Why did ad company nix Obama's gas pump campaign?

Why did ad company nix Obama's gas pump campaign?
By Beth Reinhard and Lesley Clark | Miami Herald


A Barack Obama ad ready to air at Florida gas stations that have pumps topped with TV screens was nixed at the last minute because the advertising company's chief said it reflected poorly on the oil industry, according to the presidential candidate's campaign.

Gas Station TV -- whose slogan is ''It's Always Prime Time at the Pump'' -- was slated to run the 30-second ad for two weeks at pumps in Miami, Tampa and Orlando, according to documentation provided by the Obama campaign.

''The GSTV owners have signed off on this,'' a representative of ABC National Sales wrote in an e-mail.

''But no motorist saw the ad because, as Gas Station TV informed the campaign this afternoon, the company will not run ads that are damaging to oil companies,'' read a statement from the campaign issued Wednesday evening.

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Even I could have told them the company would not put an anti oil company ad on oil company facilities.

so why would they consent to letting the people know??

it seems. That is the only explanation.

That would be like shopping at the GAP and seeing ads for an anti-sweatshop campaign. It's not gonna happen.

which was pulled ... or never aired ... because it might have been "controversial" ...

MSM: "Okay, when we come back, we will play the McCain commercial which was not aired ... we will play it 1000 times in the next hour ..."