That Tim Tebow Anti-Abortion Ad Is Even Less Interesting Than Florida's Kicking Cincinnati's Ass in The Sugar Bowl

Here's the controversial Tim Tebow Focus on the Family commercial that will run during the big game today:

Needless to say, the ad doesn't mention abortion, or choice, or much of anything else. It could be a commercial for frozen meals in a bag, an air freshener, or aspirin. It's not quite the TV anti-climax that Al Capone's vault proved to be, but it's up there.

For football-infused pro-life pyrotechnics, nothing comes close to the vid "Champions for Life," which features members of the 1986 NY Giants Super Bowl winning team musing on what Mark Bavaro calls the "abortion death squads that are allowed to run rampant through our country." That's tough talk, especially from a squad that only had to be the Broncos that year.

Like most NFL games, this video takes forever to get started (the abortion talk cranks up around the 2.30 mark, after a bizarrely mundane opening recapping the glorious "work timeout" that is Super Bowl Sunday).

 

In the interest of equal time (and because I couldn't find an image of Ms. Magazine's 1972 "I Had an Abortion" ad, in which 53 prominent women went public on the matter), I post a pro-choice political ad from NARAL questioning Rep. Bart Stupak's role in health care reform and repeating the word "Why?" so many times that, if nothing else, you'll be wondering why at the end of the spot.

Comments

[peachy]

OK, the second half of the Sugar Bowl was a snooze, but the first was fucking fantastic. Of course I'm a Florida fan... I can see how a neutral might have found the whole thing less than scintillating.

And seriously - is anyone who's not insanely invested in this particular campaign of the culture wars surprised that the ad was milquetoast? I never thought for an instant that CBS would have approved anything else.

[JB]

Whereas CBS didn't advise Audi that they might not want to run an ad which basically states:

Fascists Drive Audis

[You think locking people up for the wrong lightbulb is a good idea? Then you should drive an Audi.]

What dim bulbs. Another car company whose product I will never buy.

[Rewrite]

Milquetoast? Not according to Jehmu Greene of the Women's Media Center who said the part of the ad where Tim Tebow tackles his mother "showed an undercurrent of violence against women."
Damn that subliminal advertising!
[For a well written piece on the whole issue see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....2067.html]

[Rewrite]

[Sorry -- Bad link. Try http://bit.ly/92Rt22 ]
BTW, I watched the big game yesterday and didn't see this add.
But I enjoyed watching the Capitals beat the Penguins anyway.

[Rewrite]

[Sorry -- Bad link. Try http://bit.ly/92Rt22 ]
BTW, I watched the big game yesterday and didn't see this add.
But I enjoyed watching the Capitals beat the Penguins anyway.

[John-David]

I can only guess that the black chick in the NARAL ad is there to remind Planned Parenthood supporters why the organization exists in the first place.

[Harry Reid]

Our health care bill would offer free abortion coupons in Sister2Sister and Jet.

[KKK Loves NARAL]

Yeah! Kill all those nigger babies!

[J sub D]

Oh Boy! An abortion thread!

What's the over/under on how many posts before someone claims that opposing abortion rights is unlibertarian?

[hmm]

Hitler approved of abortion.

[hmm]

Give me 6.

[robc]

Speaking of super bowl over/unders, if I was Carrie Underwood I would be telling all my very close friends that I was going to go "bleeding gums murphy" on the anthem and they should use that information as they see fit.

Also, if I was Carrie Underwood I would be bangin' robc instead of some hockey player.

[hmm]

Also, if I was Carrie Underwood I would be bangin' robc instead of some hockey player.

Wouldn't you just be masturbating at that point?

[Would you ask Tom Petty that?]

Those prop bets have kind of small limits, something like $300, so there is not that much money for Carrie Underwood's friends to make.

I watched the game with someone who took the under on the anthem length. She was right at one minute at "flag was still there", but then took over fifty seconds for the last two lines, so my buddy lost his bet. Then to add insult to injury, she missed the final note like she was still on Idol.

[jessie jomo]

Tim Tebow has always been a bit full of himself.

Jess
http://www.internet-anonymity.se.tc

[Episiarch]

Anonymity bot, you continue to impress with your many layers.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Considering the oft-displayed solipsism of anonymity bot, this is quite a statement.

[heller]

Anonymity bot is a patriot.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I agree, heller. He's like an anonymous bald eagle in front of an anonymous American flag.

[Episiarch]

ROCK FLAG AND EAGLE

[Spock]

I am unfamiliar with that version of Rochambeau.

[Crusader Rabbit]

Uh ... opposing abortion rights is unlibertarian.

[Warty]

Is telling people what's libertarian libertarian? I hope someone tells me.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I remember this one time I resolved the abortion debate.

[heller]

Big deal.

[heller]

What about bacon-wrapped hot dogs? When is that issue going to be resolved?

[Rabbi Flipmyschwitch]

non-kosher

[John Tagliaferro]

Does that make it torture if you show it to a Muslim?

[heller]

Only if you eat it in front of him, delicious rivulets of bacon grease streaming down your chin, eyes closed in orgasmic pleasure.

