Is questioning Obama 'offensive'? ~ By Joseph Farah

Joseph makes a good point in his column today. If you been reading Farah's columns, you will know that CBS refused to allow Farah's billboard questioning Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility for office (see below). CBS stated that the billboards were ""offensive, misleading or incompatible with community standards."

They have the right to reject the billboards, of course, they "absolute right to reject any kind of advertising it deems inappropriate." If that is their standard, so be it. But speaking of CBS' standards, let's see what they WILL allow. Here is an excerpt from Joseph Farah's column:

According to CBS, this billboard in Phoenix, purchased by a group of Arizona atheists," is not offensive or incompatible with community standards.

This one is. Again, that's fine. If those are CBS' standards, so be it. But the public should know. Questioning God is OK. Questioning Barack Obama, even when he is not named, is not. But I'd like you to see what the billboard industry states in its code about billboard suitability: "We advocate the use of outdoor advertising for political, editorial, public service, and other noncommercial messages." Is this not a "political" and "editorial" message? It would seem that CBS has a bias here against certain kinds of political and editorial messages. There is indeed some self-censorship at work here. And I can certainly understand it given the way the Obama administration has shown no hesitation in hiring and firing the chief executive officers of some of the biggest public corporations in America, indeed, taking over those companies, regulating freedom of speech and strictly controlling debate. CBS obviously doesn't fear God. It does, however, fear Obama.

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