Fox News has refused to air an ad from an advocacy group that depicts the U.S. Constitution being put through a shredder. In the spot, actor Danny Glover says, "The Bush administration is destroying
the Constitution. They can be stopped. Rescue the Constitution." Developed and paid for by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the spot was intended to run at the same time a case involving people
held at Guantanamo Bay finally hits the Supreme Court Wednesday.
The center represents several detainees and its ad has been cleared to run on MSNBC and CNN. But, according to Media
Matters for America, Fox News says it can't air the ad because CCR couldn't prove that the actual Constitution was being physically shredded. "We cannot approve the spot with it being Danny Glover's
opinion that the Bush Administration is destroying the Constitution. The net says in an email. If you have documentation that it is indeed being destroyed, we can look at that."
"Fox's literal interpretation of the ad is utterly ridiculous," says the CCR's executive director. "Surely there are other advertisements that Fox airs that use metaphors to express their
message-political or not."
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