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First The Reagans, then the Move On ad. So, when does CBS start airing nothing but Pro-life, Christian Right ads during their latest reality series, "Who Wants to Be Oppressed and Uninformed?"?

The CBS networks still refuses to run our winning ad in the Bush in 30
Seconds ad contest during the Super Bowl. The MoveOn.org non-partisan
campaign to get CBS to air issue ads continues, but we're not going to let
CBS's censorship stop us in the mean time. That's why we're spending over $1
million to air the ad in our swing states and nation-wide on other channels
-- starting with two spots on CNN that will air during the Super Bowl half
time.

This Sunday, during the Super Bowl half time show, join us in changing
channels on CBS. At 8:10pm and 8:35pm EST, switch over to CNN to watch
"Child's Pay" on a channel which doesn't censor its ads. We'd like to keep a
tally of the number of people who participate -- you can sign up here:
http://www.moveonvoterfund.org/boycott/?id=2293-3036131-hw7_LhfcbP.RzZus93DqBw

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) gave a powerful speech about CBS on the floor of
the Senate, saying, "Maybe network executives at CBS are so afraid of
political pressure from the right wing and their business advertisers who are
in league with the right wing politics of America that they are afraid to put
anything on the air that might in fact make things uncomfortable. If that is
the case, it is time for CBS to announce the name of their network is the
'Conservative Broadcasting System' and come clean with American viewers."

28 members of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to CBS which
stated, "The choice not to run this paid advertisement appears to be part of
a disturbing pattern on CBS's part to bow to the wishes of the Republican
National Committee. We remember well CBS's remarkable decision this fall to
self-censor at the direction of GOP pressure. The network shamefully
cancelled a broadcast about former President Ronald Reagan which Republican
partisans considered insufficiently flattering." Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
wrote a separate letter to CBS urging them to reconsider their decision.

Today, the L.A. Times printed an Op-Ed piece of ours which lays out the case
against CBS's censorship. That's attached below. But the editorial pages of
the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other papers came out in
our favor as well. As the Globe wrote, "MoveOn.org's 30-second ad, which has
aired on CNN, is a gentle yet powerful depiction of how hard today's children
will have to work to pay off the country's mounting deficit. That's a vital
message that might get lost in a year of campaign rhetoric, and it deserves a
response from the White House in its own 30 seconds of imagery. America,
sitting on the couch, junk food in hand, just might sit up and want to know
more."