The KickOff video is part of a UN fundraising campaign for the removal and disposal of landmines and other antipersonnel weapons that are left over from previous wars in about 80 countries (all of them from the Third World). The reason why the video hasn't been shown yet on US television is not because CNN or other TV stations won’t accept it, but because the FCC won't allow it, allegedly for being too graphic, just as they didn't allow the showing of «Saving Private Ryan» during Rememberance Day last year, because of bad language.

You have to understand that the United States today is not the United States we used to know and love. The present US Administration is the most reactionnary governement that country has ever had. The neocons are in power now, at all levels of government, and their policies include the unilateral rejection of and withdrawal from the major international treaties and conventions, including the Canada-sponsored land mines treaty. Bush has just nominated as US Representative at the UN, John Bolton, «a man who doesn't believe in diplomacy and thinks the United States should be the only permanent member of the U.N. Security Council». This is what famous journalist and author Sidney Blumenthal has to say about Bolton: «At the State Department,...(I)n his first year alone, he forced the U.S. withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, destroyed a protocol on enforcing the biological weapons convention ...and ousted the head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He scuttled the nuclear test ban treaty and the U.N. Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (to which he brought representatives of the National Rifle Association). And he was behind the renunciation of the U.S. signature on the 1998 Rome Statute creating the International Criminal Court. He described his sending the letter notifying U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as "the happiest moment of my government service."

The article you quote is from WorldNet Daily. WND is a rightwing mouthpiece, just as Fox is a propaganda tool for the Bush Administration. The US media are presently dominated by neocons, rightwing nuts (like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannerty, etc.) and religious fundamentalists, who are actively promoting the teaching of Creationism/Intelligent design in replacement of evolution, the elimination of sex education in schools, the closing down of abortion clinics, etc.. So when the article said that «The ad generated some controversy across the Internet», what it really means is that the controversity and hostile comments are coming exclusively from rightwing radio shows, newspapers or blogs like Instapundit, Little Green Football, etc.