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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-17-10 10:14 AM
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6. If they decide to show this ad, I will refuse to watch the Superbowl.
Money may talk, but people can walk (away)!
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  -Tim Tebow, Focus on the Family, do anti-abortion Super Bowl ad. Dr.Phool  Jan-17-10 09:48 AM   #0 
  - well, now we know how football feels about women's rights.  niyad   Jan-17-10 09:52 AM   #1 
  - No we don't  hack89   Jan-17-10 09:56 AM   #2 
     - football--superbowl. last I heard, superbowl was a football game  niyad   Jan-17-10 10:30 AM   #10 
        - But the CBS sells and schedules the ads.  hack89   Jan-17-10 12:46 PM   #14 
           - and you really think they do this without consulting the team owners?  niyad   Jan-17-10 04:42 PM   #18 
              - I don't know - I suspect they only care about money  hack89   Jan-17-10 06:04 PM   #28 
  - If I recall in the past they rejected ads that were political or controversial /nt  still_one   Jan-17-10 09:58 AM   #3 
  - But who are "they?"  caraher   Jan-17-10 10:14 AM   #7 
  - I think last year there were reports that NBC refused Super Bowl ads from PETA and a pro-life group  fishwax   Jan-17-10 01:04 PM   #16 
  - Yes, that was true as far as I can recall.  GreenPartyVoter   Jan-17-10 04:59 PM   #23 
  - I don't know if I would have gone public with that. Can you imagine  tsuki   Jan-17-10 09:59 AM   #4 
  - imagine all the pregnant women who are poor they could have helped with those dollars  Shallah Kali   Jan-17-10 10:07 AM   #5 
  - If they decide to show this ad, I will refuse to watch the Superbowl.  blue neen   Jan-17-10 10:14 AM   #6 
  - Unless you're a Nielsen Family, it won't make any difference  taterguy   Jan-17-10 04:47 PM   #19 
     - Women's rights are far more important to me than any football game.  blue neen   Jan-17-10 04:57 PM   #22 
        - What does you not watching the game do to advance women's rights?  taterguy   Jan-17-10 05:03 PM   #25 
           - It's not meaningless to me. What if there are even 100,000 "me's?"  blue neen   Jan-17-10 06:13 PM   #29 
              - Take a pee break when that commercial comes on  taterguy   Jan-17-10 06:21 PM   #30 
                 - It's only a given that I'll watch the Super Bowl if the Steelers are in it!  blue neen   Jan-17-10 08:12 PM   #31 
                    - Suppose the Steelers were playing and the ad aired?  taterguy   Jan-18-10 01:06 PM   #32 
  - tebow's god showed who was boss when florida lost nt  msongs   Jan-17-10 10:22 AM   #8 
  - I thought they had a policy of rejecting political ads...  ljm2002   Jan-17-10 10:27 AM   #9 
  - because it's politics they approve?  niyad   Jan-17-10 10:31 AM   #11 
  - I think it depends on the network -- last year's SB was on NBC, and I think they did  fishwax   Jan-17-10 01:05 PM   #17 
  - just remember, and share with people  northzax   Jan-17-10 10:51 AM   #12 
  - How disgusting!  Rage for Order   Jan-17-10 11:31 AM   #13 
  - You're still here? Why?  Maru Kitteh   Jan-17-10 05:06 PM   #26 
     - Just to piss you off  Rage for Order   Jan-18-10 05:53 PM   #33 
  - This ad probably won't be shown on CBS. It will be about how it got rejected  itsrobert   Jan-17-10 01:01 PM   #15 
  - FOTF is an organization of hate. knr for the heads up. nt  Union Yes   Jan-17-10 04:49 PM   #20 
  - Has Tebow announced his engagement to Carrie Prejean yet?  cascadiance   Jan-17-10 04:53 PM   #21 
  - Advocating for choosing life is not the same as advocating taking away choice  Freddie Stubbs   Jan-17-10 05:00 PM   #24 
  - Families need to be inspired by this bullshit? Gag!!!!  Initech   Jan-17-10 05:06 PM   #27 
 

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