On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 7:54 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2. I am not usually a fan of the commercial watch, but I liked several of > these (Dave #1 of course, but also the Snickers and the McDonalds ad). I am > saddened by this, because my ultimate goal is to reduce the interest in SB > commercials and go back to just watching the game. >
Oh, right I forgot about the Tebow anti-choice ad (see what I did there?). I appreciated the light tone with that as well - though I suspect anyone who clicked through to Dobson's site got a little bit of a harder sell. It was never likely we were going to see images of dead babies being sucked up into garbage bags; - it is easy for the general public to lump all of the fundamentalist Christian organizations into the same boat, but say what you want about Dobson and his people, they are no dummies, and pretty good at communication and staying on their message. When it comes to hot button issues, they tend to take a relatively restrained line on anything that has their official imprint, and let their more whacky fellow travelers say all the bat shit crazy stuff, which they then kind of give an approving smile and nod to, without getting their hands dirty. My objection to this ad (aside from the general principle that I am sick to my stomach of anything Tebow-related by now) was not that they allowed an anti-abortion ad, but that they have consistently not allowed other kinds of issue ads (didn't they nix an anti-war ad a couple of year ago?). I guess if they had an ad with Cindy Sheehan getting playfully tackled by her son they would have let that on too ..... Oh, right, I guess she could not have made that ad. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
