No Obama Ads on Gas Station TV

Gas Station TV, contrary to an Obama campaign press release issued on Tuesday morning, will not be running ads from Barack Obama -- or any other campaign for that matter. The reasons have less to do with politics and more to do with political ad clutter. "We're providing our traditional clients a non-cluttered environment," he said. "It's just best for our consumers and our advertisers to stay out of politics." Indeed, some of the company's ad clients had been asking if their messages would be crowded out of the market by political ads this election season -- as could happen in numerous markets throughout the country as presidential and congressional ads start to take over much of the ad time at local TV affiliates. Obama's Florida Communications Director Mark Bubriski said, "Once again, the oil companies and their friends are standing with Senator McCain, the candidate for president who is proposing to offer them a $4 billion tax cut. It looks like Gas Station TV doesn't want the American people to know about Senator Obama's plan to offer working families a $1,000 energy rebate that would be funded by a tax on oil company profits. The oil companies have taken sides in this race, and they are standing with John McCain, because they know he's been in Washington for 26 years and can be counted on to pursue for another four years of the Bush energy policy that's made them billions of dollars." GSTV reaches about 17.5 million consumers each month who are practically sitting ducks for advertising. There they are, pumping gas, with nothing to do