New York – CNN And NBC Agree To Air Ad For Oscar-nominated Documentary About NY Nazi Rally

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    A screenshot from the ad for "A Night at the Garden." (Screenshot from Vimeo)New York – CNN and MSNBC have each agreed to broadcast an ad that Fox News rejected for a documentary about a Nazi rally held in New York in 1939.

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    The filmmakers of “A Night at the Garden,” which has been nominated for an Oscar in the category of documentary short, confirmed to The Washington Post on Friday that the 30-second ad spot would air during “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” on CNN and “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC on Monday.

    The documentary contains footage of the Nazi rally.

    “We decided to dig deep and pay for television ads we weren’t planning to buy because we wanted to make the point that Fox News is out of the mainstream,” the movie’s director, Marshall Curry, told The Post, adding that he believed the network’s rejection of the ad was politically motivated.

    NBCUniversal said the company had initially rejected the ad for MSNBC because an NBCUniversal standards group deemed the content too provocative, so the filmmakers added context with a title card that explains the footage is part of an Oscar-nominated film, the Post reported.

    Fox declined to run the ad because it was “full of disgraceful Nazi imagery regardless of the film’s message and did not meet our guidelines,” ad sales president Marianne Gambelli said in a statement.

    The rally’s 80th anniversary is on Feb. 20.


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    lazy-boy
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    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    few people know that before WWII there were those who supported the Nazis. I lived in Skokie and there was restaurant (whose name I forgot) in the North of Skokie where my parents told me that was used often for Nazi meetings.

    But after WWII broke out, those Nazi supporters just seem to melt into the mainstream.

    Cricket
    Cricket
    5 years ago

    If they believe their own rhetoric why not run an ad of Nazis hanging after Nuremberg trials!?

    a gita mentch
    a gita mentch
    5 years ago

    The real reason is because it shows the danger of Nationalism. Also, people will see that the Republicans once stood with the Nazis.

    hashomer
    hashomer
    5 years ago

    Mainstream Republicans were not pro-nazi before WW2. It was the conservative, christian isolationist ‘America Firsters’ like evil Father Coughlin and Charles Lindburgh (and JFK’s fakakta father, a Dem) who openly supported the Charlottesville ‘good people’ that herr trumpf dog whistles… FEH

    5 years ago

    I just watched the short and the speaker sounded like Ilhan Omar! Watch for yourselves….the lefts anti Israel and pro BDS stance sounds a lot like the alt right. Rep Steve King is an anti semite and he sat in Congress for 12 years until he was stripped of his committe membership.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    5 years ago

    I don’t understand why Fox refused the commercial

    5 years ago

    The rally was organized by those of German descent who were called in by Germany to form groups that supported Germany. Seems it does not occur to those presenting the film that one way to interpret its message today is that if we import immigrants from countries that do not share the American values of freedom, that those immigrants or their descendants will be called in by the parent country to do the same things.

    5 years ago

    The person responsible for the rally was one Kuhn. The person who succeeded in imprisoning him was one DA named Thomas E. Dewey who was a Republican.

    And it seems to me that one (possible) reason for someone like FOX to NOT air the ad is because this is a `set-up`. As soon as it airs the ad, it could be subject to accusations of supporting Nazism. That is the way these leftists operate.