documentary film, "Shup Up and Sing." chronicling the vicious reaction of the Right to Maines' remarks about Bush just prior to the Iraq invasion.

Now NBC is refusing to run ads for the film. The film's producer, Harvey Weinstein, says:

"It's a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America," Harvey Weinstein said in a statement. "The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is profoundly un-American.

NBC admits that it refused to run the ad because it is "disparaging to President Bush."

Cable channel CW has also refused the ads.

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