Obama’s Plan for Gas Pump Ad Up in Flames
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This morning, officials from Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign proudly announced its cool new way to wage the political energy war — it would run TV advertisements on the subject, starting today, on Gas Station TV, a network of televisions in gas pumps in Florida.
How cool, how cutting edge, how innovative and unique. Except for the fact that the ads never ran.
Why that happened — or didn’t happen — is a matter of dispute.
“Gas Station TV was considering running political ads and we have been approached by a few campaigns,” said David Leider, Gas Station TV’s CEO. “We have made a conscious decision not to run political ads on our network…At no time did Gas Station TV approve the campaign or receive … an “insertion order, which is required to purchase ad times.”
The Obama campaign claims that “Gas Station TV informed the campaign this afternoon (that) the company will not run [...]
