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Commercial FAIL

In Vanity Fair, Andrea Buchanan tries to come up with an idea for a pro-choice Super Bowl commercial to present the "opposite message" to Tim Tebow's pro-life one. First of all, if you're trying to come up with the "opposite" of a young person being allowed to live and speak up for his own right to life, you're already in trouble. But Buchanan doesn't seem to see that and goes valiantly ahead:
My commercial would open with a wide shot of abortion protestors (many who are members of Focus on the Family) marching in front of the doors of a non-descript abortion clinic in anywhere U.S.A. I would show them shouting “baby killer” and “devil worshiper,” and depict images of them throwing holy water on the women who are attempting to walk through the doors and see a doctor. I would cast the commercial starting with the anti-Tebows: the unattractive, the unfit, the look of stark raving mad. [Emphasis mine]
Hey! Social Darwinism and the Super Bowl -- now there would be a great fit! Why didn't anyone ever think of that before?

Andrea Buchanan is right about one thing: She shouldn't be expecting a call from CBS anytime soon.
 
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