Blacklisted

NBC is refusing to air commercials for the Dixie Chicks’ new documentary Shut Up and Sing because the adverts are “disparaging of President Bush.”

"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."
Indeed. It makes one wonder how it is that Keith Olbermann has managed to stay on the air for as long as he has.

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