Winning Ad To Air During Bush's State Of The Union Address
POSTED: 9:55 PM PST January 5, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ask liberals to participate in an advertising contest dubbed "Bush in 30 Seconds," and you'll get more than a few negative entries.
Children toiling on a grocery checkout line to pay the bill for the nation's budget deficit. Faces of American soldiers killed in Iraq paired with video of President George. W. Bush making the case for war. An elfin Bush impersonator taking money from the elderly and delivering it to a corporate doorstep.
These are just some of the images from the 15 television ads selected as finalists Monday in the contest sponsored by the liberal online advocacy Web site, MoveOn.org. The contest generated some 1,500 submissions from amateur videographers critiquing President Bush and his policies.
"Our purpose was to tap into the huge creative pool outside the Beltway, and from that perspective, it totally succeeded," said Eli Pariser, Campaigns Director for the MoveOn.org Voter Fund. "We were amazed at the amount of new thinking we saw."
WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- Viacom's CBS today rejected a request from liberal group MoveOn to air a 30-second anti-President Bush ad during the Super Bowl, saying the spot violated the network's policy against running issue advocacy advertising
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Anti-Bush contest MoveOn is airing a 60-second version the commercial, which was selected through a contest calling for anti-Bush ads, in advance of President Bush's State of the Union address Jan. 20. The group has purchased $300,000 worth of air time on Time Warner's CNN that starts Jan. 17 and runs through Jan. 21.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee is warning television stations across the country not to run ads from the MoveOn.org Voter Fund that criticize President Bush, charging that the left-leaning political group is paying for them with money raised in violation of the new campaign-finance law.
"As a broadcaster licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, you have a responsibility to the viewing public, and to your licensing agency, to refrain from complicity in any illegal activity," said the RNC's chief counsel, Jill Holtzman Vogel, in a letter sent to about 250 stations Friday.
"Now that you have been apprised of the law, to prevent further violations of federal law, we urge you to remove these advertisements from your station's broadcast rotation."
