Focus on Family Super Bowl anti-abortion ad ..should CBS air it?

[Vegeta897]

don't subject yourself to it.

I can't avoid it!

 

[Maestro]

They're a bidness, and they can do whatever the hell they want. My guess is that anyone willing to pay through the nose for Superbowl ad time can have it from PBS for the right price.

EDIT: Also, controversy = ratings

 

[No Limit]

Anyone here think abortions are just cool?

/raises hand

 

[Noodle]

Why don't people just quit being whores and getting knocked up?

Besides, abortion ends up reversing Darwinism by protecting weak and stupid people. The core issue here is if you think weak and stupid people should be sheltered by those more capable.

 

[No Limit]

Why don't people just quit being whores and getting knocked up?

Besides, abortion ends up reversing Darwinism by protecting weak and stupid people. The core issue here is if you think weak and stupid people should be sheltered by those more capable.

So only weak and stupid people get unwanted pregnancies? And I don't get your logic, if the people getting unwanted pregnancies are weak and stupid having an abortion stops them from sprouting a seed, how does that reverse Darwinism?

The reality of the matter is that shit happens. And to simply brush it off by saying people should stop being whores is missing the point entirely. I also find it odd how you worded the first line, as if the men had nothing to do with the pregnancy, but nevermind.

 

[CptStern]

Why don't people just quit being whores and getting knocked up?

WHORES, SLUTS, JEZEBELS, HARLOTS, SIIIINNNERSSSSS!!!!

13% of abortion patients describe themselves as born-again or Evangelical Christians4; while 22% of U.S. women are Catholic,7 27% of abortion patients say they are Catholics.

what a bunch of holy sluts. SLUTTY MCCHURCHYSLUTS

http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/women_who.html

Besides, abortion ends up reversing Darwinism by protecting weak and stupid people.

lets see if we follow your logic it would seem that abortion IS the right thing to do; you abort the weak and stupid (according to your definition (gained through years of working as _____ or the years you spent working with women who _____) of women who have abortions) ...so you seem to be advocating MORE abortions. ABORTIONS FOR ONE AND ALL

The core issue here is if you think weak and stupid people should be sheltered by those more capable.

do you live with your parents?

 

[Polaris]

Here is that commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIOTItUwvk

Frankly, I don't get it. Still, everone in Focus on Family should be aborted even now.

 

[Krynn72]

That doesn't even say anything about abortion. It sounds like they're just talking about birth complications with a chance of miscarriage. People getting upset over that should be aborted.

 

[lame-o]

I think they should air it.

 

[CptStern]

just because you dont see doent mean it doesnt exist


"The game on CBS was watched by 106.5 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of M-A-S-H to become the most-watched television program ever, Nielsen reports"

Since the ad aired, the organization [Focus of the Family] has had 5,000 new subscribers to its magazine, Thriving Family.

CBS declined to comment on how many consumers contacted the network about the ad. But the advocacy group Women's Media Center says it knows CBS got at least 170,000 e-mails, calls and letters of complaint. "The Super Bowl is supposed to be a time we can come together," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. "This ad introduced poison into that atmosphere."

But the advocacy group Americans United for Life Action has a "Support Tebow's Super Bowl Ad" Facebook page that's attracted 230,000 fans

Dec. 1, 2009, and Monday at 3 a.m., Focus on the Family generated more Super Bowl advertising-related social-media conversations than any other advertiser or brand â?? even more than Google, Anheuser-Busch and Doritos, reports Alterian SM2, a software marketing company that monitors social media.



an oddity because:

"the ad itself posted a low score in USA TODAY'S Ad Meter, a real-time consumer testing of the ads as they air. The ad featuring quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom, Pam, was ranked 54th of the 65 ads in the game by the panelists."


however:

"But the enormous attention that the ad received before, during and after the game could become a case study for marketers. "We won long before the ad ever ran," Daly says. The data don't lie."




so yes the media storm around it inadvertedly promoted the message. the medium IS the message

 

[Maestro]

Here is that commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BIOTItUwvk

Frankly, I don't get it. Still, everone in Focus on Family should be aborted even now.

BOTOX!

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

That commercial is more retarded than Tictac Palin. Are we supposed to believe that monstrous THUD was her kid tackling her weak, plastic frame?

 

[Krynn72]

"The game on CBS was watched by 106.5 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of M-A-S-H to become the most-watched television program ever, Nielsen reports"

Since the ad aired, the organization [Focus of the Family] has had 5,000 new subscribers to its magazine, Thriving Family.

Oh god! Whatever are we to do?! 0.0046% of the people who saw the ad signed up for the magazine! We're DOOMED!

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

FoF gained $12*5,000 = $60,000. Time to buy that luxury SUV their cause has been hurting for.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

I saw the ad during the game, didn't even get it was about abortion. Though certainly "pro-life" as in "don't get miscarriages."

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

I saw the ad during the game, didn't even get it was about abortion. Though certainly "pro-life" as in "don't get miscarriages."

 

[DEATHMASTER]

brb, punching wombs.

 

[Maestro]

FoF gained $12*5,000 = $60,000. Time to buy that luxury SUV their cause has been hurting for.

$12 is a cursory subscription price, the real profit is in the ads. Still, I don't think 5000 people is going to recoup the losses. Something like six digit dollar figures per second is a poor trade.

 

[jverne]

just like the muslim extremists

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/03/31/afghan-family-law-women.html

wow, talk about new lows. And Karzai even approved of it.

"Allowing women to be treated like a piece of property … is this what we're fighting for? Is this what our people are dying for in Afghanistan?"

 

[Sulkdodds]

I'm not sure 'political adverts' should be allowed at all outside of specific election messages. And even those are stupid, pointless and corrupt.

Why don't people just quit being whores and getting knocked up?

Nice social policy initiative there, senator.

 

[The Monkey]

Who gives a shit?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

White people.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

F*ck whitey.

 

[Raziaar]

just because you dont see doent mean it doesnt exist


"The game on CBS was watched by 106.5 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of M-A-S-H to become the most-watched television program ever, Nielsen reports"

Since the ad aired, the organization [Focus of the Family] has had 5,000 new subscribers to its magazine, Thriving Family.

CBS declined to comment on how many consumers contacted the network about the ad. But the advocacy group Women's Media Center says it knows CBS got at least 170,000 e-mails, calls and letters of complaint. "The Super Bowl is supposed to be a time we can come together," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women. "This ad introduced poison into that atmosphere."

But the advocacy group Americans United for Life Action has a "Support Tebow's Super Bowl Ad" Facebook page that's attracted 230,000 fans

Dec. 1, 2009, and Monday at 3 a.m., Focus on the Family generated more Super Bowl advertising-related social-media conversations than any other advertiser or brand â?? even more than Google, Anheuser-Busch and Doritos, reports Alterian SM2, a software marketing company that monitors social media.



an oddity because:

"the ad itself posted a low score in USA TODAY'S Ad Meter, a real-time consumer testing of the ads as they air. The ad featuring quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom, Pam, was ranked 54th of the 65 ads in the game by the panelists."


however:

"But the enormous attention that the ad received before, during and after the game could become a case study for marketers. "We won long before the ad ever ran," Daly says. The data don't lie."




so yes the media storm around it inadvertedly promoted the message. the medium IS the message

Who the **** cares?

There was nothing wrong with that ad.

People have differing opinions on things!

 

[Shyam]

Who the **** cares?

There was nothing wrong with that ad.

People have differing opinions on things!

But the ad... it's American.