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Super Bowl Commercial Skewer-a-thon
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.
Here is a link to the part of the site that actualy has some CONTENT on it (GASP!)
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Not the posters fault though, only a Google.com search turns up the real site, the one linked off of their intro page is even either old or just has not been updated with the latest content yet.
Oh yah, ASF files with required plugins ahoy.
(the site is also dying fast to, hehe.)
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Two 30-second spots ... suggest illegal drug sale profits may help fuel terrorism.
And in the ideal world the suggestion would be caried through to the only obvious conclusion: prohibition of illegal drugs should be ended, and funds wasted on fighting the "drug war" should be redirected towards [voluntary] treatment programs for addicts. These are "your" tax dollars at work people (3.2 million of them, for 60 seconds of propaganda). If you don't like it then it's time for you to start withdrawing support from the system. (that's conceptually, semantically, and financially)
The "war on drugs" does not have a clearly defined enemy. It's been going on for what, 30 years? And there's no end in sight. The "war on terror" also does not have a clearly defined enemy. Are you ready for perpetual war?
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"Television commercials and commercial sporting events have never really been the focus of PBS programming."
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Nor are they now. The psychology BEHIND those commericals on the other hand, and even more so educating the public as to exactly what they are being constantly exposed to fits very well within the goals and ideals of public television.
Also makes for one darn fine program too. If I may say so.
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One thing you'll be able to look forward to: fewer sock puppet commercials, more anti-terror commercials.
Those aren't anti-terrorist commercials! They're anti-drug/anti-personal-freedom commercials!
They're taxpayer-funded government propaganda designed to fool people into thinking that users of ilegal drugs are somehow supporting terrorism. In reality, the only actual drug/terror link would be in opium-related narcotics (ie heroin), but I don't expect the super bowl ads will mention that. I also don't imagine they'll mention that opium exports from Afghanistan have increased since the Taliban was ousted, namely because the Taliban had (at our request) banned farmers from growing opium. No, these ads will just say that drug users support terrorists.
Personally, I'm 100% certain that when I buy MY drugs, they're locally grown and I'm in no way supporting terrorism. And it makes me awfully bitter that my taxes are being spent on a pair of superbowl ads that do nothing but slander me and the millions of other innocent americans who happen to enjoy smoking pot.
There are real threats to this country right now. The government was able to arrest 734,498 Americans for smoking pot last year, but was somehow unable to catch one lunatic in a cave in the mountains. It's downright shamefull.
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Not really off topic I guess.
It really amazes me how much orwell got it right. America seems to have really embraced his ideas. A continuing war, shifting enemies, contant surveilance, non stop bombardment of propaganda, a safe and cuddly big brother and of course doublespeak.
When bush started up the brownshirts (I mean the USA Freedom Corps) I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's double plus good to spy on your neighbors during the war of infinite justice against the axis of evil so join the USA Freedom Corps today!.
If I didn't know better I would have sworn Orwell was the speech writer.
War is necrophilia.