The only ad I have ever truly become ANGRY at was a series of V8 Juice wherein a women with a condescending and derisive look on her face repeatedly slaps her worthless man on the head because he ‘coulda had a V8’.
NO WAY this was worthwhile or acceptable in context.
“Mr. Swearingen seems to have a way with words.”
any relation to a Mr. Al Swearingen of Deadwood?
He REALLY had a way with words.
Without having watched said offensive material, I’ll still bet money that the victims are white males.
And so there’s nothing to see here folks. Move along.
Remember, Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
90% of TV is inapprpriate
Also, I don’t think the idea that criminals are systematically raped in prison is funny or in any way justice. It is a stain on our country that it goes on.
I hate the commercials more becasue they normalize the police state.
We’ve crossed a line when busybodies are busy trying to tell us what we should be offended about.
How about the commercial from Nissan where a polar bear hugs a hybrid Nissan owner while crying! They’re not only offensive politically but are brainwashing too!
They let Obama give speeches, don’t they? Now that is torture. Fortunately I have a device that thwarts them. My remote.
I think a good indicator at the level of anger and willingness-to-provocation-or-torture is simply the dialog (or accusation and hate) on Youtube. I cannot believe that people are so hateful simply in disagreement—especially about music, but also about other simple things. Especially among the teenagers and young people.
I think we need a Commercial Humor Acceptability Standards, Tastes, and Ethics Czar. Or better yet, we could have congress create a commission to develop the standards and impose fines on any advertisers that cross the lines of good taste.
Let’s not give obammy any more ideas. I’m sure he could hire a czar to watch over television commercial violence.
In the 1970's Monty Python had the routine about the Spanish Inquisition, was that funny?
In the movie Brazil (more Python), they had a scene where elderly women were transcribing the screams of torture victims into written reports, calmly wearing dictaphone headpones with screaming sounds emanating from them.
Why ask this question now?
-PJ
I’m not even going to say how much I disagree with this opinion, but good luck getting DirecTV to pull the commercial. They have no control over what is shown on each channel. They just broadcast what they’re given.
I thought this ad was tacky. I also thought police officers would want it off the air as well.
I thought it was a dumb commercial, but the cop with the taser sure looked the part....