[John Tagliaferro]

Don't you have to have pig cheese on it for it to be non-kosher? Assuming a pork hot dog, of course.

[heller]

Although I have never heard or seen this "pig cheese" you speak of, the mere fact that pork hot dog is made of pork would automatically make it non-kosher, regardless of toppings.

[heller]

Pork itself is non-kosher. By traditional standards, mixing any kind of kosher meat with any kind of kosher cheese is also non-kosher.

[John Tagliaferro]

You people and your rules. I am shoving the hot dog right in the Muslim's face. The questioning will not be televised!

[heller]

What ya mean by YOU people, boy?

[John Tagliaferro]

Get my coffee and iron my shit boy.

[Warty]

What if you mix non-kosher meat with non-kosher cheese? Maybe the double negative make it kosher. Where's underzog when we need him?

[John Tagliaferro]

I think it's like merging spheres or having the wrong matter touch, but you end up with a Budhist.

[heller]

Nonkosherness is additive, not multiplicative.

[Prolefeed]

A pig-based hot dog wrapped in bacon and covered in cheese would be the ultimate unkosher food ...

OK, I suppose you could put some shrimp topping on it and have it dispensed by a menstruating woman on the Sabbath ...

[heller]

Take all that and make it into ice cream. Then you're done.

[John Tagliaferro]

Maybe some lobster too?

[Life begins at conception]

Non-Aggression Principle you baby killer!

[heller]

Life begins at conception, but not all living things have rights. An embryo is not an independent human being, but a part of the body of the mother, etc. You know the deal...

[Tiller is burning in Hell]

In vitro babies conceived outside the womb are not mere parts of their mothers' bodies and neither, when we finally develop the technology to gestate babies entirely outside the womb will those babies be so. If this is how libertarians argue their absurd love for baby murder, then damn the lot of you; anyone who denies another the right to life for no crime he has committed has no right to life himself.

I reserve the right to give heller and anybody else who believes that bullshit about being "part of the body of the mother" a post-birth abortion with a bullet to the head. Fuck you, heller. May you be fed to a wood-chipper feet first.

[deluded1]

Pro Life means they love life!

[Slut Bunwalla]

I'm going to start a band called Their Absurd Love for Baby Murder.

We're going to invent a new genre: post-partum prog-rock.

[John Tagliaferro]

That's tough talk, especially from a squad that only had to be the Broncos that year.

I would say the Giants being the Bronco's is a tall order in any year.

[heller]

Oh Shi-

[Warty]

1986 NY Giants Super Bowl winning team

Fucking John Elway. The Browns would have at least made it a game. If I'm ever caudillo, John Elway will be the first to get drugged and tossed out of a plane over the Atlantic.

[Milton F.]

Why drug him? Don't you want him to feel every second of terror as he plummets helplessly toward a watery grave?

[John Tagliaferro]

At least he stopped doing those silly videos himself.

[Greg]

Rumor has it that's NOT the actual ad, but a different spot set to air before the game.

[heller]

Yes, the TRUE ad will fucking blow your mind.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

Is this the thread where I can complain about the crappy Canadian ads being inserted into the Superbowl on Canadian television?
Show promos and Olympic previews abound.

[John Tagliaferro]

Every thread is the place to complain about anything Canadian on reason.

[Sharon Tate]

Canada sucks:

Canada

In Canada, air guns with a muzzle velocity of over 500 ft/s (152.4 m/s) and a muzzle energy in excess of 4.2 ft?lbf (5.7 J) are classified as firearms and must be registered, transported, stored, and used as such. Some air guns are prohibited in Canada.

[phillip]

Oh, dammit! Dammit! Dammit! Canada does suck!!!

[Ice]

Why didn't I shoot him?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lab6gyWsMXo

[John Tagliaferro]

God damn Queen Latifah sucks.

[John Tagliaferro]

Carrie Underwood is much easier on the eyes and ears.

[Sharon Tate]

Racist!

[John Tagliaferro]

Yea, big talk from a dead white blonde.

[Slut Bunwalla]

Carrie Underwood sang "Before He Cheats", right? That song is an unforgivable crime against humanity, and anytime I go to a karaoke event, I have to suffer hearing a group of at least three and not more than 12 drunk sorority girls screeching it out onstage.

Carrie Underwood needs to be put to death for unleashing this awful "song" upon humanity.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

A man was arrested Tuesday night in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood after police were told someone was spotted with a gun.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manit.....z0etZKxu06

[The Art-P.O.G.]

This guy was escorted out of a "Furby Street" residence in handcuffs. LOL

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Standard outrage over lack of any sort of probable cause, of course.

[heller]

Great reporting....

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

A 22-year-old man was arrested after pointing a gun at Winnipeg paramedics who were trying to treat him.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manit.....z0etZzAFsg

[heller]

I was being sarcastic

[The Art-P.O.G.]

BB guns? Sheesh.

[Sharon Tate]

Or as the Canucks call 'em DANGEROUS ILLEGAL FIREARMS.

