Longshot presidential candidate to put abortion in your face during Super Bowl
Tell the kids to leave the room during the Super Bowl — pro-life Republican Randall Terry, who’s been arrested almost 50 times for protesting at abortion clinics, is airing ads featuring headless fetuses and body parts. One gem from his protesting history:
In 2009, he donned a doctor’s scrubs and lab coat and stood outside then-Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd’s Charleston, West Virginia, office with a man dressed as Obama, who handed him plastic babies. Terry stabbed each one with a scalpel and tossed it over his shoulder. He also mimicked stabbing an elderly woman to register his opposition to the administration’s health care package, which some critics argue promotes euthanasia.
Oh, and how exactly can Terry run these graphic and disturbing ads during a family show?
…lifelong Republican and anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, who in January 2011 put his name on the Democratic ticket in several states, which would ensure he could air the graphic ads during election season.
Section 315 of the FCC Telecommunications Act says stations must air ads for candidates for federal office and are prohibited from altering the content. That means they can’t refuse to run political ads even if the ads contain material the stations would ordinarily reject.
Yeah, a Republican put his name on the Democratic ticket to get around FCC rules. Class act.
-Jess
