Tebow Ad: Ed Morrissey and the Called Shot
John on February 8, 2010 at 9:03 am
No wonder he won that blogger of the year award. Yesterday, after seeing the Tebow ad that had pro-abortion folks in a tizzy all week, Ed predicted that someone on the other side would claim the ad was akin to domestic violence. Here’s the ad, in case you missed it:
Like some latter day Nostradamus of the interwebs, Ed wrote yesterday:
the people who shrieked over CBS’ completely understandable decision to allow Focus on the Family to buy ad space will have to find some reason to justify their panic. Want to bet that someone will gripe about making light of domestic violence?
Within hours the prediction had been fulfilled. Have a look at this absurd response from the president of NOW:
NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”
It’s just so utterly pathetic and desperate. It sounds like something Media Matters would put out. But somehow I’m not surprised that the president of NOW has no shame.
In any case, congratulations to Ed who nailed it. I wish he’d just tell me what the stock market is going to do next week so I could make a few bucks.
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Yeah, and the Snickers commercial promoted violence against old people. The National Organization of (unaborted) Women is so pathetic.
February 8, 2010 @ 9:12 amTwo things strike me about this:
1) Woman equality is making good progress – here we have a woman engaging in physical comedy – this is something you would NEVER see 20 years ago!
2) There are lots and lots of wounded people in the world, and many of them have NO sense of humor. I don’t think that you can generalize this fact to all of what NOW does. NOW does some important stuff. They do some stupid stuff. It is a common mistake on this forum to assume that if it is on the political “left” it is not valid. This is a mistake. No side has s monopoly on the Truth (with a capital “T” no less).
So cut a wounded woman a break Neil. It’s the Christian thing to do.
February 8, 2010 @ 9:59 amI thought the ad was quite sweet. I think the response is hysterical (in the literal sense, not amusing) and a bit sad.
February 8, 2010 @ 11:36 amEd didn’t have to be Nostradamus to predict this one. It’s almost impossible to go wrong by overestimating the intellectual and moral deficiency of NOW or other radical leftist groups.
February 8, 2010 @ 12:36 pmCall me a cynic but did Terry O’Neill actually suffer domestic violence? I never put it past the Bolsheviks to make such statements, true or not, if they think it helps their point. No moral or for that matter rational person could find the “Tebow ads” as depicting or glorifying violence. The left isn’t even valid twice a day and NEVER deserves a break.
February 8, 2010 @ 1:43 pmI so abhor women who give women a bad name. And NOW women are all part of that group.
February 8, 2010 @ 2:08 pmDeuce/Adobe – You could do well by taking some advice from Paul Susac. Dismissing your political opponents as all your intellectual inferiors looks a little insecure. Being closed to the possibility that you may, on occasion, be wrong and have something to learn from your opponents is a severe weakness. Not to mention a bit childish.
February 8, 2010 @ 2:18 pmYes, well, you can learn something from a stopped clock twice a day too. But, then, even at those two times, you’d do just as well to consult a working clock instead.
It’s not that I think NOW spokespeople are stupid. I think they’re amoral and intellectually dishonest. They’ll say anything if they think it helps their cause, regardless of whether it’s true or makes logical sense. It’s a self-induced intellectual deficiency, but it has the same effect as real irrationality.
This isn’t an a priori assumption – it’s the result of observing their behavior for years. You can be as charitable to them as you want, but the fact is that Ed Morrissey correctly predicted their behavior on the premise that they’d fabricate whatever absurd, dishonest excuse they could think of to bash the commercial, and you could predict NOW’s response to just about anything with the same assumption and you wouldn’t be disappointed. It’s their modus operandi. And it’s undoubtedly true also that many of them are wounded and merit some sympathy – but that doesn’t make them any less predictable or their views any less false.
No group has a monopoly on the truth, but some have a distinct poverty of it – particularly those that aren’t even trying to find it. I’ll consult someone who’s at least trying to be truthful over someone who just doesn’t care every time, just as I’ll consult a clock that’s “trying” to tell the time over a stopped one.
February 8, 2010 @ 3:30 pmI’ve no reason to doubt the Bolsheviks intelligence; their slow but patient coup d’etat over the last 40 years has been very efficient. As for the truth, if and when the left finds a use for it they will stop letting others monopolize it.
February 8, 2010 @ 5:07 pmDeuce, you put it so well.
February 8, 2010 @ 10:19 pmGuess NOW has no problem with Betty White getting pile drived into a puddle of mud.
February 9, 2010 @ 8:04 am