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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: ReardenSteel on January 30, 2009, 11:01:19 AM
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sabra (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:26 AM
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NBC rejects anti-abortion Super Bowl ad
Advertisements [?]Source: UPI
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A Chicago-based Catholic organization says NBC-TV won't air an anti-abortion video during Sunday's Super Bowl that portrays President Obama as an unborn child.
The spot has had more than 700,000 hits on YouTube since CatholicVote.org, a subsidiary of Fidelis, ran it on its Web site, The Washington Times reported Friday.
Brian Burch, president of Fidelis, said NBC originally responded to the group's desire to run the spot with a proposal for a package costing $1.5 million to $1.8 million.
Burch says after his members pledged "significant dollars" for the project, NBC changed its mind.
Called "Imagine Spot 1," the ad opens with an ultrasound of a child in utero set to violin music.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/30/NBC_rejects_anti... /
You just know this thread will gutterball in no time at all.
CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:34 AM
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2. If they did one with Bush as an embryo
I bet even the catholics could get behind that abortion.
Warpy (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:34 AM
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3. Since the church is trying to force its dogma into civil law
it is absolutely begging to be taxed as a political organization.
It's time for them to get a visit from the tax man, the only person in the world who can possibly explain the difference between church and state to them.
Warpy's usual gibberish. :whatever:
Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:42 AM
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6. I have a few ex-boyfriends who should have been unborn.
Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:47 AM
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9. So do I...
the term "waste of protoplasm" comes to mind.
Nice. :thatsright:
The ad...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c&feature=PlayList&p=1329FF1A1ECBE48D&index=184[/youtube]
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While I am not a fan of Obama that ad was powerful and well done. :bow:
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You just know this thread will gutterball in no time at all.
Warpy's usual gibberish. :whatever:
Nice. :thatsright:
The ad...
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2CaBR3z85c&feature=PlayList&p=1329FF1A1ECBE48D&index=184[/youtube]
If the company has the money, yeah, they should have the ad run. I don't see the problem with that ad. You think the DUmmies would even like it because it talks about the beginning of their moonbat messiah.
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:42 AM
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6. I have a few ex-boyfriends who should have been unborn.
After dating her, they probably agree.
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:54 AM
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10. 1.5 million dollars -- Imagine all the children that could feed.
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pasto76 (77 posts) Fri Jan-30-09 12:01 PM
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11. EXACTLY
why not put as much effort into feeding hungry children. Plenty of homeless kids out there.
DU default mode, telling other people how to spend their money. :whatever:
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:54 AM
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10. 1.5 million dollars -- Imagine all the children that could feed.
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pasto76 (77 posts) Fri Jan-30-09 12:01 PM
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11. EXACTLY
why not put as much effort into feeding hungry children. Plenty of homeless kids out there.
DU default mode, telling other people how to spend their money. :whatever:
Hmmmm, how much government money has been spent providing abortions? Betcha that would feed lots of children too. :whatever:
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DU default mode, telling other people how to spend their money. :whatever:
I understand that PETA has an ad. Wonder how much hummus that time would have bought.
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The time has come to boycott NBC and to start campaigns against all the advertisers who'll have ads during the Superbowl game, but also, in general, on the network.
Words do not matter to NBC and the leftists and liberals.
Money out their pockets, much more than the Catholic group would've given, will.
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The time has come to boycott NBC and to start campaigns against all the advertisers who'll have ads during the Superbowl game, but also, in general, on the network.
Words do not matter to NBC and the leftists and liberals.
Money out their pockets, much more than the Catholic group would've given, will.
Nah, "small number" boycotts are for DU'ers. Besides I'm not give up NCIS for anything. Why should I miss something I enjoy just because a business has made a choice not to air an ad during the Superbowl? I'm sure they turn down a lot of ads. Heck, it's not even going to stop me from watching the Superbowl.
Cindie
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DU default mode, telling other people how to spend their money. :whatever:
Wonder where their outrage was when Obama spent over 150 million on a damn party?
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Nah, "small number" boycotts are for DU'ers. Besides I'm not give up NCIS for anything. Why should I miss something I enjoy just because a business has made a choice not to air an ad during the Superbowl? I'm sure they turn down a lot of ads. Heck, it's not even going to stop me from watching the Superbowl.
