Femo-Nazis attack SuperBowl

[DLD]

Screaming for attention has given the femo-nazis (http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-tebow-superbowlad&prov=ap&type=lgns) a tenuous protest that might affect CBS’s decisions on SuperBowl advertising.



A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message.
“An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year—an event designed to bring Americans together,” said Jemhu Greene, president of the New York-based Women’s Media Center.


They haven’t even seen the ad but it’s time to get people riled up.
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The ad—paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family— is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987 with a theme of “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim, who went on to win the 2007 Heisman Trophy while helping his Florida team to two BCS championships.

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The protest letter from the Women’s Media Center suggested that CBS should have turned down the ad in part because it was conceived by Focus on the Family.
“By offering one of the most coveted advertising spots of the year to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organization, CBS is aligning itself with a political stance that will damage its reputation, alienate viewers, and discourage consumers from supporting its shows and advertisers,” the letter said.


Ladies, ahem! If you covet such an advertising spot so much why don’t you buy an ad spot and put an acceptable alternative in there? No? This is about squashing free speech (with CBS’s acceptance of suitability) by screeching and hollering to get the PC sensitive execs to change their mind.

Not sure I like such divisive social rhetoric to be focused on the SuperBowl. The ads have become entertainment. This one might be inspirational.

[Christopher]

Ladies, ahem! If you covet such an advertising spot so much why don’t you buy an ad spot and put an acceptable alternative in there? No? This is about squashing free speech (with CBS’s acceptance of suitability) by screeching and hollering to get the PC sensitive execs to change their mind.

Not sure I like such divisive social rhetoric to be focused on the SuperBowl. The ads have become entertainment. This one might be inspirational.

How would one construct a tasteful ad advocating that someone should never have been born?

[Retribution]

How would one construct a tasteful ad advocating that someone should never have been born?

They wouldn't do that - they would construct an ad about freedom.

They would point to the day when women were second class citizens, not able to vote, considered property - and would have a bonnet full length dressed, black & white picture montage - with a voice over of a woman, with a wavering voice - talking about the progress woman have made in this or that right and how much further they need to go (the equal pay lie and so on) - and they would throw in reproductive rights in the mix of advancements. The images would include smaller pictures of protest and demonstrations of the various movements as the topics where mentioned, color would be added as the ad progressed, and they would end with a multicultural full color shot of a bunch of woman looking in to the camera and the voice over would be something about not looking/going back.

See, to pro-abortionists, it isn't about the pregnancy or ending it, the baby has no place in their position. It is all about the whim of the woman. Why would they focus on the baby not being born at all?

[XXX]

well, in hindsight, we wouldnt have had to deal with all the tebow crap if she had....

[DLD]

Here comes the cave-in. Next they will be pulling it 'in the spirit' of the Fairness Doctrine.

NEW YORK – CBS responded to complaints over a conservative group's planned Super Bowl ad featuring football star Tim Tebow by saying that it had eased restrictions on advocacy ads and would consider "responsibly produced" ones for open spots in its Feb. 7 broadcast.
CBS Corp. said Tuesday it had received numerous e-mails — both critical and supportive — since a coalition of women's groups began a protest campaign Monday against the ad, which the critics say will use Tebow and his mother to convey an anti-abortion message.


CBS said Tuesday that the decision to air the Tebow ad reflected a change in its policies toward advocacy ads that has evolved over the past several years.
"We have for some time moderated our approach to advocacy submissions after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms," said spokesman Dana McClintock. "In fact, most media outlets have accepted advocacy ads for some time."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_sp_ot/us_cbs_tebow_ad

[XXX]

because i think what i say, and say what i think.

[twila]

Did these wind-bags come out against Victoria Secret Ads?
They need to keep their mouths shut on this and pick a different cause. They're old news and need to face it. :mad:

[XXX]

hell tell them to get their asses back in the house and do the chores

[twila]

That's beneath them! :o

[DLD]

because i think what i say, and say what i think.

