Tebow ads
(See both Tebow ads on page 2.)
UPDATE, 9:42p: On the other hand, if this is as far as CBS would let Focus do, it got us a foot in the door. And again, thanks to the best PR rep in the universe, abortion and the “choice” lie got millions and millions of dollars of free publicity.
UPDATE, 9:10p: You know, the only reason I’m not aggravated by how Focus so totally watered down the pro-life message in the Tebow ad as to make it practically nonexistent is all the conversation it triggered beforehand.
That this was thanks only to pro-aborts could also be aggravating, despite the rich irony, in that MSM is only interested in discussing our topic if pro-aborts are interested….
But the Lord knew all this and magnified our feeble attempts while boomeranging the other side’s hostility.
So it’s still all good.
UPDATE, 7:23p: Another thought. I’ve spent a great deal of my adulthood fighting the “hysterical female” stereotype. I’d like to thank liberal feminist groups for setting us back.
UPDATE, 6:31p: My take: The ads are quite tame, ambiguous really. In fact, one wouldn’t know their topic was the pro-life issue – that Pam made a “choice” to bring Tim into the world – were it not for all the hype.
If I didn’t know anything about the ads, I’d say they were more about maternal and neonatal health… or maybe that a mom worries about her kid even when he’s all grown up. Only the tag line at the very end, “Celebrate family. Celebrate life.” alludes to the real theme.
So the last laugh is on pro-aborts. Really. They gave the Tebow ad a forum to discuss abortion that pro-lifers could never have gotten from it alone.
5:47p: Here’s the Tebows’ Super Bowl ad…
Transcript…
Pam: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well he’s all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. You know, with all our family’s been through, you have to be tough…
Tim tackles Mom.
Pam: Timmy! I’m trying to tell our story here.
Tim: Sorry about that, Mom…. You still worry about me, Mom?
Pam: Well, yeah, you’re not nearly as tough as I am.
Here’s the Tebows’ pregame Super Bowl ad…
Transcript:
Pam: I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I can remember so many times when I almost lost him. It was so hard. Well he’s all grown up now, and I still worry about his health. Everybody treats him like he’s different, but to me, he’s just my baby. He’s my Timmy, and I love him.
Tim: Thanks mom. Love you too.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Those are both the pre-game ad. The ad that aired during the game has Tim tackling Pam…
lol, ok, now you can disregard my first comment…
Chelsea, thanks. There was a momentary mix up.
THESE are the controversial, in-your-face, anti-abortion, pro-life commercials that the feminists and pro-choicers were getting so upset about?!?
Good grief. If I hadn’t heard all the hype about them I wouldn’t even know they had anything to do with the pro-life movement.
They are nice ads, albeit cheesy, but not at all what I was expecting.
My neighbors are running out of their houses on fire…it’s all ruined…all of it is gone…civilization, o where have you gone?
:O
Muahaha. Sorry, I just think it’s awesome how the pro-choicers completely played into FOTF hands on this one.
The ad itself was completely unobjectionable by anyone’s standards, yet the pro-choicers were forced to show their true pro-abortion colors.
Brilliant!
Wow. I don’t know how anyone could be upset at this. But they sure were.
It was a nice commercial, but I remember when there was a commercial about a woman walking and talking about an abortion she’d had 12 years ago. The 12 y.o. little boy runs to hug mom who’s strolling through the park, but he vanishes before they can embrace. Then she says “Think abortion is an easy choice?” “Think again.” Commercial ends. This was soft core by compairison! It doesn’t seem like pro-deathers had much of a reason to get their panties in a twist!
Did anyone notice there was another indirectly pro-life ad during the first half?
The ad by Dove showed that life begins at conception. It plays a man’s life story, starting with the sperm meeting the egg. If I were pro abort, I would have made a bigger stink about that one than the Tebow ad!
Heather,
I would like to see that commercial. Do you know if it’s on You Tube or anywhere on video. I just have to see it!
Thanks.
Mike
Agreed, Scott. The Dove ad blew me away. So much better pro-life content there! I’m sure that was funded by a pro-lifer, the way that ad was assembled.
Here’s the Dove ad, which wasn’t only pro-life, but thanks be to God, it was pro-man, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuexzKkMIDc&feature=pyv
Now…does anyone know who owns Dove? Do they support PP?
Hi Mike, that add aired back in the early 80’s, and I was just a kid, but I remember that commercial like it was yesterday!! I’m sorry, but I don’t know where it could be found today.
Maybe someone else on the site has seen it and remembers it???
