The left hijacks the Super Bowl
Don’t get me wrong: the game itself was very good, lost in the last minutes by horrendously stupid play-calling on the part of the Seahawks. But as a Cowboys fan, I had no dog in the hunt, so I couldn’t care less who won. And it wasn’t the game that put me off, but rather the incessant drumbeat of political correctness in the commercials.
It’s too late in the evening to cite precise examples, so let me cite some themes. From car commercials, no less, came repeated preachments to males regarding their responsibilities as fathers and family heads. I have a suspicion that this advertising was targeted at young black males, who watch and wager on the Super Bowl in large numbers and who have a well-recognized and well-deserved reputation for fathering without any follow-up. However, in keeping with the current politically correct standards followed by the advertising industry, the ads would make it appear that white fathers were the culprits.
You know what? If I were a black male, I would be thoroughly pissed at NBC for using the major sporting event of the year to target me in such a fashion. Call it ambush advertising.
I’m one old football fan who does not like to be preached to by holier-than-thou liberal jerks when I’m trying to watch a game. I resent such indoctrination attempts to the point of questioning if I’m going to continue to allow myself to be insulted by an advertising industry that appears to be several degrees left of the New York Times.
Don’t misunderstand me here: I fully recognize the distressing lack of male responsibility in parenting. My gripe is that when I sit down at the end of the football season to watch the Super Bowl, I do not consider my living room the proper venue for the slobberingly eager left to preach to me about America’s social ills. But then, that’s liberals for you; they seem to have a knack for taking human joy, happiness, and appreciation out of absolutely any event that the rest of us view as a form of entertainment. They have thoroughly corrupted Hollywood and television, and now they are damned well getting their big left foot in the door of sports, through the not so subtle control of the advertising messages accompanying those sporting events. And of course they have their intestinal worm: Bob Costas.
Crossposted at American Thinker
Category: Politics
I go to Red Box to rent movies, the problem is that there are no good movies out there to rent.
They are either a one man army that the government can’t kill, but he can kill a man with a snub nose .38 from a thousand yards…
Or they are feel good chick flicks with some super hero and a load of laugh tracks.
Even Fury wasn’t any where near as good as it should have been. Pitt is a good actor, he understands his craft well, but they turned it into a rescue redux of Saving Private Ryan without any of the real action.
It just seemed so fake, the swearing doesn’t come off as real, but as being spoken to reiterate that they are real people…
If you hang around a real GI you will se how easily those swear words make it into each and every sentence and nobody bats an eye…
And who in the fuck would name their kid Shia Lebouff, or if he changed his name to it, why would he possibly think it was a good name ???
And that is intelligence ???
They are all so preachy now or remakes of the old classics.
They remade True Grit and did nothing to it except put in different actors. The movie was exactly the same…
They have no original ideas anymore out there. They are all too busy teaching us how we can be better people according to their stupidity and that we should all kill ourselves to save the planet…
Remaking “True Grit” wasn’t just a sin, or an abomination, it was a Goddamned heresy. Especially with Matt fucking Damon involved.
But you’re right about the lack of originality. Hell, even the “21 Jump Street” movie, which was funny as all hell, came right out and explicitly admitted it.
They have no imagination because they grew up watching television instead of reading books.
Ah, yes… Bob Costas. Mr. Political Correctness of the Sports World.
I can’t stand that guy … his views, grand standing, hair color and all!
Now that’s some good ranting.
The insurance company preaching about not letting your child drown in the bathtub was more than a bit odd I thought as well…what were they saying really?
That they care about your kids or that they hate paying out for the large number of policy holders whose kids die in accidents?
I don’t know that I would be pissed at NBC though, they’re just taking the money that some PC fucktard throws their way for the commercial air time…they aren’t actually producing those ads..I was wondering what the commercial about the race car dad was trying to portray as well..was he a good dad with a tough job or a selfish jerkoff pursuing a dangerous career while avoiding his fatherly duties?
I thought a creepy Jeff Bridges at the foot of your bed making sounds while rubbing his tin pot for effect was a bit odd as well…not sure that weird shit would help me sleep even if it is for a good cause.
All I can say is:
“If the Victoria’s Secret commerical had anything to do with it … I am voting democrat next time!”
That is all!
The Jeep commercial that used the song “This Land is Your Land”, began with showing beautiful scenes in America but then jumped to scenes all over the world, including the Great Wall of China. Were they equating all these other places as being as great and free as America?
