By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

A clever X Factor promo that spoofs both presidential candidates has been turned down for network broadcast by Fox, Breaking Celebrity News is reporting exclusively.

Breaking Celebrity News has obtained a copy of the footage and you can watch it here.

With footage taken from the October 22 debate, the promo turns both President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney into X Factor contestants, while Simon Cowell, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and L.A. Reid make caustic comments, roll their eyes and offer brutal criticism.

Apparently it was too much for Fox, which will not allow it to air on TV.

“Some people at the network are nervous because the promo messes with the President and Mitt Romney so they've decided they won't be airing it," a source told Breaking Celebrity News.

"They don’t want any problems from it, they've been advised there could be all sorts of issues so it was pulled before it even made it on air."

In the promo’s opening a narrator says: “The two major party candidates for president of the United States appeared before the toughest panel of voters ever assembled…here is what happened.”