[Tom]

Has the Super Bowl started yet? I have so seriously stopped caring about football.* I have no idea when the game is.

(* I also apparently have no social life, because I should at least be at a party getting drunk and ignoring the game like 80% of the people there.)

[heller]

You just missed it.

[Tom]

Oooh, which part did I miss -- the part where everybody stood around for long stretches of time, the part where you have to watch commercials for long stretches of time, or the part where stuff actually happened for five seconds?

[John Tagliaferro]

The part where Manning marched his team down the field to field goal range and scored.

[heller]

All of it.

[Prolefeed]

You missed the part where I took a nice refreshing nap rather than watch a game where I was a bit shaky about which teams were actually playing.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

drinking alone is underrated

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

drinking alone is underrated

[Tom]

Oh, don't worry, my cats like beer too.

[Sadistic Eristic]

I'm getting worried. My turkey isn't done cooking yet. If I don't get some tryptophan into my uncles before the third six-pack, some things are going to get broken around here. Damn juggos.

[heller]

eggs have 4 times the amount of tryptophan than turkey. cod is 3x.

[Tom]

Isn't the whole "turkey/tryptophan makes you sleepy" thing an urban myth now?

[John Tagliaferro]

Not since that Seinfeld episode.

[Tulpa]

I thought that was The Merv Griffin Show.

[John Tagliaferro]

Merv was known for using turkey and red wine to put his guests to sleep before molesting them too.

[heller]

Although tryptophan in large quantities can make you sleepy, the tryptophan you would get from a turkey dinner is no more sleep-inducing than any other high-protein meal.

[Sadistic Eristic]

I am an empiricist on this:

turkey in drunk uncles = fewer things broken

[Sadistic Eristic]

Not a bad first half, only one chipped plate (somebody stepped on the cat's tail and caused a momentary panic).

[heller]

Turkey only has as much tryptophan as other poultries.

[Contemplationist]

YO you shouldnt be using. a school email on public threads. Most US schools have a people lookup feature (my school - UB did)

[social help]

No, the part where the two men share a bowl of snacks and...

[John Tagliaferro]

Two men, one bowl.

That does sound sick.

[social help]

John the baptist thou are a pig.

[John Tagliaferro]

Wrapped in bacon and deep fried.

[social help]

I'm sure someone on this site will find sexist,deep-fried pig appetizing.

[John Tagliaferro]

Hey fag, I am no sexist!

[social help]

Hey sexist I'm not a guy.

[John Tagliaferro]

Then I am a heterosexist, not a sexist.

[social help]

I'll take your word for it.

[John Tagliaferro]

And the Aints prepare to die.

[heller]

If by die you mean WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN!

[John Tagliaferro]

See Dr. Quinn comment below.

[John Tagliaferro]

3 - 0

[John Tagliaferro]

9 - 0

[John Tagliaferro]

10 - 0

[John Tagliaferro]

10 - 3

[John Tagliaferro]

10 - 6

[John Tagliaferro]

The Aints have not allowed the Colts to score through the whole half time show.

[John Tagliaferro]

10 - 12

[John Tagliaferro]

10 - 13

[John Tagliaferro]

17 - 13

[John Tagliaferro]

17 - 16

[John Tagliaferro]

17- 22

[John Tagliaferro]

17 - 24 after challenge

[John Tagliaferro]

17 - 31 NO interception

[John Tagliaferro]

17 - 31 final

[The Art-P.O.G.]

10-6

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Oops, should've hit refresh...on my TV!

[John Tagliaferro]

Damn Art, follow along. Go get me a beer.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I would, but when you said that, I heard "go get me a beer...boy." 😀

[John Tagliaferro]

You heard the dog whistle! It works!

[hmm]

Lol the bowl commercial was better with timmy taking out mom.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

oh, Canadian television, these Hyundai ads with the soft tones of Jeff Bridges are so amazing!

[Eryk Boston]

How do you know the cat died?

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

He peeked.

[John Tagliaferro]

I was Schr?dinger's lab assistant and it was part of my hammer experiment.

[John Tagliaferro]

Gay scientists save the world from a space pebble?

Sort of funny.

[Mad Max]

'That's tough talk, especially from a squad that only had to be the Broncos that year.'

A remarkable metaphysical feat, I must say - I don't know why Gillespie isn't more impressed.

And I see that NARAL is pissed at politicians who try to put inject health care into the abortion debate.

[John Tagliaferro]

oh yea.

[Mad Max]

I know you remarked on it first - but I noticed it before I saw your comment, and I even thought of my joke before I saw yours.

Why should I let you pre-empt my joke, when mine was better? *My* joke used the word "metaphysical."

[Mad Max]

Although, as I get older, I realize that I never met a physical I liked.

Thank you, you've been a wonderful audience, abortion stops a beating heart.

[Tulpa]

Well if the heart didn't start beating in the first place, we wouldn't have to stop it. Personal responsiblity, check it out.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Tulpa, film my PSA! (Meant to be read: Tulpa, film my PSA...boy)

[Episiarch]

Oh my god the Saints are going to get destroyed. It's kind of pathetic.

