Typical:

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A TV station ... [is] refusing to run an ad sponsored by a liberal activist group that targets Republican U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce because of questions about material the group provided to back up the ad's claims.

The group MoveOn.org is spending $300,000 on ads targeting Pryce and other lawmakers. The ads say they accepted thousands of dollars in donations from defense contractors and then "opposed penalties for contractors like Halliburton who overcharged the military in Iraq."

Tom Griesdorn, president and general manager of WBNS-TV, said the station didn't air the ad because its attorneys "did not feel comfortable with the documentation provided by Moveon.org," he said....

Funny thing, WBNS didn't seem to have a problem taking $286,790 for four separate ad buys from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth back in 2004. I wonder if anyone at the station "didn't feel comfortable with the documentation" backing, say, this ad --

George Elliott: "John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam."

Al French: "He is lying about his record."

Louis Letson: "I know John Kerry is lying about his first Purple Heart because I treated him for that injury."...

-- which was thoroughly debunked months before the ad buy.

Two-tier freedom of speech -- get used to it.