Same Super Bowl Different Commercials

[Patranus]

The National Organization for Women (NOW) just can’t seem to get enough of Pam and Tim Tebow. After several weeks of sweating over the likelihood of a “pro-life, anti-abortion” ad featuring the Tebows and sponsored by Focus on the Family, the president of NOW, Terry O’Neill, is claiming that the Super Bowl ad promotes domestic violence.

In the ad, Pam Tebow begins talking about the uncertainty of little Timmy’s entry into the world. Suddenly, she’s tackled by the Heisman Trophy winner and thrown off-screen. She immediately bounces back up and scolds her son, saying, “Timmy! I’m trying to tell our story here!”

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.”

http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/08/t...nce-the-real-issue-with-tebows-super-bowl-ad/

Now, in the same Super Bowl we have.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Sv_z9jm8A

First of all, NOW claims that there was an "anti abortion message" in the Tebow commercial yet there was nothing of the sort. NOW then goes on the claim the commercial promotes violence against women yet they do not have a problem with another "football themed" commercial doing the same action to a woman.

 

[Farang]

that commercial is just wierd

 

[woolfe9999]

The commercial is utterly innocuous. NOW should probably just shut up about it before they dig themselves in any deeper.

- wolf

 

[Throckmorton]

First of all, I didn't understand why this ad was an issue EVER. Not having an abortion is a choice, and it makes no sense that pro-choice folks would have a problem with an ad encouraging people not to do it.

Second of all, this domestic violence thing is ridiculous.