Group takes offense to new Dish ads

[Slamminc11]

I'm with the guy in the article, I really don't like the word "dang" either cause if you keep the D and the A then move the N to the last spot then take the G and change it to an M, then you have the word DAMN, which is what some people say when someone farts, so as you can see by this logic, the man has a point! By using the word SUCKS in an ad, Dish is causing people to think of the word DANG which after shuffling the words around in your head you might fart which would make someone say the word DAMN. SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU DISH!

 

[Bulldog]

No matter what you do there are always going to be someone that dont like it.

For us folks over 50+ one word that has not been used in a long time and replaced by other words is: Swell! It was considered Obscene.

 

[Purogamer]

I'm not offended by much, but something about the commercial just sucks to me, and obviously it's not the word because I just used it. The commercials are just plain stupid...

 

[LER]

I dunno, the anti-sat commercials TW is running here suck as well. Maybe it's tit-for-tat?

 

[Slamminc11]

I dunno, the anti-sat commercials TW is running here suck as well. Maybe it's tit-for-tat?

hehe, you used the word tat! I think I might be offended!!!

 

[blabber]

Ruh-roh...

For us folks over 50+ one word that has not been used in a long time and replaced by other words is: Swell! It was considered Obscene.

Oh.. I don't wanna know whyyyy... covering my ears now!

:yikes

 

[dodge]

Sucks On echostar ad

I think the people who dont like the works sucks in the echostar ad should climb back into the hle in thbe ground they came out of and Die, by the Way that Pat Robertson Guy is a Moron and Idiot, he is also a hypocrite like many other religious people.

 

[Liquidforce88]

Hey how about that obscene Tobasco commercial. They don't even say any words in that. But I am offended buy the way that trailer rocks back and forth. How can they use such a suggestive motion in their commercial!!!!

 

[Pepper]

Holy Belgium, guys, I am offended by all of your language.

 

[GaryPen]

Holy s***. This f***ing place is going to h*** in a g**d*** f***ing handbasket.

 

[carload]

Gee whiz, doesn't anyone remember its previous use in a national ad campaign: "Nothing sucks like Electrolux." ?

More intellectual property "sucks" discussion here: http://www.circleid.com/article/753_0_1_0_C

 

[gpflepsen]

Fart, suck = 4 lettered words. Nothing much more to it than that.

In regards to the Catholic school fart post; A friend and myself had to stay after class because he let a stinker and I laughed. The teacher asked "What's that smell?" I replied "Somebody must be burning leaves".

In 5th grade, that works every time.

 

[hdaddikt]

I suppose if the cable-pig ad showed the house owned by pigs, and being blown down by a wolf it would be acceptable.

 

[David Dietzel]

Perhaps the more info on the American Family Association would help us understand their position on the critical national issue of Dish Network's latest advertising campaign and what some may feel as its threat to the fabric of American society:

American Family Association
P.O. Box 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803
www.afa.net

Chairman/Founder: the Rev. Donald Wildmon
Vice President: Tim Wildmon (son of Donald Wildmon)
Date of founding: 1977
Membership: AFA claims over 500,000 members.
Finances: $11.4 million (2000)
Staff: About 100 employees and five full-time lawyers.
State chapters: State Directors in 21 states. Also has smaller chapters, number unknown.
Publications: "AFA Journal," published monthly, with a circulation of 180,000.
Radio: AFA has its own 200-station network of radio stations across the United States.
Videos: AFA has produced "Excess Access," "It's Not Gay," and "Suffer the Children" Television: AFA has appeared on the following shows: "Good Morning America," "The Today Show," "MacNeill Lehrer Report," "Nightline," "The 700 Club," "Meet the Press," "Crossfire," and "Focus on the Family."
Formerly known as: National Federation for Decency
Affiliate groups: AFA Foundation, Center for Law & Policy, American Family Radio, and Agape Press

AFA's principal issues:

American Family Association targets the media and entertainment industry's "attack" on "traditional family values."

Two of the main duties that AFA assigns to itself are "promoting the centrality of God in American life" and "promoting the Christian ethic of decency."

"Indecent" influences in American culture include: television, the separation of church and state, pornography, "the homosexual agenda," premarital sex, legal abortion, the National Endowment for the Arts, gambling, unfiltered internet access in libraries, and the removal of school-sponsored religious worship from public schools.

