Watch out for 'adult' ads

TownHall.com ^ | 1/24/03 | Brent Bozell

[Nick Danger]

PTC ping

[diotima]

Thanks for the PTC ping!

[July 4th]

I think the Miller and Nike ads are two of the most entertaining commercials I've seen in a while. Pardon me while I stop dragging my knuckles on the ground.

[Richard Kimball]

If you're going to criticize a commercial, at least get the facts straight.(not you Kattracks, the guy who wrote the article) The "let's make out" line is still in the commercial. When played on cable, it's in, when played on regular television, it's left out.

Actually, this ad doesn't bother me a bit. It's so over the top, no one can take it seriously, if they have any sense of humor at all.

Under the different strokes category, the current ad that does bug me is the Smirnoff Ice commercial where a bunch of heroin chic retards total out a laundromat and start dancing. Am I the only one who's noticing that more and more commercials (music videos have done it forever) that equate vandalism with having fun?

[Cultural Jihad]

Prurient moral-liberal social-Darwinist every-man-is-an-island do-your-own-thang-and-its-all-nobody's-business AIDS-R-Us no-unalienable-right-to-life immorality-generates-money BTTT.

[Romulus]

There's an interesting Capital One (credit card issuer) ad airing these days, that sells the queer agenda as hard as it does consumer credit. In 30 seconds, we're treated to: sexual role reversals (weak, feckless man; strong, competent woman); transvestism (the man is tossed into a pile of clothes and emerges wearing a pink feather boa and tiara), and the side-splitting humor of involuntary anal penetration (the credit card "monster" is impaled on a pencil).

[METARZAN]

Dude, you are tooooooooooo Deep, how about you swim a little closer to the shore where the rest of us are wading!

Metarzan

[nopardons]

What shocks me , more than these crude ads, are the FREEPERs who think that they're just fine. :-(

[Cultural Jihad]

Then there's the automobile commercial where a young couple are driving, and another unseen couple are obviously making out in the back seat. The front occupants are rolling their eyes in their oh-so-tolerant stance, even when a woman's foot extends into the front of the car. Once they reach their destination, the young driver says: "Mom, Dad, we're here."

Obviously they are not touting the features of their product. They are proselytizing moral-liberalism, and negating the kind messages which loving parents impart to their children. When enough consumers have to spend their money on medicines to treat self-inflicted diseases, or on taxes to help others, maybe these short-term-thinking marketing fools will change their tune.

[judgeandjury]

Two sexy bombshells, one blonde, one brunette, come to watery blows over the classic Lite slogans of "great taste" vs. "less filling," but with their clothes falling off and suggestive flashes of bulging bikini-clad breasts and buttocks.

Take Pepsi, whose last prominent campaign tweaked viewers by suggesting septuagenarian Bob Dole was taking an unhealthy fancy to teen-pop sex kitten Britney Spears.

Sexy bombshells? Sex kitten? What the heck do these phrases mean? It sounds like the author of this article has trouble looking at women in anything other than a sexual way. Perhaps he has some unresolved sexual issues that he might be able to work out by spending some time on an analyst's couch.

[Lurker]

A proper sentence needs a verb in it somewhere.

Keep practicing, and eventually you'll be able to write one.

L

[A.J.Armitage]

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.

The world is all...

And a bag of chips?

[ScoochDude]

When your 12 year old daughter is watching football w/you when the commercial comes on it bothers me a bit.

[MHGinTN]

Standing in an inch of water, I would imagine a bathtub appears deep to you. Romulus is right on the money, 'dude'. The credit card ad is designed to appeal to the 'alternate lifestyle' thinkers. The comapny producing the ad has said so during a business channel panel discussion of the upcoming SB commercials and their outrageous costs.

[A.J.Armitage]

No one's making you watch TV. I don't.

[MHGinTN]

You should include a comma prior to 'somewhere', grammarian.

[diotima]

Yes, clearly there is projection, no sex kitten here....

[Cultural Jihad]

No one's making you watch TV. I don't.

How fortunate for you that your children will never watch TV, nor be in the company of their peers who watch moral-liberal TV commercials, who come away thinking that rape and abuse are just harmless jokes. How fortunate for you that you will never have to pay taxes to care for the terrible results of people who are enticed to embrace a manana mindset. How lucky that your kids will never get stuck with a dirty needle in a public park long abandoned to the non-judgmental lawless and the live-for-today wreckless.

[diotima]

Hi Sweets!

The world is everything that is the case...and potato chips.