According to reports on Politico and TVNewser, the McCain campaign’s new "lipstick on a pig" web ad has been removed from YouTube after CBS’s lawyers objected to its use of a quote by CBS News’ Katie Couric, which the ad took out of context.
Steve Krakauer of TVNewser has the story:
The clip is from one of Couric’s Reporter’s Notebooks back in June when she criticized the media for some of the coverage of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The McCain ad, which was hastily produced for the Web, implies Couric is being critical of the Obama campaign. A more complete quote from Couric’s June Notebook: "Like her or not, one of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life, particularly in the media."
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