Doubling down: Second Tim Tebow pro-life ad now set to run during Super Bowl
posted at 7:29 pm on February 5, 2010 by Allahpundit
Alternate headline: “White House Super Bowl party now to feature two awkward moments.”
The evangelical group that bought ad time in the CBS game telecast will announce today that it has bought time in the pregame show to air a second ad four times…
The new ad also features star quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. It was filmed in Orlando last month at the same time as the group’s controversial — though yet unseen — in-game ad…
The ad is “an open discussion on the sanctity of human life — not just the issue of abortion,” Daly says. It was made for less than $100,000 with “a bit of humor in it — in fitting with the Super Bowl theme.”…
He coaxed CBS to ease the game’s unwritten ban on advocacy ads. CBS says it’s adjusting to a changing society. “We have for some time moderated our approach to advocacy submissions after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms,” spokeswoman Shannon Jacobs says.
When I first glanced at the headline, I thought it might be a rebuttal to that dopey Planned Parenthood spot but the fact that it was filmed last month eliminates that. Two questions, then. One: Isn’t running the first spot four times during the 17-hour pre-game show or whatever going to dilute the impact of the second, presumably more important spot during the game? By the time the latter finally rolls, it’ll look so familiar that people might simply turn the channel. Two: Given all the hype and the premium on creativity for SB spots, shouldn’t we expect some company to try to leverage the buzz by running a parody ad? I’m imagining a quarterback scrambling out of the pocket while large, angry feminists try to chase him down for the sack. Don’t let me down, GoDaddy!
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How dare they?
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CWforFreedom on February 5, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Heheheheh
BobH on February 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM
I have to invoke one of Rush’s “35 Undeniable Truths” to argue against such a spot. “Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society”. Unless the pack of rabid feminazis look like Helen Thomas or Susan Estridge no one will be able to suspend their disbelief long enough for the joke to be funny.
And GoDaddy doesn’t run ads with unattractive women in them.
wildcat84 on February 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM
Oh, they never do.
If you know what I mean…
nickj116 on February 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM
BTW, GoDaddy is a miserable hosting company.
RushBaby on February 5, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Feminists would never go for a quarterbacks sack.
The GoDaddy lady,….oh yeah.
portlandon on February 5, 2010 at 7:35 PM
Allah, now that there’s funny…
Texas Gal on February 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM
OT,
Hey Allah, did you get all your Superbowl treats ready? If that storm is as bad as they say, you’re going to be stuck with the cats for a few days.
Oh yeah, Cat litter too.
portlandon on February 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM
Fear Not, God is in charge. Tim is a willing servant. These messages will reach those it’s intended to reach.
Go Gators!
Kissmygrits on February 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM
It’s not too late for youtube!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM
get out of my head.
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM
scoopable is teh awesome!
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:38 PM
NOW has finally changed its name to Pro Choice as Long as You Choose Abortion League and has issued a fahtwa for Tim Tebow and his mother. Destroy the infidels.
sdd on February 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Also, there can’t be more than a dozen women watching the lengthy pre-game jock talk. Actually I’m surprised anyone watches anything before the kickoff.
dedalus on February 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM
So; Are to surmise that Tebow is a virgin? Boo hoo!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 7:40 PM
Kevin Jackson has an interesting response to the “dopey” Planned Parenthood ad. http://www.youtube.com/user/theblacksphere01#p/a/u/0/MQKFAf9-yuo
I like using humor to make these idiots look like the true idiots they are when it comes to “choice”. I doubt people will tune out when the real ad rolls. This is a game of a lifetime, and channel surfing may not be as popular as usual. That is until the game may or may not get out of hand. Here is hoping the real ad airs during the first half!
Go Saints!
freeus on February 5, 2010 at 7:42 PM
man vs food?
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Bigtime. Scoopable is the best.
I broke down and got one of those electric auto scoop litter boxes. Best thing I ever did. Cats love watching it do it’s thing.
portlandon on February 5, 2010 at 7:42 PM
Alternate headline: “White House Super Bowl party now to feature two awkward moments.”
LOL I like that one better.
Amadeus on February 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM
What a waste of money. Who watches the pregame besides the sad and lonely who have nothing better to do? As for me I’ll be playing golf during the pregame.
multiuseless on February 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM
I’m not sure why it’s going to be awkward? Isn’t this a celebration of life?
I’ve not seen the ad, but it’s not taking a verbalized shot at rvw is it?
