California Teachers Association Ad Dropped by Comcast
The California Teachers Association has been running the following ad against Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman:
Attorneys for the Whitman campaign threatened to sue, claiming the ads are false and defamatory. After review, Comcast pulled the ad from its cable system, and several broadcast stations across the state have followed suit.
The ad claims “Whitman says” she wants $7 billion cut from schools, 100,000 teacher layoffs and 33% larger class size. While you can make arguments about the effects of any politician’s proposals, Whitman never said any of those things, and they don’t appear in her campaign documents.
CTA told the Los Angeles Times it “extrapolated” the figures from Whitman’s education plan.
September 15th, 2010 at 15:17
Apparently, the Supreme Court’s notion that MONEY IS FREE SPEECH does not extend to huge corporations like ComCas, if they consider it in their best interst to deny advertising because they disagree with the message.
So much for the argument that “the unions” have the same right as the corporations to spend whatever they want on the candidates of their choice.
September 15th, 2010 at 19:43
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September 16th, 2010 at 18:52
“Free Speach” means just that–Comcast is free to join CTA in their lie or remain apart from it. CTA has plenty of other options for spreading their lies.