Huzzah!! That makes you a 3 year old. Congratulations. Sorry we didn't hold a party for you. The clown was booked elsewhere...
:rolleyes:

[TheBigGuy]

If this were not publisized on such a big stage like the Super Bowl and just during the regular programming of As The World Turns, would this even be an issue?

[XXX]

politics during the superbowl is just flat out wrong.

[DLD]

The ad is supposedly about the celebration of faith and family. How is that political? What better venue to publicize the success of families than during the pinnacle of the national game? The cameras will be zooming in on the mothers of many of these players (esp. the Mannings). There will be endless images of pride and anguish of the families as the game goes on. Seems like a direct tie-in to me.

It only became political when other people stuck their noses into a private business transaction. The original protest was against the people who paid for the ad, not the message necessarily. Now everyone else is piling on and it's getting all blown out of proportion.

I still think it'll get pulled, regardless of CBS's need for revenue.

[twila]

politics during the superbowl is just flat out wrong.


Obama did it!

[Jim]

Obama did it!

That was ok for Obama....he's the savior...... (please note the lower case "s")

[Christopher]

As I said before, if you can afford to buy the airtime, you should get the airtime.

XXX, hit disagree all you want but keep the actual comments where people can reply to them.

Most of the ads on the super-bowl are going to be off-color, "walking the line", or feature hot chicks and such. Why can't family values be represented? 50 million viewers and some may actually like seeing a family friendly ad or two.

[TheBigGuy]

politics during the superbowl is just flat out wrong.
There's politics in the game itself, why not during the commercials too?

[Jim]

There's politics in the game itself, why not during the commercials too?


I think what XXX really means is, politics is ok in the Superbowl, as long as he agrees with it, and in the future he would like the network airing the Superbowl to run their commercials by him for screening. That way he can approve the truly distasteful one that air while I watch the game with my family and screen out the ones with the good wholesome messages....just to clarify!!

[TheBigGuy]

I think what XXX really means is, politics is ok in the Superbowl, as long as he agrees with it, and in the future he would like the network airing the Superbowl to run their commercials by him for screening. That way he can approve the truly distasteful one that air while I watch the game with my family and screen out the ones with the good wholesome messages....just to clarify!!
That's funny right there! LOL! :D

[Beancounter]

Most of the ads on the super-bowl are going to be off-color, "walking the line", or feature hot chicks and such. Why can't family values be represented? 50 million viewers and some may actually like seeing a family friendly ad or two.

Very well said. Who doesn't love an inspirational story? The Olympic games are full of them, why not this game? Just because Tebow's mother was advised to abort and she didn't doesn't make it merely an anti-abortion spot. It's pro-family and that's never a bad message.

[twila]

That was ok for Obama....he's the savior...... (please note the lower case "s")

Oh, silly me, how could I have forgotten. :eek: Lower case noted. :)




Most of the ads on the super-bowl are going to be off-color, "walking the line", or feature hot chicks and such. Why can't family values be represented? 50 million viewers and some may actually like seeing a family friendly ad or two.


I'm sick of the Viagra ads, Super Bowl and otherwise. Try explaining them to a 5 yr. old; hardly family friendly. :mad: I would prefer to see no pharmaceuitcal ads especially since they are almost always for drugs to help one sleep and treat depression. (I'll leave the catheter and scooter ones out in this discussion aimed at the vulnerable elderly.) It's mostly the drugs of the feel good stuff that bugs me which is no big surprise, since that is the mind set of our society. I think it can lead to abuse by some purchasing them on the Internet when people should be checked out by doctors before taking them.