AFA Activities:

AFA produces the radio show, "AFA Report," a 30-minute feature available on about 1,200 local radio stations nationwide. AFA launched their broadcast ministry American Family Radio (AFR) in 1987. AFR has approximately 200 radio stations in 27 states across the country. According to American Family Radio, "AFR has built more stations in a shorter time than any other broadcaster in the history of broadcasting." The AFA built their small radio empire by applying for "noncommercial educational licenses." When the FCC refused to grant some the licenses the AFA sued the FCC in federal court arguing that to deny religious groups noncommercial broadcasting licenses violates their First Amendment and Equal Protection rights.

For over twenty years AFA's primary activities have been organizing boycotts against sponsors of TV shows with "anti-Christian" messages and ideas.

AFA has created two websites, www.onemillionmoms.com and www.onemilliondads.com , to "help parents do something about the trash on TV" by organizing weekly on-line boycotts of offensive advertising or television shows.

Among its hundreds of boycott targets over the years are "Cheers," "The Johnny Carson Show," "Saturday Night Live," "Roseanne," "Nightline," "NYPD Blue," and "Ellen." AFA has called for widespread boycotts of all businesses that "promote" pornography, homosexuality, or other forms of "indecency."

A major target has been Disney and its subsidiaries. According to the group "Disney's attack on America's families has become so blatent, [sic] so intentional, so obvious, that American Family Association has called for a boycott of all Disney products until such time as this activity ceases."

Other boycott targets include American Airlines for their policy of providing domestic partner benefits and K-mart for selling music that has a "parental advisory warning" sticker, even to adults.

Donald Wildmon has called for the shutdown of PBS and as a result of the AFA's campaign, many state legislatures reduced funding for public broadcasting. The AFA spearheaded the attack on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the 1980's, using direct mail and extensive print advertising to distort the NEA's record of sponsorship of the arts.

Profiles on AFA Affiliates:

AFA Center for Law and Policy activities (CLP):

In 1990, the AFA established the AFA Center for Law & Policy as a litigation and public policy arm of the organization.

The Center for Law & Policy (CLP) is staffed by six full-time attorneys with a network of more than 400 affiliate lawyers. The CLP states that they provide representation to Christians in courts throughout the country, and advise state and federal legislators on constitutional, political and legal issues.

The CLP has been involved in several cases where they push for religious worship and symbols in public schools as well as the removal of curriculum that doesn't reflect "traditional family values."

Recently AFA has spearheaded a campaign to have their "In God We Trust" posters posted in every classroom, in every school in the United States. In 2001, the Mississippi state legislature passed a law requiring that each public school classroom, auditorium and cafeteria display a "In God We Trust" poster. However, when the Mississippi state legislature did not provide any funding for the bill, AFA/CLP volunteered to be the coordinator for the project. AFA/CLP is responsible for organizing and distributing 32,000 "In God We Trust" free posters in public schools in the state of Mississippi.

AFA/CLP has encouraged other states to follow Mississippi's example, promising that anyone who may be afraid of a lawsuit would be defended by the AFA Center for Law & Policy for free. In 2001, AFA distributed 250,000 "In God We Trust" posters nationwide.

Other Legal Activities by AFA/CLP include:

CLP represented the anti-gay group "Take Back Maryland" when they were accused of falsifying signatures for a petition to reverse an anti-discrimination bill that protected gays and lesbians from bias discrimination in employment and housing.

AFA filed lawsuits attempting to ban the curriculum, "Impressions," from public school classrooms on the grounds that it "promotes the religion of witchcraft."

AFA sponsored a rally in support of Judge Roy Moore of Alabama who refused to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom.

AFA Center for Law & Policy (CLP) won a lawsuit on behalf of pro-life protesters in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, over protest signs confiscated and held by city officials.

AFA State Affiliates:

Many of AFA's state chapters are very active on a state and local level. Gary Glenn of AFA Michigan has become a lightening rod in the state for controversy over civil rights protections for gays and lesbians. Glenn has opposed anti-discrimination policies of several Michigan cities by asserting that if passed, public bathrooms and showers would become co-ed. After the legislation passed in several towns, Glenn organized petitions to overturn the legislation, asserting that gays and lesbians pose a "public health hazard." Glenn also has targeted a 4th grade environmental education course, alleging that the program is "anti-human" and promotes paganism.

AFA's California director Scott Lively, of Abiding Truth Ministries and the Pro-Family Law Center, is an anti-gay activist who has written such books as "The Pink Swastika," which claims that "homosexuals [are] the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities." [From the "The Pink Swastika" preface.] Lively has also written "7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child, " and "The Poisoned Stream: "Gay" Influence in Human History." AFA California has launched the "California Campaign to Take Back the Schools" to stop the "homosexualization of American public schools."