[Sharon Tate]

MAYBE IN YOUR SPACE TIME CONTINUUM fucking capslock

[MJ]

that's why they play the game for 60 minutes.

[Prolefeed]

Aaaaaaand that's where your reputation for prognosticating abilities takes a severe hit, Epi.

[Episiarch]

I admit it, I was wrong. Sue me.

[Tulpa]

It's not the only thing you've been wrong about tonight, anarchist.

[heller]

Winning is pathetic now?

[Mad Max]

And it seems that NOW and Gloria Allred did a better job than the ad itself putting the spotlight on Tebow's mom and her courageous prolife decision.

Good work, gals!

[Milton F.]

Oh, I get it, Mr Burns is Mean Joe Greene.

[Tom]

The funny Super Bowl commercials were funnier back before Super Bowl Commercials? was this big phenomenon unto its own. Now they all have that self conscious, wink wink, trying-to-be-funny-because-we-know-that-you-know-that-this-is-supposed-to-be-funny thing going on.

It's just hard to watch them now and not see a bunch of dudes around a table in the creatives' office thinking too hard about it all.

[John Tagliaferro]

The prudes got to the Go Daddy people again.

[Timon19]

Something's happening today?

[Tom]

Yes, Arsenal-Chelsea is on my DVR, whoo-hoo!

[Timon19]

And the winner was...

[Tom]

AHEM.

[Timon19]

If I were an asshole, I just might do it.

Of course, I AM an asshole, so the score was:

[Tulpa]

Even the GoDaddy ad was tamed down.

[Tulpa]

GoDaddy and Focus on the Family need to band together and fight network censorship of their ads.

[heller]

When the time is right, we will see Danica Patrick's tits.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

what Danica Patrick's tits might look like
http://oskizzle.com/solar/img/plywood.jpg

[Prolefeed]

+1

[Tulpa]

...breastfeeding a baby personally saved from abortion by Tim Tebow.

[P Brooks]

Is telling people what's libertarian libertarian? I hope someone tells me.

Paging Tulpa!

[Tulpa]

Telling someone what is libertarian comes under the heading of persuasion, so I don't see why it would be a problem.

[heller]

Tulpa, you're not a libertarian.

[Tulpa]

That's not very persuasive.

[Episiarch]

But it's true!

[SIV]

I can vouch for that

[heller]

Let's vote on it.

[Tulpa]

Democracy is unlibertarian.

[Col. DuBois]

Democracy is three gays and a straight deciding who gets bottoms.

[publis cato]

ROFL!!!

[John Tagliaferro]

Depends on the presentation.

[Tulpa]

Two consecutive commercials featuring guys walking around in their underwear. What are the chances.

[Tulpa]

The Dove For Men commercial was more pro-life than the Tebow one.

[John Tagliaferro]

Guess you liked the flower commercial too?

[Tulpa]

I didn't say I liked the Dove commerical. Not that I'm feeling defensive or anything; I'm very comfortable enough with my sexual identity.

[John Tagliaferro]

No true Libertarian would say that, an infiltrator might.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Ooh, well done, John T.

[P Brooks]

Saints exhibit signs of life.

FUCK YOU JIM IRSAY!

[John Tagliaferro]

The part where they failed to lose yardage on a play? Some cling to religion . . .

[John Tagliaferro]

That 'sign of life' is back.

[Evil Libertarian]

The commercials are God-awful

[John Tagliaferro]

This isn't The Who. It's Styx impersonating The Who.

[Sadistic Erisitic]

The good news is that Pete Townsend didn't have a wardrobe malfunction. The bad news is that Roger Daltry did.

[John Tagliaferro]

Stevie Wonder dressed Daltry. Be kind to the blind.

[Episiarch]

I thought it was just the fact that I'm whacked out on opiates, but man, these commercials are just horrifically bad.

[Evil Libertarian]

Imagine how bad they are without opiates

[Episiarch]

I don't think I have the awfulness processing capacity for that. Why can't somebody just sack Manning and break his legs or something else equally interesting instead?

[Tulpa]

It's not libertarian to take pleasure in the suffering of a sentient being. Or Peyton Manning.

[heller]

Banning thought-crime is libertarian?

[Tulpa]

Non-coercively dissuading against evil thoughts is.

[Jerry]

Looks like the Colts are cleaning up New Orleans, albeit almost 5 years too late.

[capitol l]

Looks like Jerry's bookie is cleaning up, albeit at Jerry's expense.

[John Tagliaferro]

Next: The Who

ya and then we dance

[John Tagliaferro]

Pinball Wizard

[John Tagliaferro]

Baba O'Reilley

I swear they were louder in the 80's

[John Tagliaferro]

Don't get fooled again: Libertarian post-election theme song.

[John Tagliaferro]

Complete with flashback to the horrible CSI Miami opening.

[Tulpa]

It might as well be "If You Like Pina-Coladas", you're not going to be hearing an LP election victory party anytime soon.

[heller]

I hate how every single halftime show sounds like the iTunes sampler of a greatest hits album. Play some full songs or don't play at all!

[hmm]

"that def dumb blind kid..."

Roger Daltry to apologize to the Special Olympics tomorrow.

[hmm]

Damn 80's hair band kicked out my "a."

[John Tagliaferro]

Who the fuck are you?

[The Bearded Hobbit]

Noticed that conspicuously missing.

... Hobbit

[Warty]

I saw The Who 10 years ago, and they were old as shit then. Who's the cock who decided to allow them on a stage now?

[John Tagliaferro]

They are softening up the audience for the Grand Funk reunion half time show next year.

[Tulpa]

No, next year is Depeche Mode.

[publis cato]

HOW ABOUT SOME RUSH?

[Ernie the Bear]

Hey, I thought they were pretty good. I'm going to make some calls tomorrow and find out how much a hip replacement costs, and I don't even need one!

[heller]

You think they're fucking old? I saw the Rolling Stones a few years ago. Christ, their veins must have been running on coke and viagra instead of blood.

[Nick]

Janet Jackson's boob.

[Ron L]

Saw the ad, didn't know what I was seeing, thought it was for insurance (or maybe a skincare product)

[John Tagliaferro]

It already ran? /serious

[Ron L]

Yep. First half sometime or other. I ignored it; pretty forgettable. Like I mentioned, coulda been for a skin care product (the made-up mom looked like she used a *lot*)

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

The Simpsons just parodied South Park.
repent, for the end is near

[P Brooks]

Wow- that was FUCKING AWFUL.

[P Brooks]

And- Chrysler wants you to know: pathetic, gutless limp dick pussies drive Dodge Chargers!!1

There's an image enhancement.

[John Tagliaferro]

Obama wrote the Chrysler ads because he's the boss.

[Tulpa]

I think you mean "she". Michelle would be very displeased with being mistaken for a male.

[P Brooks]

Take that, Irsay, you fucking welfare queen.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

these threaded comments are making my head spin.
like a record baby
round round right round

[John Tagliaferro]

NOOOOO! Boy George sucks! I will never get that stupid soung out of my head now!

[Timon19]

Good thing that it wasn't a Boy George or Culture Club song.

[John Tagliaferro]

It was Boy George's boyfriend's song. See my 8:37 comment again.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I don't know who did that song. I don't even know if the artist is Dead or Alive.

[John Tagliaferro]

+1 well played

[P Brooks]

these threaded comments are making my head spin.

That's how hard threaded comments suck.

[Prolefeed]

Threaded comments act like 6 shotgunned beers? Awesome!

[Tulpa]

I'm officially boycotting E*Trade until they switch back to the webcam style commercials. The new ones have totally lost the surreal atmosphere that the webcam quality gives, so that they just look like every other shitty CGI commercial out there.

[dfd]

Garrett Hartley for MVP if Saints manage to win.

[Tulpa]

That would be sad.

[Evil Libertarian]

Nice to see the Census ad was just as horrible (or maybe worse) as all the other commercials. How much did we pay for that?

[Tulpa]

Probably not as much as the Chrysler ad.

[John Tagliaferro]

Damn, I misread EL's comment and thought he was talking about the Chrysler ad.

[Evil Libertarian]

Defeat the debt.com ad just ran twice. Was that national or just local to the DC market?

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

Dunno, Canada just got an advert for a crappy Travolta movie. Nice to see him sporting the always popular bald headed goatee look.
Maybe this movie will kill that look.

[Evil Libertarian]

At least the Chrysler ad made some sense. I didn't understand the Census ad.

[John Tagliaferro]

Hit of the night:
Google search: arab hijab porno
City,Nation: Konya, Turkey

Now back to football.

[Warty]

Beware of RoboSugarFree.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

You know he'd never stop bragging about his cybernetic pancreas. "Hai guys, you know any other cyborgs?"

[John Tagliaferro]

Not to mention it being Chinese funded by US treasury bonds.

[Tulpa]

Dante's Inferno looks fun.

[P Brooks]

Thank god- I was afraid I wouldn't get to see a heartwarming clydesdale ad.

I thought that was a catch, by the way.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

it broke the plane, therefore it is good

[P Brooks]

Possession; ball breaks plane. Two points. Good call.

[dfd]

Yep, good reversal. Setting up nicely for the first overtime in Super Bowl history.

[dfd]

Of course the way Hartley is kicking, Colts better not score too quickly...

[Tulpa]

Actually it was more like, lost possession, ball breaks plane, regains possession, two points.

[Tulpa]

The Denny's ads have been decent. Too bad I have to work Tuesday morning.

[SIV]

I want the free breakfast in about 2 weeks but I don't think we have them here. I never eat there when I travel(all the time) but I like the b'day price.Do you think they honor a short form Hawaii birth certificate as proof?

[Tulpa]

No, Denny's is pickier about free Grand Slams than the US Government is about the presidency.

[Warty]

What the dick? FUCK YOU GREEN POLICE

[JB]

Seriously, didn't reason just link to something mocking SWAT raids for light bulbs?

Audi seems to think this is a good idea.

[Nash]

Reminded me of this video:

http://www.funnyordie.com/vide.....n-c-reilly

[Tulpa]

I thought the Audi "Green Police" commercial was awesome -- until I saw they were collaborating with the enviro-tyrants.

[TP]

At first, I thought it was an ad for Reason Magazine. I was waiting for the Jacket and the Stache.

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

PICK 6!

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

PICK 6!

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

PICK 6!

[Tulpa]

GAME OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[John Tagliaferro]

Interception NO

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

sorry bout the multi post

[P Brooks]

EAT SHIT AND DIE, IRSAY!

[Warty]

Are you one of those anti-Israyites who roots for Team Modell? 'Cause those are the worst people on Earth.

[Evil Libertarian]

The Audi Green Police ad was a little too real for comfort.

[Tulpa]

The light bulb part actually is in our future.

[Prolefeed]

If that ad was intended to convince me to buy an Audi, it SO fucking failed.

[JB]

Convinced me I should seriously consider blowing up every Audi I see.

Fascists drive Audis.

[John Tagliaferro]

Have they lit New Orleans on fire yet? Anybody have a report from the International Space Station?

[Ghost of Schr?dinger's cat]

it started with the on-side kick

[The Art-P.O.G.]

Payton did a masterful job of coaching the second half.

[John Tagliaferro]

Was talking about the one in Louisana, not the contingent in Miami.

[stubby]

I don't expect any fires. I do expect some celebratory gunfire, and someone will die from it. Hope they surprise me and prove me wrong.

[Tulpa]

Uh, where do I join THAT book club?!

[John Tagliaferro]

Arab hijab porno?

[Tulpa]

Incomplete pass -- Collie didn't have possession until he hit the ground.

[P Brooks]

I wonder how Danica's merkin husband likes those ads.

[P Brooks]

The momentum seems to have shifted.

[John Tagliaferro]

Yes and congratulations.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I guess Indianapolis suffered one more devastating dropped pass than New Orleans. And one even more devastating pick six. Great defensive adjustments by the Saints.

[John Tagliaferro]

New Orleans won because they got Dr. Quinn to do some of that vodoo from the James Bond movie she was in.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I also think New Orleans won because they have more Ohio State players, even if I'm not sure if Malcolm Jenkins started or not.

[John Tagliaferro]

If you think Balko is pissy on a normal day just wait until tomorrow.

I believe the downfall of the Colts began when I jinxed them at 6:34PM.

[Tulpa]

I thought he hated Mississippi, not New Orleans.

[John Tagliaferro]

He likes the Colts.

[dfd]

He's from Indiana.

[Tulpa]

I think this is the outcome everyone outside of Indiana was rooting for.

[John Tagliaferro]

Not me.

[SIV]

Not in Atlanta.We hate the fucking Saints.

[Ron L]

NOBODY!? NOBODY!?
Absolute *BEST* ad: The ECOCOPS!
Absolutely scary....

[Tulpa]

Sheez, talk about running the gauntlet.

[Tulpa]

Uh, didn't Benson want to move the Saints to San Antonio a few years ago? Now he's so in love with New Orleans, that two-faced baastid.

[MJ]

The Saints played in San Antonio while the Superdome was unusable following Katrina, it was purely temporary and pragmatic move.

[Tulpa]

He was in negotiations to make the move permanent until the NFL stepped in and told him they wouldn't allow it.

[John Tagliaferro]

If they replaced the river walk with a stadium I would visit more.

[Warty]

As for mine enemies
The sun shall impede the beating of their hearts
And blind their eyes

[Ron L]

BTW, the Saints made their year on turn-overs. Once it got close, the only question was whether Manning is *so* good, he could avoid one.
Answer: Nope. He's very, very, good, but not that good.

[P Brooks]

Are you one of those anti-Israyites who roots for Team Modell?

???

I hate Art Modell, too; for disbanding the Browns.

I hate Irsay for that fucking stadium deal. And just on general principles.

I don't even know who owns the Aints, anymore, but I'm certain I could find an excellent reason to hate him, too.

[Tulpa]

Being filled with rage is unlibertarian.

We don't want you to hate; we want you to LOVE!

[John Tagliaferro]

I thought lacking rage was Vulcan, who are anti-libertarian Socialists.

[Tulpa]

No, Vulcans definitely have rage. Libertarians should aspire to be like Ferengi, who care nothing about revenge, obsess about naked women, and are unreadable to empaths.

[Tulpa]

Also, Irsay was a target of eminent domain by the Maryland government back in '84, but outsmarted them at their own game. Shouldn't a good libertarian respect that?

[Warty]

Just checking. I agree, fuck Israys.

I just like to know who roots for the Rats, just so that I never save them from a house fire, or swerve to avoid them when they're jaywalking.

[Tulpa]

Maybe you'd like them to wear purple birds on their jackets, too.

[Hacha Cha]

while walking into my other room during the commercials to turn on my projector I had the audio turned on and I couldn't tell if it was the antichoice ad or a dog food commercial.

[The Bearded Hobbit]

I've got ten fuckin' rounds loaded up for the Green Police. Jesus fuck, we have debased our society so far that it's okay to have SWAT slam you to the ground because you want plastic fucking bags??

... Hobbit

[Tulpa]

If we had, they wouldn't allow a commercial like that mocking them.

[MJ]

Was the tone of the commercial mocking the idea of a Green Police State?

[Prolefeed]

It seemed like it was aimed at ecowhackos who would actually approve of such nonsense, rather than being a sly dig at such thinking ...

Though I would like to know how the cops on the Segways would catch anyone in a gas-powered car ...

Or why a Green police state would even allow cars on the road ... or allow roads ...

[Tulpa]

I didn't interpret it as endorsing the actions of the Green Police at all. The point seemed to be that even people who take environmentalism to such a ridiculous extreme would have no problem with the Audi.

Then again, the whole point of advertising is to mean different things to different targeted audiences, so I can see how people will disagree.

[MJ]

On the second viewing, I can see how that might have been intended. On the first viewing my impression was Audi=filthy collaborators.

[Hacha Cha]

that was the worst fucking commercial ever. its a good example of what are country will become if the econutzis stay in power.

[grrizzly]

+1.

[Ron L]

No. It was the *best* commercial ever for exactly the reason you state. It was (1984-like) scary.
I'll bet a lot of folks didn't realize that an incandescent bulb could be that serious under the Ecocops.
I'd say it was an eye-opener.

[grrizzly]

It would have been like the legendary 1984 Apple ad if the Audi had run over the green police. Alas, it wasn't.

[SIV]

Yes,the guy dropping the hammer when they let him go was showing contempt for the enviro-nazis.I assumed the "green police" bit was to make the car purchase OK to your cosmopolitan wife.The Dodge commercial was kinda similar in showing the guy pussy whipped on everything but his choice of ride.I thank God I'm a redneck southern anarchist and not part of the targeted market.

[Tulpa]

Ah, so it's unanimous: the people questioning my libertarian credentials are all anarchists of one flavor or another. Quite unpersuasive indeed.

[John Tagliaferro]

I'm not an anarchist.

[SIV]

Many regular (and former) commenters call me (quite incorrectly) a "Republican shill".

Were you around for the Boston/MIT Play-Doh bomber? I was pissed those cops didn't cap her deranged commie ass right in the airport.I think the only person who agreed with me was the late,lamented Dan T.

[SIV]

No offense intended,I consider (nearly) all minarchists to be statists of some degree.

[Tulpa]

Oh, well how could one take offense at being considered a statist for not believing in anarcho-capitalist fantasies.

Tell me, what happens in your anarcho-capitalist world when one person or group of people amass enough weaponry and power to start coercing the others? My guess is the same thing that happened in the real world when this occurred -- the rise of the most abject statism imaginable.

[Tulpa]

A limited government is like the bacteria that live inside your skin pores and intestinal lining. They don't do you much good directly, cause body odor and flatulence that you could do without, and frankly are something you'd rather not think about -- but they keep far worse beasties from gaining a foothold.

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

....we have debased our society so far that it's okay to have SWAT slam you to the ground because you want plastic fucking bags??.

Yes, but they *did* bust the cop for drinking Dunkin' Donuts coffee out of Styrofoam, so there is an upside.....

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

Oh, and the game was played under eco-friendly fluorescent lighting.......

[John Tagliaferro]

Was that soy-based turf or natural grass?

[alan]

I've got your back one hundred percent, man. It will be like Isengard all over again when we lay waste to those Econutzi fuckers.

[SIV]

Only ten? Do you live in Canada?

[Brian Sorgatz]

The winning team thanked God but forgot to thank the devil like Peter Griffin in Family Guy: "I want to thank God. I want to thank the Lord God, because it's really not up to me it's up to him. Umm and I want to thank the devil too, you know because that's why God's there. He's minding the fence making sure that guy never comes back. You know if it weren't for the devil God would probably go insane, blow his brains out from boredom, you know? Everybody likes to feel useful. Make a da world go 'round. Back to you Tom."

[Some Guy]

While watching that, I was actually thinking (besides that the ad itself was incredibly lame) that I should find out where you call to complain about ads.

Next year I'm gonna have to get a bunch of people together, pick some random innocuous ad, and claim that it was incredibly offensive. Go all out with the fake umbrage and see how much press we can get before someone picks up on the joke.

[John Tagliaferro]

You sell all the stock you have in the company that ran the ad.

If it's the census ads you buy gold.

[Tulpa]

And if it's Focus on the Family...have an abortion or gayly marry, I guess.

[John Tagliaferro]

or just don't donate to them

[LibertarianMatt]

Tebow's favorite Bible verse:

Alabama 32:13 "Tebow Wept"

[peachy]

Well, he couldn't beat Bama and win the national title every year - where's the Christian charity in that?

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

I just wanted to see what Nick had to say about Roger Daltry's singing and Pete Townshend, who dropped his tin cup filled with pencils as he shuffled off stage.

