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2007-02-05 Home Front: Culture Wars
Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War
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Posted by tu3031 2007-02-05 09:48|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 What's funny about a comb over beard?
Posted by Sneaze 2007-02-05 10:41||   2007-02-05 10:41|| Front Page Top

#2 It was all too obvious in the Go Daddy commercial.

I thought that the girl with the wet t-shirt was a perfect metaphor for the occupation of Iraq.
Posted by Danking70 2007-02-05 10:52||   2007-02-05 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Best comment I've seen so far on the game:

I’m happy that I live in a country where a young African-American child can dream that one day, he too will grow up and coach a team that loses the Super Bowl because his white quarterback isn’t very good.
Posted by Mike 2007-02-05 11:51||   2007-02-05 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 The one that got me had Katie Couric declaring "we hear lots of bad stories about America..." Talk about a tin ear.
Posted by Grunter 2007-02-05 12:03||   2007-02-05 12:03|| Front Page Top

#5 This guy better put earplugs in pronto, his brains have melted and are leaking down the side of his neck...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-02-05 12:05||   2007-02-05 12:05|| Front Page Top

#6 And your ratings are shit, Katie. Ever sit down and try to figure out why that is?
Posted by tu3031 2007-02-05 12:08||   2007-02-05 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 The fact that Katie was trying to drum up ratings with Superbowl ads says a lot about what's become of CBS news.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-02-05 12:31||   2007-02-05 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 Video review of the Superbowl ads here (7 minutes, pretty good).
Posted by Mike 2007-02-05 12:39||   2007-02-05 12:39|| Front Page Top

#9 It's increasing clear that working for the NYT is the cause of serious mental illness. In adhering to sound lefty policy, we should offer them the services of Dr. Kevorkian.
Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick  2007-02-05 12:48||   2007-02-05 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 For a while in the 80s, it was a fad, almost a fetish, for pop-culture critics (People magazine etc.) to make outlandishly strained claims of political symbolism and motivation in their reviews. One critic blasted the 1953 version of War of the Worlds as a McCarthyite propaganda piece designed to incite Cold War hysteria. He could not explain the relative impotence of the military in the film or the ultimately pacifist and internationalist symbolism of the film's conclusion, though he did mention these as a "strange anomaly," strange only because they didn't fit his forced characterization.
This is rather similar to the current "Blame America" fetish among graduate students, which seeks to attribute events as long ago as the mid 19th century to current administration policies, and quotes such long dead critics as General Smedley Butler (1881-1940) in an effort to prove American malfeasance.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-02-05 13:30||   2007-02-05 13:30|| Front Page Top

#11 This guy likes the Federline commercial?

Does he not get the irony in supporting that commercial? I mean, it belittles the poor™, and shows rap in a bad light. How many LLL "groupies" can you offend in one commercial?
Posted by BA 2007-02-05 14:52||   2007-02-05 14:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought the Federline ad was hilarious, m'self. At least K-Fed is self-aware.
Posted by Mike 2007-02-05 14:55||   2007-02-05 14:55|| Front Page Top

#13 a story...

A man is asked by his therapist to identify what he sees in a series of inkblots.

"That? That's two people having sex."
"So's that one."
"Whoa... that one's a guy and two girls. Dang."

The therapist nods sagely and says "I think you may have a preoccupation with sex."

"ME? YOU'RE the one showing me all the dirty pictures!"
Posted by eLarson 2007-02-05 16:55|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2007-02-05 16:55|| Front Page Top

#14 eLarson has it: Some people will see whatever it is they want to see, and to make this happen, will bend reality into shapes that would make your eyes curl.

This man is probably not well - seriously. Bookmark his name and check rehab clinics booking sheets...
Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-02-05 19:12||   2007-02-05 19:12|| Front Page Top

#15 The All-Midwest = "Battle of the Midwest" turned out to be more "Battle of the Referees/
Regulations", considering how many challenges and counter-challenges were made. SIGN OF THE TIMES - Head for the Hills and hide the women, the NFL is now the People's Gubmint Ministry of Regul Pigskins.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-05 19:20||   2007-02-05 19:20|| Front Page Top

#16 Right on Joe, and don't hit the QB below the knees/above the shoulders/wrap him up, etc. -NFL = Non-contact Football League.

As to the article - it's a wonder this guy can boot up a computer - what a clown.
Posted by Broadhead6 2007-02-05 21:43||   2007-02-05 21:43|| Front Page Top

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