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Fox Rejects Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad, Okays Drag Queens, Social Justice, Gun Control Spots
mrcNewsbusters ^ | January 31, 2020 | Jay Maxson

Posted on 01/31/2020 11:51:47 AM PST by Morgana

To the power brokers who determine which ads are approved for the Super Bowl, drag queens, social justice warriors and gun control advocates are not at all controversial. Organizations seeking permission to run pro-life ads on Super Sunday are unacceptable, however.

During this Sunday's Super Bowl broadcast, Fox will air ads featuring former RuPaul program drag queens, NFL social justice warriors and presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg's gun control spot. The network is thumbing its nose at the Faces of Choice organization and its request to air an ad with a pro-life message.

Faces of Choice officials have been trying unsuccessfully for more than six months to purchase ad time during the Super Bowl, but have received no response from Fox Sports. The ad features more than a dozen abortion survivors and debuted at last week's March for Life in Washington, D.C.

Lyric Gillett, the founder of Faces of Choice and producer of the ad, said, “Every great human rights movement in history has been anchored in the stories and the faces of its victims. That’s what we aim to do; we simply want to tell their forgotten stories and there’s no larger mega-phone than the Super Bowl. ..."

If those abortion survivors had been drag queens, they might have been given a better chance of telling their stories on Super Sunday. Kim Chi and Miz Cracker (seen above in photo), who previously appeared on the TV program "RuPaul’s Drag Race,” will appear in a commercial for hummus brand Sabra during the Super Bowl.

NBC reporter Liam Knox calls the drag queen ad "a barrier-breaking debut during one of the year’s most watched sporting events." Bob Witeck, a marketing strategist who specializes in LGBTQ messaging, calls the drag ad “revolutionary”:

“For queer audiences, it is an art form and an ‘outsiders’ language. Reaching the Super Bowl means taking our language into every home in the nation and millions around the world.”

Witeck said the drag queen ad will reach nearly 100 million viewers during the Super Bowl and is indicative of a sea change in the public perception of drag. It's already been normalized for several years by the RuPaul program. Witeck says:

“The Super Bowl is the ultimate test, when you can take chances like this and realize that the fear of drag is nothing people imagined it to be. It’s us telling our own joke about ourselves, with a sense of humor and authenticity … with luck, everyone laughs with us.”

CNN Business reports the NFL "is wading back into controversial territory with a new Super Bowl ad addressing police shootings of black Americans." Its 30-second ad will feature retired wide receiver Anquan Boldin re-enacting the 2015 police shooting death of his late cousin, Corey Jones. The police officer was sentenced to 25 years of prison.

Boldin formerly played with quarterback Colin Kaepernick on the San Francisco 49ers team when the latter staged his season of protest over racial inequality in 2016. This ad is a promotion for the league's Inspire Change initiative, a program created to address athletes' social justice causes in their home communities, writes CNN's Chauncey Alcorn.

Patrick Yoes, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 800,000 officers across the United States, said the Boldin ad mischaracterizes how police typically interact with their communities.

Finally, former New York City mayor and current presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is also airing a controversial ad during the Super Bowl. It will focus on Calandrian Simpson Kemp, whose son was the victim of gun violence. Bloomberg will boast of his record of fighting gun violence and his campaign pledges to pursue gun control.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Sports
KEYWORDS: abortion; homosexualagenda; nfl; prolife
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To: Varda

Of the “BEST” commercials I’ve watched for 2020 so far, the only one that didn’t stink was the Reese’s one.

In the past they were hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tLXmpyEreY

This was one of my favorites cuz the kid looked just like my neighbor’s kid with the same attitude!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnuSW6_Tne0

Had a really. really bad day today. Gonna watch old Super Bowl commercials tonight.


21 posted on 01/31/2020 4:50:33 PM PST by lizma2
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To: Morgana
"Fox Rejects Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad, Okays Drag Queens, Social Justice, Gun Control Spots"

Paul-the-weasel strikes again...

22 posted on 01/31/2020 5:20:42 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: DiogenesLamp
And this is why Mass communications companies should not be allowed to control content.

Don't care if they built the infrastructure. The public has a right to hear all sides.

If OANN discovers that an ANTIFA group wants to run pro white supremacist ads on their network in order to discredit them, do they have to allow it?

OANN is a mass communication company.

23 posted on 01/31/2020 7:19:46 PM PST by semimojo
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To: Morgana

Remember that former Speaker Paul Ryan is a board member at Fox. ...You know...the guy who failed to put many of Trump’s proposals into bills for a House vote.


