Sean James and Al Joyner respond to the Tebow Super Bowl ad
(video: Planned Parenthood via YouTube)
From Planned Parenthood:
Former college and professional football player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner respond to the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad, featuring Tim Tebow and his mother.
CBS, in the past, has refused to sell Super Bowl ad time for advocacy ads, including a relatively innocuous one by the United Church of Christ (below). The UCC ad was labeled “too controversial.” Now it seems, CBS, is not only fine with selling Super Bowl ad time to the anti-choice, anti-gay Focus on the Family for it’s controversial commercial, the network collaborated on the content of FOTF’s ad:
“We’ve worked with [CBS] almost since the beginning,” [FOTF spokesman Gary] Schneeberger added. “Our senior vice presidents talked to CBS executives throughout the process. It was a very cordial, very professional, fruitful relationship.”
Focus coughed up an unconfirmed amount of cash — suspected to be in the $2.5-5 million range, and probably assumed the media and bloggers would post their ad for free. Fuck’em! You wont see it here.
As for the content of Focus’ ad, noted non-believer, evolutionary biologist and author Richard Dawkins, writing at the Washington Post, said:
I gather that Tim Tebow is extremely good at football. That’s just as well, for he certainly isn’t very good at thinking. Perhaps the fact that he was home schooled by missionary parents is to blame.
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The fact that the Tim Tebow advertisement is a load of unthought-through nonsense is no reason to ban it. That would infringe our valued principle of free speech. The best that the rest of us can do is point out, to anyone that will listen despite our lack of money to pay for such advertisements, that it is nonsense.
United Church of Christ – Bouncer (video: PeterGreen125 at YouTube)
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