Spirit of 1776 on February 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Only if GoDaddy has signed Rosie O.
conservnut on February 5, 2010 at 7:43 PM
Aw you know that you don’t have to directly attack liberal doctrine to make them freak out.
conservnut on February 5, 2010 at 7:45 PM
I want this.
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Bah who watches the Superbowl pregame show/day for the commercials?
LOL greatest Superbowl ad ever.
F15Mech on February 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
So long as they stop saying “Choose Life”. Why supposed Pro-Life folks keep acknowledging the opposition’s assertion that life is a choice is beyond me.
Send_Me on February 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
And I can’t wait to see those back to back ads like Geico, ATT, etc. I never pay any attention to the first one, and I’m walking the dog by the second.
I been trained.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
Maybe they could show a field of teeny-tiny little corpses wearing Obama T-shirts.
That would cause an awkward moment.
Lily on February 5, 2010 at 7:47 PM
Thats a nice one. I am going to have to upgrade in a couple of years. I like that one. Thanks!
portlandon on February 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM
Along with ads celebrating beer consumption, jiggly cheerleaders, and Viyagra stimulation a 30-second spot discussing the impact of pregnancy seems like a good idea. A Trojan commercial might not be a bad idea either.
dedalus on February 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Fluffy- “Dude…that noisy thing is EATING MY POO…ummm WTF?”
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
I’ve heard good things about the CatGenie. I love our automatic box myself.
About the ad – I don’t watch the pre-show stuff. And at this point, with the heavy snow falling outside our windows, I’m just hoping we have power on Sunday!
Anna on February 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Heh. I thought AP was saying that he thought it was personally awkward, which I wasn’t understanding.
But your point is true. But is that awkward or entertaining? When I see people wig out over things that no one else notices, it’s like watching people swatting at a spider they think they saw on their arm. I laugh. But I’m a bad person, so…
Spirit of 1776 on February 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Me too! However, I have the robo va. Ratso rides it like the rodeo.
Allah, check the Fancy Feast stuff. Looks like pate to me.
katy the mean old lady on February 5, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Damn I never really put much thought into the phrase/slogan.
You are right life is not a choice it is a right.
F15Mech on February 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Indeed.
jgapinoy on February 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
I’m a hard core Big 12 supporter but right now I’m a Tebow fan and will be cheering him on.
rplat on February 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Why would the ads create awkward moments? The President and his wife have assured the American people numerous times that they are pro-life. What could be the problem here?
You.
Don’t believe them.
Do You AP?
I believe I have question 11 on the new dhimmicrap purity challenge for Republican candidates.
11. Do you believe ObowMao is Pro-life?
Blacksmith8 on February 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Bwaaa haa haa. The Litter Critters totally hijacked this thread.
portlandon on February 5, 2010 at 7:53 PM
I found this funny the other day…
I was flipping channels, and on CBS, (I know, I said I was flipping channels) they had a show about the funniest Super Bowl commercials, which was interupted by commercials, while promoting the upcoming Super Bowl commercials…
Now we are informed of even more commercials.
Reminds me of that Hockey joke…
Seven Percent Solution on February 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM
Women who don’t care for football won’t be watching the pregame hype and tend to like the SB commercials.
John the Libertarian on February 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Nah. The controversy surrounding it has pretty much guaranteed interest.
Weight of Glory on February 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Ha, me too.
conservnut on February 5, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Geaux Saints!
(Proud Who Dat Nation member)
Lady Heather on February 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
Why? I like them.
rrpjr on February 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
This is the best for cats!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
can’t see it.
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:59 PM
Gah! Cat people! You guys need help.
Weight of Glory on February 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
I HOPE ITS 4 ADS BY GAME TIME!
OSUBuciz1 on February 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM
I LOVE THAT! Does that make me evil?
conservnut on February 5, 2010 at 8:01 PM
And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!
/NOW
fossten on February 5, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Cat people, Dog people and Pro-lifers. Yep, when cats, dogs and babies get along.. it’s the end of the world as we know it.
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Nah; Just a retard like me!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
All such ads need to be pulled. After all, women might feel bad for exercising their choices, though ‘choice’ is always a good thing!
Tebow’s ads are a double-whammy: condemning a good thing while also making women feel bad for doing a good thing.
You sexist pigs! And you’re homophobes, too, since gays can’t do abortions so you’re excluding them from a good thing, which surely makes them feel all the worse for not being able to participate in the mainstream of America.