I don’t really use Dove products (need to do some research on their environmental policies), but I’ve always been fond of their pro-everyone is beautiful stance. I love that. And I’m glad that they’re getting everyone in on this, male and female. :)
Pierre Thomas (RB) from nearby Bolingbrook, IL is having a great game for the Saints.
Let me know if anyone can find that ad. My computer is to slow to search the internet.
Mike
@Jennifer: Unilever owns Dove. They also own Axe/Lynx and have inflicted [i]those[/i] commercials on us. Dove might be pro-life, but Unilever is, ostensibly, just pro-money.
AUGH! I hate it when I mix up BBCode with HTML. :(
I am watching the game and rooting for the Saints! Yes Mike. I attempted to run a few options through my search engine to no avail. I am on a friends’ computer, and it is slower than you could imagine!….. I remember the opening line though. The woman is strolling through a park with her arms folded. Her voice is narrating over the commercial. “I carry in my mind a picture of a child. A child that I aborted.” The mother continues to walk, looking sad, her arms folded. A young boy comes out and runs to hug her. She opens her arms to hug him back. She is happy at that moment. He vanishes once he gets to her open arms. She goes back to folded arms. Then she ends by saying “Think abortion is an easy choice?” “Think again.”…….Feminists would block that commercial at all costs today!
I remember something similar to that Heather, it may or may not have been the same one. It was a woman talking about how her child would have turned twelve this spring or something like that and then at the end it said “Life. What a Beautiful Choice.”
I saw the Tim tackling Mom one. And the other one where he says “I love you too, Mom” I saw through a link on Lifenews to Youtube. I also shared it on Facebook.
Smart move on Focus on the Family’s part. They knew they could do a prolife/pro family ad w/o saying “Abortion”.
Yup pretty tame, pretty cheesy too but cheesy’s cool. It’s nice to see a big tough football player tell his Mom he loves her.
I’ve got to admit I’m kind of disappointed. Like you intimated Jill, that was a lot of money to spend and not articulate a clear Pro-Life message. At least OR had their truth truck deployed and turning heads.
But as Lauren said, maybe making the pro-death mob look like a bunch of idiots was worth every penny.
Without question the uproar the child-killers caused was worth millions in good PR for our side, definitely worth much more than the ad itself. Maybe we’re setting them up for next year when we run a more explicitly Pro-Life ad and they won’t know whether to protest or not.
The more I think about the ads though, the more they grow on me. The message for me isn’t, “Don’t have an abortion, you might be killing the next Tim Tebow.” What I got was, “Don’t have an abortion, you’re killing your loving son or daughter.”
“Love never fails.” 1Co 13.8
Heather, I found a reference to the quote you gave. I’d cut and paste the rest, but I can’t….
You guys have good memories. Hope this helps:
Google: “I carry in my mind a picture of a child.
From the book: “The queen of America goes to Washington city: essays on sex and citizenship” By Lauren Gail Berlant Pg.130
“Life What a beautiful Choice” –
(A public service style announcement sponsored by the Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation)
Liz, that sounds like the one! I’ll tell you one thing. As young as I was, I got the message loud and clear! Abortion was a very bad thing!
JANET, THAT’S PROBABLY IT! Thank you! Too bad they don’t make em like that these days! Those ads gave good and solid messages.
Jill,
Can’t help but feel a little let down by the Tebow spots. They’re nice and sweet and happy and sentimental, but the word “abortion” is never mentioned, neither is “choice” or “life” or anything. What’s all the hullabaloo about? Harmless ads, really. I was hoping they’d be more brave in their pro-life message, more direct.
But it certainly makes the pro-aborts look stupid and loony for making such a fuss about them.
I watched the interview spot with the Tebows at FOTF, and that spot was awesome. They are incredible people, and when Mr. Tebow looked into the camera and said “Don’t kill your baby” with tears in his eyes, I cried, too. That was powerful. That should have been the commercial.
Romans 12:19-21 (New American Standard Bible)
19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
20″BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.”
21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Wow – I think those who made a fit out of the ad should feel more than a bit foolish. I think the ad didn’t do much in the end, but all the talk beforehand sure did.
As predicted, the feminazis are spinning the ad to make it sound like it promotes wife beating/domestic violence. Theyve got something new to hate, so its happy time for them. Does anyone know if the ad mentioned in the earlier comments (the one about the woman who regretted her abortion) is available to view online?
Here is the most overtly pro-life, pro traditional marriage, pro-family ad of the night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnsSUqgkDwU&feature=player_embedded
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Remember, Jill Guidry, that some of the same people howling about this being “domestic violence” roll in the aisles laughing when a commercial features a woman deliberately inflicting pain upon a man. If you complain about THOSE ads, they’ll tell you to lighten up and that they have better things to do than to complain about commercials.
Separated at birth: Pam Tebow and Lisa Edelstein (of HOUSE, M.D.):
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm21793280/nm0249046
It seems to me that the ad is designed mainly to get people to go to the web site and watch the more extensive and much more explicitly pro-life content. The video on the Focus site is without doubt very pro-life, and also Christian. It tells the full story that a short ad could never communicate. The ad is a funnel to direct people to the website. And my guess is that it will do a great job at doing so. Look for FOTF in the days ahead to give stats for hits on their Tebow story video. I’ll bet it will be very high.
It’s a sure thing that the more comprehensive info on the FOTF site would never have been allowed by CBS. If millions of people go to the FOTF site and watch the supplementary Tebow video with explicit pro-life content, then many, many more people will see it than if Focus had not run any ad on CBS to begin with, however soft. And if they had submitted an in-your-face pro-life ad to CBS, they never would have aired it.
So, this strikes me as played really smartly by Focus. First, the mere anticipation of an ad calls out the worst in pro-abortion overreaction and has their own allies saying they look foolish. Then, the ad itself is very tame and will hopefully spark the curiosity of millions of people who would otherwise never go to the FOTF web site and would never otherwise intentionally watch an explicit pro-life message. This, to me, seems like a great example of trying to go beyond preaching to the choir. I’ll bet tons of people will see the longer Focus video in the next few days who would otherwise never have gone to the FOTF web site. Many will be reached who are not part of the usual Focus audience.
Evidently the Arthur S. DeMoss ads aired in the early 90’s during reruns of thirtysomething according to an article on breakpoint from May of 92. No luck yet finding them online.
Bmmg,
Or the ads using half naked girls to sell crap. Never any protesting over women being objectified then. never nay protesting of Playboy, a known objectifier of women and one of Planned Parenthood’s biggest sponsors. No double standard there, eh? But a woman telling her son she loves him is threatening. Go figure.
Click here for my response to PP and NOW in light of these ads
http://gerardnadal.com/2010/02/07/an-open-letter-to-planned-parenthood-and-now/
PP and NOW took quite a hit
It’s funny that for those who are complaining about the violence of Tim tackling his mom, no one is complaining about Betty White getting tackled in the Snickers bar commercial! Has anyone seen any complaints?
You’re right, J.G.: double standards galore.
And the hit on Betty White was clearly pass interference. The D-back arrived before the ball did.
Where was the Pro-life part of the commercial?
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http://www.lifecommercials.com/
I was thrilled to see that Mrs. Tebow showed how wonderful the right of CHOICE is for women. She chose to have her son, and like all women, was smart enough to know what was right for her own situation.
I’m so thrilled that Focus on the Family is beginning to realize that choice is important to women, and that every woman has a right to decide what’s best for her regarding pregnancy.
And the hit on Betty White was clearly pass interference. The D-back arrived before the ball did.
Good luck finding a ref who’d actually call a pass interference. Or a hold, for that matter. ;)
Dove, as mentioned, is owned by Unilever – a company I certainly take issue with on many accounts, not least of all the atrocious Axe products/campaigns. That said, when I’m in the market for drugstore products, which is not TOO often, I do reach for Dove. I’m aware that it’s pure marketing, but I appreciate their focus on a less destructive view of beauty and I am comfortable financially supporting that over most other drugstore brands, which don’t even pretend to care about stuff like that.
I liked this Super Bowl ad of theirs from a couple years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1uNgHw6Xo
I was watching it with a bunch of guys and the entire room was literally silent during that ad.
Did no one notice in the Dove ad about 12 seconds in, the man is unhooking a bra and the narrator says, “Be Safe.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuexzKkMIDc&feature=pyv
I take issue with that.
Pro-Life Puff-Piece! The Pro-Abort Media censors Snuff-Surgery at ALL costs, however, 2 MILLION Bucks is the least we can grovel with to get fluffy whispers of life. CBS knows that maybe 5 to 15% of viewers will take an “action step” to their computer to see “the rest of the story” which btw was a beautiful tear-jerker!
If Pro-Abort CBS cared, they’d air: http://www.abortioninstruments.com
The above link is extremely graphic. FYI
Wow Gera & Carla,
3,000-4,000 children/day.
Unconscionable.
I’m speechless.
Wow, the real story is here…. http://www.focusonthefamily.com/ Bob Tebow, your tears caused me to well up! Absolutley beautiful! I pray the pro aborts did not stop a single woman from seeing this. His sincerity for their chilren was palpable. Tim’s mom is amazing, his father’s pain over abortion can be felt through the screen. God bless the Tebow gang! May you perservere, and may we all.