Feeling that the other side needs to be represented in the controversy over the Tim Tebow/Focus On The Family ad airing this weekend during the Super Bowl, Jimmy Kimmel offered his own pro-choice ad last night:
What do you think?
Oh, yeah, and here’s Jimmy as a talking pig:
Any thoughts on either of these “controversial” moments?
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I think Tim Teabag and his moron of a mother need to STFU
wow, that’s very tolerant of you to say so. Freedom of speech goes both ways
Wow you must be a redneck if you do not know what the 1st Amendment means.
Freedom of Speech means the government cannot censor you. It says absolutely nothing about citizens telling other citizens to STFU.
Pick up a book sometime.
You will never enslave us AGAIN bryan!! Back the f— off!!
“Enslave?” Really????
Wow. They simply made a commercial where he says that he’s glad his mom made her CHOICE and decided not to abort him. He’s one of best college football players ever, but because of this commercial, you’re calling him names. The only thing you know about his mother is that she’s pro-life, and that’s enough to call you a moron, and you want to take away their freedom of speech. Interesting. You must be very insecure about your anti-life stance if that’s all it takes to shake you up.
The key word in your rant is “CHOICE”. Thank you for proving our point.
Yeah, while I absolutely believe in the right to make a choice, I also believe that people have the right to make their choice and lay out the reasons why they believe their choice is right w/o having people treat them like douches.
So I guess if he wasn’t one of the best college football players ever, you wouldn’t care if she aborted him? I’m thinking that if she was a crackhead, and her kid turned out to be a drug dealer, this commercial wouldn’t have been made.
Not at all. I was calling out the OP for the childish name calling. From all accounts, Tebow is a stand-up guy, aside from being a world class athlete. And the OP called him names, based SOLEY on the fact the he’s making a commercial where he says he’s happy that his mom did not get an abortion.
World class athlete? He can’t take a snap under center, has a long delivery and throws from the hip!
What drugs are you taking. He won’t make it in the NFL as a QB. Any jackass can win in college football. Try winning in the NFL.
Another dimwitted male. Easy for YOU to say, isnt it? YOU dont have to carry or raise a baby!
She’s telling people to ignore professional medical advice.
Her doctors told her she would DIE if she didn’t get an abortion. It turns out they were wrong, and thank God they were, but that doesn’t mean other people should make the same decision she did.
And of course “decision” is the keyword here. This ad is sponsored by Focus on the Family, an anti-choice group. They don’t simply want women to choose not to have abortions, they want the procedure to be illegal.
lol. Good point!
Why is this even an issue?
I thought Pro-Choice was about CHOICES???
Couldn’t have said it better!
You don’t have to raise or carry a baby either!! Close your legs or use protection and there isn’t a friggen arguement.
Love he Tebow rebuttal.
the pig was awesome!!! I love Kimmel, but that skit was a bit of a rip off of Will Ferrel’s character in Wedding Crashers
not really. the whole “loser son who lives with his mom” routine is pretty old, but classic
I don’t think it does Brian…. Not when the Tebow ad gets through but others get denied on a regular basis.
Apparently “controversial” ads are only ok if they are conservative and controversial!
This really isn’t a freedom of speech issue. It’s a business issue. Tebow made a pro-life commercial. CBS didn’t have to air it, but they decided to. The anti-life people can make their own commercial, and in fact they have. But CBS is not obligated to air it, and they would not be taking away anyone’s freedom of speech if they didn’t. The anti-life people can say whatever they want. They can make their own network and show their commercials 24/7 if they want. But CBS does not have to air it.
There is no such thing as “anti-life” people. We are pro choice. I would not have an abortion but I would never take away a woman’s right to make that decision. And by the way, you as a man really have no idea what it’s like to be raped and impregnated or be forced to remain pregnant. I disagree with the Focus on Family position, but I agree that they have a right to say it.
“Anti-life,” ugh. You zealots are all alike. Pro-choice doesn’t mean pro-death. What’s it DOES mean is keeping religious lemmings like you from making decisions about another person & their body. Do I think abortion is the right choice? No, but the important part is that it remains a choice. What Mama Tebow probably won’t be saying in the ad is that abortion is illegal in the Philippines (and has been since 1930) when Tim was born, so she didn’t even HAVE a choice.
This ad is totally uncalled for and I’m glad CBS is getting all this negative attention.
“Anti-life.” So clever, so cute. How does “anti-choice” sit with you?
Who said I was religious? I love how the argument always dissolves into “you’re just another religious zealot”. Very childish. Who says you have to be religious in order to appreciate life? MJ, I believe abortion should be an option if someone is raped and impregnated. I never said otherwise.
And even though abortion is illegal in the Philippines, Tebow’s mother’s doctor still mentioned it as an option. So she DID have a choice. You people actually seem mad that she chose not to have an abortion and that she’s happy with that choice. I guess you people are not as “pro-choice” as you claim.
