Posted on 02/02/2010 5:54:18 PM PST by Servant of the Cross
News fairly unbalanced. We report. You decipher.
The National Organization for Women on Monday called on CBS to yank a pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, and it started a campaign to demand that authorities withdraw Tebow's Heisman Trophy and pull his National Championship ring.
The ad, sponsored by Colorado-based Focus on the Family, highlights Pam Tebow's high-risk pregnancy and her decision to give birth to Tim despite a medical recommendation to abort the fetus.
The women's rights group said Mrs. Tebow's decision, 23 years ago, "set in motion a cascade of events ending in this tragic Super Bowl TV advertisement."
"If Pam Tebow had exercised her freedom to choose abortion," said an unnamed NOW official, "then millions of women would have been spared the agony of watching 30 seconds of brutal advocacy designed, ultimately, to extract their most precious right from the U.S. Constitution."
"These women, in many cases, don't have a choice," she said. "They can't just leave the room during commercial breaks, or they would miss crucial televised information about beer, snack food and pickup truck choices. And even if they could change channels, they would risk submitting themselves to ads of much lower quality, done by agencies with questionable professional credentials."
To combat the oppressive effects of the pro-life Super Bowl ad, the unnamed official said NOW would start a new anti-Tebow Web site, to create a groundswell of support for stripping him of the Heisman and his championship ring.
"We got a really good price on the Web site hosting from Super Bowl sponsor GoDaddy.com," the NOW source said. "They're actually hosting it for free, in exchange for NOW President Terry O'Neill's personal appearance in a future GoDaddy ad."
Funny. (Still, it wouldn’t surprise me if CBS caves in to Gloria Allred.)
aww, come on. you spoiled it :)
satire?
Oh, thank God. I was going to launch a string of filty words and get banned...just as I finally got back on the server.
Ever notice Scott Ott smells like an onion?
NOW gave Clinton the one free grope rule, couldn’t they allow the majority of Americans who are pro-life, ONE commercial without damming it unseen?
>>to extract their most precious right from the U.S. Constitution.”
The “most precious right” is the one that isn’t actually in there. These NOW women are insane.
The really sad part is that most of us who read the headline thought it was for real and just another indicator of what strange times we live in.....
You can hardly out-satire reality today.
He represents the best in college athletics. It’s OUTRAGEOUS that an ad featuring him would air during the Super Bowl (a sacred event to Feminists)
evidently not.
Katie Couric wears Tim Tebow underwear..sorry very inside Gator joke
psst. satire.
Logic demands that NOW take a hike!
One of these satires is some how going to make it into the mainstream Leftist media who are going to think it is real and have a conniption. At that time it’ll be time to break out the popcorn!
Oh crap, who’s going to bring us the beers during the game?
Obviously, if it was real they would demand his mother get a late term (22 year) abortion.
I certainly thought it sounded plausible!
It may be satire but everything I read sounded exactly like the demands NOW would make. Mighty fine satire!
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