[TheBigGuy]

I'm sick of the Viagra ads, Super Bowl and otherwise. Try explaining them to a 5 yr. old; hardly family friendly. :mad: I would prefer to see no pharmaceuitcal ads especially since they are almost always for drugs to help one sleep and treat depression. (I'll leave the catheter and scooter ones out in this discussion aimed at the vulnerable elderly.) It's mostly the drugs of the feel good stuff that bugs me which is no big surprise, since that is the mind set of our society. I think it can lead to abuse by some purchasing them on the Internet when people should be checked out by doctors before taking them.
Men take the Viagra thinking they're going to get lucky, then find out that they are going to strike out, so then they have to take the Cymbalta because they're too depressed over striking out, which in turn causes them to smoke, now they need the nicotine patch to let them down easy because the had to have those smokes to cope, due to the smoking they are now taking Plavex to break up the tar in their blood stream. Guess what, the poor bastard didn't even get to use the KY for him and her that he bought......more Cymbalta please!!!!!

[DLD]

Another liberal author droning on and on (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rowe/why-is-cbs-in-bed-with-th_b_442856.html) about CBS allowing someone to purchase air time during this years Super Bowl.

“The tagline of the Focus on the Family ad is reportedly "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life," a perky, wholesome slogan that neatly doubles as coded rallying cry for the rabid, occasionally violent anti-choice movement.”
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On Monday, a coalition of women's groups (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012503140.html) including NOW, the Feminist Majority, and the Women's Media Center, sent a letter of protest to CBS. The letter proposed that "by offering one of the most coveted advertising spots of the year to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organization, CBS is aligning itself with a political stance that will damage its reputation, alienate viewers, and discourage consumers from supporting its shows and advertisers."

So they want to shoot for the stars and pretend that they are a majority in this country? It’s always good to dream I suppose.

[DLD]

New message on the Pam and Tim Tebow ad. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12897411/super-bowl-ad-with-tebow-mother-lighthearted-in-tone) Can these people even pretend to not act like teenagers?
The Women's Media Center, which had objected to Focus on the Family advertising in the Super Bowl, said it was expecting a "benign" ad but not the humor. But the group's president, Jehmu Greene, said the tackle showed an undercurrent of violence against women.
"I think they're attempting to use humor as another tactic of hiding their message and fooling the American people," she said.
The ad didn't draw much attention at the Underground Lounge in New York, where the game was on. Sarah Cashin, 39, a business manager, said she didn't see why the ad was controversial.
"I didn't find it offensive. I don't quite understand why everyone was so up in arms about it," she said.

[Jim]

Boy do those so-called "womens rights" groups look foolish now.....Not that they didn't look like complete fools before!!!!!

[twila]

New message on the Pam and Tim Tebow ad. (http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/12897411/super-bowl-ad-with-tebow-mother-lighthearted-in-tone)Can these people even pretend to not act like teenagers?
The Women's Media Center, which had objected to Focus on the Family advertising in the Super Bowl, said it was expecting a "benign" ad but not the humor. But the group's president, Jehmu Greene, said the tackle showed an undercurrent of violence against women.



Alrighty then, SO - where's the outcry over the Betty White ad? :p
Bunch of twisted wanta be noticed goofballs. :(

[Jim]

Alrighty then, SO - where's the outcry over the Betty White ad? :p
Bunch of twisted wanta be noticed goofballs. :(
I never realized Betty White was so tough!!!

[twila]

Most 88 yr. olds would never get up after something like that. :)
I heard tonight they are now attacking the ad with the babies as sexist! No joke.

[Jim]

Most 88 yr. olds would never get up after something like that. :)
I heard tonight they are now attacking the ad with the babies as sexist! No joke.

It is a reactionary attack because it was pointed out how hypocritical they have been over the Tebow ad. The don't give a rip about Betty White or the babies, they just want to promote their baby killing agenda. Not pro-choice agenda, Tebow's mom made a choice they don't approve of, they are simply pro-abortion!!

[twila]

You are so right, just think - they were all over the ad and what it represented before it even aired, adding to the proof of their intent. Their remarks regarding the babies reinforces their belief men just use woman. Takes a warped mind to come away from watching that commercial believing it's sexist.
I think they all need a good shrink.