AFA Quotes:

Quotes from the Reverend Don Wildmon on behalf of AFA:

"Now the Bush Administration is opening its arms to homosexual activists who have been working diligently to overthrow the traditional views of Western Civilization regarding human sexuality, marriage and family… AFA would never support the policies of a political party which embraced the homosexual movement. Period." (4-16-01, AFA Press Release)

"We believe the national motto incorporates the foundational belief of our culture, and its words 'In God we trust' are a message our children need to see in school." (July 2001, cover story of AFA Journal)

"But the National PTA continued right along, increasingly becoming a tool to promote a left-wing philosophy instead of helping the children with their educational needs. The latest project for the National PTA is the promotion of the homosexual agenda…Stop the PTA from using your children to promote their left-wing political agenda. "AFA Journal, February 2001 Edition

From AFA staffers:

"Over the years, AFA has consistently addressed the homosexual movement's obsession with infiltrating the public school system. Its eye-opening video "It's Not Gay", which presents a heartbreaking look at the physical and emotional consequences of the homosexual lifestyle, has been the most popular video ever produced by AFA. " (May 2001, "Homosexuals push for control of schools")

"Nothing disappointed the [American Family Association] more than Disney's enthusiastic embrace of [the homosexual] movement that rejects everything that is sacred to Christians about human sexuality, marriage and family." (April 2001, "Why the Disney Boycott Shouldn't Go Away")

From AFA state affiliates:

"The church and this nation cry out for a revival of masculine Christianity, which is to say that we church leaders need to stop being such, for lack of a better word, sissies when it comes to social and political issues. We need to spend as much time confronting perpetrators as we do comforting victims. We need to do less fretting, and more fighting for righteousness. For every motherly, feminine ministry of the church such as a Crisis Pregnancy Center or ex-gay support group, we need a battle-hardened, take-it-to-the-enemy masculine ministry like Operation Rescue (questions of civil disobedience aside). For every God-hating radical in government, academia and media we need a bold, no-nonsense, truth-telling Christian counterpart: trained, equipped and endorsed by the local church." –Scott Lively, Director of AFA California and Abiding Truth Ministries, author of "The Pink Swastika." (quote source:

http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/archives/editorials/masculinechristianity.html )

"Under homosexual activists' political agenda, our children would face a future in which traditional marriage and families have been legally devalued, while state government -- despite the severe threat it poses to personal and public health -- not only legally endorses but uses our tax dollars to subsidize deadly homosexual behavior." –Gary Glenn, Director of AFA Michigan (2-17-01 Press Release)

[Updated September 2002]

 

[Van]

Rediculous, if you raise your kids right and take the time that your supposed to to actualy be a parent instead of a babysitter for your own kids then we wouldnt have these groups trying to do what you should be doing.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Anyone remember that Slim Jim commercial which ended with the Slim Jim screaming "Eat Me!"

 

[mperdue]

I remember a local radiator repair shop with "A great place to take a leak" as their slogan.

Mario

 

[Foxbat]

Anyone remember that Slim Jim commercial which ended with the Slim Jim screaming "Eat Me!"

Which, to my generation (or, at least to my high school) was synonymous with "suck", all relating to the act of fellatio.

Now, I laughed a lot at the new commercials. They show a lot more creativity than the "Cable Pig" or the other lame stuff Echostar has come up with in the past. Yes, they will totally miss with the over-40 group. I'm sure my brother is ready to call on his cronies and boycott Dish Network (and any town that names itself Dish), but they will generate the same increase in public awareness that they need.

Any time someone talks about Satellite TV, they always mention DirecTV, but rarely Dish Network. Why is that? I can't say that I've ever seen a Dish Network commercial on National TV, unless it was inserted by Dish at the Uplink Center. Dish needs to get on the public radar.

One thing that wasn't mentioned: These commercials take on DirecTV with actually naming them. All TVs suck, unless you have Dish Network. Bogus or not, that's the Message. Delivered in a humorous, risky manner that takes some gutz to send out. Not at all touchy-feelly like the DirecTV ads from a few months back.

 

[BobMurdoch]

Wildmon is one of those Meese era weasels from the 80s. They keep trying to pull us back to 1955, but no one else wants to go with them. Well, a few do, and I vote we let them. Just leave OUR TV alone please. I like my Tarentino and don't want to lose it.

 

[Kryspy]

Well,

At least they didn't say "Dishnetwork.....more popular than Jesus Christ"....... oh fart dang didn't the Beatles use that one already ???

Actually reminds me of a few years ago when some religious group took on ExpressVU over their raunchy PPV porno stations.

Apparently whips and chains isn't entertainment but seein gthe money shot over and over is.

Anyways I guess they were asked how they knew what the content of the PPV in question was seeing as how they were PPV.

Kryspy