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Leno: Only Super Bowl Ads Nobody Gets Mad at Are White Guys Making Fools of Themselves Over Beer
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Posted on 02/06/2013 11:25:13 AM PST by chessplayer

Rather predictably, many of last Sunday's Super Bowl ads have been criticized for supposedly being racist.

On NBC's Tonight Show Tuesday, host Jay Leno marvelously asked, “When will advertisers learn the only stereotype nobody gets mad at is white guys making fools of themselves over beer?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

“You knew this was going to happen,” Leno teased during his opening monologue. “Complaints keep coming in about a lot of the Super Bowl commercials.”

He continued, “Some Arab-American groups claimed the Coke commercial - remember the one depicting a sheik walking his camel across the desert? They said that was anti-Arab. Another group said the Volkswagen commercial - remember, everybody speaking with a Jamaican accent? Oh, they said that was racist.”

And the punch line?

“When will advertisers learn the only stereotype nobody gets mad at is white guys making fools of themselves over beer? Okay? That's the only one. That is the only one you can do”

Sadly, he’s right.

It appears the only jokes that are safe in today’s politically correct world are about white men.

But why should that surprise anyone?

For at least the last four years, America’s media have been blaming all the problems in society on white guys.

Why should commercials be any different?


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ads; comedy; leno; whitemales
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1 posted on 02/06/2013 11:25:18 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Everything is the White Guy’s fault until we are killed off, Run out or just leave. The. It’s our fault for leaving.


2 posted on 02/06/2013 11:29:40 AM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: chessplayer
For at least the last four years, America’s media have been blaming all the problems in society on white guys.

For at least the past four and forty, he meant. This has been going on here a long time.

3 posted on 02/06/2013 11:29:40 AM PST by skeeter
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To: chessplayer

Dopey dads, too. You can make fun of dopey dads. Because everyone knows dad might do well enough professionally to set up his family in a 3,000 square foot colonial in the suburbs, but put him in the kitchen, and he’s going to end up cracking raw eggs into the toaster, putting his flip-flops in the blender, milking the cat, etc.


4 posted on 02/06/2013 11:30:33 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: chessplayer

I watched the video of Leno. That is pretty funny even if true. :-)


5 posted on 02/06/2013 11:31:16 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: chessplayer

Actually, it`s not just beer. White guys are funny when they’re fat, when they’re kids smart mouth them and get away with it, when their wives cheat on them and when they’re really stupid. Which is all the time. Oh, and when the kids sneak money out of “dumbass Dad’s” wallet. All of these scenarios make for uproariously funny sitcoms!!~sarc


6 posted on 02/06/2013 11:32:33 AM PST by albie (`)
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To: chessplayer

i love the old folks Taco Bell commercial... hope no one saw it as ageist... and the Calvin Klein Concepts commercial for obvious reasons... hope no one saw it as anti-not in shape... or even if they did, who cares?


7 posted on 02/06/2013 11:33:13 AM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Dopey dads, too. You can make fun of dopey dads. Because everyone knows dad might do well enough professionally to set up his family in a 3,000 square foot colonial in the suburbs, but put him in the kitchen, and he’s going to end up cracking raw eggs into the toaster, putting his flip-flops in the blender, milking the cat, etc.

Women generally want to marry men they admire, men who are AT LEAST as capable as themselves.

How many women on FR consider the man they married to be a doofus? Or even significantly less intelligent than themselves?

8 posted on 02/06/2013 11:33:57 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: chessplayer

chessplayer ~:” It appears the only jokes that are safe in today’s politically correct world are about white men.
But why should that surprise anyone?
For at least the last four years, America’s media have been blaming all the problems in society on white guys. “

Why would this surprise anyone ?
The commercials are designed to present a message in under 30 seconds.
The message appeals to the : ‘under-informed’, ‘ill-informed’, and the ‘ilitterate masses’
of “sheeple” who lack the patience for a meaningful message
Its always the White Guy that is the problem .. /sarc


9 posted on 02/06/2013 11:35:41 AM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (" Our enemies no longer fear us, our friends no longer trust us " .. Why would they ?)
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To: chessplayer

Yeah, we’re such fools. So much so that I LMAO when I imagine a region of PC-only types and what an absolute zoo that would be. DC, Detroit and California are coming readily to mind.


10 posted on 02/06/2013 11:35:48 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: chessplayer

Is Hollywood finally recognizing the absurdity of hyper-sensitivity and political correctness among interest groups? Sometimes I think some of these interest groups are just paranoid . . . sometimes the snake in the grass is just a stick and there’s nothing to get hyper about!


11 posted on 02/06/2013 11:35:48 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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To: PapaBear3625

The idiots in the media trying to be politically correct are actually saying the reverse in constantly trying to put down the dumb white guy.


12 posted on 02/06/2013 11:39:36 AM PST by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: chessplayer

i’ve found the dmeonization of white men very offensive

of course, no one cares... unless i stop paying my ‘protection money’


13 posted on 02/06/2013 11:44:07 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: chessplayer

i’ve found the demonization of white men very offensive

of course, no one cares... unless i stop paying my ‘protection money’


14 posted on 02/06/2013 11:44:15 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: chessplayer

White guys have it easy, All they have to do is:

1) Do all the work
2) Pay all the bills
3) Shut up!
4) Die as soon as possible after retirement

I guess I’m working on #4 right now. I failed miserably on #3


15 posted on 02/06/2013 11:44:23 AM PST by beelzepug (Telling other people they need to die is a good way to get your own lamp blown out.)
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To: chessplayer
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16 posted on 02/06/2013 11:46:29 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: albie

Actually, it`s not just beer. White guys are funny when they’re fat, when they’re kids smart mouth them and get away with it, when their wives cheat on them and when they’re really stupid. Which is all the time. Oh, and when the kids sneak money out of “dumbass Dad’s” wallet. All of these scenarios make for uproariously funny sitcoms!!~sarc


The liberals who write those shows are full blown racists, but they know that the only permitted bigotry is against whites.


17 posted on 02/06/2013 11:47:06 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Women form the majority of the television viewing audience.

Appealing to the desires of the audience, is what sells entertainment.


18 posted on 02/06/2013 11:47:06 AM PST by research99
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To: chessplayer
Speaking of making fun of people...

Has everyone seen Obama’s new Sec of interior? Just wow. Talk about a bulldyke granola cruncher.

You can just picture her in red sneakers, baggy boy-scout shorts, a chain-drive wallet, leather underwear, and a dildo strapped to her head.

19 posted on 02/06/2013 11:49:39 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: chessplayer

Leno is right and he is wrong.

Right because the white man is the most prevalent target, but Catholics are also in open season, and if a Catholic isn’t available , any Christian will do.


20 posted on 02/06/2013 11:51:39 AM PST by Venturer
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