11 August 2005 - 11:28pm
The ad is pulled, but the question remains
NARAL has pulled the controversial ad on Roberts:
After a week of protests by conservatives, an abortion rights group said Thursday night it is withdrawing a television advertisement linking Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists.
"We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
(Thanks Bondad for the alert.)
Predictably, people who think a woman's womb belongs to the state are rejoicing. And I have to admit, after Jon Stewart's mocking, I couldn't see much gain in pushing the ad further.
Stewart's last jab was to make fun of the voiceover woman, and makes a lowbrow suggestion she hook up with "trailer voiceover man." That was a fucking offensive joke -- yeah, the uppity chick just needs to get laid, right, Jon?
But it got me thinking (again) about a problem I have with political ads in general:
They totally suck.
These Beltway agencies just crank these pieces of rhetorical shit out their pipelines like Twinkies. All the same. All seeming to have a solid shape on the outside. All full of mushy garbage of no value on the inside.
I'd like to see some liberal/progressive politicians and causes to hire someone else to do their ads. Look at the ads for The Island or The Constant Gardener. A lot more fucking interesting than the same old melodramatic music, the same urgent voice, the same on-screen graphics.... Who's getting paid to make this crap, anyway?
Anywayyyy......
NARAL ad or no ad, the question remains:
Who is this John Roberts? And what are his attitudes about women?
And the broader question hangs over this all:
What kind of country are we creating by flirting so closely with the enslavement of women?
People like to call us all sorts of names for bringing this up. Some people just wish we'd go away, so the boys can get back to talking about guns and money. But this is a fundamental question. You either believe a woman's body belongs to the woman, or to the government. No quibbling. No blowing the question off. It's time to take a stand, or shut up, sit down and accept the consequences.
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Because mass media has become so slogan driven, many of us are tuning out. We get better and more in-depth information away from it.
The agencies are being paid to write the crap, but most voters and views simply turn their backs - or turn the knob.
My new bumper strip? "I'd rather be blogging"
of NARAL to use something so easily traced. The guy in charge has apparently been fired, but he's already done enormous damage to the movement. This will reverberate for years. I know a lot of bloggers are making light of it, but this was a WingNuts dream. One has to wonder if the guy who approved it was a plant.
Anyway, Matsu is right. The press had one job - to call "Bullshit" when politicians tried to lie to us, or cover up their many, many crimes. Now, they not only don't tell us the truth, they repeat the spin. They're as much a part of the problem as the pols.
People are catching on. The MSM is racing toward obsolescence, and it's their own damned fault.
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