Anti-Semitic ad on WLW and KRC sparks outrage. Federal law prevents stations from censoring candidat

[Roland99]

Anti-Semitic ad on WLW (Cincinnati) and KRC sparks outrage. Federal law prevents stations from censoring candidates
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/02/anti-semitic-ad-wlw-and-wkrc-sparks-outrage-federal-law-prevents-stations-censoring-candidates/1857213002/

In the early morning on Thursday, Cincinnati's WLW began airing an anti-Semitic campaign ad in which a candidate spouted conspiracies involving "billionaire communist Jews."

Then the complaints started rolling in. The AM radio station faced a threatened boycott on social media.

The station has no choice, said Scott Reinhart, program manager for WLW-AM and 55KRC-AM.

Federal law prevents stations from refusing candidates ad time, even if the ad is racist or anti-Semitic and aired in the days following the massacre of worshipping Jews at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Audio at link, too.

Jim Condit, Jr., a candidate for Congress running in the 2nd Congressional District, the seat currently held by Brad Wenstrup, a Republican from Cincinnati's Columbia Tusculum neighborhood.

[The Genealogist]

1. Unless something has changed, WLW is still a blowtorch

WLW is a 50Kw powerhouse. It comes in in Springfield, MO like it is down the street at and after dusk. Likely most of the eastern half of the nation is hearing this.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. That is some serious bullshit.

Would they allow any other type of ad to espouse racism or anti-Semitism? If not, then they have a legitimate reason to deny any ad political or not, from airing!