Pro-Family Group Targets Restaurant Chain Over Ad Featuring Porn Icon Hefner

Agape Press ^ | 11/10/03 | Jody Brown

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr. establishments -- defended a sexually provocative TV commercial for Carl's Jr. by saying it was designed to target young men.

Oh. Well. When you put it that way...I guess it makes it alright then.

[gingerky]

I got a $100 phone bill for a 1-900 number where my then 14 year old had dialed up a porn website. The longer you stayed on the more the girl promised to do. I scared him good - no internet for a long time, volunteering at a local charity, big speech about the poor girls who end up doing that stuff, and a big scare about how was he ever going to pay the bill (I had him convinced he might go to juvie!)

I also found out he had been to "bigtitties.com". The first words out of my friends mouth were, "well just be glad he's not gay".

I have blocked MTV. It's pure garbage. My kids watch Fuse (I think that's the name) for videos. They don't have the idiotic programming MTV does. MTV should be ashamed of itself.

I do let them watch The Simpsons and sometimes I let the oldest (he's fifteen now) watch South Park. It's funny and they hold nothing back.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wow. I must admit. That is one helluva...ahem...burger.

[pollywog]

Hugh Hefner is a great American.

Oh puke.

double PUKE!!!!!!

[Antoninus]

I would like to have the babes Heffner has. Get over it...

Bet you'd like to have his VD as well.

[pollywog]

Thanks for the info. I have seen the ad, and will be contacting Carl's Jr. expressing my disgust, YES, DISGUST for all you playboy advocates!!!!!!!

[Moleman]

I concur with you husband, I don't think the new show is ver good.

[Moleman]

Bet you'd like to have his VD as well
Well, no~ But it might be a fair trade-off :-)

[Modernman]

At my age, a good burger is almost as good as anything else

LOL! Is that what the future holds? Better have my fun while I still can.

[usadave]

A CKE press release says the theme of the ad campaign highlighting a new line of burgers is "variety" -- and that the ads "humorously allude to Hefner's enjoyment of variety."

Does this mean that Hefner is bisexual because he enjoys "variety" in regard to sexual partners?

[SouthernFreebird]

I Anthony Hopkins won't be doing comercials for Chik-fil-A.

[concerned about politics]

I do let them watch The Simpsons and sometimes I let the oldest (he's fifteen now) watch South Park. It's funny and they hold nothing back.

At least South Park has a good moral at the end of the story. LOL.
I let my 14 year old watch it. It refer to it as "Current events" education.

[SouthernFreebird]

Actually I hope Anthony Hopkins won't be doing comercials for Ckik-fil-A..... ;)

[Oatka]

Maybe they're just trying to tell us that their food is equally tasteless.

Great line! My wife grumbled about that ad over breakfast. I told her it was probably aimed at the 20-somethings crowd as I remembered how stupid and tasteless I was at that age.

The religious guy threw the Purple Prose around, but he did have a point. Where do you draw the line? As far as the girl on the mechanical bull simulating sexual moves goes, what's next? That's a pretty hard act to follow. Hey, I know - the real thing with a real bull.

I can't wait to see what they'll do with Larry Flint.

[Antoninus]

The ads are in poor taste, but Hugh Hefner is a great American.

Hef is a shallow, sex-obsessed old lecher. I see you've bought into the Hollywierd version of America where smut peddlers are great citizens persecuted for their invincible right to "free speech." I'm sure the Founding Fathers would have agreed that T&A shots are the moral equivalent of free speech.

And now, for no particular reason, points 24-26 of the "Current Communist Goals." Enjoy!

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

Baaaaa, baaaa, baaaaa. Such good little sheep!

[MineralMan]

"Thanks for the info. I have seen the ad, and will be contacting Carl's Jr. expressing my disgust, YES, DISGUST for all you playboy advocates!!!!!!!"

Well, I think you should do just that. One hint, though: leave off all the exclamation points in your email to Carl's Jr. Maybe the ALL CAPS words, too. But, by all means, you should exercize your right to complain.

The rest of us will have a burger and watch the video.

[Gritty]

A magazine featuring soft-lit cheesecake shots and articles on the latest guy-gadgets preaches harmful values?

You obviously never read the early "Playboy Philosophy" articles, which ran for years and preached licentiousness and consequences-free sexual license. These became bedrock values for a lot of impressionable young men, leading directly to the radical excesses of the '60s.

Playboy Magazine was more than just a skin magazine. It was a cultural phenomenon in the somewhat morally straight and innocent environment of the pre-Vietnam '50s and '60s which led "The Revolution", albeit in a soft-porn and highly hedonistic way.

Hefner has a lot more to apologize to America about than merely corrupting the publishing airwaves with airbrushed babes. His "sexual revolution" has borne a lot of bitter fruit. He led the fight against general morality and decency in America, the results of which we see daily.

[Spiff]

I just chalked it up as another indicator that porn is being mainstreamed. For me, it will be a reason to avoid Carl's Jr.

[Sir_Ed]

I agree with this story. I already called Carl's Jr. up and told them I thought the ad was disgusting.

I refuse to patronize a store that hires a pornographer as its spokesman.

What's next, they hire Larry Flynt? Monica Lewinsky? Gee, Lewinsky could rattle a series of double entendres like Hugh's girlfriend's do "Sometime Hugh wants a different one, sometimes he wants more than one!" Lewinsky could say "I LOVE putting it into my mouth!"

Sheesh, hiring a pornographer to do their TV ads...it's disgusting.

Ed

[Antoninus]

Does this mean that Hefner is bisexual because he enjoys "variety" in regard to sexual partners?

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that Hef is an omnisexual--and that includes non-humans and inanimate objects.