Comments on: Live-Blogging the Tim Tebow Commercial

By: Polly

Polly — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:11:16 +0000

Ho-hum.

The commercial featuring Betty White and “Fish” was pretty good.

By: J. Allen

J. Allen — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:43:31 +0000

I was still laughing at Betty White and missed everything except for ‘I love you Mom’

By: KJ

KJ — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:51:36 +0000

This was a big win for FotF. The commercial was lame… super-lame. Doesn’t matter. Before it aired, the entire country was talking about it. CNN/Fox/MSNBC, late-night talk show hosts, and the internets were all talking about it…. now it has aired, and we’re still talking about it. Win.

By: heironymous

heironymous — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:14:22 +0000

Here’s the thing. Every commercial where a woman talks about how happy she is that she chose to have her baby is a victory for pro-choice.

By: Ashley Moltzan

Ashley Moltzan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:00:01 +0000

It was like people being mad about Golden Compass or DaVinci Code without seeing it yet. Like I said earlier, if I didn’t know I would have thought it was about being healthy/family time.

By: Ashley Moltzan

Ashley Moltzan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:54:39 +0000

the ad was not controversial at all with all the hype we were making it … the “a” word wasn’t even used. and it seemed to be a commercial about family time. I was expecting some promo video explaining how she didn’t have an abortion. Honestly if I didn’t know prior, I would have thought the ad was for family time like the Mormons have commercials for.

By: Revyloution

Revyloution — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:13:39 +0000

Wait, the Superbowl was today?

Damn. Missed another one.

I would be looking forward to Lagunatics review of the conception couch, but Ive had my vasectomy. No more conceptions here.

By: godlizard

godlizard — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:42:07 +0000

The commercial was stupid, and I feel sorry for the approximately 75 recently laid-off FOF staffers who could still have jobs at an average of $35k/year with what was spent on that ad. I wonder if they’ve all remained faithful to the cause — i think it was over 200 that have been laid off between the Prop 8 campaign and this, positions that were sacrificed to pay for huge ad campaigns against gay rights and women’s choice.

But, that doesn’t bother me too much, you lay down with dogs, you get fleas — but it offends me deeply that they rejected one of the public service spots urging people not to use “Gay” to describe things that are lame. They also refused a gay matchmaking ad, but claimed they couldn’t verify funding on that. But, that wasn’t the problem with the Hayley Duff ad, they just declined to run an ad suggesting that gays should be treated with respect.

I don’t really care what manner of stupidity the fundies and anti-choicers spend their budgets on instead of helping actual families, I just think that views from the pro-human-rights side of things ought to have the same ability to reach that audience.

By: PolyLan

PolyLan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:41:05 +0000

I’ll still consider it wasted. Sure great publicity for them, but that same money would have been much better sent helping those families they claim to be focused on.

By: Ron Gold

Ron Gold — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:35:39 +0000

Right on; much ado about very little.