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Yet another controversial billboard draws ire!
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| 5-11-10
| James
Posted on 05/13/2010 6:59:28 PM PDT by iloveamerica1980
Video from WFXT FOX 25 Boston, MA: A billboard aiming to sell pomegranate juice is drawing the ire of suicide prevention groups. "What's on the billboard is upsetting some people who see and what's nesting behind it is making it difficult to take it down!" Everyone is offended in this local story as political correctness short circuits itself!
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; exclamation; local
To: iloveamerica1980
No matter what the angle (PC or not), the ad is in poor taste.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:04:46 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
(A pro-life democrat is one who holds out for something in return for his pro-abortion vote.)
To: Yossarian
To: iloveamerica1980
That guy reminds me a little of my brother. My brother is so liberal, he wears a bicycle helmet during sex.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:10:06 PM PDT
by
Hillbillary
(I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: iloveamerica1980
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:11:50 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
To: mlizzy
an extra taking ... [take that first one out!!] :):)
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:12:26 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
To: iloveamerica1980
I’m surprised it was suicide prevention groups who complained. Usually blacks complain about the sight of a noose.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:13:22 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: mlizzy
The ads may be offensive to some, but I now know what Pom is. It accomplished that much anyway.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:16:42 PM PDT
by
pnut22
To: Yossarian
I guess Western movies showing hangings need to be banned now.. .
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:17:51 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
(Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
To: iloveamerica1980
Well the ad certainly did it’s job.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:19:45 PM PDT
by
FrdmLvr
( 0bama: Our first AINO president)
To: DBrow
I’m surprised it was suicide prevention groups who complained. Same here. That is an execution type noose for neck cracking. Suicides don't usually involve that violent type of hanging.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:20:17 PM PDT
by
Hillbillary
(I know how to deal with Communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: iloveamerica1980
Would they take down a scantily clad, sexually suggestive billboard if a Christian group complained? No.
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:20:43 PM PDT
by
divine_moment_of_facts
(Give me Liberty.. or I'll get up and get it for myself!)
To: pnut22
The ads may be offensive to some, but I now know what Pom is. It accomplished that much anyway.
Indeed! Pomegranate juice REALLY rocks!! We use the undiluted organic version with no added anything, then put a capful or so in bottled water. (I'm not sure what's in POM other than the juice ...)
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posted on
05/13/2010 7:24:16 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
To: divine_moment_of_facts
To: DBrow
I’m surprised it was suicide prevention groups who complained. Usually blacks complain about the sight of a noose.Same thoughts here. As for the ad itself, eh, I thought it got it's point across more so than most now days. I wasn't offended by it but as others have said I find sexploitation of products offensive. Boobs and butt have nothing to do with 99% of products that resort to that sort of advertising but this got right to the point.
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posted on
05/13/2010 8:24:43 PM PDT
by
bgill
(how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
To: bgill
I like the boobs and butt ads myself, even if I don't care about what they're selling...
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posted on
05/13/2010 10:55:44 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Planned Parenthood - Keeping healthcare costs down, one fetus at a time)
To: DBrow
Maybe it was a black-suicide-prevention group.
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posted on
05/13/2010 11:10:32 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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They are taking in the process of taking *all* of the ads down.