I have HAD IT with the PC Commercials!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOP Mike's Blog ^ | 12/11/08 | GOP Mike

[gopmike.com]

To my Conservative Friends:

I find myself after a long day of work, trying to catch a game or the O'Reilly factor and I have to sit through commercial after commercial of the most annoying politically correct garbage there is....

It seems to be every commercial portrays the white, conservative male as a bumbling idiotic fool who can't hammer in a nail, while his Oh-so-cool, all-together wife is so calm, cool and collected and has everything figured out!!!! It is open season on the middle-aged white, conservative male. Women and minorities are off limits... The ultimate fear for companies and ad people is to be called sexist, or worse.... raaaacist!!!

I mean, c'mon, once in a while is ok and even amusing, but every time the white-male has to be made a fool of?? And who is the audience they most likely are targeting to buy their crap - is us white-males!!!!

We have all seen the PC guy/Mac commercials that portray the PC guy as an absolute fool, a little overweight, not-so attractive, while Mac guy is thin, young and sooo cool and hip (although if this is the type of guy women like, I am really behind the times - how about a shower, shave and a haircut for this hippie???)..

A few examples for your viewing pleasure:

[polymuser]

What foreigners must think of us from our TV shows and commercials.

[Ro_Thunder]

That’s ok, approximately 5% of the population is homosexual, yet every single TV show has at least one gay character on it. The abomination that was the newest incarnation of Knight Rider had Sydney Portier’s daughter portrayed as a homosexual FBI agent (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688624/). Fortunately, that tripe is canceled.

[Little Ray]

Actually, I can think of a number of sit-coms (from the 50’s and 60’s) where “Dad” was a wise, just, and kindly patriarch and “Mom” was wise, loving, and nurturing. The antics of the kids, teenagers and/or young adults were the source of comedy...

These days, they are, of course, the subject of ridicule.

[Vaduz]

minoritie jokes are off limits too PC madness.

[Ro_Thunder]

Eli Stone, a show with the main character is a lawyer who is having an aneurysm, sees visions of people he’s supposed to help. He believes they are from God. However, this show to me is just a remake of Ally McBeal, where the main character is a lawyer seeing visions.

I LIKE Eli Stone. It’s got the easy-to-like actor/dancer/singer Victor Garber (formerly of Alias). It also has Natasha Henstridge, who is pretty easy on the eyes, and a good actress in her own right.

The tie that binds the two shows together even more is the assistant to Eli Stone, who from IMDB was only on one show of Ally McBeal, but I remember her many times more than that, Loretta Devine. Of course, the pop-in singer of the week doesn’t help (this week on Eli was Seal).

Either way, I really liked Joan of Arcadia. It was fantastic for the first half of the season, and got really good, until they started having the ‘bad’ guy show up, too. At least, he seems to be a bad guy.

[SnakeDoctor]

>> This is disengenuous. It sounds like a simple solution but I didn’t by a TV to keep turning it off.

“Turn it off” wasn’t the only solution I offered. Buy a DVR and fastforward the commercials. Find shows you like better. Get up and run a lap during commercials. I honestly don’t care. My “simple” solution was just to stop whining about that which you cannot change, and which you participate in by choice.

SnakeDoc

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Am I the only one to notice that the bumbling, helpless, careless white guy in all of these ads also has a disproportionately HOT wife? I’m guessing that’s just another way of making him look even worse.

Either that — or it gives us careless white guys hope. I can personally highly recommend acquiring a disproportionately hot wife. No downside whatsoever.

SnakeDoc

[NavyCanDo]

“The hot wife is how they get guys to pay attention to the commercial.”

Michelob got me to change beer brands with this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpPvAGrBpwo

[hocndoc]

How about Ellen DeGeneres selling Cover Girl make up????
http://www.covergirl.com/index.jsp

I try to be very tolerant about the private lives of other people. However, Ms. DeGeneres will not be private about her private life. Worse, in the last month, Ms. DeGeneres has made hateful comments in public about the people who voted to pass Proposition 8 in California.

She hates her female-ness, and has always dressed and acted in ways to underscore her denial of that femininity. She has made this fact plain in prior public statements in which she identifies herself as a homosexual, on every outlet that the media will allow her.

And now, they want to sell “ageless” makeup with her picture?

This is bad public relations on the part of Cover Girl and Proctor and Gamble. The move to showcase a woman who denies her femininity is not wise, but using one who attacks the majority of people in the US because we believe in marriage as one man, one woman, is an attack in itself.

Cover Girl is a subsidiary of Proctor and Gamble.
http://www.pg.com/company/who_we_are/ppv.shtml

[GOPJ]

I’ve noticed that every burglar in these commercials selling security systems are all white. Always.

Yep. No bias there. I know what company you're taking about and I will not from a company that biased. Never.

If they had all Japanese criminals, I'd feel the same. It's blatant.

[GOPJ]

I’ve noticed that every burglar in these commercials selling security systems are all white. Always.

Yep. No bias there. I know what company you're taking about and I will not buy from a company that's that biased. Never.

If they had all Japanese criminals, I'd feel the same. Or all Arab criminals. Or all black criminals.

The fact that it's all white criminals is outrageous.

[dilvish]

None of the shows I watch have a homosexual character. Must be watching the wrong stuff.

[dilvish]

I don’t know if I’d drink Michelob because of it, but it is a good ad. And of course in that she’s the “dumby”, at least the one that makes the mistake.

[PfromHoGro]

Or pulled over for suspicion of DWI.

[stevio]

Just this morning I was questioning why every bad guy in alarm company advertisements are white guys.

[stevio]

I just posted the same thing, I guess I should’ve read down a little further.

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Occasionally there's a beer commercial, during a ballgame of course, that appeals to white males. Like that beer commerical a couple of years ago that had the blond and the brunette ripping each others clothes off and wrestling because one believed it tasted great. The other less filling. Now that was money well spent. I'm sure miller lite or whoever did gained some devoted followers.

[ArrogantBustard]

The entire message of those ads is:

MacIntosh just < dramatic pause > works. All the time. With everything.

PC just < dramatic pause > doesn't work. All the time. With everything.

Stuff and nonsense! I've been working with computers of all types, from mainframes to embedded systems, since the late 1970s. I've seen them all just < dramatic pause > work. And I've seen them all just < dramatic pause > not work. Trouble is, "Mac" in the ads wants me to think he's the exception. I know better.

[don-o]

I've said it before and I'll say it again.

Kill Your Television!!

[mnehring]

Bump that.. my first thought in reading these types of stories is, maybe, just maybe, they portray us men as goofs and oafs because we are supposed to be man enough to take it and not go whining that they aren’t being nice to us. Frankly, I don’t see much difference in the ribbing they give us and what we give each other.

Can you imagine Patton or Churchill whining that the media wasn’t being fair to the ‘male stereotype’. I sure don’t want to see anyone complaining that the media starts portraying men as whining about stereotypes we don’t like, just as women do about the models in fashion magazines, because many of us are doing just that.