Tebow Beats Down NOW
by Hal_10000
When the infamous Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad ran last night, the reaction of the room—spanning the gamut from rock-ribbed conservative to pantywaist liberal was, “That’s it?” It was very low key and didn’t actually say the A-word at all.
NOW was, of course, terrifically disappointed. They’d geared up to denounce the ad and then it didn’t say anything? Oh, well. They’ll try the next best thing: accusing it of promoting violence.
Yeah, you knew that was coming.
In an attempt to fall in line with the humorous nature of most Super Bowl commercials, the Focus on the Family in-game ad shows Tebow tackling his mom and his mother playfully scolding him for interrupting her.
In remarks that are raising eyebrows from pro-life advocates, NOW president Terry O’Neill said that bit of the ad glorified violence against women.
“I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “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.”
O’Neill’s reaction drew guffaws even from hardcore abortion advocates.
Frances Kissling, the former president of Catholics for Choice, told the Times that NOW is way off base.
“It’s absurd to claim that this is an endorsement of violence against women,” Kissling said. “These people came across as affectionate, loving, funny and happy.”
NOW wasn’t alone in trying to play the domestic violence card.
Abortion advocate Amanda Marcotte had this post on Twitter that has drawn a reaction from pro-life advocates: “Hey Mom! Tried to kill you from the womb and failed. How about a blind side tackle? Violence against Moms.”
Really? Really?! You really think this ad was telling people to beat up their mothers?
You just can’t win with these people. In the end, the crime that Tim Tebow has committed is that he disagrees with them on their signature issue. And he does so much more reasonably than they defend their signature issue. So whatever it takes, his opinion must be degraded.
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Quick! Find something to be angry about!!!!!
Impugn the messenger’s credibility and avoid the subject. Especially when you are the one made to look like and ass for making much ado about nothing. NOW made a huge stink about this thing only to be made to look like agenda driven morons attempting to silence opposing views, and thus now that this thing played and they are looking like fools, are trying to cover face by making it even worse. How pathetic, yet predictable.
When I look at NOW, I see an organization that once had legitimate issues to campaign for but now seems pretty adrift. Are they really needed anymore? They’ve become nothing but the Democratic Party Ladies’ Auxiliary.
Wow, I cannot comprehend the levels of insensitivity on this board. Why, since this commercial has aired, the number of incidents of Division 1 college QUARTERBACKS tackling their unsuspecting mothers has shot through the roof. ;)
When I look at NOW, I see an organization that once had legitimate issues to campaign for but now seems pretty adrift. Are they really needed anymore?
It’s not about the need, but about the money. Look at what MADD has turned into. Same reason race hucksters and such other purveyors of misery refuse to ever acknowledge their cause, no matter how noble or well intended, is done for or over.
When I look at NOW, I see an organization that once had legitimate issues to campaign for but now seems pretty adrift. Are they really needed anymore? They’ve become nothing but the Democratic Party Ladies’ Auxiliary.
Sounds a lot like labor unions--they were founded for legitimate purposes, to prevent workers from being exploited in industrial settings. But once they accomplished pretty much all of their agenda (such as pensions and the eight-hour-workday), they had nothing left except to protest the most irrelevant issues, like how much grocery baggers should be paid.
It’s hard to take NOW seriously in a post-Hillary world. As much as I disagree with her politics, Hillary Clinton is the culmination of NOW’s agenda--a career-driven woman who happens to be a mother, and who cynically views marraige as a means to achieve her own ends rather than a “relationship” in the traditional sense of the word.
NOW, at this point, is just beating on dead horses. Our entire culture is now based on emasculating males and turning them into feminist, metrosexual, Alan Alda-type sissies, and the process starts as soon as elementary school. Abortion doesn’t have the cultural stigma that it did 50 years ago, nor does promiscuity. Hell, these days the freaks are the ones who manage to make it through college without having a pregnancy scare or an STD, such things having become a rite of passage.
Why should anyone really take their message to heart anymore? They’ve got everything they ever wanted!
Well according to NOW all us males who rooted for the losing team end up beating our wives/girlfriends after the superbowl anyway, why not throw in mothers as well? It’s true, spousal abuse goes up forty billion percent on superbowl sunday according to some studies NOW invented. And now I predict mother abuse will go up accordingly.
I’ve finally sobered up from Sunday. Now that I got a chance to see the ad while not completely shithoused, it really makes me want to punch my mom. In fact it makes me want to beat up everybody’s mom. Damn you, Tebow!
Geaux Saints!
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