The Dixie Chicks are apparently too controversial for NBC. The Washington Post reported Friday that NBC refused to run ads for their new movie Shut Up & Sing because “they are disparaging of President Bush.”

Larry Lessig points out that this is not the first time NBC has acted in order to protect the image of W. In a piece for Wired Lessig wrote about filmmaker Robert Greenwald’s attempt to license a 1 minute clip from Meet the Press (an NBC program), in which the President explained his reasons for going to war. Greenwald’s agent was told they could not use the clip because it was “not very flattering to the president.” He used it anyway.