NBC Rejects CatholicVote’s $1.5 Million
About a week ago, CatholicVote launched a national media campaign titled “Life: Imagine the Potential” where they combine an ultrasound, kick-you-in-the-gut sappy music and our newly elected and inaugurated pro-choice president, Barack Obama.
CatholicVote was prepared to pay NBC $1.5 million for a commercial slot in the Superbowl and while NBC is home to MSNBC and left-wing political pundits like Keith Olbermann and my personal favorite, Rachel Maddow, it’s no surprise, really, that NBC rejected to air the controversial and in my opinion, completely out-of-left-field ad, considering it puts a pro-choice president in a pro-life campaign. However, NBC does not discriminate against distasteful ads, unluckily for us, but they do refuse to air commercials that promote political or activist agendas.
Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org reacted saying:
“There is nothing objectionable in this positive, life-affirming advertisement. We show a beautiful ultrasound, something NBC’s parent company GE has done for years. We congratulate Barack Obama on becoming the first African-American President. And we simply ask people to imagine the potential of every human life.”
Keep in mind that the people of CatholicVote and the Catholic and other major religious people and organizations as a whole were the same people warding the masses not to vote for Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign against John McCain based on the fact that he is pro-choice. This ad is hypocritical for the fact that they are congratulating Obama on becoming the “first African-American” president; not just for becoming president, but for becoming the first African-American president that they merely see as an opportunity to use in a campaign without a second thought that their message completely goes against their “star’s” personal beliefs in the first place.
Kristina on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 2:00 pm
But you have missed the irony…all of people, Pres. Obama should be a person who sees the potential of every human life. Women deserve better than abortion.
Holly on Sun, 1st Feb 2009 2:16 pm
I agree, women do deserve better… We deserve better than being told that we “deserve better than abortion” just because of someone else’s opinion of abortion. We deserve better than being told what we shouldn’t do because it conflicts with someone else’s viewpoint. We deserve the ability to make our own choices based on our own merit. We deserve the ability to receive health care and contraception and thus limiting the need of abortion. There is potential of human life, I’ll give you that, but there are people who are put to death due to the death penalty in effect in this country and yet, pro-life people seem to unanimously be in favor of that and there was potential in their human lives, was there not? Or did those lives not matter?
Emily on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 5:34 pm
“they merely see as an opportunity to use in a campaign without a second thought that their message completely goes against their “star’s” personal beliefs in the first place.”
REALLY? The star of this commerical (Pres. Obama) is not glad that his mother didn’t kill him in the womb? That’s hard to believe. The word abortion was never mentioned in this ad. It speaks the truth – President Obama had a tough childhood and beat the odds, and would have never had that oppurtunity to beat the odds if he had been killed. What’s wrong with saying that? I know the truth scares some people.
Holly on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 8:27 pm
The truth does scare some people, which is why CatholicVote made this PSA in the first place. It is just too damn scary to know that we have a pro-choice president and women can continue to make their own personal choices so this ad was set into motion as yet another ploy to guilt women out of abortion.
Anon on Mon, 9th Feb 2009 9:54 pm
Holly, those who are put to death, well their lives do NOT matter. They have killed. They are not innocent fetuses. Personally, I couldn’t care less about the pro choice/pro life ‘debate’, but I at least have the sense not to compare a murderer to a fetus.
streaming on Tue, 10th Feb 2009 6:39 pm
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Meat Online on Fri, 13th Feb 2009 2:14 pm
It is a very silly add. It is nice to think of the potential of life, but that is really silly how they now use it in this way. I hope people can think for themselves and not be manipulated by what they see on TV.