Yeah, the “pro-choice” people really need to come up with some new arguments. And, like another comment pointed out, why must it always fall back on calling pro-life people religious zealots or nuts or lemmings or whatever with the prefix of religious. I am an agnostic that just happens to think killing people is wrong. I don’t understand why this has anything to do with silly religions. Do you need to be religious to be against someone making the “choice” to kill a born person? No. Then must you be religious to be against someone making the “choice” to kill an unborn person? The far left lunatics in this country and their logic (or utter lack thereof) is amazing. Pamper the terrorists and brutally kill live unborn children. If only they would let the people who recognize that the Islamic terror threat isn’t all fun and games make the “choice” as to how they get valuable Intel from captured terrorists. Honestly…
Bill, what the heck are you talking about? Maybe you can add slavery in Africa and pedophilia to your argument as well. lol. BTW, if people really want to make all abortions illegal, they need to talk to their congressmen, because they are the ones that allow the laws to be as they are, and are the one who can change it. Everything in these comments looks like a bunch of people who just like getting mad because they find it entertaining to feel angry at something.
People for the legal killing of babies are anti-life! People that do not want babies killed legaly are pro-life.
ant-life? That’s incredibly creative – you are so witty and smart!
There seem to be several problems with your “anti-life” v. “pro-life” stand.
First, the notion that a fetus is a ‘life’ at all is a religious one, and a Christian one at that. Many disagree with this definition of ‘life’ and believe that life begins at viability, not conception. I think that the notion that life begins at viability makes a great deal of intuitive sense – something is not a live being until it is capable of surviving on its own. Therefore, if you hold this definition, abortion does not kill a life because a fetus is not a life.
Second, Tim Tebow’s mother put her own life at risk to carry her unborn fetus. She already had four children, who would have grown up without a mother had she died. How was her decision pro-life? Her decision seems to have favored the life of a fetus over her own life and the lives of her existing four children. So in reality, Mrs. Tebow and you are really pro-fetus, and not pro-life.
There is no such thing as anti-life you douchebag dumbass. There is anti-Freedom though (which pro-choice is a part of). You should move to Afganistan because you sound like the Taliban to me.
Here’s what I don’t get- if you’re pro-choice, can you really not respect that some people think abortion is terminating the life of a baby? While not needing to agree with this position, can you see that in this worldview, being pro-life is more important than being pro-choice? So, it’s not moronic, but a personal view, based on a strongly-held belief. I’m amazed at all the name-calling on this board (from both sides!).
JAC doesn’t understand the Taliban. Like most on the far left, JAC simply does not understand how evil the Taliban are. This is what leads to ignorant and utterly stupid statements that compare pro-life people to the Taliban. It must be fun to live in left wing fantasy land.
Just like you comparing unborn fetuses of less than 3 months to terrorists, right Bill? It sounds like you and your pampered terrorists should know what JAC’s fantasy land is like.
Why do all anti-life people think that only christians are anti-death. You do not have to be a christian to want to give a child a chance to live.
BB, I was comparing the left wing attitude toward unborn children with their attitude toward terrorists, not unborn children to terrorists. If far left nuts gave unborn children even 1% of the respect they give to terrorist thugs, they’d have very different views about abortion and “choice.”
MJ-
you certainly can’t be suggesting that the tens of millions of abortions that have been performed have been primarily the result of rape? Also, I am very interested in the “forced to remain pregnant” statement you made. The vast majority of women who become pregnant were not forced to do so… The way it was explained to me, becoming pregnant is the result of 2 people CHOOSING to have sed. If you have sex, you have to know that becoming pregnant is a real possibility. If you are emotionally/physically/financially/etc not in a position to have a bay, why would that person have sex? No one forced that person to have sex. “freedom to choose” does not mean “freedom from consequences”.
And why is this a srtictly a “woman’s issue”? As we’ve previously discussed, it takes 2 people to get pregnant. What if a man and a woman really love each other, are in a position to support a child, the woman gets pregnant, but she feels she’s not ready and has an abortion? What if the man in this situation was really excited about being a father? Who’s protecting his right to choose? The abortion debate is becoming NOT about the right to choose, but more and more about freedom from consequences.
If the father is “really excited” about having a child, he can carry it himself for nine months.
Oh, he can’t? Then I guess he probably shouldn’t be the guy who makes the final decision.
breeboo – the freedom to choose is not simply about choosing to be a parent or not. It rests on several important points that you are ignoring:
1. The pro-choice platform rests on the notion that life begins at viability, not at conception. I, like many pro-choice people, do not believe that a fetus is not a life – because it is not yet a person. It cannot survive on its own independently from its mother. The anti-choice advocates disagree based on the religious notion that life begins at conception – but since a principle of this country is the separation of church and state, a religious doctine’s idea of when life begins doesn’t govern over science. (Also, the notion that life begins at conception is a Christian one and is not constant through all religions.)
2. Being pro-choice is about a woman retaining control over her body. It is protected under the right to privacy, the protection of which is implicitly provided by the Bill of Rights. The choice whether to continue a pregnancy rests entirely with the woman and not with the man, because he cannot carry the fetus to term, and he cannot force her to become a childbearing vessel for him. Therefore, even if a man wants to be a parent, he will have to find a willing partner to do so (or he can adopt). But he cannot force a woman to carry his fetus.
3. The freedom of choice is not about a freedom from consequences – this statement suggests that a child should be a punishment for a person’s behavior.