24 posted on 02/01/2020 3:21:04 AM PST by octex
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To: Midwesterner53

This is about broadcast Fox, not cable Fox News.


25 posted on 02/01/2020 3:33:38 AM PST by octex
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To: polymuser
Thanks mom......

I'll continue to make my own decisions thank you.....

26 posted on 02/01/2020 6:32:34 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: G Larry

Get an owee there? LOL, you’re kinda cute 8^)

(I’m more like your father, btw.)


27 posted on 02/01/2020 7:52:34 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Morgana; Albion Wilde; alisasny; AliVeritas; Ancesthntr; Ann Archy; archy; b4me; ...

Sabra Hummus is the company runing the tranny ad.

Sabra was started by an Israeli and is now 50% owned by Pepsico, (Frito-lay, Pepsi, Tropicana, Quaker, etc ) and Strauss, a leading food company from Israel.

Here’s their business info, in case you don’t want to buy other products from companies promoting filth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_(company)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo#Products_and_brands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss_Group

Here’s their contact links:

SABRA:
https://contact.pepsico.com/sabra

PEPSICO:
https://contact.pepsico.com/pepsico
(different phone number but if you want to use their online form, its almost identical to Sabra’s above)

STRAUSS:
https://www.strauss-group.com/contact-us/

FOXSPORTS:
https://help.fox.com/s/support-form
NewsFrom.FOXSports@fox.com

FOXSPORTS ADVERTISING DEPT:
SportsBrandPartnerships@fox.com

I just messaged them all that I don’t buy from companies and don’t watch ads that promote perversion and mental illness.

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Here are some petitions on the tranny ad and the banning of the abortion survivors ad:

Drag queens to make historical debut during Super Bowl LIV
https://onemillionmoms.com/current-campaigns/drag-queens-to-make-historical-debut-during-super-bowl-liv/

FOX TV is Censoring “Faces of Choice” Super Bowl Ad - Demand They Air the Ad
https://actnow.io/gLn6emB

*****

Please FRmail me to be added to or removed from my irregular ping list. 


28 posted on 02/02/2020 2:48:31 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: BTerclinger

The same Sabra that’s boycotted by BDSholes.


29 posted on 02/02/2020 5:03:48 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: BTerclinger

Demand they air an ad? How does that work?

I’ll hold my fire until I see what they do I’m just glad it’s on FOX. The weather can take CBS down for me.

Good luck with the boycotts....not my style, but a definite factor in letting the market decide.


30 posted on 02/02/2020 6:11:22 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Morgana

Fox went from being a cult network to a cuck network of wokeness followers.

Bunch of needy losers.

Murdoch did not instill much self authority in his children.


31 posted on 02/02/2020 6:21:30 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: polymuser

Not really.


32 posted on 02/02/2020 6:33:50 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Well you can’t have government control it. 8 years of another Obama controlling it would be worse than leaving it alone.


33 posted on 02/02/2020 9:58:21 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: gundog

I no longer buy Gillette products. Haven’t shopped in Dicks for a few years And haven’t worn Levi jeans for more than 20. I make a difference


34 posted on 02/02/2020 10:00:35 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Probably haven’t used Gillette products since the 80s, never set foot in a Dick’s, and haven’t worn Levi’s in this century, I don’t believe. Threatening to keep doing those things would be silly. Do they know I don’t do these things? I don’t care.


35 posted on 02/02/2020 10:12:55 AM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: BTerclinger; Chode; Squantos; SkyDancer; Delta 21; tubebender; Lockbox; OldMissileer; ...

I don’t watch the Stupid Bowl. I do use it as a marker that once it’s done and over with then NASCAR, F1, INDYCAR, IMSA, NHRA, NTPA, AMA and if I can find it anywhere Lawnmower Racing.

Does anybody know if there’s any Turtle Racing ?


36 posted on 02/02/2020 11:26:39 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: mabarker1

All racing venues are conveniently listed here, with F1, Indy Cars and IMSA being my favorites:

http://www.tvracer.com


37 posted on 02/02/2020 1:06:56 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Vaquero
Leaving it alone is how we got Obama. The same people that fed the American people bullsh*t in order to elect that moron are still running mass communications.
38 posted on 02/02/2020 2:41:42 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: Impala64ssa

If our President was endorsing trannies, should we stay silent?


39 posted on 02/02/2020 9:20:04 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: gundog

Demand they not reject A PAYING CUSTOMER because they are pro life while they are accepting ads from companies promoting perverts.


40 posted on 02/02/2020 9:21:18 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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