A Catholic group called Fidelis attempted to purchase ad time during the Super Bowl for a pro-life TV commercial. NBC turned the group down, claiming the ad was too political.
It turns out the ad has been making the rounds in the blogosphere; and many of us have already seen it.
Now think about some of the trashy commercials you typically have seen run during the Super Bowl in the past. When you consider those, it is understandable how some might feel that NBC is engaging in censorship when it rejects this particular ad. If you view the YouTube below, I recommend switching to "full screen mode":
It is a wonderful commercial that underlines the intangible. The human spirit! I think it is a great Super Bowl commercial. I don't think it was too political. However, it could have been turned down becuase it was a little too honest. Go Humans!
Posted by: Ben Holder | January 30, 2009 at 11:10 PM
No, Ben, it was turned-down because it's NBC. That commercial is too honest and classy for NBC.
Posted by: Stormy | January 30, 2009 at 11:46 PM
You are both right. The commercial was too honest, and NBC is a culprit here.
NBC has been a huge Obama booster, and its people likely detest the fact that his story is being used to further the pro-life cause. But the message is inescapable. The circumstances of his conception and early life were typical of the types of situations in which abortions typically take place. His mother easily could have had him aborted under the current regime. There would have been no First African-American President this year.
Also, there is another good question. Is GE-- NBC's parent company-- tied up somehow in Obama's current approach to the so-called financial crisis? I believe I have seen someone previously make that case.
Posted by: Joe Guarino | January 31, 2009 at 07:16 AM
Isn't it interesting to see how after less than two weeks in office, the tag of "pragmatic" no longer is being applied to Obama? Can there be any doubt that he is pulling this country as far, as quick, and as hard to the left as he can? We all knew that his track record was far left ideology, but some people wanted to believe that he represented change they could believe in. Duh! I haven't seen our friend proclaiming Obama as a pragmatic since he took office. Pragmatic, my ...
Posted by: Stormy | January 31, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Stormy, many of the predictions we had made here about Obama are coming to fruition. Jerome Corsi was right for the most part.
Today there was a story about Obama seeking a 10% cut in military spending. Already. I don't remember hearing him saying much during the fall campaign about that.
Stormy, even considering all that, however, I still don't think his mother should have been allowed legally to abort him.:)
Posted by: Joe Guarino | January 31, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Joe, we agree. But, if he had come along about 30-40 years later, he would have been aborted, no doubt about it, given the circumstances and people involved. It's just ironic that he made this statement about his daughters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
"I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
Wasn Obama just a mistake by his 17-year old mother?
Black genocide in the U.S.
"That made it the perfect place for Adetunji, 38, who grew up in the Montgomery projects herself, to share her message on African-Americans and the true nature of abortion."
"Earlier this year, an ASU professor invited Adetunji to address her students on the topic. “The professor knew some of her students had faced, or were facing, crisis pregnancies,” said Adetunji, a pastor’s wife who has lately assumed the mantle of pro-life activist. “She wanted a way to get them some help in making better decisions, better choices.”
"As a public employee, the professor “couldn’t tell the students everything,” Adetunji said. “But I could.”
"Adetunji told the students, all of whom were African-American, that she still grieves over her own choice to have two abortions, one at age 17 and the other at age 25."
"She told them that abortion is killing off their culture: 13 million black babies have died in the womb since 1973—more than 2.5 times the total number of deaths among African-Americans during the same period from AIDS, cancer, accidents, heart disease, and violent crime combined."
"She told them that one-third of all abortions are performed on black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control, even though blacks make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population."
How did a country as great as this one ever seduce itself into believing that aborting its young is right, legal of not?
Posted by: Stormy | January 31, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Joe,
The brilliance of this ad is such that liberal tools like NBC can not allow it to be aired. They have no answer to this ad, other than spin and dishonest defenses. They can only ignore it. If the pro-abortion forces could ever be honest about it, they would have to admit that abortion is morally wrong, that is, if they really have any morals about human life at all.
Posted by: Stormy | January 31, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Great question, Stormy. It was particularly malevolent, extreme forms of sexual libertinism and individualism that made it happen.
And Obama could have been a mere statistic-- a part of that black genocide to which you refer.
Posted by: Joe Guarino | January 31, 2009 at 12:48 PM
And, speaking of Barack Obama as we were, he now does not want businesses making a profit, not now.
“There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses. Now is not that time.”
So, Joe, when will business owners like yourself be allowed to make a profit? We are surely rushing toward socialism in this country and Barack Obama is leading the charge. But, it is change we can believe in? Why couldn't that 5-10% of people in the middle, which included Republicans, that made the difference for Obama's election have clearly seen what and who he was? In less than two weeks, he had squashed any thought that he is anything but the most socialistic person to ever be elected president of this country.
Barack Obama looks more and more like Hugo Chavez to me every day.
Posted by: Stormy | January 31, 2009 at 12:53 PM
Obama: Pragmatic.
Posted by: Roch101 | January 31, 2009 at 01:17 PM
Obama: Pragmatic? Like the rest of Obama's superficial persona, his pragmatism is purely a false appearance to mislead followers. At his core, he is deeply ideological. He often acts as a pragmatic to gain political advantage, but underneath, make no mistake, he has an strong ideological agenda. He has a very strong idea of the direction he wants to take this country. But, then, so does Hugo Chavez.
Posted by: Stormy | January 31, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Gosh, for a moment there, I thought Roch was doing some truth telling.
I thought he wrote "Obama: Porkmatic", an obvious reference to "The Stimulus."
Silly me for such an assumption!
Posted by: Bubba | January 31, 2009 at 07:58 PM