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ts1227

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2010/01/29/mancrunch-super-bowl-commercial-cbs/

I thought all mainstream media was liberal?

This is most definitely not a liberal move.

discuss.

Al Bundy

Congrats to CBS for showing some ethics.

dwccrew

I think you mean Tebow's pro-life message, not pro-abortion.

ptown_trojans_1

CBS has been known, since the "Wardrobe malfunction" has been pretty conservative on many issues related to the Super Bowl.

Writerbuckeye

Corporate advertising decisions have ZIP to do with newsroom decisions made by assignment editors and reporters.

Your premise is flawed.

What people here discuss all the time is liberal bias in the mainstream MEDIA (as in news media) and not advertising.

Some liberals love to point out that news organizations are businesses so they must be inherently conservative (Republican).

Again, a flawed premise.

So long as an operation is making money -- corporate will stay out of the newsroom almost entirely (I say almost since there are exceptions).

So far as the CBS decisions goes: I am a free marketer. I would hope they'd run both advertisements and take the money; and let people watch or turn it off.

believer

This topic has already been explored at length on the allegedly "Serious Business" forum: Seriously?

cbus4life

Still pretty lame that they don't allow it, but i completely agree with Writer, on this.

I will never, ever understand the homosexual controversy and arguments that ensue in this country.

Abortion, yes. Gay marriage...give it up, people.

rookie_j70

Way to go CBS!!!!

rightfield

CBS does the right thing! Thanks

dwccrew

cbus4life wrote: Still pretty lame that they don't allow it, but i completely agree with Writer, on this.

I will never, ever understand the homosexual controversy and arguments that ensue in this country.

Abortion, yes. Gay marriage...give it up, people.

What I said after some random I knocked up decided to get one, except there was an exclamation point after the statement.

Writerbuckeye

God forbid Americans should be able to decide for themselves by watching or turning the channel.

dwccrew

^^^^^Finally the truth

iclfan2

Writerbuckeye wrote: God forbid Americans should be able to decide for themselves by watching or turning the channel.

I still don't believe the gay matchmaking company could pay for it. Regardless, CBS is in the business of making money. Maybe they figured out that the backlash for having a gay commercial would be worse then the money they could pay them to run the ad?

Al Bundy

Run gay commercials during the World Cup if you want, but don't run them during the Super Bowl.

Captain Cavalier

iclfan2 wrote:Maybe they figured out that the backlash for having a gay commercial would be worse then the money they could pay them to run the ad?

That would be my guess.

An ad about how a mother who chose to have her child which became an outstanding college QB or two homosexual men kissing and holding hands.

I Wear Pants

Al Bundy wrote: Run gay commercials during the World Cup if you want, but don't run them during the Super Bowl.

What in the hell is that supposed to mean?

Red_Skin_Pride

I'd call it a real cock-block.

Al Bundy

I Wear Pants wrote:
Al Bundy wrote: Run gay commercials during the World Cup if you want, but don't run them during the Super Bowl.
What in the hell is that supposed to mean?

It means that the percent of gay people watching soccer is much higher than the percent of gay people watching football.

iclfan2

Al Bundy wrote:
I Wear Pants wrote:
Al Bundy wrote: Run gay commercials during the World Cup if you want, but don't run them during the Super Bowl.
What in the hell is that supposed to mean?
It means that the percent of gay people watching soccer is much higher than the percent of gay people watching football.

Link?

Al Bundy

iclfan2 wrote:
Al Bundy wrote:
I Wear Pants wrote:
Al Bundy wrote: Run gay commercials during the World Cup if you want, but don't run them during the Super Bowl.
What in the hell is that supposed to mean?
It means that the percent of gay people watching soccer is much higher than the percent of gay people watching football.
Link?

stlouiedipalma

Everyone knows that football is a "man's sport". Soccer, well, maybe not so manly. After all, who wants to watch guys run around the field in shorts and fall down when they get kicked in the shin? And the officials hold up the little yellow and red cards to signify when someone has been bad.

Now how ridiculous is that description? Futbol players are well-conditioned athletes who perform without benefit of lengthy breaks and switching between offense and defense. I only point out that there are probably folks out there who would equate soccer with homosexuality.

Seriously, I think this is all too much over nothing. Let the free market and the viewers decide.

iclfan2

Super straight

I Wear Pants

stlouiedipalma wrote: Everyone knows that football is a "man's sport". Soccer, well, maybe not so manly. After all, who wants to watch guys run around the field in shorts and fall down when they get kicked in the shin? And the officials hold up the little yellow and red cards to signify when someone has been bad.

Now how ridiculous is that description? Futbol players are well-conditioned athletes who perform without benefit of lengthy breaks and switching between offense and defense. I only point out that there are probably folks out there who would equate soccer with homosexuality.

Seriously, I think this is all too much over nothing. Let the free market and the viewers decide.

Don't forget that they don't have damned commercial breaks in soccer either.

RiverRat13

WOW!!! THAT TEBOW COMMERCIAL WAS SUPER CONTROVERSIAL!!!

Dear Lord, much ado about nothing has never been so appropriate. Anyone who objected to THAT commercial has to feel like an ass.

believer

^^^Thanks...I was going to post something similar.

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