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Erectile dysfunction ads too hot for TV?
cnn ^ | May 7, 2009 | Carol Costello

Posted on 05/07/2009 9:19:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono

You’ve all seen them. Those ubiquitous TV ads where a simple little pill transforms a man suffering from erectile dysfunction, or ED, into a virile tiger who puts a smile on the face of his now beaming wife. Well, Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) has seen them too, and you’d be hard pressed to see a smile on his face when he talks about the ads. “A number of people,” he says, “have come up, including colleagues, and said I’m fed up. I don’t want my three or four-year old grandkid asking me what erectile dysfunction is all about. And I don’t blame them.” Enter H.R. 2175. That’s a bill that Rep. Moran introduced last month that would prohibit any ED ads from airing on broadcast radio and TV between 6AM and 10PM. The bill advises the Federal Communications Commission to treat these ads as “indecent” and instruct stations to restrict their broadcast to late night and overnight hours.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 111th; ad; fcc; jimmoran; trashtv; tv; viagra
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1 posted on 05/07/2009 9:19:59 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono
"Those ubiquitous TV ads.."

THAT's the problem. Every other ad is for ED for crying out loud.

2 posted on 05/07/2009 9:21:40 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: JoeProBono

This bill will draw some stiff competition from the drug lobby. I wonder if it will last long? It’s hard to say.


3 posted on 05/07/2009 9:21:43 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Do your duty in all things." Robert E. Lee)
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To: JoeProBono

They can include the ones for Birth Control and incontinence as well.


4 posted on 05/07/2009 9:23:06 AM PDT by happilymarriedmom
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To: happilymarriedmom

Tampons, reference to “heavy days”... I just do not want to hear about that stuff on TV.


5 posted on 05/07/2009 9:23:56 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF

Bring back Joe the Camel and the Marlboro Man.


6 posted on 05/07/2009 9:26:05 AM PDT by sniper63 (Silent and stealthy - one shot - one kill)
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To: JoeProBono

Summer Breeze, remove them too.


7 posted on 05/07/2009 9:26:43 AM PDT by LowOiL (Tagline: Optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: JoeProBono
So letting children see loving hetero couples on TV extending their love life is repulsive but it's okay for children to learn about homosexuality at school.

With all the crap on TV these days, I'd say ED commercials should be the least of any parent's worry...

8 posted on 05/07/2009 9:26:52 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: sniper63

Fred Flintstone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvOgnabABU


9 posted on 05/07/2009 9:27:18 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09".... um, what happened?)
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To: americanophile
THAT's the problem. Every other ad is for ED for crying out loud.

That would be Alltel's Chad. And it's the same commercial for two months straight without change.

Reminds me of the psychological brainwashing toture of a movie where the Russians wanted the formula for Coca-Cola and played "Itsy-Bitsy-Teenie-Weenie-Yello-Polka-Dot-Bikini endlessly. And at high speed.

10 posted on 05/07/2009 9:29:13 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: RexBeach

A 4 hour debate may follow...


11 posted on 05/07/2009 9:29:33 AM PDT by ropin71 (God Bless our Troops!)
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To: JoeProBono
I'm tired of hearing anything related to human biology on TV any more. Humans are nauseating bags of blood and organs. They are disgusting! No more humans on TV!
12 posted on 05/07/2009 9:29:36 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: JoeProBono

Does anyone know what the two bath tubs represent?


13 posted on 05/07/2009 9:31:38 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: JoeProBono
too hot for TV?

Nope. Too icky.

"Icky" is the only word for those things. Even when they try to be funny.

14 posted on 05/07/2009 9:32:05 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: Deb

The retired can’t afford a regular swimming pool with Obamanomics?


15 posted on 05/07/2009 9:34:23 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: RexBeach

How about that Alka-Seltzer commercial where a foil packet falls out of the guy’s wallet at dinner, onto the table, and his date demands to know,
“What kind of girl do you think I am?!”
and then she sees that it’s just antacids and they both laugh.
I kept expecting him to reply, “The kind of girl who has pulled a few `boners’ herself?”
Raised eyebrows all around.
(`Gee, I dunno `bout that last line Bob—kinda rough—but let’s run it up the ol’ flagpole and see if it gets a salute from the standards dept.’ Both ad execs laugh.)


16 posted on 05/07/2009 9:35:33 AM PDT by tumblindice (Americas Founding Fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: NEMDF
I just do not want to hear about that stuff on TV.

Reminds me of the old Bloom County toon when the guys were headed into a woman's bathroom. One of them asks something along the lines of "What is feminine protection, anyway? A chartreuse flamethrower?"

17 posted on 05/07/2009 9:37:16 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Obama - what you get when you mix Affirmative Action with the Peter Principle.)
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To: JoeProBono
On my 60th birthday, I got a gift certificate from my wife. The certificate paid for a visit to a medicine man living on a nearby reservation who was rumored to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction. After being persuaded, I drove to the reservation, handed my ticket to the medicine man and wondered what would happen next.

The old man slowly, methodically produced a potion, handed it to me, and with a grip on my shoulder, warned, "This is powerful medicine and it must be respected. You take only a teaspoonful and then say '1-2-3.' When you do that, you will become more manly than you have ever been in your life and you can go as long as you want."

I was encouraged. As I walked away, I turned and asked, "How do I stop the medicine from working?" "Your partner must say '1-2-3-4,' he responded. "But when she does, the medicine will not work again until the next full moon."

I was eager to see if it worked so I went home, showered, shaved, took a spoonful of the medicine, and then invited my wife to join me in the bedroom. When she came in, I took off my clothes and said, " 1-2-3!"

Immediately, I was the manliest of men. My wife was excited and began throwing off her clothes. And then she asked, "What did you say 1-2-3 for?"

And that, boys and girls, is why we should never end our sentences with a preposition.

One could end up with a dangling participle.

18 posted on 05/07/2009 9:39:00 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (I'm all for cap & trade. I want to cap government's power and trade it for a conservative one.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m put off by the ads, but I don’t know if this is route to go. Kids tend to be pulled into things that interest them, and I just don’t see anything in these ads that would capture their attention. Except, maybe, that Viva Viagara song. Even if they do ask about it — well, if parents can’t come up with an answer to that (and it doesn’t even have to go into all the details— an answer like “it’s a problem some grownups have” will suffice) — then how are they going to answer the inevitable, bigger, and more important questions the kids will ask? Oh, wait. I know. Have the government provide a manual of answers, or just make the situations go away that might result in uncomfortable questions.


19 posted on 05/07/2009 9:39:14 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." --Orwell)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I miss Bloom County/Outland.


20 posted on 05/07/2009 9:40:26 AM PDT by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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