Today’s gun-control heroes: Time Warner Cable to reject ads that feature semiautomatic weapons
posted at 6:11 pm on January 18, 2013 by Allahpundit
They’ll also reject ads that show any firearm, semiautomatic or not, pointed at a human being. So if you’ve got a product that you want to showcase by depicting, say, a revolver held to a dog’s head or a bazooka aimed at the camera, you should be okay.
I thought yesterday’s news about New York’s new gun law would be hard to top as an example of the Do Something impulse gone moronically wrong. Nope. Took only one day.
Just weeks after the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Time Warner Cable has initiated a company-wide ban on certain gun ads.
“We no longer accept ads showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people,” Time Warner Cable said in a statement. “We stand by this policy. If it’s essential to a business owner to show this kind of imagery in their commercials, there are other advertising options in the marketplace.”
I know what you’re thinking but Andy Levy got there first:
@brianstelter I’m assuming TWC is still accepting TV shows and movies showing semi-automatic weapons and guns pointed at people?
— Andy Levy (@andylevy) January 18, 2013
Also a good point:
@andylevy @brianstelter I was trying to think what ads have guns pointed at people, and all could think of were tv show promos.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) January 18, 2013
I think I’ve seen NYPD PSAs in the subway that show guns, but that’s it offhand for ads featuring firearms that aren’t directly related to promoting the very industry on which TWC makes bank. So why’d Time Warner do this? Literally everyone who stumbles across the story will react the way Andy did. Unless they’re also prepared to ban programming that features guns, all they’re doing with this is calling attention to the fact that Hollywood, for all its liberal posturing, is hypocritically filthy with gun glorification. To take it seriously, you have to somehow believe that a print ad or a 30-second spot in which a semiautomatic appears — regardless of context — somehow does more to encourage gun violence than the hundreds of action movies that the average American has seen. In fact, I bet you’d have to look hard to find even an ad for a gun show or a gun brand that’s more pornographic in trumpeting the weapon’s killing power than a typical R-rated movie is. The public isn’t fooled.
By the way, if you’re a Time Warner customer and you subscribe to HBO, “The Sopranos” is on tonight at 8 p.m. ET on HBO Signature. You’re welcome.
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No worries. Our DC GOP geniuses in leadership will find a way to give Barry the lead again.
hawkeye54 on May 9, 2013 at 6:49 PM
Obama fatigue has set in already. For dems that is. I was tired of him just knowing who and what he was back in early 2008. Welcome to the funk libs.
DanMan on May 9, 2013 at 6:49 PM
Yeah, but who else do they have?
hawkeye54 on May 9, 2013 at 6:55 PM
Obama’s response: “Let me be clear — Quack! Quack!”
KS Rex on May 9, 2013 at 6:55 PM
What else can they “win”?
Del Dolemonte on May 9, 2013 at 6:56 PM
You missed spelled it: limp d!ck.
except when Reggie comes calling.
I want to watch the one spin out of control. Literally.
AllahsNippleHair on May 9, 2013 at 6:57 PM
Several months late on that. Where were they last November?
GarandFan on May 9, 2013 at 6:59 PM
I don’t really have Obama fatigue right now. My frustration is with the Senate Gangbangers.
Wigglesworth on May 9, 2013 at 6:59 PM
How’s those student loan fees going? Higher rates and higher cost to go to school now that the Govt’s got the “business”? That worked out as well as RobertObamaCare, didn’t it?
Rovin on May 9, 2013 at 6:59 PM
They both suck.
And remember 42% didn’t even know ObamaCare is the law of the land as of last week.
1-20-17
PappyD61 on May 9, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Lame Duck Liar. The Benghazi Bullsh*tter. The Teleprompter Reader In Chief.
One
Big
Ass
Mistake
America
Basilsbest on May 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM
Does this just reveal how close the GOP and the rat-eared wonder are in policy?
davidk on May 9, 2013 at 7:01 PM
Joe Scarborough … check your registation
J_Crater on May 9, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Quack! Quack! Thump! Quack! Quack! Thump!
davidk on May 9, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Another worthless poll.
Bottom line is make a difference voters are the Food Stampers and other benefit receivers and they all swing Democrat…
albill on May 9, 2013 at 7:06 PM
Not bad for a leaderless party demonized by the media non stop. Now just imagine if the GOP had a spine!
Jack_Burton on May 9, 2013 at 7:08 PM
Circling the wagons for The One. But since he’s a lame duck, it okay to begin to consider disagreeing with Obama as Dems start to position themselves for 2016.
JimLennon on May 9, 2013 at 7:10 PM
Gun Protectors—1
Gun Grabbers —-0
canopfor on May 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Bravo Can!
Rovin on May 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
They do have a spine. Just look how hard they are pushing “immigration” reform against the will of the people.
/
Mimzey on May 9, 2013 at 7:33 PM
I’d like to hear Johnny Carsons response as to just what kind of lame duck he is, as in ” he is so lame even Sheila Jackson Lee won’t greet him when he speaks to congress.”
tim c on May 9, 2013 at 7:50 PM
A two day old tuna sandwich could be tied with or ahead of ObamThe guy has accomplished about as much
scalleywag on May 9, 2013 at 8:03 PM
canopfor on May 9, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Bravo Can!
Rovin on May 9, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Rovin:———-:O
canopfor on May 9, 2013 at 8:11 PM
Tell a lie often enough, loud enough… They are just trying to write the narrative hoping that if enough people believe it, it will become the truth.
deepdiver on May 9, 2013 at 8:22 PM
and now even David Frum is criticizing the schumer/rubio thing?
immigration reform must really suck bad
oh well, Mario…here’s a clue…when Frum is off the reservation, time for you to have an ‘awakening’..and quick
http://minx.cc/?post=339838
r keller on May 9, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Lame fluck is more like it.
A bigger charlatanic thug the land never had.
Schadenfreude on May 9, 2013 at 9:31 PM
Calling him a Lame Duck isn’t right. He’s no Duck.
trigon on May 10, 2013 at 12:54 AM
Why would anyone compare the GOP’s to Obama’s on anything at this point?
Obama’s not going to be an election opponent for anyone in the GOP ever going forward.
It’s as meaningless as it would have been to compare Obama’s number’s to Bush’s numbers in 2008. Bush wasn’t running.
To quote Hillary, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
VekTor on May 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Should have been “GOP’s numbers to Obama’s numbers“
VekTor on May 10, 2013 at 5:35 PM
There is excise tax on all alcoholic beverages, but beer, wine, and distilled liquor are all licensed and tracked separately.
gryphon202 on May 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM