More reason to dislike the NFL

[White Shogun]

Immigration and terrorism too controversial for the Super Bowl:

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NFL REJECTS BORDER PATROL AD
By Stephen Dinan and Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week's Super Bowl program, saying it was "controversial" because it mentioned duties such as fighting terrorism and stopping drugs and illegal aliens at the border.

"The ad that the department submitted was specific to Border Patrol, and it mentioned terrorism. We were not comfortable with that," said Greg Aiello, a spokesman for the NFL. "The borders, the immigration debate is a very controversial issue, and we were sensitive to any
perception we were injecting ourselves into that."

The NFL's rejection didn't sit well with Border Patrol agents, who called it a snub of their role in homeland security and said it was "more than a little puzzling."

"The NFL missed a golden opportunity to reach countless patriotic citizens who want to answer the call to help prevent another terrorist attack on American soil," said T.J. Bonner, president of the National
Border Patrol Council, the union that represents the agency's nonsupervisory personnel.

Other major leagues have had no problems running the ad, a Border Patrol spokesman said. It has been accepted to run in programs for the upcoming NBA All Star Game and the NCAA Final Four, as well as in Pro BullRider magazine, the spokesman said.

"We proposed a more generic recruiting ad for the department that didn't highlight the borders, which brings up the immigration issue and the immigration debate. That's controversial," he said.

That position stands in stark contrast to the ongoing debate in Congress, where among all the thorny issues related to immigration, the one that wins near-unanimous agreement is the need for more boots on the ground.

"Since almost every American favors securing our borders and the overwhelming majority of legislators on both sides of the immigration debate support significant increases in the number of Border Patrol agents, it is extremely difficult to imagine how those issues could be
perceived as controversial," Mr. Bonner said.

He said the NFL's decision appeared to be an attempt to try to avoid upsetting the emerging market of football fans in Latin America.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070213-115739-3816 r.htm)

Copyright (c) 2007 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.

 

[eaxs]

Meanwhile, Marxist anti-White commercialsare just dandy, which are of course not controversial in the least.

 

[Don Wassall]

The networks won't allow any commercials with "politically incorrect" content to air, during football games or any other time. Meanwhile, everything is political when it comes to the Permanent Cultural Marxist Revolutionthat's been foistedon Americans for the past four decades.


DUI hysteria ads are commonplace on television, along with the basic staples of U.S. commercials -- extreme multiracialism; white men as idiots, criminals and all-around losers; mindless consumerism; and patriotism equated with mindless consumerism.

 

[Roundabout]

If this is a TV ad they are talking about, wouldn't it only be seen in the US broadcast? Wouldn't the Latin American countries have a seperate broadcast in Spanish on their own national networks including their own commercials?


Did the NFL actually mean that they did not want to offend illegal aliens from Latin America residing in the USA?


I wasn't sure if this was a tv ad or a print ad. They mentioned it running in ProBull Rider Magazine. When they said "program" I wasn't sure if they meant television program, or glossy color magazine program you buy at the game.

 

[DixieDestroyer]

The NFL is getting as bad as the YoBA. They love catering to the hiphop culture with their BS Superbowl ads (that they do approve). This little move is standard PC horse manure. If they keep this up, I think I'll stick to college football!