The right-wing Fux "News" network rejected an ad promoting an Oscar-nominated short film, "Night At The Garden," about a night in Madison Square Garden in 1939 when thousands of American Nazis rallied, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film is a warning that Nazism can take root in America (spoiler alert: it already has). Appropriately, the rejected ad was scheduled to run during Sean "Heil" Hannity's hate fest program, but Fux News' CEO Suzanne Scott claimed the ad was "not appropriate for our air," obviously because it would confuse and offend the mouthbreathing Trumpists who make up Hannity's audience.
The film's director Marshall Curry said to The Hollywood Reporter:
"'The film shines a light on a time when thousands of Americans fell under the spell of a demagogue who attacked the press and scapegoated minorities using the symbols of American patriotism,' Night at the Garden director Marshall Curry said in a statement to THR. [ed. -- Sound familiar?]It's despicable enough that Ms. Scott and her crowd are promoting the vile right-wing tropes of their on-air "talent" and of Mango Mussolini. To claim that an ad for an anti-Nazi film is "not appropriate" for your brainwashed viewers is obscene.
He added, 'It’s amazing to me that the CEO of Fox News would personally inject herself into a small ad buy just to make sure that Hannity viewers weren’t exposed to this chapter of American history.'” (our emphasis)
Here's the ad they refused to run:
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