Here is the first of two anti-abortion ads from Focus on the Family featuring Tim Tebow and his mom Pam.
Pam Tebow: “I call him my miracle baby. He almost didn’t make it into this world. I 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 Tebow: “Thanks mom. Love you too.”
The spot already aired during the CBS Super Bowl pregame show. The second spot will air during the first quarter of the game.
As I wrote earlier, I never expected the ad to be anything but innocuous. The spot(s) are more an attempt to legitimize Focus on the Family as a mainstream organization - with Tebow as cover. The abortion thing is merely a vehicle to that end.
5:30 pm on February 7th, 2010
I’M OFFENDED! RIGHT TO CHOOSE! BLAHBLAHBA W R230 4UPQ23 OIJA;LFKJA;DFLKJ 412351234123%*&^( *&^(*&^(
8:56 pm on February 7th, 2010
HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO SPEAK HIS MIND! BESIDES, LITTLE UNBORN BABIES!!!!!!!!%^&&@$&@@(
10:38 pm on February 7th, 2010
Tebow is an awful QB and a virgin dork.
10:40 pm on February 7th, 2010
what the hell was all the fuss about…nobody knew what the hell the commercial was even about until Tim came out…it was understatement for sure…
1:46 am on February 8th, 2010
Talk about the media getting all worked up about nothing.
2:10 am on February 8th, 2010
this ad was “anti abortion” to brooks so i guess he agrees planned parenthood protests were pro abortion…. thanks for clarifying brooks
6:57 am on February 8th, 2010
Wow. So this is what all the feminazis were up in arms about? A mother talking about how much she loves her son?
Wow. Just, wow.
8:30 am on February 8th, 2010
Does anybody else think that t-bow looks a little too gay in the ad? Think he needs a visit from the t-bone girl…
9:11 am on February 8th, 2010
Hey Bill Swift, how many college teams have you led to a national championship? Your comment shows your level of intelligence.
10:09 am on February 8th, 2010
if you didn’t like it go get a beer and shut the f*** up. Bring back the SbB girls that would be news.
10:09 am on February 8th, 2010
maybe he needs to find a woman like sapp has, woop a bitch!!
12:17 pm on February 8th, 2010
Brooks is on to something. The liberal media won’t own up to it, but CBS has a double standard when it comes to Super Bowl advertisers.
MoveOn.org … liberal … bad
Focus on the Family … right-wing … good
United Church of Christ … mainline Protestant … bad
Focus on the Family … Christian fundamentalist … good
Remember that the next time the liberal media report a puff piece about any right-wing demagogue.
4:56 pm on February 8th, 2010
I have yet to see anything in this story that convinces me of a CBS double standard. What I see is that Focus on the Family played by CBS’ rules and other groups didn’t. They got their ad approved by diluting their message so much it was almost unrecognizable. With the exception of the URL at the end, the ad could have been from the American Cancer Society or the American Disability Association. “Celebrate Life” is the motto of a lot of groups whose lives are threatened by all kinds of dangers.
Without seeing the rejected ads, we can’t know, but it’s not hard to believe that MoveOn.org would make an ad that ACTUALLY SAID SOMETHING. Instead, Focus on the Family makes an ad so completely generic that there’s nothing left to criticize (Are you going to say “family” is bad?) and the ad gets through. Then they rely entirely on the ensuing media storm to get their brand recognition and a public discussion of their ideals.
They read the rules, played the game, and played it well. And you can all pat yourselves on the back for helping them.
1:01 pm on February 9th, 2010
Ooohhh, this was soooo controversial. A mama and her son…HOW OFFENSIVE?!?
4:44 pm on February 10th, 2010
Das ist genau der Grund, warum Amerika in europäischen Augen so verlogen ´rüberkommt. Mami und ihr Timmi, wie süß!
Und beinahe hätten die bösen Ärzte ihn ermorden lassen!
Aber Mami hat gekämpft, und heute ist ihr Timmi groß und stark und gesund und ein Star geworden!
Wie schön.
Wäre aber kaum werbewirksam, wenn der Sohn Crack rauchen, Frauen auf den Strich schicken würde oder ein Serienkiller geworden wäre, was genauso im Bereich des Möglichen gelegen hätte.
Das wäre doch wirklich cool, Mami Bundy kommt mit einem Foto ins Bild und sagt:… und fast hätte ich Ted abgetrieben, aber ich habe gekämpft und mein Sohn,… äääh, naja, da kommt man doch ins Grübeln, gell?