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CBS Urged to Scrap Super Bowl Ad With Tebow, Mom
NYTimes ^ | January 25, 2010

Posted on 01/25/2010 4:42:26 PM PST by Steelfish

CBS Urged to Scrap Super Bowl Ad With Tebow, Mom

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: January 25, 2010

NEW YORK (AP) -- A national coalition of women's groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during the Super Bowl featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, which critics say is likely to convey an anti-abortion message.

''An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year -- an event designed to bring Americans together,'' said Jehmu Greene, president of the New York-based Women's Media Center.

The center was coordinating the protest with backing from the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority and other groups.

CBS said it has approved the script for the 30-second ad and has given no indication that the protest would have an impact. A network spokesman, Dana McClintock, said CBS would ensure that any issue-oriented ad was ''appropriate for air.''

The ad -- paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family -- is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow's pregnancy in 1987 with a theme of ''Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.'' The controversy over the ad was raised Sunday when Tebow met with reporters in Mobile, Ala., before beginning preparations for next weekend's Senior Bowl.

''I know some people won't agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,'' Tebow said. ''I've always been very convicted of it (his views on abortion) because that's the reason I'm here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.''

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To: Popman

Almost 1 out 3 women? Call me skeptical, extremely skeptical.


181 posted on 01/26/2010 4:36:18 PM PST by Melas
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To: wordsofearnest
Likelihood of abortion:
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

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182 posted on 01/26/2010 4:36:45 PM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
Likelihood of abortion:
An estimated 43% of all women will have at least 1 abortion by the time they are 45 years old. 47% of all abortions are performed on women who have had at least one previous abortion.

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183 posted on 01/26/2010 4:37:40 PM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
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To: Melas
Almost 1 out 3 women? Call me skeptical, extremely skeptical.

Think about the fact ...if... you are wrong and that stat is right..............

184 posted on 01/26/2010 4:41:16 PM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
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To: Popman; dixiechick2000; Black Agnes; Melas

that stat certainly reflects where i grew up and my varying peer groups..maybe a hair high..2-5% too high:

upper middle class white Jackson Miss ...private school/Ole Miss 1970s

Manhattan Island 1980s

Miami early 90s

Nashville Metro since...


185 posted on 01/26/2010 5:19:48 PM PST by wardaddy (Good Yankees in Massachusetts, I salute you all from bended knee in appreciation)
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To: Steelfish

Oh, crap, BOR is giving this beotch air time. What a hag!


186 posted on 01/26/2010 5:27:32 PM PST by ssaftler (Day 372: America Held Hostage)
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To: DManA

“Let’s not have a guest appearance from Barry either - way too divisive.”

While you’re at it CBS, please keep bammy off TV from now on...please, thank you.


187 posted on 01/26/2010 5:33:35 PM PST by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Church, Country - Keep on Tea Partiers - party like it's 1773 & pray 2 Chronicles 7:14!)
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To: wardaddy
Recently I was told that 40% to 45 % of American women have had abortions by the age of 45.

Like many, I simply did not believe it.

I thought that was simply impossible that life had become so cheap, morals so compromised, ethics so brazenly tossed, men so emasculated, that was a correct number

That's how I took a look at the stats and came to realize to my horror that number is probably correct

Too think 40 % of women today age 45 has tossed away a life, no wonder so many are screwed up in the head.

188 posted on 01/26/2010 5:36:12 PM PST by Popman (Election 2010: Congress: your pink slips are coming ............... :)
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To: Popman

If those stats are indeed true, that is stunning to me.


189 posted on 01/26/2010 5:59:48 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: Popman

If those stats are indeed true, that is stunning to me.


190 posted on 01/26/2010 5:59:51 PM PST by Trailerpark Badass (One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.)
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To: AUJenn

hard to make a ‘feel-good’ partial birth abortion commercial even if you’re Leni Riefenstahl.


191 posted on 01/26/2010 6:20:26 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: Venturer

You can buy a luxury suite at the superbowl seating 32 people for the low low price of $364,000 on ticketmaster. It does provide unlimited food and drinks though.


192 posted on 01/26/2010 6:22:32 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: hellbender

Mao and Stalin made Hitler look like an amateur.


193 posted on 01/26/2010 6:23:39 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: hondact200

Oreily had some chick from one of those womens orgs about this. That lady was all in a tizzy about this video being divisive. That she was seeking to take away the choice.

Seems she’s celebrating her choice. Can’t have that as the abortion industry may suffer and jobs would be lost.


194 posted on 01/26/2010 6:26:08 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

Absolutely right. But all socialists are alike under the veneer of stylistic differences. One thing Stalin said is true in a way: One death is a tragedy, but millions are a statistic. Once someone has killed one innocent person, the rest become easy.


195 posted on 01/26/2010 6:40:26 PM PST by hellbender
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To: driftdiver

to fascist libs there’s really only one correct “choice” and all others do not count as “real choice”

why honor the “choice” of Tim Tebow’s mother when she did not make the politically correct choice? she must have been brainwashed </sarcasm>


196 posted on 01/26/2010 6:55:03 PM PST by Enchante (Mr. Brown Goes to Washington...... kick a@@, take names, humiliate the bastards, please!)
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To: Popman

I just looked over a couple of websites that claim to have stats and they were in the range of 25-30%

I must live a completely sheltered life or else most women are still pretty secretive about an abortion, b/c I can’t think of ever knowing or hearing of anyone in my circles of friends and acquaintances having had an abortion.... but maybe it’s kept really really quiet except for the few uber-feminists who think it’s something to be proud of.....


197 posted on 01/26/2010 6:58:46 PM PST by Enchante (Mr. Brown Goes to Washington...... kick a@@, take names, humiliate the bastards, please!)
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To: Grunthor

yes, his eye black always has a scripture on it


198 posted on 01/26/2010 7:45:11 PM PST by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Steelfish

Maybe they would be happy if Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were in the ad too.


199 posted on 01/26/2010 8:50:02 PM PST by Steelers6
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To: Steelfish; informavoracious; larose; RJR_fan; Prospero; Conservative Vermont Vet; ...
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200 posted on 01/27/2010 6:16:25 AM PST by narses ("lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi")
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