You evil vile Republicans. You make me so mad I want to stomp my foot! So there!
/total sarc here!
Liam on February 5, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Did you know that “cat” spelled backwards is “Satan’s child”? True story.
Weight of Glory on February 5, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Oh, c’mon! A big cat can kill you but a little pu**y never hurt anybody.
Liam on February 5, 2010 at 8:11 PM
Correction. My cat needs help. If she’s curled up near me on the couch, and I let a wicked rumbler go, she dives for my butt for a sniff. Now THAT cat needs help.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 8:11 PM
I’m a UF homer and have listened to reasonable FOF shorts on the radio for years, but five ads is a bit much.
We’ll be getting it back in spades come next year’s Super Bowl or in 201….oh wait, there won’t be NFL Football in 2011.
toliver on February 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM
You know how they have a contest/poll to see which
Super Bowl ad is the most popular?
I’ve been urging everyone I know to vote for the Tebow ad.
Just the thought of all the liberal heads exploding
if/when it comes in Number One cracks me up.
As Glenn Beck would say,
“Blood will shoot out of their eyes”.
What do you all say?
VOTE TEBOW!
mrt721 on February 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM
Would you say the same about those Arbie’s ads I see twice per commercial break, every seven minutes during a half-hour show?
Liam on February 5, 2010 at 8:17 PM
My wife and I have 4 cats and all of them are huge and not overweight, so all of you who aren’t so sure about cats may not want to come to my house. You’d think we have panther and tiger cubs/kittens, no joke.
MobileVideoEngineer on February 5, 2010 at 8:18 PM
speaking of GoDaddy, have you seen their made for internet ads? Holy hotstuff Batman. Danica Patrick..!
ted c on February 5, 2010 at 8:20 PM
I second that notion
blatantblue on February 5, 2010 at 8:23 PM
After a weekend of off road muddin’, cats clean the treads of your super swampers pretty good!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 8:24 PM
A Super Bowl is different. I’d rather not be deluged with abortion stuff. It’s a buzz-kill.
Why do you think Limbaugh doesn’t make a habit of taking abortion calls? I’ll expand that to the majority of conservative talk radio.
toliver on February 5, 2010 at 8:29 PM
I watched in horror as my last kitty got hit by a car. the scumbag sped up to hit her. When I caught up to him at the gas station, he responded “that’s what you get for havin a c..THUD.” Knocked him the F out. jokes like that aint funny bro.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 8:31 PM
Sarah Palin does it all the time, which drives me nuts. It’s like saying you’re pro-family and a feminist (as she does). The two are counterintuitive.
Send_Me on February 5, 2010 at 8:44 PM
I’ve owned many animals in my life, and know that people that put their animals lives above humans lives are psychopaths.
Thanks for the response.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 8:55 PM
That would be awesome.
El_Terrible on February 5, 2010 at 9:04 PM
So, a scumbag who intentionally murdered my pet, and got knocked out (deservedly) by me, makes me care more for animal live than human life?
Hmmm…Death vs a deserved punch in the face…
reaching?
thanks for the response.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Thanks for the tip. Now I know what to get each of my kids for Christmas. (For their cats to use, not them….)
redslippers on February 5, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Allahu Akbar to you, pal.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 9:16 PM
It’s not helpful for stupid religious zealots to take the spotlight in an election year.
happyfeet on February 5, 2010 at 9:18 PM
ahhh. your true colors are showing, eh?
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Yeah, them atheists have such a strong track record…
Send_Me on February 5, 2010 at 9:23 PM
Okay pal; the next road kill I find I’ll paste a note on it just for you. And then I’ll punch somebody in the face.
Brilliant, yea?
Get back on topic, puke.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM
Hello? Mirror, meet retard.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 9:26 PM
It’s just I don’t get why this loser can’t do the math that if his sappy gay commercial is at all effective then what we’ll have is a nice big crop of damaged messed up suffering babies.
Thanks a lot, Timmah.
happyfeet on February 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM
You are just TOO clever!!! You need your own website!
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Well?
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 9:33 PM
I’ll bet that cat of yours was neutered.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 9:35 PM
Man, we live in a sad time when the abortion Nazis have us calling a positive ad about a mother who chose life “controversial”. Actually, I shouldn’t compare the other side to Nazis… Abortion has killed WAY more. Mao would be a better comparison.
