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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  CONTROVERSY OVER CNN AD ON JUDGE ROBERTS Tue Aug 09 2005 19:41:54 ET CNN has reviewed and agreed to run a controversial ad produced by a pro-abortion group?s that falsely accuses Supreme Court nominee John Roberts of filing legal papers supporting a convicted abortion clinic bomber, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The news network has agreed to a $125,000 ad buy from NARAL for a commercial which depicts a bombed out 1998 Birmingham, AL abortion clinic. The Birmingham clinic was bombed seven years after Roberts signed the legal briefing the ad question! The linking of Roberts to ?violent fringe groups? is the liberal?s sharpest attack against the nominee thus far. However, the non-partisan University of Pennsylvania?s Annenberg Factcheck.org reviewed the NARAL ad and found it to be ?false.? Factcheck.org found "in words and images, the ad conveys the idea that Roberts took a legal position excusing bombing of abortion clinics, which is false." The Republican National Committee is preparing to send a letter to television stations asking them to pull the spot, according to sources. The RNC?s letter claims: ?NARAL's ad is a deliberate misrepresentation of the facts that has no purpose but to mislead the American people. NARAL's characterization of Judge Robert's legal position is not a matter of characterization or of reasonable minds disagreeing - NARAL's characterization is simply false.? Developing... |
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