Posted on 02/05/2007 9:21:24 AM PST by Loud Mime
No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.
More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.
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LOL!
Along with some shirt tearing wrestling.
Wasn't there a commercial like that a few years ago?
Britney was before Cameron, I think.......2002-3 ish......
....and blame his problems on Bush.
And absolutely painful. And absolutely retarded.
Those who wish the last four years of history had never happened could find solace in several commercials that used the device of ending an awful tale by revealing it was only a dream.Ya think?!
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The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, “Iraq.”To be sure, sometimes “a rock” is just “a rock,” and someone who has watched the Super Bowl XIX years in a row only for the commercials may be inferring things that Madison Avenue never meant to imply.
LOL.
The war in Iraq had nothing to do with it. The advertisers were just trying to capitalize on the success of the Sprint commercial from last year where the guy winged his phone at another guy.
Much like their products.
... and Biden's Maccaca-esque comment about Joe Biden is no longer newsworthy, in stark contrast to George Allen's macacca comment that was analyzed, discussed, and reported on for weeks.
The Times is nothing but a propaganda rag.
The blockbuster add with the rabbit trying to turn on the computer with real mouse caused me to about bust a gut..
Was that warlike?
I'm pretty sure that was a repeat ad. I (and a few of my buddies in the office) swear we have seen that before.
When the jumbo-tron showed the guys in Baghdad, the crowds went nuts!
I dont know if it was warlike, unless you are at war with mice..
It sure was damn funny though...
This is a clear case of Bush Derangement Syndrome expressed by the wackjobs at the NY Slimes.
LOL! No kidding. I am sure he is looking for a "tasty treat".
later
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The NY Times seems everything through a strange prism where many things tend to be about the Iraq war.
The eye that alters, alters all.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
The NY Times seems everything through a strange prism where many things tend to be about the Iraq war.
The eye that alters, alters all.
I couldn't find anything warlike with the marriage auctioneer.
I liked the one teaching the immigrants to ask for a Bud Light in the colloquial English of different cities.
"If someone asks you for a Bud Light, what do you say, class?"
"No speak English!"
On the whole the ads were very disappointing.
The Doritos ad near the start of the game ( boy runs into a car in front of him while he is watching a girl) was filmed about 2 miles from my house by some students. Total expenditure, $12.
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