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Does General Electric support NBC decision to reject ad to thank and remember US troops during the holiday season? We want an answer!

The decision by NBC (GE), the faltering TV network, to reject the ads by Freedom Watch to thank US troops and remember them during the holidays, is about as dumb and ignorant a management move as you can get.

NBC head of standards and practices, Alan Wurtzel, claimed the reason was because the company has a long-standing policy of rejecting ads centered around "issues of public controversy."

"We have a policy that prohibits acceptance of advertising that deals with issues of public controversy," Wurtzel said. "This particular ad, in and of itself, is fine. It thanks the troops for their action overseas. We asked them to eliminate a URL address where a person is asked to contact elected officials and told not to cut and run on the war on terror."

Wurtzel added in a strange statement, that the refusal to drop the URL (Web address) "forced" NBC to reject the ad.

The problem for General Electric, NBC and Wurtzel, is everybody else in the media industry had no trouble with the ads. Including your web address is just a part of doing business for any company or organization.

With American viewers tiring of NBC's shenanigans, and General Electric evidently agreeing with NBC's decision, it doesn't bode well for the network or its policies and practices, if these are the types of actions they're going to take. General Electric needs to let us know if this is their official policy or not.

To make the simple advertisements (shown below), into anything more than what it is, is so much of a stretch, that it's not believable. This will hurt NBC, and eventually General Electric if actions aren't taken to change it and get rid of the people who support this nonsense.

Below are a couple video ads Freedom Watch produced: