Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad

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Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad
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Mon, 01-25-2010 - 1:33pm

And email I received from Care2.  I will boycott the Super Bowl should they show Focus on the Family's ad.  I'm very disappointed in CBS.

In the past, CBS has denied other organizations, like MoveOn.org and United Church of Christ, the chance to get their word out during the Superbowl because the network considered their messages to be too controversial. But it seems its definition of "controversial" has changed. CBS approved an ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family, attacking a woman's right to choose.

Demand that CBS pull this controversial and disrespectful ad from the Superbowl line-up >>


The Superbowl is the most-watched television program in the country -- a prime opportunity for anti-choice groups to broadcast their idea that a woman doesn't have the right to make decisions about her own body. What's worse is CBS has no plans to run a pro-choice ad to balance both sides of the issue.


CBS's decision to run the anti-choice ad is biased, unfair and unethical. Tell CBS to cancel the Superbowl ad from Focus on the Family >>






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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:09pm

Welcome to In the News.


I'm beginning to feel like a broken record here...did you read the entire OP?


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Registered: 10-28-2009
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:12pm

I think the point is that CBS had decided in the past that certain ads were too controversial, yet they then allow a Focus on the Family anti-abortion ad, which could certainly be considered controversial. It's one thing to pick and choose whatever ads the company wants to air, but they shouldn't be using the "controversial" excuse if it isn't true.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:26pm

Sorry, but they've denied similar ads in the past.


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Registered: 03-30-2007
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:32pm

Maybe some one should make a commercial to follow that one, about people watching the Super Bowl on their big screen TV, sipping a cold one, eating pizza, talking about their new shinny truck. Then have the announcer ask "Have you paid your child support lately?"

So they are saying if you don't have an abortion, your kid will grow up to be another Tebow? Thanks, but no thanks. I'll take my kids over him any day!

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Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:45pm

"Then have the announcer ask "Have you paid your child support lately?""


Excellent idea!!!

 


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Registered: 08-30-2002
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 2:55pm

***Maybe some one should make a commercial to follow that one, about people watching the Super Bowl on their big screen TV, sipping a cold one, eating pizza, talking about their new shinny truck. Then have the announcer ask "Have you paid your child support lately?"****


I'd LOVE to see that one!.


Being that Reno is one of the closest, major employers to where I live, they could also



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Registered: 03-30-2007
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 3:08pm

It just pi$$es me off to no end to have people up on their high horse about No abortion, then in the next breath put people down because they are on welfare. Never, ever is the absent partner even mentioned. If the Dumb a$$ was paying support, there be no or little need for welfare.

Oh, I know all to well about parents hiding stuff. But I got the last laugh. My ex owed about $35,000 in back support. When his Mom died, child support went after my ex's part of the Estate! Guess with all their hiding and sneaking around, they never thought about that!

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Registered: 01-24-2007
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 4:49pm

again, I think "too controversial" boils down to the response they will get from their viewers, as in how much trouble it will cost them vs how much money they will get from it.

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Registered: 01-24-2007
Wed, 01-27-2010 - 7:56pm
You know truthfully, I dont know.

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