NBC, Fox News Channel and Facebook all said Monday they will stop airing President Donald Trump’s campaign advertisement that featured an immigrant convicted of killing two police officers.
CNN had rejected the same ad, declaring it racist.
Asked before leaving for campaign rallies if he thought the advertisement was offensive, Trump said, “a lot of things are offensive. Your questions are offensive a lot of times.”
The ad has already likely been seen by more people than it would if it kept running. NBC aired it on the “Sunday Night Football” game between the New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, which drew the highest overnight ratings of the franchise’s history. During football season, it’s usually the most-watched show on television, often with around 20 million viewers.
MSNBC also aired it on “Morning Joe” Monday.
Released last week, the advertisement includes footage of Luis Bracamontes, a twice-deported immigrant from Mexico sentenced to death in California for killing two police officers. He’s seen smiling in a court appearance and saying, “I will break out soon and I will kill more.”
Here’s the Trump Ad the networks banned from TV. pic.twitter.com/1dy2qtBxhl
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) November 5, 2018
An earlier version of the ad said, without evidence, that “Democrats let him into our country.” That claim was deleted from the current version.
The new edit still shows masses of people shaking at a fence, apparently trying to break it down, and ends with the tagline, “Trump and Republicans are making America safe again.”
NBC was the first of the three companies to say it was stopping the advertisement Monday, apparently after a fierce online response.
“After further review we recognize the insensitive nature of the ad and have decided to cease airing it across our properties as soon as possible,” NBC Universal said in a statement.
Marianne Gambelli, Fox News’ president of advertising sales, said the commercial was pulled on Sunday “upon further review.” Fox did not immediately say how many times it had aired on either Fox News Channel or the Fox Business Network.
Facebook initially ran the ad but that was an error, company spokesman Andy Stone said, because it violates the company’s policy against sensation content.
Facebook is still allowing its members to post the ad in their news feeds, however.
Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, tweeted that NBC News, CNN and Facebook had chosen “to stand with those ILLEGALLY IN THIS COUNTRY.” He said the media was trying to control what you see and think.
Parscale made no mention of Fox’s decision.
The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., had tweeted over the weekend, noting CNN’s refusal to air the advertisement, that “I guess they only run fake news and won’t talk about real threats that don’t suit their agenda.”
CNN said through Twitter that it was made “abundantly clear” through its coverage that the ad was racist and declined to air it when the campaign sought to buy airtime.
(AP)
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Because I do not wish to be censored by any News organizations, now I am definitely going to vote exclusively for Republican candidates.
Please vote Republican before
it gets too late. The add was true, and why it was offensive? I! Is Showing truth and waking up Americans offensive?!
Republican America,
safe America G-d ‘s will.
Shiva 13…..It is a racist ad but who cares anymore…..Trump is already working on his excuses to blame the loss of the House tomorrow on everyone and everything but himself. Stay-tuned for the Mueller Report on the Russia investigation in the next few weeks. Maybe all those Russian trolls will be identified as hiding in the Caravan from Mexico
” Is Showing truth and waking up Americans offensive?!”
No, but lying, stigmatizing others and propagating hate is!
Democrats let Bracamontes in – LIE! – It was Republicans as well. He entered under Bush and Conservative hero and convicted felon Arpaio released him from his jail.
Democrats want to let in Murders like Bracamontes – LIE! – Democrats voted for comprehensive immigration reform that included more money for border security than Trump is requesting for his wall.
Democrats are behind the Caravan – LIE!
The people in the caravan are all a bunch of criminals like Bracamontes -LIE!
The American people are recognizing that Trump is the president of hate and vitriol. Even FOX News, the most pro Trump, right-wing, conservative media source had to turn down the ad because it is nothing more than a bunch of lies meant to stoke racial tensions.
Hopefully, come 2020 America will have a leader that is deserving of leading this great country. Until that time the new Democratic majority in Congress will act as a check on Trump’s madness.
How is it racist? It is misleading since the individual probably entered the country illegally and was only caught when doing something illegal – tghe ad suggests the Democrats allowed him to enter at the border. Hispanics are no more a racial group than Jews are.
But since the media are taking a stand against Trump, it results in his followers distrusting anything critical of Trump in any media, which probably helps Trump.
> crazykanoiy
“Democrats voted for comprehensive immigration reform that included more money for border security than Trump is requesting for his wall.”
The news in January stated that Trump requested $18 billion (that is with a”b”) for just the FIRST phase of the wall alone. Yet to quote CNN of July 2018:
> Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley of New York in the primary last week, ran on a platform of abolishing the agency, and so far, more lawmakers have echoed her call.
> Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin said he would introduce legislation that would dismantle ICE and create a commission to provide recommendations to Congress on how the government “can implement a humane immigration enforcement system,” according to a statement.
To quote Rep. Nydia Velázquez of New York as referenced by CNN:
> This Administration is attacking immigrants on a multitude of fronts and we must resist on all of them.
So just where is there any mention of how much money the Democrats planned? They don’t even know WHAT they are planning and you claim they know the AMOUNT for the non-existing plan? All you are implicitly saying is that the Democrats plan to protect (as example) so-called “Dreamers” will cost more than what Trump had asked for the wall.
When questioned about this ad, the degenerate lying adulterer said “I don’t know much about it”. The the of the ad is him saying “I’m Donald J trump and I approve this message”. Sure go vote for the party of the biggest liar ever to occupy the White House, the perfect representative of Jews, some nazis are “fine people”. A great friend of the Saudis and admired poster boy of the kkk and other white supremacists.
Here come the three stooges, the three liberals, the three amigos always finding themselves on the consistent viscous end of being defensive on this site. Gadolhadorah, crazykanoiy, rt. Let’s try something new. Every time you feel the need to defend your liberal platform of the party becoming more and more pro-Palestinian and void of traditional Judeo-Christian values, don’t only use the adjective against Trump and Republicans, but add me in it to. For example, I am a degenerate lying adulter, I don’t care about illegal immigrants, I’m the lowest of the low, the scum of the Earth, I’m a loser because I don’t stand with women’s rights and #Metoo (even though the Torah forbids late term Abortions and changing your own gender), I’m a ridiculous fool to always blame CNN (the same network that called white men the most dangerous threat and had Linda Sarsour discuss her views about the murder of Ari Fuld), I’m a Russian troll (never actually been to Russia but I heard the ‘White Nights” are quite a sight)—- see? it’s very simple.
To TGI Shabbos: Well done….couldn’t have said it better…you are and presumably will continue to be all of the above. Kol hakovod for your regressive consistency.
TGI, since when does a lying serial adulterer represent Judeo-c…tian values?