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How great is this: Tim Tebow’s ad with his Mom was a fun, tender ad about the quality of life…and the hard early years…and it NEVER mentioned Abortion. NEVER! And all the pro-abortion people panicked this week and HAD TO show their hand, anticipating some type of culture war attack…which never came tonight. Instead throughout the week we had to watch a whole host of pro-abort people justifying the termination of life…and Americans probably scratched their heads, wondering what the HELL they were combating. … What a fake by Tebow and Focus on the Family!/Dennis Mansfield.
Question: What did you think of the ad featuring star college QB Tim Tebow and his mother, ad ad that received a lot of attention in the pro-life and pro-choice camps ahead of time?
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Cabbage Boy on February 08 at 2:19 p.m.
Brilliantly played.
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spokelooneh on February 08 at 2:35 p.m.
Didn't seem to me like it got an inordinate amount of attention. I think the mancrunch thing was a not very well played ruse as well.
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jazzyvandal on February 08 at 3:03 p.m.
I didn't have a problem with the commercial, however, the group behind the message is the problem.
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Arch_Druid on February 08 at 5:43 p.m.
Maybe Dennis Mansfield needs to target “Focus on Theocracy” (by exploiting the family) for the fake ad. Rather than blogging and whining about the pro-choice crowd.
It was after all CBS' choice to not run counter advocacy ads from NOW and etc.
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fortboise on February 08 at 6:38 p.m.
I was still reeling from seeing Betty White tackled, and then morping into a metrosexual football player.
Talk about gender bending.
Then the Tebow kid tackles HIS mom? Just added to the creep factor. I had—and have—no interest in Focus on the Family, and doubt anyone else watching the ad would have been piqued to go find out more.
It's “fake” enough, but brilliant? I don't see how.
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Arch_Druid on February 08 at 6:46 p.m.
FortBoise, in complete agreement.
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richard on February 08 at 9:22 p.m.
Of course Druid attacked the ad, even though she does not have a clue why she did so.
But the real story of the ad occurred today when the President “Nag” of NOW tipped her hand into the world of lunacy and destroyed whatever credibility the organization had, when she said words to this effect … “It is appalling how this add glorifies violence against women” and “how this add connects happiness for men to violence against women”.
HUH? Not even mainstream media can save that display of open idiocy, and they aren't that stupid to even try.
How anyone with any semblence of honesty or integrity could say something so stupid about an ad that was light, positive, and loving - it would have to be the progressives.
It objectively demonstrated how hateful these women (and I am sorry, but these kinds of radicals do not seem like any women I know) really are; and it signaled the end of radical feminist movement.
Better late than never.
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