Pro-Life Super Bowl Ad Sacked

NCR ^ | January 29, 2009 | Tom McFeely

[NYer]

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[ConservativeMind]

It’s a good ad and it would be a shame to not have it shown during a family-friendly event.

[Gene Eric]

What do politics have to do with the life of an unborn child?

[a fool in paradise]

“After several days of negotiations, an NBC representative in Chicago told CatholicVote.org late yesterday that NBC and the NFL are not interested in advertisements involving ‘political candidates or issues.’”

Remember this statement. Make sure that there are NO OBAMA praise ads or moments in the ads or half time show.

The corporate world has ushered in all sorts of OBAMA marketing strategies (Pepsico among them).

We will be watching for any lying liars at NBC and the NFL.

[trisham]

This is a disappointment at best.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s a good ad and it would be a shame to not have it shown during a family-friendly event.

It's not the family-friendly event it once was.

[Bulwinkle]

“NBC claims it doesn’t allow advocacy ads, but that’s not true....”

Last year Obama ran ads!!!

“While Senator Barack Obama watches the Super Bowl tonight at home in Chicago, television viewers in 24 states will be able to watch him.
“ http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/obamas-super-bowl-ad-join/

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Burch, who is also president of the Fidelis Center for Law and Policy, told the Daily Blog that a NBC official said to him about the ad, “I’m neither pro-life nor pro-choice, ...

Pro-purgatory?

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Bruce Springsteen is playing halftime, and he’s a walking political ad.

[Dapper 26]

There’s a football game this weekend?

[freeplancer]

That is one of the best commercials I have ever seen.

[Bulwinkle]

NBC Airs Obama Interview during Super Bowl Pre-Game

http://www.mediabuyerplanner.com/2009/01/27/nbc-airs-obama-interview-during-super-bowl-pre-game/

[FBD]

Advocacy ads are always rejected for the Superbowl.

I recall moveon.orgy had a superbowl ad that wasn't really over the top, but was rejected a few years back. They knew it would be rejected, but got a lot of coverage claiming censorship. But this has always been the case for advocay ads, right or left.

[a fool in paradise]

How does NBC feel about playing second fiddle to Al-Arabia?

[a fool in paradise]

And what of the “It isn’t easy being GREEN” Kermit the Frog ad for some new eco car?

[a fool in paradise]

The last football game... ever?

[Alberta's Child]

I guess things are going well at NBC in a difficult year if they can reject ads like this.

When it comes to the content of ads I really couldn't care one way or another . . . since I haven't watched a Super Bowl in years. In fact, the whole event is a media-driven farce wrapped around 11 to 13 minutes of action on a football field during the course of a 5-hour extravaganza.

[NYer]

It’s a good ad and it would be a shame to not have it shown during a family-friendly event.

As opposed to those little 'blue pills'.

[Non-Sequitur]

Can’t they do a better job of getting their message out if they don’t blow $2.6 million on a single Super Bowl ad? I wasn’t aware they were that flush with funds.