February 1, 2004, S.B. Postgame/More S.C. Pregame
Congratulations to the fans of the New England Patriots, 32-29 winners of Super Bowl XXXVIII. Given that our national game is, of course, football, one wonders why so many New Englanders chose to wed themselves to the fate of their perennially disappointing Red Sox, when they have had great teams in other sports, be it the Celtics of the '60's and '80's, or the Patriots of now, that seem, well, underappreciated comparatively. But then, a far better question might be, why do Americans care about this nonsense far more than, say, how they are governed and who runs their country? I have little doubt that far more people just watched a bunch of millionaires beat the crap out of each other for three hours than will bother to vote in the next election.
Kudos, of course, are in order to the Conservative Broadcasting System, having shown its true colors again, first by scrapping the Reagan shlockumentary (once you decide to put something like that on, go for it! Its not like the network that gives us Survivor! is entitled to fall back on "good taste). Now, of course, CBS (the callow broadcasting system?) decides that the Move On.Org commercial (showing a bunch of children at work at menial jobs with the tag-line: guess whose going to pay for President Bush's one trillion dollar deficit") was deemed "inappropriate", but several ads for a drug to fight "erectile dysfunction" were deemed just fine. Well, fuck you, CBS. That's all I have to say.
The blogburst rolls on; two great posts from South Carolina blogger Wyeth (who writes in that he has had little time to post, as, among other things, he is working for the South Carolina Democratic Party in organizing the primaries themselves): this piece mocking "The State's" endorsement of Joe Lieberman; this piece on "Who is Roy Neel" (i.e. Howard Dean's new campaign manager) and (I said two-- I meant THREE great posts!) this piece "South Carolina Primary In a Nutshell", which was written an eternity ago on January 27th. Wow. We'll be checking in with Wyeth between now and the priamary finish. A lot.
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Comments
More evidence on CBS's broadcasting standards.
By their news coverage alone, I would never call them a "conservative" network.
Posted by Lawrence Haws at February 1, 2004 11:57 PM
I'll concede CBS should have accepted the MoveOn commercial, but the PETA commercial was literally pornographic.
Posted by Jason at February 2, 2004 10:13 AM
Lawrence--
Fair point. CBS is not exactly the Fox News Network, but this fear of any level of controversy if it might offend the RNC seems to be taking self-censorship to a new extreme, particularly as its willingness to show awful taste in what it puts in the air seems to run abreast of this self-censorship (sorry to all!)
Jason--
Roger that! PETA should consider some self-censorship.
Posted by the talking dog (voice over) at February 2, 2004 12:07 PM
Yes. I found out about this commercial after getting an email from friends of mine who work at a nonprofit organization in Washington. I clicked on the move.on website and saw this and truly could not understand what all the fuss was about (I put a brief item on it on my blog but didn't cover it in great detail). Of course, the "quality" of the Superbowl ads, entailing things such as flatulance, was far superior to the serious-message ad that CBS squelched. The Reagan movie was a bad movie and they caved into pressure;this was a fairly bland commercial. Definitely corporate censorship.
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