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Super Bowl Commercial Skewer-a-thon

Posted by michael on from the because-pets-can't-drive dept.

tunabomber writes: "Those planning on tuning in to America's Patriotic Sports TV Event of the Year to catch the new commercials will no longer have to sit through all that football filler. PBS, of all networks, is airing a postgame show in which the subject of discussion is not the game, but the commercials. Super Commercials: A Mental Engineering Special is a beefed-up episode of the cultish Mental Engineering series where a panel of experts, including former Daily Show host Lizz Winstead and a Silicon Valley computer scientist, critique (read: eviscerate) Super Bowl commercials. There are also blurbs about this at The Kansas City Star and The St. Paul Star Tribune." One thing you'll be able to look forward to: fewer sock puppet commercials, more anti-terror commercials.

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  1. Hmm by Redking · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    Are you ready for perpetual war?
    Hmm...sounds like 1984. Yes, off-topic I know.

    rk
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    1. Re:Hmm by mpe · · Score: 3, Offtopic

      The war on terrorism is a completely different story. While the civil rights abuses of the USA government are alarming, the fact remains that unless stopped (killed) terrorists WILL KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE ON PURPOSE. Terrorists are evil, plain and simple. Terrorists should be hunted down and eradicated.

      A "war against terrorism" is about a smeaningful as a "war against bombs". Terrorism is simply a method of persuing warfare.

      And I am glad that the Americans have taken on the job of wiping out terrorists.

      Except that it isn't wiping out terrorists it's a half hearted attempt to deal with terrorists the US dodn't like.

      It would be nice if the american's would pause for a moment to consider why they are the most hated nation on the planet, but this is secondary compared to the importance of wiping out terrorist vermin.

      One of the reasons for people not liking the US is the the US trains terrorists, supports states which user terrorism and has itself enguaged in a lot ot terrorism. Indeed the US has actually been found guilty. by the UN, of being a "terrorist state".
      If the US government was serious about wiping out terrorism they'd have started with the CIA, then moved on to Israel. (Only the US and Israel opposed a UN resolution against, state sponsored, terrorism.)

    2. Re:Hmm by SubtleNuance · · Score: 3, Offtopic

      WILL KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE ON PURPOSE.
      Goto Chiapas, Guatemala, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Philippines, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba,..,..., tell *them* that.

      Ever hear of the School of Americas? Its your own little Terrorist Training Camp.

      Have you ever read this gem? http://www.antioffline.com/uscuba.html

      Wow, imagine that - a pre-fabricated excuse for aggression, America(TM) would *never* do anything like that...?

      The ignorance and myopia caused by America Jingoism is amazing -- and scary.

      America is a Rogue Nation Out of Control.