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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (765684)	10/4/2007 7:02:26 PM
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Clear Channel Rejects VoteVets Ad Because It ‘Conflicts’ With Listeners Who Tune Into Rush POSTED: Thursday, October 04, 2007 reuters.com FROM BLOG: Think Progress - Progressive news and research blog run out of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The following blog post is from an independent writer and is not connected with Reuters News. The opinions and views expressed herein are those of the author and are not endorsed by Reuters.com. Rush Limbaugh’s hometown radio station that broadcasts his show — WJNO AM in Palm Beach, Florida — has refused to air a VoteVets ad by Brian McGough, the Iraq war veteran who was compared by Limbaugh to a suicide bomber. John Hunt, the vice president/market manager for Clear Channel in Palm Beach, wrote a letter yesterday explaining his station’s decision not air McGough’s ad. Hunt’s rationale was not that the ad was inaccurate or that it posed legal issues, but rather, the ad presented information that “would conflict with the listeners who have chosen to listen to Rush Limbaugh.” Read the full letter here: votevets.org Last night on Countdown, McGough issued this challenge to Limbaugh: “Ask me or any other members of VoteVets.org to come on your program and talk to you and tell you how we feel.” But Limbaugh is desperately trying to hide behind his microphone where he can launch verbal assaults without having to defend them. Here’s the radio ad that Clear Channel doesn’t want you to hear: Limbaugh Compares Purple Heart Recipient In Vote Vets Ad To A Suicide Bomber thinkprogress.org In the ad, McGough says, “Rush Limbaugh called vets like me ‘phony soldiers’ for telling the truth.” He continues: Rush, the shrapnel I took to my head, was real. … My belief that we are on the wrong course in Iraq, is real. Until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service.