NBC refuses to air Pickens ad about Iran
By now, it is no secret that we like the Pickens Plan. The combination of vision and pragmatism, coupled with a concrete roadmap and resources to back it up are very appealing to us. As subscribers to the Pickens Plan mailing list, we received the following message to his enthusiastically termed “army” yesterday:
Army:
NBC is refusing to run one of our strongest ads, and I need your help in showing NBC they can’t control what we can or cannot say.
The 15-second ad talks about how the government of Iran is making a MAJOR effort to use natural gas in their vehicles so they can free up $120 a barrel oil to sell to us while we are doing nothing.
I need you to click on the link, watch the ad, then send it to five of your friends. Please ask each of those five people to send it on to five of THEIR friends.
This is important. Let me know what you think.
According to his website:
In the ad Boone talks about how the Iranians are moving quickly to vehicles powered by natural gas so they can free up their $120 a barrel oil to sell to us. Boone says: “Get this one. Iran is changing its cars to run on natural gas and we’re not doing a thing here…”
The problem? NBC wants us to PROVE that “we’re not doing a thing here.”
Who knows if this was NBC’s exact objection? But regardless, we don’t see much for them to object to in this ad.
[Update: NBC has decided to allow this ad to be aired on its networks.]
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