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02-12-2007, 10:07 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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GM Super Bowl Ad Offensive...
The political correctness continues to reach new lows. Just read...
http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto...73.A11890.html
General Motors relented Friday and agreed to re-edit a Super Bowl ad that offended suicide prevention groups.
The ad, which tells the story of an assembly line robot that dreams of getting fired after dropping a screw, and then jumps off a bridge because it can't stand the thought of not working in a GM plant, drew the ire of the special-interest groups right after the game. As recently as Thursday, GM said it would not re-edit the ad, which is part of the automaker's campaign to promote GM quality.
But by Friday, GM executives re-thought the decision. TV networks were running to thries about the controversy, not GM quality. Fox News, for one, was referring to the ad simply as "GM's suicide ad." That, plus advice from outside the company, convinced GM head of sales and marketing chief Mark LaNeve that the ad needed to be re-edited.
Deutsch,
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02-12-2007, 10:09 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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Christ....
I bet ch years ago when this country wasnt full of lawyers and pussys it was a much cooler place to live
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02-12-2007, 10:12 AM
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Geez.....this country amazes me sometimes.
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02-12-2007, 04:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by alamantia
Christ....
I bet ch years ago when this country wasnt full of lawyers and pussys it was a much cooler place to live
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only you have a vote to change it -- back if you want -- jz
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02-12-2007, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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This country is getting pathetic.
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02-12-2007, 04:49 PM
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oh geez 
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02-12-2007, 04:58 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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I thought the add was pretty cool...........leave it to the whiny tree huggers and liberals to get offended and start crying. It never fails. All this country needs is one big bowel (sp?) movement to get rid of the stink!!!!
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02-12-2007, 05:00 PM
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its these people with nothing better to do but cry about stuff since everyone else likes it.
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02-12-2007, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
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Meh, thats nothing. I didnt understand why a robot wanted to kill itself in the first place, but I understood the point that GM was making...hope after everything that went down, so did everyone else.
Nothing tops "A Boys Dream" from 2 years ago, the Corvette ad where a kid was driving upside down in large sewer mains, which turns out was a dream a boy was having while looking at a new C6. They said that it could give kids the wrong idea about driving cars or some s***.
They all arent tree hugging liberals btw...most are ultra-uptight right wing conservitives who shield there children from all fun.
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02-12-2007, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Meh, thats nothing. I didnt understand why a robot wanted to kill itself in the first place, but I understood the point that GM was making...hope after everything that went down, so did everyone else.
Nothing tops "A Boys Dream" from 2 years ago, the Corvette ad where a kid was driving upside down in large sewer mains, which turns out was a dream a boy was having while looking at a new C6. They said that it could give kids the wrong idea about driving cars or some s***.
They all arent tree hugging liberals btw...most are ultra-uptight right wing conservitives who shield there children from all fun.
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OBTW its the left coast who is up in arms about it -- and seeing through rose colored glasses i am not surprised you missed the point -- jz
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02-12-2007, 06:38 PM
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what rose colored glasses? what the f*** are you talking about? I think you need to step away from the chain e-mails for a few hours.
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02-12-2007, 06:50 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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/politics.
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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Nothing tops "A Boys Dream" from 2 years ago, the Corvette ad where a kid was driving upside down in large sewer mains, which turns out was a dream a boy was having while looking at a new C6. They said that it could give kids the wrong idea about driving cars or some s***.
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amazing commercial IMHO, it's a shame people can't let something be for what it is
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dumbass.
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02-12-2007, 07:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
Meh, thats nothing. I didnt understand why a robot wanted to kill itself in the first place, but I understood the point that GM was making...hope after everything that went down, so did everyone else.
Nothing tops "A Boys Dream" from 2 years ago, the Corvette ad where a kid was driving upside down in large sewer mains, which turns out was a dream a boy was having while looking at a new C6. They said that it could give kids the wrong idea about driving cars or some s***.
They all arent tree hugging liberals btw...most are ultra-uptight right wing conservitives who shield there children from all fun.
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I agree. I don't blame the right or the left.
I blame the dumb s*** lawyers, judges, and juries that allow legal battles to happen over this.
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02-12-2007, 08:43 PM
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Give me a break, Im moving to cuba
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02-12-2007, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by WayFast84
Give me a break, Im moving to cuba
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Because it's better there?!?
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02-12-2007, 09:38 PM
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All this political correctness makes me wanna kill myself.
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02-12-2007, 10:12 PM
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craig's emo 
but yea chock up another one to the whiney bitches
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02-12-2007, 10:32 PM
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whats sad is that this country is based freedom of speech. i dont understand how the country that preaches freedom of speech has the most lawsuits for offending people. its quite ironic actually
and btw- that robot commercial was by far the best commercial during the game
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02-12-2007, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by qwikz28
whats sad is that this country is based freedom of speech. i dont understand how the country that preaches freedom of speech has the most lawsuits for offending people. its quite ironic actually
and btw- that robot commercial was by far the best commercial during the game
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because you have the right to free speech as long as it doesn't impede on anyone else's rights...
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dumbass.
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02-12-2007, 11:31 PM
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suicide clubs...if they weren't pussies/failures they would be complaing...
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02-12-2007, 11:35 PM
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suicide clubs...if they weren't pussies/failures they would be complaing...
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dumbass.
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02-13-2007, 12:01 AM
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There was an ad years ago for the then new Twin Turbo 300Z, in which the Z was being chased by fighter planes, motorcycles, etc, and it out ran them all. Def a cool ad, but guess what? Some azz clown watch dog group complained that it could cause unsafe driving, so it was dropped. WTF??? 
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02-13-2007, 07:36 AM
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bubba, be careful what you say about suicide...nothing wrong with your own opinion, but we dont want to offend people.
i thought the ad was highly amusing...my friends and i had a good laugh from it.
people need to stop worry about BS like this, screw censorship, and focus on important stuff...like getting our troops out of iraq...but apparently thats non-important and advertising and corruption is... *scratches head*
i will never quite understand this country and our politics...to Canada... AWAY!
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02-13-2007, 09:17 AM
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i blame the fcc and all those people who cant handle real life. This reminds me of the episode of family guy - PTV
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02-13-2007, 10:56 AM
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what a bunch of loosers, tell the suicide group to go drink the tainted fruit punch
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