Cindie
Maybe it's time we decide to think a lot bigger than the DUers and Democrats, liberals and leftists?
We've nothing to lose except, perhaps, some TV-show-watching time. Yes, I, too, like NCIS. But it ain't that important to me. Even the Superbowl isn't.
And you're right: NBC is a business that made a decision. But keystrokes here and P-and-M-ing won't ever have the impact on them as will pressure from their advertisers.
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:34 AM
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3. Since the church is trying to force its dogma into civil law
it is absolutely begging to be taxed as a political organization.
It's time for them to get a visit from the tax man, the only person in the world who can possibly explain the difference between church and state to them.
Oh, for f*ck's sake.
First of all CatholicVote.com is not an organization that is actually affiliated with the Church itself; granted it is a group of Catholics who are attempting to garner support for a cause that the Church supports, but that group itself gets NO MONEY from the Church.
SECOND, I have never been told in church whom I am to vote for. I have been encouraged to make myself aware of the candidate's stand on issues, to make myself familiar with the Catholic Church's stance on said issues, to vote, and to vote with my conscience, but never have I heard from the pulpit that I am to vote a certain way or for a certain person.
THIRD, the abortion issue isn't just a Catholic issue, it's an issue taken up by many other religious organizations as well. I have yet to find a Christian church that says abortion is okay. To blame it all on Catholics is just stupid, not to mention shows how uneducated Warpy is.
Gah. These people f*cking piss me off.
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SECOND, I have never been told in church whom I am to vote for.
Nor have I as a Protestant Christian, and that's in denominational or non-denominational churches.
THIRD, the abortion issue isn't just a Catholic issue, it's an issue taken up by many other religious organizations as well. I have yet to find a Christian church that says abortion is okay. To blame it all on Catholics is just stupid, not to mention shows how uneducated Warpy is.
Indeed, abortion is a Christian -- Protestant and Catholic -- issue and one also of many non-Christians.
I'm with you: I've NEVER heard of a Christian assembly, denominational or not, Protestant or Catholic, that advocates abortion.
You'd think that the Democrats, liberals and leftists would understand that by now.
Guess not. Would require awareness and curiosity, I guess.
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Auggie
1.5 million dollars -- Imagine all the children that could feed.
pasto76
EXACTLY
why not put as much effort into feeding hungry children. Plenty of homeless kids out there.
Wow! Just imagine how many hungry children could have been fed with the money spent to anoint B. Hussein. Bet these two kooks never posted anything about doing that.
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The time has come to boycott NBC and to start campaigns against all the advertisers who'll have ads during the Superbowl game, but also, in general, on the network.
Words do not matter to NBC and the leftists and liberals.
Money out their pockets, much more than the Catholic group would've given, will.
Boycotts don't work. From the left or the Right.
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Wow! Just imagine how many hungry children could have been fed with the money spent to anoint B. Hussein. Bet these two kooks never posted anything about doing that.
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Dims don't want to feed hungry children with their own money, that's what Repuke money is for. Dim money is for killing children.
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:34 AM
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3. Since the church is trying to force its dogma into civil law
it is absolutely begging to be taxed as a political organization.
It's time for them to get a visit from the tax man, the only person in the world who can possibly explain the difference between church and state to them.
so, when should the TUCC expect a visit from the tax man? Or Farrakhan? Or any of a number of predominantly black churches?
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Boycotts don't work. From the left or the Right.
Yes they do.
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Fri Jan-30-09 11:34 AM
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3. Since the church is trying to force its dogma into civil law
it is absolutely begging to be taxed as a political organization.
It's time for them to get a visit from the tax man, the only person in the world who can possibly explain the difference between church and state to them.
I bet this guy hates abolitionists and the REVEREND Martin Luther King.
Auggie
1.5 million dollars -- Imagine all the children that could feed.
pasto76
EXACTLY
why not put as much effort into feeding hungry children. Plenty of homeless kids out there.
TRANSLATION: Damn! A couple slipped past the Encephlo-Suck 6000!