Tag Archives: CBS

Focus On The Family Buys Second Tebow Super Bowl Commercial

CBS has sold a second anti-abortion ad to Focus On The Family. This one, also featuring the Tebows, will be aired during the pre-game show. News of the second ad comes just days after, anticipating the Tebow ad, Planned Parenthood posted an online ad featuring Olympian Al Joyner and former NFL player Sean James defending abortion rights. Interest groups including …

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CBS Rejects Mancrunch Super Bowl Ad

Entertainment Weekly reports that CBS has officially rejected the ad from gay dating website Mancrunch. Yesterday I posted the ad, whose low production values led many to suspect that the entire project was a prank on CBS. CBS has decided it will not air an advertisement from gay dating website ManCrunch.com during Feb. 7’s Super Bowl XLIV, EW has confirmed. …

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Go Daddy’s Rejected Super Bowl Ad

Domain seller Go Daddy will have at least two commercials during this year’s Super Bowl. According to the company, CBS rejected the below ad, which features an effeminate former football player turned fashion designer. Apparently CBS is worried about offending gay viewers. Worried about offending millions of pro-choices Americans, not so much.

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CBS Considers Gay Ad For Super Bowl

All the blowback over Focus On The Family’s anti-abortion Super Bowl ad may be having an effect at CBS, who is said to be considering accepting an ad from a gay dating site. Or at least, they are pretending to consider it. The 30-second spot shows two men excitedly watching the game, before their hands brush as they both reach …

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Tim Tebow Aborts His Shirt

I totally had to steal the above headline from TMZ. The actual story here is that women’s rights groups have joined the call for CBS to cancel the planned Super Bowl anti-abortion ad from Tebow and Focus On The Family. A national coalition of women’s groups called on CBS on Monday to scrap its plan to broadcast an ad during …

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CBS’s Super Bowl Commercials Policy: Anti-Abortion – Yes, Pro-Gay – No

Last week we learned that CBS will be running an anti-abortion ad from Focus On The Family during the Super Bowl, despite having rejected an ad several years ago from the pro-gay United Church of Christ, telling them that the network doesn’t won’t accept an ad that “touches on and/or takes a position on one side of a current controversial …

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Wingnuts Livid Over CBS’ Frosty The Snowman Promotions

CBS is promoting its nighttime lineup with a series of webclips in which dialog from their more popular shows is dubbed over scenes from the children’s holiday classic Frosty The Snowman. And guess who doesn’t like that? Via the right-wing site Newsbusters: In a perverse advertisement currently on the its Web site, CBS is trying to cross market the crass …

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CBS’ Early Show Blurs Out Adam’s Same-Sex Kiss, But Not Britney-Madonna’s

After Elton points out that Adam Lambert’s point about a double standard for gay males does exist after CBS’ Early Show this morning blurred out his American Music Awards kiss with a male band member, but did not do the same when rerunning Madonna’s open-mouthed kiss with Britney Spears. Call CBS to complain: 212-975-4321. (Tipped by JMG reader Lisa)

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Letterman Apologizes To Wife And Staff

Last night David Letterman apologized to his wife and staff for having humiliated them. The host of “Late Show with David Letterman” said in the taping of his Monday show that he will try to patch things up with Regina, whom he married in March after dating for more than 20 years. The two have a 5-year-old son, Harry. “She …

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David Letterman Reveals Affairs With Staffers, Extortion Attempt

Last night David Letterman shocked his viewers when he revealed that he has been the subject of a $2M extortion attempt by a man threatening to go public with information that he’d had sexual affairs with female staffers of his show. Letterman said that yesterday he’d testified before a grand jury and that the man, a CBS employee, has been …

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GLAAD: HBO Leads Networks In LGBT Portrayals, NBC & CBS Last

GLAAD has issued its third annual survey of the top 15 television networks and found that HBO leads the pack in the portrayals of LGBT characters. In GLAAD’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, which evaluated the five major networks and 10 cable outlets, HBO — the home to True Blood, Entourage and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — scored the …

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And That’s The Way It Is,
Walter Cronkite Dies At Age 92

Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man” in the history of television news, has died in New York City at the age of 92. Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his …

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Anti-Letterman Rally In Times Square

Socialism and illegal immigration were just some of the completely unrelated topics being shouted about by the crackpots at a protest of David Letterman’s joke about Sarah Palin’s daughter.

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CBS To Birthers: Get Bent

World Net Daily is outraged because CBS is refusing to allow their billboard company (the nation’s largest) to sell them space for their “Where Is The Birth Certificate?” campaign. The WND site presently has nine separate posts on its main page alleging that Barack Obama is not a “natural born” American citizen and is therefore ineligible to be president. “Here …

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CBS: Is Iowa The Tipping Point?

From today’s Hot Topic on the CBS news blog: The decision by the Iowa Supreme Court to overturn that state’s gay marriage ban is prompting questions about whether or not the battle over gay marriage, long a central focus in the culture war, has reached a tipping point in American culture. Iowa, as gay marriage backers like to point out, …

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Arranged Marriage Reality Show For CBS

Forget the Bachelor, Married By America, and all those other reality shows that demonstrate the God-ordained sanctity of one-man/one-woman marriage. CBS is treading into potentially controversial reality TV territory again. The network has ordered a new series from the producers of “Top Chef” that puts lovelorn singles into arranged marriages. The show introduces four adults age approximately 25-45 who are …

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