RightWinged on February 5, 2010 at 9:40 PM
No matter
All the atheists are in Haiti doin their altruism deal. No cable down in Haiti
Cable guy hasn’t yet Got R done.
seven on February 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Picture SCJ Clarence Thomas in a little lapse of formality doing a fist bump after watching the commercial. This is what a free speech ruling looks like.
seven on February 5, 2010 at 9:45 PM
I want this.
upinak on February 5, 2010 at 7:46 PM
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my daughter has it and it is great
ms on February 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM
clean off that mirror, and you’ll find a retard staring at you.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 9:51 PM
I can see you have a lot of life ahead of you; Maybe;
If you don’t run over some one’s cat.
Good luck with it.
OUT.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Sure, because the abortion issue is just so funny, no?
hawkdriver on February 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM
Tim Tebow is a walking, talking pay cut for the atheistic, genocidal, feminista, tree-hugging, deodorant-intolerant, phallic-hatin’, multiple-cat-ownin’, Jenny Craig drop-outin’, psychotic, moonbat middle management bitch at Planned Parenthood Abortion Death Squad branches all over America.
Now say that fast 3 times and be liberated.
David2.0 on February 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Man, we live in a sad time when the abortion Nazis have us calling a positive ad about a mother who chose life “controversial”. Actually, I shouldn’t compare the other side to Nazis… Abortion has killed WAY more.
Mao would be a better comparison.
RightWinged on February 5, 2010 at 9:40 PM
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That is CORRECT.
60 MILLION babies have been murdered (ABORTED) in the United States since (1973) Roe v. Wade
60 MILLION babies
Hitler murdered …….. 5 million
Stalin/Lenin murdered….. 50 million
Mao murdered ……………70 million
US murdered (ABORTED) …… 60 MILLION
Mass Murder….. Genocide…… from the Women in the United States.
ms on February 5, 2010 at 10:21 PM
60 MILLION babies
That is more than 1.5 MILLION babies per year murdered (ABORTED).
ms on February 5, 2010 at 10:29 PM
GoDaddy is terrible because they’re more interested in overloading their “service” with crappy upsell after upsell package. It’s impossible to get through anything there without some way overdesigned, inconsistent, non-intuitive rabbit trail of nickel-and-diming.
And sorry, salivate all you want over their trailer-park p0rn0 babe commercials, but the whole place feels like it’s run by a dirty old neighbor or co-worker you knew once, – that oily creep who got his kicks pushing crass jokes and dirty pictures, just to get a reaction. feh.
somewhatconcerned on February 5, 2010 at 10:32 PM
The poor lone Republican in the room is going to be on the receiving end of a lot of piercing glares.
Mallard T. Drake on February 5, 2010 at 10:34 PM
naw, he’s their BRF (Best RINO Forever)
granted, watching the superbowl at Obama’s is like having the varsity team show up at the drama club’s superbowl party.
viviliberoomuori on February 5, 2010 at 10:39 PM
This just means next years SB with be inundated with advocacy ads. Most of I am sure will be endorsing stances that I find unacceptable. OH NO DADDY!!
Zaire67 on February 5, 2010 at 10:45 PM
Dude, who turns the channel because of an ad during the Super Bowl?
Pablo on February 5, 2010 at 10:51 PM
How would a dumb muslim know anything about football? You’re cell phone feed is going to be pretty bad. Don’t you have some jihad to attend to?
You’re just jealous that you weren’t invited to Barracks pad.
They won’t have any goat there anyway.
Cybergeezer on February 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Allah, wtf is wrong with you? Does the sanctity of life make you uncomfortable? Does the courage of a mother determined to bring her child to life make you squirm?
Are you one of those people who think an abortion is like removing a mole?
Abortions leave deep scars. Most women visit and revisit the possibilities lost. 33 years ago, my mother supported the abortion of what would have been her first – and only – grandchild (my brother’s gf, a senior in high school). She wanted that girl – and her own son – to have a chance to fulfill their unfettered dreams.
Now, at 75, she feels the tug of that lost possibility every time one of her friends talks about a grandchild.
The pro-life issue needs to be brought into the “public discussion” as they say nowadays. The Super Bowl is the perfect place to provoke that discussion.
disa on February 5, 2010 at 11:14 PM
So men have no skin in the abortion debate, eh? Maybe it’s about time that men realize that this is their business as well.
disa on February 5, 2010 at 11:17 PM
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