NBCU 2.0: Network Refuses Ad For Dixie Chicks Movie; Weinsteins ‘Exploring Legal Action’

NBC has joined the CW network in refusing to accept an ad for Shut Up & Sing, an upcoming documentary on the politically-outspoken Dixie Chicks. NBC claims it cannot accept the spots “as they are disparaging to President Bush.” CW says they do “not have appropriate programming in which to schedule” the ads, Drudge reports. The movie opens nationwide November 10.

Said Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company: “It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is sad and profoundly un-American.”

This is seemingly what Robert Kennedy Jr. was talking about.

NBC REFUSES ADS FOR DIXIE CHICKS MOVIE [Drudge Report]

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