The Super Bowl is no place for politics and sports in general should not be political battlefields. That’s often why people enjoy games like the super bowl… it’s a chance to forget about bad news and politics and have fun investing yourself in a game. This network has opened up a can of worms by allowing the Focus on the Family commercial. If they’re going to allow one politically-skewed commercial, then they should allow all of them. But I would rather not see politics of any form invading this game.
Exactly! Wrong place, wrong time.
ITA with you, Natalie. I’m looking forward to the Super Bowl (Go Saints!), but not to this ad. Tim Tebow, his mom, FOTF all have the right to their opinion, but I wish they wouldn’t impose it on me during the biggest football game of the year.
I’m with Natalie on this one…I’m all for free speech and both sides having their say, but when it comes to the Super Bowl I want my commercials to be brainless and fun.
CBS will air this but not an ad for a gay internet dating site? Hmmm…free speech, indeed.
Exactly. Nice job on that double standard, CBS.
I agree with the posters above: leave politics out of the Super Bowl. But if you’re going to reject the gay dating site ad for being too “controversial,” reject the pro-life commercial, too. Frankly, I think the commercial they’re airing is more controversial than the one they refused to run. Abortion is contentious, man. The network is just more afraid of the conservative fanbase than it is of the liberal one.
And a few years ago, they wouldn’t run an ad from the United Church, which is inclusive of gay and lesbian Christians. Way to keep up the double standard, CBS!
Jimmy should’ve been aborted. He’s a squinty-eyed hack.
Jimmy is a hack. I can’t believe people watch him.
Finally someone with a brain!
why can’t we all just get along? As someone who is anti-abortion, I am glad this ad is going to be shown, but I also agree with the equal op commercial showing, keeping the politics out of the SuperBowl AND that CBS has a right to air what it wants. What a curse it is to be so understanding…
I always find it interesting when commercials like this have a woman saying that she is so glad she made the decision to keep her son. Good for her.
What she is really saying is that she made an educated decision based on what was best for her and her circumstances, but she doesn’t think that other woman should be able to make the same decision. She made a CHOICE, but doesn’t not think that choice should be available to everyone. It has never made sense to me and probably never will.
People, CBS is a PRIVATE enterprise.
They can sell ad time to anyone they want.
That’s business.
And as for pro-choice, please realize that some choices are evil (like rape and murder).
If abortions are murder, then they are an evil choice.
And if my grandma had balls, she’d be my grandpa.
But she’s not.
Nice syllogism and all, but it’s garbage in, garbage out.
If it’s evil, then why is it legal? I guess it’s because politicians don’t consider abortion murder. So there’s your answer.
BB SCOTUS is the reason its legal remember? Yep, seven people overriding Congress, the President, and the elected state governments. Sounds about right. In an oligarchy that is…
Patriarchy, more likely. Women were woefully underrepresented in Congress (still are, really) during the time of Roe v. Wade. SCOTUS exists to protect the rights of the few and the oppressed. I wouldn’t want ever a bunch of old white men making life or death decisions about my uterus, so thank goodness SCOTUS had the balls (pun intended) to make a decision on the side of the women.
Pro-Abortion = Pro-Choice
Pro-Life = Pro-Baby
I all for babies. Go baby, go.
I strongly disagree with your equations. How can you say pro choice equals pro abortion? I am strongly pro choice, but I believe abortion as be a form of birth control is wrong. The decision to terminate a pregnancy should be made by the woman, along with her family and/or spiritual advisor. And she should have the right to have a medically safe procedure, not some back ally surgery. If men were capable of bearing children, this would be a whole different discussion.
Having said that, the airing of the ad is part of our right to free speech. As viewers, we have the ultimate control – Don’t Watch.
You got it all wrong.
Pro-Life = Anti Liberty
Pro-Choice = Pro fundamental rights
I’m all for liberty.
Abortion in the Philippines is generally illegal. Under the abortion provisions of the Revised Penal Code of 1930 as amended, a person who intentionally causes an abortion with the consent of the pregnant woman is subject to a penalty of imprisonment.
Although the Penal Code does not list specific exceptions to the general prohibition on abortion, under the general criminal law principles of necessity as set forth in article 11(4) of the Code, an abortion may be legally performed to save the pregnant woman’s life.
So if Mrs Tebow’s life was in danger, she did have a choice!
Mrs. Tebow had a placental rupture. I had one, also, and no doctors suggested an abortion, they delivered my son.
Maybe your doctor did not think you needed one. Its good that you and your son are well.
If something’s heart is beating, is it alive? Just wondering.
Are you suggesting that someone with a mechanical heart is, in fact, dead?
A heart is nothing but a mechanical pump for the delivery of chemicals and oxygen. It has absolutely nothing to do with conscientiousness, which is what I’d point to for determining life.
We live in a society that is based on insanity when it comes to this issue. If a woman gets an abortion, she is justified because her child was unborn, therefore not technically alive. But if she waits 15 minutes and delivers a premature living baby and then dumps it in a trash can she’s a murderer. Where’s the sense?
Oh and I laughed at the video too. Jimmy’s pretty funny.