"Gay" Snickers spot and Prince's phallic guitar top beefs to FCC

[LoZoccolo]

MARCH 5--This year's Super Bowl telecast generated about 150 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, with the bulk of the beefs centering on Prince's halftime performance and a Snickers commercial.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0305072fcc1.html

[annabanana]

1. If THESE are the "top beefs" it means that WE ARE NOT

complaining enough about media consolidation!

(just sayin")

[Nikki Stone1]

5. Great point!

:kick:

[StClone]

2. I saw

Some players pat the posterior of other players (GASP!) and others with suspicious groin (is groin a sinful word?) bulges (horrors)! Thank goodness they shower separately to avoid any tomfoolery. They do don't they?

[deutsey]

3. "Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY"

:spray:

[matcom]

4. 75 Freepers complaining about Prince

75 Duers complaining about Snickers. Sounds about right.

[cboy4]

15. What doesn't sound right is more than 75 people on

a progressive discussion board, flippantly disregarding the concerns of your unreliable figure of "75 DUers (who were) complaining about Snickers."

[sniffa]

16. damn you cboy

Lighten up.

[BL611]

6. I think the Snickers bar thing was protested

mostly by gay lions who were offended at their portrayal.

[LoZoccolo]

7. What is a "gay lion"? n/t

[The Straight Story]

8. Actually people were bitching about seeing two men kissing

The Snickers commercial--in which two mechanics accidentally kiss as they jointly eat a candy bar--repulsed some football fans, one of whom wrote of feeling "violated" by the ad. "God knows, I didn't turn on the superbowl expecting to be tricked into watching gay sex!" One woman reported that her son exclaimed, "What the?!" when he saw the Snickers commercial. "My husband rushed in to see the men kissing. This violates our religious beliefs and exposes our children to obscene and disgusting material they are taught are wrong. I want something done about this!!"

[BL611]

9. Yes I have mixed up commercials

I had thought the commercial that was being referenced was the one with the gay lions (it was for soda or a candy bar or something), I must have missed this other one.

[The Straight Story]

11. Wow, I don't remember seeing that one.

Gay lions would get christians up in a roar (Narnia...) :rofl:

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Amazing that M&M Mars was able to produce an ad that insulted both gays and straights

That's gotta be a record in advertising.

[kestrel91316]

12. I have to admit that guitar was PRETTY F---IN' TASTELESS.

[fidgeting wildly]

18. This guitar?

:evilgrin:

[sniffa]

19. nice stem

[SpiralHawk]

13. Sometimes a guitar is just a guitar

Unless, of course, you are a sexually deviant republicon.

Leave it to the republicons to mutate the guitar into a
male sex organ. They really got it going on for phallus.

[LoZoccolo]

14. Kick.

:kick:

[LoZoccolo]

17. Kick.

:kick: