CBS Nixes Gay Dating Ad During Super Bowl Options

[Johnny Angel]

http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/29/news/compa..._ad_super_bowl/

So much for "they'll take money from anyone".

Dating service offered straight up (no pun) cash and CBS declined--but Focus on the Family's money is good.

Assholes.

[terrydactyl]

first, a pro-life commercial with Tebow and mom but no pro gay dating commercial allowed?

i see what the right means with their 'liberal' media now

This post has been edited by terrydactyl: Jan 30 2010, 12:45 PM

[JodyThePig]

Gay dating rarely results in unwanted pregnancy.

[allie]

Also, as much as I can't stand Gloria Allred and her media whoring, she's questioning the truthiness of Tebow's Mom's story about being in the Philippines and having a doctor recommend abortion when it was/is illegal there.

[tmann]

American families gathered around the tv for an afternoon of football need this broadcast directly into their living rooms about as much as they need an amplified islamic call to prayer announced by loudspeaker all around their neighborhoods.

[allie]

American families gathered around the tv for an afternoon of football need this broadcast directly into their living rooms about as much as they need an amplified islamic call to prayer announced by loudspeaker all around their neighborhoods.

Good thing they don't advertise drugs that makes your dick hard.

[Johnny Angel]

American families gathered around the tv for an afternoon of football need this broadcast directly into their living rooms about as much as they need an amplified islamic call to prayer announced by loudspeaker all around their neighborhoods.

They need talking frogs hawking Budweiser a lot more though, right?

What a fucking moron.

[terrydactyl]

They need talking frogs hawking Budweiser a lot more though, right?

What a fucking moron.

teabagger w/o any tea

[Johnny Angel]

Good thing they don't advertise drugs that makes your dick hard.

As long as said hard dick doesn't go into another male's whatever or wherever, apparently.

As per "Islamic call to prayer": Chruch bells have rung every Sunday in every neighborhhod this Jew has lived in all his life, including in liberal Hollywood and the homo enclave, San Francisco. And I could care less. It's OK for Christians to broadcast via bells and TV, but God (Allah) forbid anyone else does.

I really think "creature of habit" should change its name to "results of cousins fucking". It's that retarded.

[JodyThePig]

It's good to know that political debate has gotten so dull as to encompass television commercials.

Things to do today:

1). Nap
2). Man ramparts

[Johnny Angel]

It's good to know that political debate has gotten so dull as to encompass television commercials.

Things to do today:

1). Nap
2). Man ramparts

The first shot fired at Fort Sumter was actually fired over the North's belief that Miller Lite tasted great and the South's that it was "less filling".

That was gonna be in Zinn's follow-up, but he died.

[tmann]

Dearborn Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzhgeGX8BM






wouldn't it be great for Cambridge? burkas too!

[screeg neegis]

The first shot fired at Fort Sumter was actually fired over the North's belief that Miller Lite tasted great and the South's that it was "less filling".

That was gonna be in Zinn's follow-up, but he died.

You know, Lincoln would never have been able to gather political support to wage war on the South if they had not attacked that fort.

Those stupid fucks - Lincoln actually supported an amendment to the Constitution to let the slave states remain so - his opposition to expanding slavery to the western territories and banning slavery in new states upset the wealthy elites in the South so they created a media campaign against Lincoln and pushed seccession through the southern legislatures.

They should have left it at that and they would have succeeded.

This post has been edited by screeg neegis: Jan 30 2010, 01:29 PM

[ArtGuy]

Thanks. I was challenged on that yesterday.

Considering evangelical Christians' long history of bending the truth -- the Tebows' story of Tim's is birth is pretty unlikely.

Of course their stories are exaggerated -- they're third world Missionaries -- it's their bread and butter. It's all about showmanship, baby!

His dad:
"When I was out in the mountains in Mindanao, back in '86, I was showing a film and preaching that night. I was weeping over the millions of babies being [aborted] in America, and I prayed, 'God, if you give me a son, if you give me Timmy, I'll raise him to be a preacher.'"

He's so concerned about America's abortions, he moved to the Philippines.

Abortion is illegal in the Philippines. From Wikipedia:
One study estimated that, despite legal restrictions, in 1994 there were 400,000 abortions performed illegally in the Philippines and 80,000 hospitalizations of women for abortion-related complications. 12% of all maternal deaths in 1994 were due to unsafe abortion according to the Department of Health of the Philippines. Two-thirds of Filipino women who have abortions attempt to self-induce or seek solutions from those who practice folk medicine.

[Johnny Angel]

Dearborn Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzhgeGX8BM
wouldn't it be great for Cambridge? burkas too!

There are over 100,000 Muslims in Dearborn. They're called to prayer. Like Christians and bells--no more of that, too? They're a sizable percentage of the population there, whose MOTHERFUCKING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IS PROTECTED BY THE MOTHER FUCKING CONSTITUTION, YOU FUCKING SHIT JAR.

