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United States News Title: Fox News accused of lying about anti-Clinton ad ban The nation's largest pro-troop organization claims Fox News is lying about the reason the network rejected an ad countering ex-President Bill Clinton's recent assertions about his efforts to combat Islamic terrorism. Images from the Move America Forward ad A spokesman for Fox News previously told WND that the advertisement made a claim about Clinton that wasn't documented, so the ad wasn't accepted. "That's standard operating procedure for Fox News," he said. "If there's something (like that) in an ad, we ask for documentation for it." "The claim by the Fox News Channel spokesman is not correct," said Move America Forward spokesman Joe Wierzbicki. "They did not ask for substantiation. In fact, they told us there was no way to defend the allegations." The ad in dispute can be seen at the group's website, or via YouTube. As WND reported, Clinton erupted several weeks ago in a televised interview on Fox when he was asked whether his administration had done all it could to capture or destroy Osama bin Laden. Clinton on Fox program. Jabbing his finger at his interviewer he heatedly said that he had done more and gotten closer to destroying bin Laden than anyone else. That statement has since been contradicted by former CIA experts, who said Clinton probably missed at least eight opportunities for removing bin Laden from the terror war. That was the issue, the Fox official said, that caused the rejection. Documentation about Clinton's knowledge of bin Laden's location during his presidency was required for that ad to air, he said. "We asked for documentation to back up that claim, and the organization was not able to provide it," he told WND. But the comment to WND is prompting a harsh response from Move America Forward. Wierzbicki stresses, "Fox News Channel did not ask at any time for documentation, otherwise the organization would have been happy to provide it, and stands ready to do so. Including, for example, the 9/11 Commission report, recent statements by CIA bin Laden group agent, Michael Scheuer, and endless news accounts detailing the Clinton administration's actions following several terrorist attacks against United States interests." MAF provided WND an excerpt of an e-mail from a Fox News representative, which reads: "Just got word from NY that we cannot run the Clinton commercial as there is no way to defend the allegations." Writes WND reader Pat Thurman: "Fox News' comments regarding the lack of documentation ring hollow given that one of their own foreign correspondents, Mansoor Ijaz, has stated numerous times on air that he was personally involved as an intermediary between the government of Sudan and the U.S. government to present the Sudanese offers to deport bin Laden in exchange for removal from the list of countries that support terrorism. That should be all the documentation that Fox needs. Tragically, I fear that Fox News has been co-opted and is now gradually moving away from the 'fair and balanced network' that many of us have grown to depend upon for television news." Move America Forward's television ad campaign is to explain its criticism of Clinton, and one of those ads shows a series of images of terror attacks on the U.S. and its interests. Over the images of the terror attacks, a narrator says, "Terrorists want to kill us. They've tried over and over again. Our president didn't have his eye on the ball. He didn't make the war on terrorism his top priority. But enough about Bill Clinton. Today our troops are fighting the terrorist threat overseas so America may never face attacks on our soil again." With the video moving through images of the military troops to George W. Bush, it continues: "We salute our commander in chief and the brave men and women of the U.S. military for defending our freedom." And returning to an image of Clinton, it concludes: "Even though others failed to act." The pro-troop organization said the ad "counters former President Bill Clinton's recent assertions about his administration's effort to combat Islamic terrorism." The group noted the popular video-posting site YouTube recently had imposed a restriction on anyone wanting to watch a video critical of Clinton that was from Hollywood producer David Zucker. "Now, Fox News Channel has decided to prohibit the airing of a new television commercial that is equally critical of President Clinton's efforts – or lack thereof – to fight terrorism," Debra Argel Bastian, MAF's military outreach coordinator, said. "But the decision by Fox is most surprising given the fact that two networks considered to be more liberal in their news perspectives, CNN and Headline News, had approved the ad," she said. Move America Forward said it has been broadcasting ads on the Fox News Channel for two years and was "stunned" by the prohibition on its new product.
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