Coming to this late too - CBS rejected the ad chosen by MoveOn.org from all the ads sent in to them.
I also learned from Ad Age that that the winning ad was “produced by professionals”:http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=39555. I share the disappointment of Seth Stevenson at “Slate”:http://slate.msn.com/id/2093860/ who lamented that,
Of all the ads, this is the one that most looks like it was dreamed up and executed by the Democratic National Committee. So why bother?
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