[stubby]

I want to know why Townshend's caretaker didn't button the poor old man's shirt. That was gross. Daltry doesn't look bad for his age, but he shouldn't be singing.

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

Stubby, you make me LOL. The chicks who swooned for Daltry in his prime are now grandmas. Same thing happened to Elvis girls.

[stubby]

Well, I recently hit 46, so the guys I swooned over in my youth are no longer in bare torso tummy territory either.

Dignity. The key is to age with dignity. I was hoping the guy who wrote "My Generation" would remember that, but obviously not.

[alan]

While watching that, I was actually thinking (besides that the ad itself was incredibly lame) that I should find out where you call to complain about ads.

I suspect the e-trade baby's whiny girlfriend was actually played by a little dude. Up with umbrage!

[alan]

Google search: arab hijab porno

Last Sunday, I flipped through the channels, and my flipper is on its last ropes. It stopped at a syndicated rerun of Gray's Anatomy where a family is gathered around an eight year old during his last moments.

Thursday night, I come home early from a night out at a local drinking club, Sperm Catcher is in the living room watching Gray's Anatomy and the scene is a crying little girl wheeping how she missed her twin sister and wishing things were could go back to how they were.

Today, I flipped through the channels to see how the golf match was going, and there is Gray's Anatomy with another crying kid with a dying mother, or whatever.

How the fuck is this show in any way entertaining? Your typical scatophile or necrophiliac is not half as sick as what goes on in the heart of the kind of woman who watches that horrid show.

[Prolefeed]

I'm pretty sure that if you ever say Sperm Catcher out loud in her presence, you will no longer have to endure such a weepy little girlfriend.

If it's your wife, unless she has a great sense of humor I'd suggest getting a divorce attorney on retainer, if not speed dial.

[Tulpa]

And if you can call her Sperm Catcher with no consequences, then bow down and worship her, kiss the ground that she walks on, and hold on to her for dear life, for she is the perfect woman.

[John Tagliaferro]

What makes you think he is talking about a female?

[alan]

strike one, JT

[alan]

Who am I kidding. You got me good. Damn it.

[Tulpa]

Maybe the part about "the women who watch that show"?

[John Tagliaferro]

You got me but people seem to by advertising time there.

I am still trying to figure out how about half of these search terms show up in my analytics. When I try them I'll be damned if I can find my sites in the first dozen pages of results. Hear the same from lots of other people too.

[John Tagliaferro]

by=buy

[Tulpa]

Word, man. Human interest stories are notably inhuman. Just be glad you don't have to deal with the double hell of DVRed soap operas monopolizing the after-work TV while perfectly good Seinfeld reruns are on.

[alan]

It's okay man, it is an irony thing. The fact is she can't catch sperm for squat. She tries her damnedest, but it either goes in her eyes and hair or creates a mess on carpet or furniture instead of her mouth. Like calling a fat guy slim, or a tall dude shorty, she is really a sperm misser.

[John Tagliaferro]

I'm thinking streaming video gold here.

[Tulpa]

Well, now that you explain it...it's even worse.

[The Art-P.O.G.]

+1

[The Art-P.O.G.]

I'd say that alan deserves outraged and critical commentary on Feministing and Jezebel.

[chuck]

Remember, folks, you can't spell sucks without UC.

[capitol l]

Or chuck.

[Colonel_Angus]

That Tebow ad sucked nuts.

Lately I've noticed a few commercials cheering on statist paternalism. A yogurt commercial fellating Denmark's trans fat ban, and some car commercial bragging about their mandated safety feature, for example. They're taking the good citizen shit to a new level.

[Tulpa]

Paranoia much? That ad was talking about a safety feature that will be mandatory in 5 years or something, but is already present in their vehicles. If anything, it's a pro-market ad, showing that safety concerns can be dealt with even without government intervention.

[SIV]

Unless they are rent-seekers who tooled up for the feature first then lobbied to make it mandatory.(I have no idea what car was advertised)

[Tulpa]

I don't remember which car it was either, which means the commercial was a failure anyway...

[Colonel_Angus]

The ad still sounded to me like they were saying the thing should be mandatory, and they were just ahead of the competition.

The voluntary adopting of the thing does reinforce the market, but most consumers won't think that way when they see this commercial.

I thought about rent seeking too, probably not the car company behind it but possibly some independent supplier pushed for it instead.

[Stretchy]

Point #1: MILF
Point #2: How the hell did they get the NFL to sign off on the use of Super Bowl footage?

[TP]

Point #1: MILF

More like GMILF.

[The Wine Commonsewer (TWC)]

342 comments. Proof that abortion, like sex, sells.

[Ziggy]

The fact that some pro-choice feminist organizations are saying the ad was bad because it had an underlying tone of abuse against women(because of the tackle) just shows what complete resentful, stuck up cunts they are... IF anything the "pro-life" side won not because of the ad but because it showed what kooks the feminist are led by... btw I am pro-choice

[franz kafka]

Keith Moon was a God.

[stubby]

Then why's he dead?

[Lamar]

Tebow's mom is Mimi Rogers creepy.