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Ad featuring popular LDS actor pulled for being 'homophobic' (Snickers)
abc4.com ^
| 07/25/08
| Kirby Heyborne (adrag.com)
Posted on 07/25/2008 7:09:59 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Candy giant Mars pulled a U.K. Snickers advertisement after it was criticized for being homophobic, according to a gay-rights group.
The ad features LDS actor Kirby Heyborne, who has appeared in several LDS-themed movies, including Singles Ward, The RM, The Best Two Years, and others.
In the commercial, Heyborne is seen as effeminate man who is speed walking as Mr. T approaches him in a truck while firing Snickers candy bars at him from a gun. Mr. T then berates the speed walker, calling him "a disgrace to the man race." The commercial ends with Mr. T telling the audience to "Get some nuts."
The candy maker has come under fire before by gay rights groups, most recently over a Snickers ad that played during the 2007 Super Bowl in which two men expressed disgust after accidentally kissing.
Heyborne also recently shocked his LDS fans when he appeared in a Miller Beer commercial.
----Information from: AdAge.com
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ad; ads; chocolate; gaystapo; homophobic; homosexualagenda; snickers
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To: TornadoAlley3
“Get some nuts.”
Not around Jesse!
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:12:15 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: TornadoAlley3
I still won’t eat a Snickers after that Super Bowl ad.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:14:27 AM PDT
by
stevio
(Crunchy Con - God, guns, guts, and organically grown crunchy nuts.)
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:14:40 AM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
To: TornadoAlley3
1. Kirby Heyborne: Who? Never heard of him.,p>
2. LDS: ??? Latter Day Saints???
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:15:30 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: TornadoAlley3
LDS = Latter Day Saints (Mormons)??
To: TornadoAlley3
phobic = irrational fear
nope, not fear - revulsion
nope, not irrational, but a natural revulsion to perversion
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:17:50 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: TornadoAlley3
Click the link to the ad on YouTube, if you haven't already. It's a really funny ad.
I don't know what LDS stands for over there in the UK, but it's not the Mormons (in this context anyway.)
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:19:23 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: TornadoAlley3
So, in the UK you are not allowed to express your opinion if it goes against PC! Wow, coming to a town near you, soon, if we don’t do something about it.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:20:09 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: TornadoAlley3
judge for yourself:
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:20:16 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
To: dead
I laughed so hard and sent it to Netmilsdad as the “FReeper funny of the Day”.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:20:46 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Why would anyone make "Hairspray 2"? (Free Corny!))
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:21:19 AM PDT
by
edzo4
To: dead
this article is out of salt lake city and when you google this guy, a ton of mormon stuff comes up. so i think it is latter day saints.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:21:26 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
To: TornadoAlley3
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:21:27 AM PDT
by
TLI
( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
To: TornadoAlley3
LDS actor Kirby Heyborne?
Where's the adjectives for all actors?
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:22:01 AM PDT
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If McCain chose Gov Palin for VP would his campaign slogan be "McCain/Palin and he can't get up"?)
To: thefactor
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:23:02 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Why would anyone make "Hairspray 2"? (Free Corny!))
To: netmilsmom
Need an ad with Mr T doing/saying that to Republicans.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:23:35 AM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
To: theDentist
LDS: ??? Latter Day Saints???
I assumed, Utah station..
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:24:23 AM PDT
by
TornadoAlley3
('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
To: TornadoAlley3
It offends gays because it uses the words “be a real man” not because the ad is gay bashing. All speed walkers look effeminate IMO.
Its actually a pretty good commercial.
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:25:35 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(No More Obama - The corruption hasnÂ’t changed despite all our hopes.)
To: TornadoAlley3
>>Need an ad with Mr T doing/saying that to Republicans.<<
Spot ON!
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posted on
07/25/2008 7:25:38 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(Why would anyone make "Hairspray 2"? (Free Corny!))
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