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Is it just me, or does this Audi "Green Police" ad succinctly summarize Obama's dream for America? It's a perfect melding of enviro-soviets and police state fascism.

Even though, the day after it aired on the Super Bowl broadcast, the consensus on the Focus on the Family advertisement featuring former Florida quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was that it wasn't as bad as the left had feared, at least one person that isn't going to let it go. On MSNBC's Feb. 8 "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough made the point that the TV spot played during the Feb. 7 game was inoffensive and painted the opponents of it as being upset about nothing. "One other thing too, talking about the soft touch - Focus on...

NEW YORK – Think Sunday night's Super Bowl seemed like it had a lot of ads? You're right. Commercials took up nearly 48 minutes of the game — the most for any Super Bowl. .. nearly 3 minutes longer than last year's total, the previous record holder. ... Commercials typically come in 30-second blocks — which sold this year for between $2.5 million and more than $3 million. But Kantar says seven of this year's 66 ads were just 15 seconds long. That's the most since 2002.

PASADENA - Gabe Trevino found it funny that his grandpa wanted to be buried with beer and cigarettes. So Trevino, who attends Pasadena's Mosaic Church service on Sundays, had a good start when he sat down to write a commercial to be produced by Mosaic's lead Pastor Erwin McManus. Mosaic's commercial is one of six finalists for the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl competition. The three entries with the most votes from Internet viewers will air Sunday during the big game. Voting ended Jan. 31. McManus, of Whittier, leads the church's seven congregations in Pasadena, Whittier, downtown Los Angeles, Beverly...

Considering the abortion lobby's deluge of pre-emptive protest against the Tim Tebow Super Bowl advertisement, sponsored by Focus on the Family, few might have guessed its actual form, first unveiled last night: a clean, simple, family-oriented message that never mentioned abortion. The brief spot, garnished with light humor, left pro-abortion forces so scattered in their effort to respond that one group even called another's harsh criticism of the ad "absurd." The ad took two forms - one that showed during the pre-game show, and an extended version that played during the Super Bowl. The first spot shows Pam Tebow against...

The video features a star quarterback and a strong pro-life message. But it's not the ad by Tim Tebow and his mother. A 9-minute pro-life video featuring six members of the New York Giants team that won Super Bowl XXI is similar to the ad expected from Tebow, without the surrounding firestorm. Wellington Mara, the son of the Giants' founder, was co-owner of the team until his death in 2005. Along the way, he became an iconic figure in the NFL and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Mara also was staunchly pro-life, serving on the board of the...

In addition to a pair of well-matched teams and a sufficient dose of fourth-quarter suspense concerning the outcome, yesterday's Super Bowl was the first in several years to feature an ad meriting comment in an energy blog. The subject of the ad was the new Audi A3 TDI clean diesel car, which was recently named "Green Car of the Year" for 2010. I was intrigued by the ad's tagline of "Green has never felt so right", positioning the car as painlessly green. Having had the opportunity to drive one at the recent Washington Auto Show, I can attest that the...

Well, I guess I'm finally forced to admit it. I'm officially "over the hill". I simply didn't "get" most of the Super Bowl ads. Most simply didn't make any sense what so ever to me. When I did figure a couple out, I couldn't figure out what they were advertising. And when I figured out what they were advertising, I didn't know what it was, what it did, why I needed one, and what I would do with it if I got one. And then there seemed to be lots of ads with guys taking their clothes off for no...

I’m sure some idiot at Audi thought these “Green Police” commercials for the Super Bowl would be funny. I found them downright offensive and not the least bit funny. In the collection of ads below, you see a guy at the store pick “plastic” when the checkout gal asks “paper or plastic” and the Green Police immediately arrest the earth-destroyer for his intended assault on Mother Gaia. (Didn’t these enviro-idiots come up with the plastic bags some 20 years ago to save the earth from all the trees being killed for paper bags?) You also have Green Police digging through...

Does this really make you want to buy an Audi or stop the green police?

