Are you bleeping kidding me, CNN?
Could you be any more in the tank for McCain than this?
A free hour for McCain to respond to the paid Obama ad that you refused to let Obama buy?
From the cnn.com front page:
McCain's Next Stop
John McCain! Fighting an uphill battle for the presidency. What he has to say following Barack Obama's paid television address. Don't miss Larry King, tonight 9 p.m. ET
Link to "Larry King" page on cnn.com
That's right: Not only is CNN giving McCain an hour for free tonight, on its most-watched program, but CNN refused to air Obama's half-hour ad even though Obama is paying for it.
Really. Follow me below the jump.
CNN says no thanks to Obama half-hour
CNN has rejected an attempt by the Barack Obama campaign to purchase airtime for its primetime ad Wednesday night.
"We did not want to pre-empt our programing lineup with a 30-minute spot," a CNN spokesman said Tuesday. "We'd rather use our air to continue to cover the campaign, candidates and issues like we always do from all points of view with the best political team on television."
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NBC, Fox, CBS, Univision and MSNBC will carry the ad in full.
Please explain to me (in the comments, if you like) why we should view CNN any differently than Fox News Channel. If anything, I think CNN is more damaging, because they deceptively push their right-wing agenda from behind a facade of "respectable journalism".