Frothy Paradise

“Actor Danny Glover has filmed a TV ad asserting that the Bush Administration is destroying the Constitution through the use of torture, rendition, and other war-on-terror tactics. Mr. Glover urges viewers to ‘rescue the Constitution.’

It’s hard-hitting. But a lot of people and organizations — including our Editorial Page — have been saying much the same thing.

The Center for Constitutional Rights, which produced the ad, says that Fox News refused to run it. According to CCR, a Fox account executive wrote:

We cannot approve the spot with it being Danny Glover’s opinion that the Bush Administration is destroying the Constitution. If you have documentation that it is indeed being destroyed, we can look at that.

But in any case, we have news for Fox: Alka-Seltzer tablets don’t bounce around singing ‘plop, plop, fizz, fizz,’ and whole sidewalks full of people don’t smile and cheer just because a guy is running around with a bottle of Dr. Pepper. It seems that Fox’s literalism about advertising is limited to ads that take a liberal political position.”