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Move over Dorrito-chomping super models and Budweiser horses, the latest buyer of outrageously expensive Super Bowl advertising time is the US Government. Washington is spending $2.5 million in an attempt to encourage Americans to participate in the census and that's just a small percentage of the whopping $133 million the entire census ad campaign will spend.

To My Conservative Friends: Back by Popular Demand!!! The worst politically correct commercials of the year... As I have mentioned before, these PC Commercials really get me enraged. From portraying Dad's/Husbands like idiots to always walking on egg-shells not to offend any minority group is getting really lame and tired. Many of you have emailed me your selections, but I have listed below the 3 that really annoy the sh-- out of me. Without any further ado, here they are: #3 - The typical Dad is a Schmuck routine...

The US House of Representatives has approved a bill which aims to limit the volume of television advertisements. The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) was approved by a voice vote in the house...

TV timeout? Blame the guy in the red hat Saturday, September 12, 2009 3:26 AM By Tim Feran THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH If you become irate over a long TV timeout during tonight's game between Ohio State University and the University of Southern California, there's a good reason to see red. A person called the "red hat" is to blame. Known officially as the TV commercial timeout coordinator, the official stands on the sidelines, wears a red hat and is responsible for when to stop and start play on the field for commercial breaks. "It's not very easy," said Oliver Dizon,...

The parties have each released new commercials, so we can have our fun with them. First up, the Dems. They would like to use the Palin resignation for their advantage, so they tried to shoehorn a couple of other scenarios to make it look like some pattern by Republicans: [both commercials posted after the jump]

Television commercials are too loud, as most viewers know, and members of Congress want broadcasters to turn down the volume. A bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., would require the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to "preclude commercials from being broadcast at louder volumes than the program material they accompany." That idea is hard to resist, but it might be difficult to mandate. "Many different entities are responsible for producing and distributing the content consumers see and hear," U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said Thursday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications Subcommittee.

Commercials against Hilary Care were absolutely essential for its defeat. Now, Obama is talking about pushing through a huge national healthcare bill by August! The stories I read make it clear the plan will be a frightening blow to our health and economy. Do we know if anyone is working on an ad campaign to expose the obvious dangers of socialized medicine? We need the House dems from conservative districts to be scared away from this awful nonsense. My wife, a cancer survivor, literally keeps telling me they are going to kill her. Apoparently she has heard reports of how...

ABC Television has slashed the cost of commercials during today’s Academy Awards broadcast. In 2008, 30-second commercials went for as much as $1.8 million. This year, they’re going for as little as $1.4 million. Once considered invulnerable to economic ups and downs, the Academy Awards has discovered that it can’t get away with jacking up the ad rates every year. Especially in a year when all five Best Film nominees have been ignored by movie-goers. Here’s a tip for the Oscars’ nominating committee:

In case you might have stepped away from the television during yesterday's Super Bowl -- here is a website that contains all the commercials. Enjoy! (Samples below -- more at the website at link.)   Bud Light Office Meeting Audi Transporter Pepsi Forever Young Doritos Snow Globe Bud Light Conan Columbia Year One Toyota Venza Bridgestone Mr. Potato Head Universal Fast & Furious Castrol Grease Monkeys Universal Land of the Lost Doritos Bus GoDaddy.com Shower Budweiser Fetch  

Riveted by the Steelers' thrilling comeback? Heartbroken by the Cardinals' late lead slipping away? Then we won't begrudge you missing a few of the Super Bowl commercials. In fact, we'll help you out. Go back and watch any commercial you missed, as we list the 10 best ads, 10 worst ads, and provide you with a quarter-by-quarter breakdown of all the commercials.

Some 250 teenage boys will pile onto the carpet of the Islamic Center of Passaic County on Sunday to catch the Super Bowl on a big screen. But when the much-buzzed-about commercials come on, they won't be watching. A youth leader manning the projector slaps a piece of paper over the lens, blocking out images the center considers inappropriate, such as beers and bikinis. "The purpose is to keep them away from bad influences," said Emad Hamdeh, the youth committee director. "The beer commercials show people happy while drinking; that's not reality." During the self-imposed blackouts, the boy fans don't...

"For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world." (1 John 2:16) I was watching TV last night with my family (if you are curious, it was The Smoking Gun presents: The World's Dumbest). The show is a "countdown" of video clips of accidents or mishaps invovling a common theme, punctuated by commentary from a bunch of B-list actors and ex-celebrities (Danny Bonaduce from The Partridge Family, Leif Garrett, Tonya Harding, Gary Busey and some others(*)). It...

To my Conservative Friends: As a Conservative and a capitalist, I understand that free-market enterprise and profit are integral to a thriving and growing economy. That being said, I must say the broadcast Networks, in cahoots with the advertisers, have gotten waaaaay out of hand with the downright inappropriate commercials for the kids... Now the networks have chosen to move a lot of the sports programming at night to increase their revenues because they can charge more for ads... Fine... But they should be forced to curtail some of their explicit advertising so the kids can watch... I am not...

The latest British Airways commericial "the aquarium".. The song is "the good life" sung by Julie London ..just one of those things I had to look up..enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBwrmEpikPI

I have an idea for a commercial .... opens with CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE ..... then you see someone hold out their hand holding some CHANGE (nickels, dimes, etc) talking about how obama plan would worsen economy and small business .... then at end coin toss ... end up on "tails, you lose !"

bad enough that parents have to shield their children from what Hollywood calls entertainment. Now they have to be equally vigilant with the messages and visuals put forward by the advertisers who sponsor that filth. Parents can become discouraged by the sheer intensity of the commercial manipulation of sex. It's everywhere. Reporter Matt Spector of ABCNews.com recently underlined how the hypersexualization of teenagers in advertising is intensifying. A Greek print ad for previously owned BMW autos features a clearly teenage-looking girl shot from her naked shoulders up, her blond hair splayed around her head across the page. The ad's come-hither...

You’ve seen him plenty of times on sitcoms; he’s the dumb, bumbling, idiot dad, husband and boyfriend who appears useless at everything but bringing home a paycheck. The message: Guys are dumb and women have to lead them around. This, of course, cues the laugh track. Yet a survey from an organization called Children Now found that two-thirds of kid respondents described men on TV as angry, while respondents from another group’s survey said men were portrayed as corrupt on TV by a 17 to 1 margin. Clearly, this is no laughing matter. To highlight companies pushing anti-guy messages, we’ve...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI Video: 5 Reasons Not To Go To Work By Rizzuto Mon Apr 14, 2008 - Apparently, this is what passes as a government PSA in Canada. This has got to be one of the most disturbing group of videos I've ever seen, I just had to share it. The screams in the first video are blood curdling. Enjoy!

CHINA, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, IS A BIG FORCE IN THE extraordinary boom in commodities. Its voracious appetite for everything from corn and wheat to copper and oil has helped push up U.S. commodities prices by some 50% over the past 12 months. But China is by no means the whole story. Speculators -- including small investors -- are also playing a huge role. Thanks to the proliferation of mutual funds and exchange-traded funds tied to commodities indexes, speculative buying has gone way beyond anything the domestic commodities markets have ever seen. By one estimate, index funds right now account for...

Democrat James Carville and former Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) star in one of Co...ca-Cola's Super Bowl commercials. Watch it here before it debuts during the game.