ABC will air "Pu****ng Daisies" in its usual time period on Wednesday night
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not the Barack Obama ad.
The news ends a guessing game that's been going on for nearly a month.
The Obama campaign purchased a half hour of airtime on NBC, Fox and CBS,
spending about $1 million per network. ABC was absent from the list when
it
was first re****ted Oct. 9 and the network has since remained silent about
its
programming intentions for the evening. With ratings for "Daisies"
slipping,
some have wondered whether the network would air "Daisies" as usual, air
the
Obama ad, or take the op****tunity run something else entirely. It's not
often
a network has the major broadcast airwaves largely free of any competiting
entertainment programming.
One source said ABC offered the airtime, but the Obama campaign, for
whatever
reason, declined to buy an ad.
Perhaps the campaign decided ads running on three broadcast networks was
sufficient, or decided to pour the money into, say, West Virginia.
The move gives Obama near-domination of the major broadcast networks at 8
p.m.
Wednesday evening less than a week before Election Day. Spanish-language
broadcaster Univision will also air the ad. Fifth broadcaster the CW will
counter program with its usual show in the time period, "America's Next
Top
Model."
Obama's increasingly mysterious special has not yet been delivered to
networks. Sources say the ad is almost certainly taped, rather than a live
telecast, and can be submitted as late as the morning of its broadcast.
The
special was parodied this weekend on "Saturday Night Live" (video here).
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It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which
the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn
our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad
for them, it's failing.
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