CBS: #1 in hypocrisy
CBS Approves Focus On The Family’s Super Bowl Ad, Despite Its Policy Against Advocacy Spots
Last week, conservative organization Focus on the Family announced that it planned to air a 30-second “life- and family-affirming” television ad during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. The ad will feature 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, who will “share one of their many positive personal stories.” Specific details about the ad haven’t been released, but the AP notes that it is “likely to be an anti-abortion message chronicling Pam Tebow’s 1987 pregnancy.
The networks and the NFL have repeatedly rejected advocacy ads – including by progressive organizations. In 2004, CBS rejected MoveOn.org’s 30-second ad about President Bush, which Salon called “a low-key attack on Bush’s fiscal irresponsibility that’s unlikely to make anyone very angry.” The network has said that it doesn’t accept spots where “substantial elements of the community (are) in opposition to one another.” Last year, NBC rejected a 30-second public service announcement about marriage equality. Anti-consumerist activist Kalle Lasn and PETA have also had their ads turned down under the “no advocacy” policy. </em>
Again, theocracy trumps all. CBS is free to run or not run anything they choose, but if you’re going to state a policy, follow it. Or, restate the policy as such:
“CBS does not run advocacy ads- except ones about you dirty sluts who got pregnant”