If you're like me, Audi's Green Police ad during yesterday's Superbowl was sort of a high point of creepiness -- and not just for its boomerific revival of a classic Cheap Trick song. No, the celebration of the right car purchase -- a "clean diesel" -- as a get-out-of jail-free card for a totalitarian eco-state sort of ruined car shopping for you while also hinting a bit too strongly at the direction in which the world is inching in its intolerant, lemming-like way. Our friends in Britain already have to worry about government snoops pawing through their garbage and forcing...

LINK TO SUPERBOWL AD AND ADDITIONAL MOCKING ADS FROM AUDI The Audi A3 TDI Diesel was named by Green Car Journal at the L.A. Auto Show as the GREEN CAR OF THE YEAR. Besides the staff of Green Car Journal and self-described environmentalists, the judges include Jay Leno and legendary muscle car icon Carroll Shelby. The TDI clean diesel gets 42 mpg. Gee, maybe we can have a balance of doing good environmentally, lessening dependence on foreign oil, and actually not destroying jobs and economies. Ya think? That is Audi's point in a series of ads about the Green...

Focus on the Family Pro-Life Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercials by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 7, 2010 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Focus on the Family Super Bowl commercials featuring Tim Tebow and his mother Pam have been the subject of national attention for weeks. Below, LifeNews.com has obtained the videos and text of the two 30-second Super Bowl commercials with Pam Tebow sharing her story of not having an abortion. In-Game Advertisement Pam: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn't make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him....

Pro-Abortion Group: Tebow Super Bowl Ad Promotes Domestic Violence Washington, DC -- Unable to gain any tradition by calling the Focus on the Family Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad extremist or over the top, pro-abortion groups today are offering a new dig on the commercial. The president of NOW and other abortion advocates claim the ad promotes domestic violence. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5975.html

Perhaps the ads from Focus on the Family featuring Pam Tebow and her son Tim act as a sort of Rorshach test for some people. Where most viewers would see the ads as playful, light, and welcoming, some see them as a threat — and maybe some don’t see them at all outside of their preconceived notions. Power Line notices that the Associated Press misreports the content of the two ads: But not every commercial was strictly humorous. Automaker Toyota aired several pregame ads to reassure worried owners after its recalls connected with accelerator problems.And a commercial by conservative Christian...

Controversy surrounded the Tim Tebow and Mom Super Bowl ad long before it aired last night ... MSNBC said this morning that it was one of the worst Super Bowl commercials of the night. The pre-Super Bowl discussion was primarily focused on the issue of abortion - whether that was an option or not for Mrs. Tebow when she was pregnant with Tim, and whether CBS should broadcast a decidedly pro-life commercial. Focus on the Family, a Christian organization, created and sponsored the commercial featuring the 2009 Heisman Trophy Winner and his loving mother. Now that everyone has had a...

Pro-choice advocates could counter the Tim Tebow Pro-life Super Bowl ad by producing an ad featuring a woman who tells about the blessings she experienced as a result of choosing to abort.Imagine a woman the age of Tebow's mom speaking eloquently about the many positive effects on her life that resulted from her decision to have an abortion in the late 1980's. How enormously powerful it would be to hear her talk about these issues:

Focus on the Family Unveils Second Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad Miami, FL -- If you think you have read all there is on the Focus on the Family commercial featuring Tim Tebow and his mother's decision not to have an abortion -- wait, there's more. Officials at the pro-life group announced today that they are unveiling a second ad that will air before the Super Bowl begins. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5969.html

February 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Striking back at the pro-life Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has issued its own abortion-themed football video, claiming that the true lesson of Tebow's story is that society should "respect and trust women" to make the decision to abort their child.  The Washington Post also added to the football-themed abortion debate this week, re-publishing a 1989 video of NFL players who condemned the destruction of unborn life for an American Life League video.The Tebow spot, entitled “Celebrate family, celebrate life," is sponsored by Focus on the Family.  Although details...