Nude Bush A No-No

Fox's NY affiliate refuses Bush 'no clothes' ad

"The ad, produced by Brian Ellner, an openly gay candidate for Manhattan Borough president, opens with a close-up of Bush's face and zooms out to show the torso from the hips up, with a voice-over saying, "New Yorkers know the emperor has no clothes."

Ellner also introduces his male partner during the 30-second commercial.

A spokeswoman for Fox's WNYW/Channel 5 affiliate said the channel was not running the ad, but declined to say why. A spokeswoman for Fox News Channel said: "The decision was made at the station level."

Ellner said on Tuesday, "This is censorship and it's un-American. ... It's either antigay because I introduce my partner, or it's anti-free speech because I criticize the president."

He said the three major networks and many other cable channels accepted the ad.
Ellner said WNYW representatives told his campaign officials that the ad was rejected because Fox viewed it as disrespectful to the office of the president.

"Fox claims that this ad is disrespectful to the president. What is truly disrespectful to Manhattan voters is to deny them the chance to hear a serious message from a candidate for public office," Ellner said.

Part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. empire, Fox News is the leading cable news channel in the United States, operating under the slogan "Fair and Balanced."

According to an annual report by a research arm of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, its audience is increasingly more Republican than viewers of other cable channels."

It's painfully obvious that al-Reuters cannot tell the difference between fair and balanced and totally tasteless. And... stop the presses...Fox viewers are "more Republican than viewers of other cable channels". You mean those "other" cable channels that nobody watches?

Being antigay or anti-free speech has nothing to do with allowing yet another exhibitionist to prance such objectionable material into our living rooms, thank you very much, Bry. Not that it isn't as hilarious as most of the pabulum the angry loons of leftyville have come up with, but such low brow commentary is best left for Off-Off Broadway.

And hey, could'a been worse. Brian could have full frontal fellated his male partner during the 30 second commercial. Now I'm wondering what was left on the cutting room floor and if I don't stop thinking about it I'll hurl.