No they were just pointing out that Americans think they own everything including using the rest of the world as a playscape for jeep offroading…or were they???
That’s right world, your land is our land.
Warm regards,
America and Jeep
Jeeps are made in China.
NOT MINE!! I have a 1947 Willys CJ2A I’m currently restoring, 100% MADE IN THE USA!!
Half of America watches the Super Bowl for the commercials. If that is truly the case, they should be pissed.
Some people watch for the football? Really?
Im done. :::shrug:::
Just another thing I used to love that is gone.
So after all the lefties went to bed last night, feeling all smug, the got to wake up this morning and see that today in Texas it is Chris Kyle Day.
Bet that ruined the mood (ha ha).
Family values as a liberal agenda? Interesting take.
I agree OSC(SW), My take away from the “Dad” Commercials was that Dads are awesome! They showed kids calling out to their hero, protector, and guy they love and look up to. For once dads were not portrayed as clueless and bumbling. And the “Cats in the Cradle” commercial recognized that yes, sometimes dads have to work and be away and that sometimes is what being a man is about. Making sacrifices but getting home and being a father when the job is done.
I just think its a bit of stretch to call those commercials “Liberal” Or “Leftist”.
Now the dead kid commercial? That was creepy as hell.
Hey, have a little empathy, with ya? They’ve got a hard row to hoe. They have to encourage just enough people to be responsible to get the bills paid on all their favorite progressive programs, while keeping the numbers low enough so those same responsible people don’t get the bit in their teeth and get to vote all those programs out of existence. It’s a rough lot, let me tell you what.
I can’t even believe I just said that.
/sarc
Actually, its the known rebellious thing they are going for.
If they tell you “don’t smoke marijuanna” You’re going to smoke Mary Jane.
this is the same thing, “be a good day” Oh yeah? Fuck you! I’m going to be a deadbeat, so there! Now reload my EBT yo! I got crack to buy and sell.
I was laughing at the segment involving Bob Costas punching Jimmy Fallon, but not for the reasons they intended. I was chuckling at the thought of challenging pussy-with-delusions-of-clout Costas to try that shit with somebody who’s not a woman!
For the record, most of the women I know would hand Costas his ass in a physical confrontation.
Costas is an unusually short and frail looking wee little man with soft hands and mush for brains.
Katie Couric and Bryant Gumble running around and blathering on and on, in an electric BMW
2 drink worthy, at least…….
Off topic:
Waiting area 2nd floor of VAMC in NYC is a strange place. It is adjacent to EX-POW, Mental Health, PTSD, SEX Assault, Gulf War and Comp & Pen units.
This place is packed, standing room only!
Over half of these people are trading notes on what to do, say, ask for, behave and finally insist on in order to get da benafits!
Sorry, had to share!
SUCK IT UP SOME OF YOU BIG CRY BABYS, Everyone knows who’s the best coach is when it comes down to winning the Super Bowl. Like they say, “May the best team win” it sure it hell is not Pete Carrol.
I thought it was, “I’ll win if I don’t get caught this time!”
The only Super Bowl commercial I ever watch is Budweiser. They ALWAYS get it right. You can’t go wrong with horses and dogs.
The only moment of the game I watched was when everyone else yelled at the end with that incredible catch, then yelled again at the stupid play calling that lost the game. The rest of the time, I was busy playing with my new grandson, way more interesting than a bunch of overpaid gazillionaires playing a game.
I have been surprised that no one has commented that AFTER the interception, the Seahawks still had a thousand-to-one chance to sack Brady and recover a fumble… then tanked it with an offside. Maybe now a 100,000-to-one shot… then they decide to throw punches and give the Pats MORE yards of a cushion and turn the last plays into impossibilities. That game was lost on a succession of bad plays, not just one.
Well, the Doritos commercial was pretty funny. Especially since the guy only spent 2000 bucks making it but won a million bucks for having it shown during the superbowl.
Best super bowl comm ever was:
Budweiser 2002
Best super bowl halftime performance ever:
U2 2002
Compared to crap of last night … Two different worlds in a separate time zones!
Yeah, talk about digging up the dead. Seeing those two gave me the willies. Bryant was hideous and the sexual innuendo made me gag.
That was supposed to be a reply to John D.
Have to disagree about the halftime show, there is no world on which I will ever show an ounce of support for Hewson and his socialist crew, and I think Perry knocked a home run.
Different strokes for different folks.
AAR: Didn’t watch, wasn’t inclined to do so, no report. bwahahaha!
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