What's up with the porn advertisement?

[The Backlash Cometh]

Is it time for us moderates to go running for the hills?

[RagingInMiami]

1. And it's misleading

Because I clicked on it and didn't find any porn.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Disappointed, Raging?

:spank:

[RagingInMiami]

16. Well, I wanted to check it out first

Before I alerted the mods. No use wasting their time.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. I was kind of surprised to see it there myself....

but I thought there must be a reason for it.

[Warpy]

2. Dunno, but it's sleazy enough to annoy me

and I'm a howling lefty who supports the existence of the porn industry on free speech grounds. I just don't like stylized naked babes on a pol page.

MSGOP obviously created that ad for just that reason. Text would certainly have been sufficient.

[mongo]

15. The trucker mud-flag girl?

That's not porn -- it's a cultural icon.

[Warpy]

18. Then stick her on yer truck

Just get her the hell off a political page unless she puts some clothes on.

[EFerrari]

34. I agree. It limits who I can refer to the site.

Silly, maybe. But, true. :(

[RazzleDazzle]

36. Limits my wanting to be here at all -- before I even get to the referrals

part.

I think it's enormously offensive, and I'm very disappointed in DemocraticUnderground over it. Before I checked out its source, I thought to myself: oh, so that's what comes of having several pornographers posting at DemocraticUnderground? We get some porn of our own. Maybe one of our very own pornographers are advertising here. Great. Just great.

Sure makes DemocraticUnderground unpalatable for those of us who feel considerable personal pain over that kind of objectification of women and women's bodies and sexuality.

[blogslut]

37. I suggest

you use the ignore feature, if you find me so offensive.

*edited for typo*

[omega minimo]

42. Threads on this conveniently brought out a lot of ignorant dolts to Ignore

:evilgrin:

:boring:

(so far bs, you haven't been one of them :hi: it's bonehead ignorant attitudes I don't wanna look at)

[blogslut]

45. I appreciate it.

Look. I know there's a lot that's ugly and unfair about my business. But there's a lot of good some refuse to see because they can't get past whatever...

For example, all those horrid people that make a profit from CP? Guess who created an organization that is responsible for reporting over 60,000 instances of CP?

http://www.asacp.org/statistics.php

[omega minimo]

49. Difference b/w folks havin sumthin to say and folks bein jerks

[RazzleDazzle]

43. You?

Find you offensive? What makes you think I find YOU offensive? Do you have something to do with that ad? Is that supposed to be your silhouette or something? Or are you Rita Cosby, or the person who wrote this ad? Or maybe the segment producer?

Otherwise, I fail to see what could have led you to personalize my post to quite that extent. Goodness, you hadn't even responded in this thread anywhere above my post. Very mysterious, and almost funny. Mostly just bizarre, tho.

[blogslut]

44. I was referring to the post I replied to

You made a snide aside about the "pornographers" on DU. I am one of them.

[RazzleDazzle]

47. Oh, and I was supposed to be psychic about the fact that

you're a pornographer -- tho I guess your name was supposed to give you away??

[blogslut]

48. I'm backing out

I apologize. I don't feel like playing this game.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Yeah, now I can't check DU from work!

Naked neon babes are not smiled upon.

[tocqueville]

it's a video with Hefner ... and Rita Cosby

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9672695/

[Kazak]

20. Just bookmark GD...

and use the drop down menu to go between individual forums. :shrug:

[obxhead]

4. It's funny how effective it has been.

Everyone seems to be discussing it. :)

[tx_dem41]

5. It's an ad for MSNBC.

Nothing I'm going to watch, but it's not a PORN ad.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Oh, I see. It's an ad about a show that talks about porn.

Okay. I stand corrected. A good discussion topic, actually. Where exactly does porn fit in the Left-wing? Or something catchy like that.

[terrya]

6. It's a link to MSNBC

Nothing more.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Thank you!

[tx_dem41]

9. And I've developed a heavy crush on the girl in the Democratic Dates...

ad.

