Posted on 02/06/2013 11:25:13 AM PST by chessplayer
Rather predictably, many of last Sunday's Super Bowl ads have been criticized for supposedly being racist.
On NBC's Tonight Show Tuesday, host Jay Leno marvelously asked, “When will advertisers learn the only stereotype nobody gets mad at is white guys making fools of themselves over beer?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
“You knew this was going to happen,” Leno teased during his opening monologue. “Complaints keep coming in about a lot of the Super Bowl commercials.”
He continued, “Some Arab-American groups claimed the Coke commercial - remember the one depicting a sheik walking his camel across the desert? They said that was anti-Arab. Another group said the Volkswagen commercial - remember, everybody speaking with a Jamaican accent? Oh, they said that was racist.”
And the punch line?
“When will advertisers learn the only stereotype nobody gets mad at is white guys making fools of themselves over beer? Okay? That's the only one. That is the only one you can do”
Sadly, he’s right.
It appears the only jokes that are safe in today’s politically correct world are about white men.
But why should that surprise anyone?
For at least the last four years, America’s media have been blaming all the problems in society on white guys.
Why should commercials be any different?
Everything is the White Guy’s fault until we are killed off, Run out or just leave. The. It’s our fault for leaving.
For at least the past four and forty, he meant. This has been going on here a long time.
Dopey dads, too. You can make fun of dopey dads. Because everyone knows dad might do well enough professionally to set up his family in a 3,000 square foot colonial in the suburbs, but put him in the kitchen, and he’s going to end up cracking raw eggs into the toaster, putting his flip-flops in the blender, milking the cat, etc.
I watched the video of Leno. That is pretty funny even if true. :-)
Actually, it`s not just beer. White guys are funny when they’re fat, when they’re kids smart mouth them and get away with it, when their wives cheat on them and when they’re really stupid. Which is all the time. Oh, and when the kids sneak money out of “dumbass Dad’s” wallet. All of these scenarios make for uproariously funny sitcoms!!~sarc
i love the old folks Taco Bell commercial... hope no one saw it as ageist... and the Calvin Klein Concepts commercial for obvious reasons... hope no one saw it as anti-not in shape... or even if they did, who cares?
Women generally want to marry men they admire, men who are AT LEAST as capable as themselves.
How many women on FR consider the man they married to be a doofus? Or even significantly less intelligent than themselves?
chessplayer ~:” It appears the only jokes that are safe in today’s politically correct world are about white men.
But why should that surprise anyone?
For at least the last four years, America’s media have been blaming all the problems in society on white guys. “
Why would this surprise anyone ?
The commercials are designed to present a message in under 30 seconds.
The message appeals to the : ‘under-informed’, ‘ill-informed’, and the ‘ilitterate masses’
of “sheeple” who lack the patience for a meaningful message
Its always the White Guy that is the problem .. /sarc
Yeah, we’re such fools. So much so that I LMAO when I imagine a region of PC-only types and what an absolute zoo that would be. DC, Detroit and California are coming readily to mind.
Is Hollywood finally recognizing the absurdity of hyper-sensitivity and political correctness among interest groups? Sometimes I think some of these interest groups are just paranoid . . . sometimes the snake in the grass is just a stick and there’s nothing to get hyper about!
The idiots in the media trying to be politically correct are actually saying the reverse in constantly trying to put down the dumb white guy.
i’ve found the dmeonization of white men very offensive
of course, no one cares... unless i stop paying my ‘protection money’
i’ve found the demonization of white men very offensive
of course, no one cares... unless i stop paying my ‘protection money’
White guys have it easy, All they have to do is:
1) Do all the work
2) Pay all the bills
3) Shut up!
4) Die as soon as possible after retirement
I guess I’m working on #4 right now. I failed miserably on #3
Actually, it`s not just beer. White guys are funny when they’re fat, when they’re kids smart mouth them and get away with it, when their wives cheat on them and when they’re really stupid. Which is all the time. Oh, and when the kids sneak money out of “dumbass Dad’s” wallet. All of these scenarios make for uproariously funny sitcoms!!~sarc
The liberals who write those shows are full blown racists, but they know that the only permitted bigotry is against whites.
Women form the majority of the television viewing audience.
Appealing to the desires of the audience, is what sells entertainment.
Has everyone seen Obama’s new Sec of interior? Just wow. Talk about a bulldyke granola cruncher.
You can just picture her in red sneakers, baggy boy-scout shorts, a chain-drive wallet, leather underwear, and a dildo strapped to her head.
Leno is right and he is wrong.
Right because the white man is the most prevalent target, but Catholics are also in open season, and if a Catholic isn’t available , any Christian will do.
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