Der, it's called censorship.
A Barack Obama ad ready to air at Florida gas stations that have pumps topped with TV screens was nixed at the last minute because the advertising company's chief said it reflected poorly on the oil industry, according to the presidential candidate's campaign.
Gas Station TV -- whose slogan is ''It's Always Prime Time at the Pump'' -- was slated to run the 30-second ad for two weeks at pumps in Miami, Tampa and Orlando, according to documentation provided by the Obama campaign.
''The GSTV owners have signed off on this,'' a representative of ABC National Sales wrote in an e-mail.
''But no motorist saw the ad because, as Gas Station TV informed the campaign this afternoon, the company will not run ads that are damaging to oil companies,'' read a statement from the campaign issued Wednesday evening.
The statement, released hours after the Obama camp announced that the ad would begin airing Wednesday, turned what had looked like a major gaffe into a potential public relations victory.
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