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The polarizing abortion commercial staring Tim Tebow and his mother aired early in the Super Bowl broadcast last night. Backstory here.
Oh, but you know what? Turned out the commercial was light, funny, and never mentioned anything any more controversial than “worry”:
So all of the intolerant liberals making somber proclamations and finger-wagging response videos and what-not were suddenly (and brilliantly) denied their backwater rubes shriekin’ hysterically ’bout Jeebus and murderin’ babies and stuff.
(I guess all of that must be at the link if you follow it. Heh.)
Wow. What should the tongue-clucking liberals do? How can this error of overplay be mollified? Drop this round of “dialogue,” and live to fight another day? Reasoned rhetoric, maybe leaning a bit toward conciliatory?
Nope. How about let’s find domestic abuse in that commercial?
“I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in [the Tim Tebow ad]. That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.” – NOW president Terry O’Neill
Almost nothing is as reliably entertaining as the lunatic left.
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Un-fucking-believeable. They’re just not happy if they’re not bitching about SOMETHING, are they?
Dude, you can’t fucking make it up. It’s about three clicks south of self-parody anymore.
I just saw a story where the womens media center complained about ” the sexualization of babies.”
‘seester: I’m guessing it wasn’t a mea culpa on passing out condoms to 12-year-olds?
You have GOT to be kidding me? Do they KNOW how dumb they look?
Marianne, I used to think “how could they not?” but I don’t anymore. Not only do they have no idea how dumb they look, but if you don’t take every single thing that falls from their lips extremely seriously, then you are part of the problem.
Did they also protest the Snickers ad with Betty White in it? White took a pretty vicious shot in that commercial, after all…
You know, I don’t think they did. How irresponsible of NOW to not protest ALL of the violence against women depicted!
More good stuff here.
Oh, and speaking of commercials…how about the “Green Police” commercial? I know what they were TRYING to do…but it made me stop and wonder just how close we are to that kind of lunacy…DID NOT make me want to give any more power to the “Environmental” movement.
Marianne, I just assumed that was a PSA, like the Ed Begley Jr. census ad. Heh.
I fear there is damned little off the table when it comes to this administration’s desire to infiltrate–and regulate–every aspect of our lives (the health care blitz was/is all about it).
Marianne, that was the first thing I thought when I saw that ad.
Bo, nice shot across Kizz’s bow on her blog re: the Tebow ad.
Falcon, I think Kizz would actually be pretty hot if she could learn not to hate herself.
*snort*
Domestic violence. Pfah. Women like that NOW president-thingee-whatever make me embarrassed for an entire gender. My guess is she wouldn’t recognize domestic violence if it bit her on the … well, maybe she would in that case, but….
kemtee, there’s a very real sense of throwing genuine victims under the bus. Calling “domestic violence” on this commercial is crying wolf. Period.
Oh, absolutely. How DARE they trivialize real domestic violence? Tebow play-tackles his mother in a staged event and that’s supposed to be equal to someone who gets the snot kicked out of her by some sorry-a** drunk on a regular basis?
Puhleeze. These so-called advocates would do the movement and women in general a huge favor by shutting the hell up and turning the cause over to people who really understand what’s at stake.
I spent the last 48 hours in a place where people were selling giant fake plastic boobs on the street and a group of marching popes were whipping up the crowd. I don’t think I am qualified to comment on anything anymore.