Hypocrites drive me right up the wall.
Jan. 28th, 2010 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angledgeI just got an email from EMILY's List informing me that CBS is planning to allow Focus on the Family to run an ad condemning abortion during the Super Bowl. The ad features Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow and his mother.
This wouldn't bother me (much), except for the fact that CBS is reversing its own policy to run this ad -- a policy that network executives claimed prohibited them from airing ads from the progressive group MoveOn.org and even the United Church of Christ because they were just "too controversial." (The UCC ad they rejected mentioned UCC's policy of welcoming gay congregants and others shunned by other churches -- how "controversial"!)
If you aren't going to run ads from one side of the political aisle, CBS, don't change your policy to allow the other side to speak. That is blatantly unfair. Everyone has access, or no one has access.
By the way.... I would prefer that CBS let EVERYONE have access. Free speech & all that.
This wouldn't bother me (much), except for the fact that CBS is reversing its own policy to run this ad -- a policy that network executives claimed prohibited them from airing ads from the progressive group MoveOn.org and even the United Church of Christ because they were just "too controversial." (The UCC ad they rejected mentioned UCC's policy of welcoming gay congregants and others shunned by other churches -- how "controversial"!)
If you aren't going to run ads from one side of the political aisle, CBS, don't change your policy to allow the other side to speak. That is blatantly unfair. Everyone has access, or no one has access.
By the way.... I would prefer that CBS let EVERYONE have access. Free speech & all that.
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Date: 2010-01-28 05:00 pm (UTC)The whole subject angers me. Mostly the pro-life subject.
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Date: 2010-01-28 07:17 pm (UTC)Also, I was pissed off a few years ago over the whole UCC fracas, so to see this reversal just infuriated me all over again.
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Date: 2010-01-28 09:43 pm (UTC)no.
Not this year.
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Date: 2010-01-28 11:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-28 05:43 pm (UTC)I lit up some folks on Twitter yesterday over this same subject:
"Petition to CBS: no Super Bowl ad for egregious fuckbaskets and unremitting douchenozzles "Focus on the Family" - http://bit.ly/9BERW2"
Which earned me an essentially-anonymous rebuke: Classy. Would you B happier if you weren't here? We'll never know.Are you more imp. than those to come? (from someone named @solos42)
"You put your morality ahead of the health & freedom of others, and you have the temerity to call me out? You hypocrites disgust me. // And, as a matter of fact, yes, yes I am. Because I am here, and they are not. I'm sure you'd be happier if I wasn't here, too."
It's possible for me to be quite a dick in 140 characters or less.
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Date: 2010-01-28 11:23 pm (UTC)