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SafeAuto Commercial
self | 1-8-12 | wl-law

Posted on 01/08/2012 5:39:08 PM PST by WL-law

Did anyone just see the safe-auto commercial following the Bronco's game?

It goes a little close to the edge in stereotyping an uninsured black father, with his family celebrating because he's finally "legal".

All the other insurance commercials are about getting insured for "less" ---but not this one.


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1 posted on 01/08/2012 5:39:12 PM PST by WL-law
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To: WL-law

Hate to say it, but the reason the commercial was made is because it is very close to accurate...


2 posted on 01/08/2012 5:42:57 PM PST by neverbluffer
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To: WL-law

https://www.google.com/search?q=safe-auto+commercial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=safe-auto+commercial&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv&ei=IkQKT_nWJsbXtwe8ioyMBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=a2884d728895ea49&biw=1152&bih=724


3 posted on 01/08/2012 5:46:04 PM PST by Principled
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To: neverbluffer
"Hate to say it, but the reason the commercial was made is because it is very close to accurate.."

We ALL need to start being un-afraid to talk DIRECTLY about the obvious, and not be FORCED by the Progressives to shut up about the problems of the black culture.

Why is Africa still a 3rd world country, and invents nothing, produces no intellectual benefit, etc.?

Back in the 70's, my motto was "Boating, not busing", but today I get attacked for "Hate Speech".

Good commercial, in my estimation.

We listen to Gangsta Rap pounding down the streets, and "get Whitey" is NEVER "Hate Speech".

4 posted on 01/08/2012 5:46:27 PM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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To: WL-law
Did you wonder if this Safe Auto commercial is too close to the edge?

5 posted on 01/08/2012 5:47:55 PM PST by I see my hands (The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
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To: traditional1

Not only streets, all workplaces it seems. Some of the night crews I support changing equipment out in a major bank blast Gangsta the entire time they are by themselves and turn it down to audible when bank people are there to test and sign off.


6 posted on 01/08/2012 5:49:50 PM PST by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: WL-law

It’s not stereotyping, it’s identifying and reaching out to a target market. Done all the time in advertising.


7 posted on 01/08/2012 5:50:26 PM PST by rwa265 ("This is My Beloved Son, Listen to Him.")
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To: WL-law

I’m surprised that commercial wasn’t followed by a KFC commercial followed by Colt 45 Malt liquor commercial. /sarc


8 posted on 01/08/2012 5:52:01 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: traditional1

Umm, Africa is a Continent, not a country. Just sayin’


9 posted on 01/08/2012 5:55:12 PM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: WL-law

Gotta be some fluke, because all the commercials I see have the black people as the smart, in-charge, knowing ones....while the white guy is the dufus.


10 posted on 01/08/2012 5:59:53 PM PST by ErnBatavia (Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
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To: ErnBatavia
The character in this commercial looks like a spoof of the spoofs that MadTV used to do.
11 posted on 01/08/2012 6:19:11 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: rabidralph

But everyone, in the YouTube comments, is likening him to Dave Chapelle.


12 posted on 01/08/2012 6:21:14 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: WL-law

I guess I’ll have to wait until it’s on youtube.


13 posted on 01/08/2012 6:21:55 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~..... GO NEWT GO.....!)
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To: traditional1
Africa still a 3rd world country

Africa is not a country. It is a continent which is a bit different than a country.
14 posted on 01/08/2012 6:42:45 PM PST by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: saganite
"Umm, Africa is a Continent, not a country. Just sayin’"

Yep; that's true....lotsa "countries" on the African Continent, but since the Progressives and tribes there all agreed to change the names to disguise what used to be called "The Belgian Congo", "Zaire", "Zanzabar", etc., I don't know all the new names.

Boating to anywhere on the Motherland Continent is fine with me. We'd save trillions in tax dollars, and crime would go to near zero, in most places.

Micahael Jordan Aire tennis shoe sales would go to zero, also.

15 posted on 01/08/2012 6:48:12 PM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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To: JSteff
"Africa is not a country. It is a continent which is a bit different than a country."

See post #15

16 posted on 01/08/2012 6:50:11 PM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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To: saganite

That’s all right, all those African countries look the same.


17 posted on 01/08/2012 6:56:40 PM PST by Newtoidaho (Fight organized crime. Vote out all incumbent Democrats!)
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To: WL-law

Maybe he’s like Obama, not black, but Arab.


18 posted on 01/08/2012 8:00:16 PM PST by Freddd (NoPA ngineers.)
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