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Just Peachy: An entire ABC special based on lies and fabricated events slandering President Clinton.

Ixnay: An ad promoting a movie on free speech that "disparages" President Bush.


Irony is truly dead.

Unaired Ad Gets Dixie Chicks Flick A Whole Lot of Ink - washingtonpost.com

NBC and CW networks became unwitting stealth-marketing partners with the Weinstein Co. when they refused to air ads for the film company's upcoming docu-flick about the storm that erupted when the Dixie Chicks' lead singer said in a 2003 concert she was ashamed President Bush was from her home state of Texas.

Or, as we like to say here at The TV Column, when refusing ads for a flick about Censorship and Freedom of Speech, it's always best not to tell the producer in writing that you "cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to the President" or that your network "does not have appropriate programming in which to schedule this spot" -- because such statements are going to wind up in a news release about network censorship.

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