:)

[ticapnews]

10. What advertisement?

Ever since I got Firefox advertisements are pretty much nonexistant :)

[mtnsnake]

41. Go to home page.Someone put a picture of my wife in the upper right corner

If I find out who did this, no Xmas gift for them!!

[ticapnews]

50. Nope. My Firefox blocks advertising :)

The pic is probably hosted at an advertising site which I have blocked. What a shame :P

[Mr Rabble]

11. Playboy isnt porn.

I love porn, it Playboy isnt it.

Playboy is just nekkid girls. Hef is a dirty old man.

[StClone]

12. :-)

You like porn and Heff should be in a dirty old man museum. Wry sense of humor.

[mongo]

13. Playboy is cosmo for boys

That about sums it up...

[Clark2008]

19. Cosmo doesn't have naked men in it.

In fact, there's not much difference between Cosmo and Playboy, at all - both have naked WOMEN in them.

:(

[Carni]

24. You know you're right!

Cosmo IS filled with Naked women!

I have always thought why the hell are there all these naked women in a women's mag?

It isn't like I enjoy seeing them...granted I could care less one way or another, but frankly they just make me feel friggin fat!

I missed the ad being discussed in this string altogether.

[blogslut]

26. I'll bite

Helen Gurley Brown might as well be a man.

[Clark2008]

30. Fat or not made-up enough.

Some of those women must scrape off their make-up at night. :scared:

[Carni]

39. Old also comes to mind lol

Not for MYSELF of course ;)

[Nevernose]

40. Cosmopolitan is more pornographic than most porn, even Playboy

I made the mistake once of flipping through an issue of my ex-wife's. It was either that or read the back of the Charmin package. Though I've gotten a little more prudish since I've gotten older and had a kid (I'd hate for my daughter to define her sexuality based on copies of "Oral Teenagers and Well-Hung Strangers Volume 41" left in the VCR on accident), I was still shocked to discover what was available at every supermarket check-out stand in America.

I saw stuff in there that would have made Dr. Ruth blush.

[Clark2008]

17. I think it's pretty cool that MSNBC is advertising here.

They must know that we all watch Keith Olbermann. LOL!

[norml]

21. It's just MSNBC trying to be sensational.

"Come see the naughty stuff!" they say.

Then they go out and annoy some hookers and act like it's just so awful while showing you more, but never enough to make it anything other than G rated.

Yawn.

I'm glad they placed the ad.

I'm glad we took their money.

If anything I'm annoyed that their so called "PORN" show will have no real porn what so ever.

[blogslut]

22. Rita Cosby

...is going to doing a (s)expose on that nest of pornographic vipers in Chatsworth. They rent houses! They make porn! They'll do anything TO GET YOUR MONEY! Sizzzzzzzling.

I'll be watching it. We adult webmasters love these bits of titillation disguised as concerned journalism. Our sites always see an increase in traffic after one of them airs. :)

[NYC]

23. I thought my computer had been hit by a virus.

The porn ad was the first thing I saw.

[melody]

25. To this I say --

http://www.youtube.com/player.swf?video_id=lr_HR-iIlYg&l=196

[blogslut]

29. LOL

thanks. I've not seen that before. :)

[MelissaB]

46. That was great!

:rofl:

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. It really is jarring

right next to the Jesus ad.

[Neil Lisst]

31. What's up with calling that porn? It's not porn.

It's not even ribald. It's an ad for MSNBC, which is running a story on PORN. That is much different from having porn.

Whatever, it's much ado about nothing. It's an ad, and a tame one at that.

[CatholicEdHead]

32. And I have Adblock installed on my Firefox

:(

[blogslut]

33. even firefox won't

stop embedded and paid for advertising.

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. Nothing is as bad as those tshirt ads

last summer. Anyone remember those? There were some major hot threads over them. LOL

[madeline_con]

38. Isn't it an ad for a show about the industry? n/t

[QuettaKid]

51. I don't know...nor do I care....

but more importantly who is the HOT red head in the democratic singles ad 2 spots below the porn one? WOW!!! sign me up.:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: