Well, the NOW Gang's at it again (National Organization for Women, in case you're wondering)...deriding the Tim Tebow Superbowl ad as something that promotes violence against women. I guess they couldn't come up with anything better than that on short notice. Perhaps they'd like to rethink this one? Especially in light of the Snickers Superbowl ad with Betty White.
Here's the Tim Tebow ad...
According to the LA Times on 2/8/10: "NOW president Terry O'Neill said it glorified violence against women. 'I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,' she said. 'That's what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don't find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.'"
Huh...strange, but I don't remember a similar press release from the president of NOW about the Snickers Superbowl ad...here it is...
Weird...it looks almost the same...I guess I'm missing something. Perhaps NOW is enlightened about the situational ethics of violence against women that I--as an insensitive, hateful, terroristic, right-winger--could never hope to understand. Or...maybe they're just plain WRONG!
Nice try NOW Gang...but next time, try using something that's not so predictable and easy to debunk...
NEXT!
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Dewey Defeats Truman...
Wouldn't you kind of want to make sure you had the story right before you publish it? That is, unless you're...say...Jayson Blair (or Andrew Malcolm in this instance).
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/healthcare-reform-violence.html
It seems that--contrary to the initial report in the LA Times--the aggressor was actually a supporter of PBO's health care plan and the victim was an opponent of PBO's health care plan. Isn't that particular detail something rather important NOT to screw up--ESPECIALLY if you're the 4th largest paper in the US by circulation (behind USA Today, WSJ, & NYT)? Now granted, the LA Times did offer an update to the story (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/health-care-activist-bites-off-the-finger-of-a-counter-demonstrator.html) but not before democraticunderground.com jumped on the story too (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8622916) ...but that was before they actually checked the facts as well...DOH!
How did the article about Linda Douglass put it? Facts are stubborn things? YEP...exactly!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/09/healthcare-reform-violence.html
It seems that--contrary to the initial report in the LA Times--the aggressor was actually a supporter of PBO's health care plan and the victim was an opponent of PBO's health care plan. Isn't that particular detail something rather important NOT to screw up--ESPECIALLY if you're the 4th largest paper in the US by circulation (behind USA Today, WSJ, & NYT)? Now granted, the LA Times did offer an update to the story (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/09/health-care-activist-bites-off-the-finger-of-a-counter-demonstrator.html) but not before democraticunderground.com jumped on the story too (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8622916) ...but that was before they actually checked the facts as well...DOH!
How did the article about Linda Douglass put it? Facts are stubborn things? YEP...exactly!
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