This affects you or anyone else how? I daresay, the people of Eastern Michigan have other, far more pressing issues than that. What with, oh, unemployment at 22%.

You hate the muslims so much, we're fighting a sect of them in Afghanistan right now. Enlist already.

[JodyThePig]

Dearborn Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzhgeGX8BM
wouldn't it be great for Cambridge? burkas too!

Dearborn was Henry Ford's hometown and the site of the newspaper he owned, the Dearborn Independent, in which he published excerpts from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to warn Americans of the impending International Jewish Conspiracy, so the present status of Dearborn as a major settlement site for Islamic immigrants is certainly an amusing coincidence.

Also, get bent.

[terrydactyl]

Dearborn Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzhgeGX8BM
wouldn't it be great for Cambridge? burkas too!

what is it with you righties proclivity for hate and purposeful misinformation?

[screeg neegis]

Dearborn Michigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOzhgeGX8BM
wouldn't it be great for Cambridge? burkas too!

Interesting fact:
There is a mosque in Cambridge with a parking lot in the rear that faces a synagogue on the next block over. I could be mistaken but I believe they share that parking lot.

[Johnny Angel]

(From my friend Pete, courtesy Facebook):

I wonder if ManCrunch attempted to buy time betting that a turndown would give them at least as much publicity as the ad itself. After all, they wouldn't be hitting their target demographic very effectively if the ad actually ran.

[ArtGuy]

(From my friend Pete, courtesy Facebook):
I wonder if ManCrunch attempted to buy time betting that a turndown would give them at least as much publicity as the ad itself. After all, they wouldn't be hitting their target demographic very effectively if the ad actually ran.

Also rejected:
AshleyMadison.com, which matches married people looking to have affairs, got plenty of press last month when they announced that they'd be placing this ad in the Super Bowl program.

[Johnny Angel]

CBS' own hypocrisy doesn't come anywhere near that of Dobson's "holy warriors" themselves:

http://mypage.direct.ca/w/writer/anti-tales.html

[Flipper]

There's absolutely nothing hypocritical about this business decision. The network people simply (and probably correctly) realized that this kind of ad wasn't going to be widely well received by a Super Bowl audience, whereas a Pro-life ad might be.

Anyone viewing this as some kind of civil rights tragedy is an idiot.

[Johnny Angel]

There's absolutely nothing hypocritical about this business decision. The network people simply (and probably correctly) realized that this kind of ad wasn't going to be widely well received by a Super Bowl audience, whereas a Pro-life ad might be.

Anyone viewing this as some kind of civil rights tragedy is an idiot.

So, the airing of an outright fairy tale (Tebow's mother claims that Filipino physicians urged an abortion of little Timmy, abortion is illegal in the Phillipines, the likelyhood of her story being true is next to nil) is fine.

The endless airing of erectile dysfunction drugs, whose sole purpose is to help men--gay and straight--to be able to fuck, also fine.

Two dudes kissing? Unacceptable.

CBS' "standards and practices" begin and end at "we don't want a barrage of email generated by a handful of uptight psuedo moralists" (the uproar over Janet Jackson was almost entirely a creation of one zealot named Brent Bozell). No, it is not a civil rights issue, it's an issue of two-faced corporate cowardice.

[mhaverty]

(From my friend Pete, courtesy Facebook):

I wonder if ManCrunch attempted to buy time betting that a turndown would give them at least as much publicity as the ad itself. After all, they wouldn't be hitting their target demographic very effectively if the ad actually ran.

Your freind Pete is a smart guy. I'm being serious.

I'm sure he also understands that CBS took the Tebow ad knowing damn well it will boost their credibility with the fox set. Fox kicks the the other cable news outlet's asses everynight in every time slot. And... all day. Why not try to be the fox of the broadcast set?

This post has been edited by mhaverty: Jan 31 2010, 11:47 AM

[Johnny Angel]

Your freind Pete is a smart guy. I'm being serious.

I'm sure he also understands that CBS took the Tebow ad knowing damn well it will boost their credibility with the fox set. Fox kicks the the other cable news outlet's asses everynight in every time slot. And... all day. Why not try to be the fox of the broadcast set?

2008 SuperBowl audience: 98 million people.

Fox average audience:, day part: 2.9 million.

Given that a fair amount of Fox viewers will be watching the SB anyway, where on earth did you come up with this improbable/ludicrous theory? Other than "as someone whose every thought revolves around/ is utterly obsessed with partisan politics that believes everyone thinks like I do".

"Boost their credibility with the Fox set"? In media, especially in a one time event, "credibility" is not an issue. In fact, in all media there are only two major considerations now--revenues and debt. And not getting complaints, which runs third.

So, by running this ad (in your mind), CBS is calculating a huge boost in new conservative (and generally elderly, which they don't really seek anyway) fans who ALREADY HAVE A NETWORK OF THEIR OWN, WHICH THEY'LL NEVER LEAVE.

Hopeless.