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With all the garbage on TV, and I don’t really watch TV I rent DVDs, what is going on in the advertising world? One recent show I’ve been renting is “Friday Night Lights” and it’s low-cut cleavage on steroids. From the high school girls to the teachers in school it’s a T & A show. This may be very mild to other stuff on the airwaves so I ask you to watch the video below and tell me if this advertisement for the new Fiat 500 Arbarth is too sexy for American eyes.

Seduction

My feeling is it is sexy, it’s eye catching, it holds your attention, it advertises the car well and it get’s its message out. Fiat, and Europe in general, is known for running ads that are much more sexually suggestive than ads that run in the US.

“Networks in the U.S. have much stricter standards, which makes the ads we see in the U.S. routinely less interesting than what you see in Europe and South America,” says AOL Autos Editor-in-Chief David Kiley, who is a former editor and columnist at ad industry magazine Adweek. “The other issue you have in the U.S. is that religious-based ‘family’ organizations will start issuing press releases and organizing boycotts if they think an ad is corrupting on some level, or has too much sexual innuendo.”

Fiat CEO Olivier Francois, who also oversees marketing of Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep in the US, said the US agency who created the ad, Dallas-based Richards Group, “intended it to be viral, but I am considering running it as an ad too, but I’m not sure. It may be too much.”

C’mon, this site is Conservative and that has a moral part to it but this commercial is NOT TOO SEXY or provocative for television in the US. TV shows have gone to far on what they offer in my opinion, both network television and cable. They push the envelop in many cases particularly with sex and violence. The Fiat ad in no way crosses some moral line. Have you seen models at the auto shows lately? Aren’t those for families?

What do you think?

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Well, well the Liberals never fail to take the word “progressive” and bend it to their Marxist way of thinking. In New Zealand one Liberal Anglican church has gone as far as invoking the Virgin Mary.

We have the main stream media siding with the Anglican morons and decrying a Catholic activist who on Sunday damaged a billboard depicting the Virgin Mary looking at a pregnancy test kit, located outside the St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand. Yes, damaging the billboard seems to be the news down under not the immoral use of the Virgin Mary.

“Even people who aren’t Catholics know instinctively you don’t attack the Blessed Virgin who gave us the savior of the world,” the man responsible for ripping the image, Arthur Skinner of the Catholic Action Group told New Zealand television. “To see this at this time is an absolute abomination.”

St. Mathews vicar Glynn Cardy and associate priest Clay Nelson, invited people to offer their own thoughts.

“This billboard portrays Mary, Jesus’ mother, looking at a home pregnancy test kit revealing that she is pregnant,” they wrote when the billboard went up. “Regardless of any premonition, that discovery would have been shocking. Mary was unmarried, young, and poor. This pregnancy would shape her future. She was certainly not the first woman in this situation or the last.

“As in the past it is our intention to avoid the sentimental, trite and expected, to spark thought and conversation in the community. This year we hope to do so with an image and no words. We invite you to wonder what your caption might be.”

So being in the Christmas spirit and celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ means being provocative at the expense of religious beliefs according to the Progressives. The wish to “avoid the sentimental” and “spark thought and conversation.”

Catholic Diocese of Auckland spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer on Monday provided a statement, saying that the St. Matthews’ initiative:

“…ignores the gospel account of matters surrounding Mary’s pregnancy and the birth of Jesus, in which Mary is not a shocked solo mother, but a young woman who, despite any anxiety she may have had, has given her firm assent and trust to God, saying ‘Be it done to me according to your will.’”

Progressive’s often claim people who don’t like their broad interpretations and beliefs are simply “intolerant.”  St. Mathews Cardy and Nelson said:

“Frankly, we are tired of Christian intolerance – and embarrassed by it,” they said.

“When will we recognize that none of us have the whole truth?  When will we recognize that those who hold contrary opinions are not ‘of the devil’? When will we recognize that truth comes in many guises, often in unexpected ways?”

St. Mathews is a self-proclaimed “progressive” church that offers same-sex civil union ceremonies and hosts a Sunday evening service of the “Community of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered and Straight People.” Partly visible behind the ripped Mary poster is an earlier one advertising these all-inclusive services.

Tolerance, not in the name of Jesus Christ, but in the name of Vladmir Lenin.

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First Lady Michelle Obama should find a new cause, one that doesn’t tell American’s what to eat. While its been reported she enjoys her greasy fries and hubby Barack likes to entertain at burger joints Mrs. Obama has a new message.

American children “should get their palates adjusted.” Really? While visiting an organic farm in Hawaii Mrs. Obama Obama said that “arugula and steak” was her “favorite” meal. How nice, maybe we can ship some to families across the nation for votes.

She also stated that children in “underserved communities” become obese because they “aren’t growing up with vegetables because there are no grocery stores.”

Underserved communities? They offer vegetables at school and even at fast-food restaurants but children refuse to eat them. So do we hire brown shirts to follow kids to ensure they eat their veggies or else?

“But we find the same thing is true with young kids, and if they get their palates adjusted to those very interesting flavors, they stay connected,” she said.

Government is losing the so-called “War on Drugs”, they try to control smoking, they tax everything they can to control behavior but people are going to eat what they can afford and more likely they will eat what they prefer and like.

Education is nice, teaching kids to eat nutritious food is a good thing but we’ve had food pyramids for years. Part of the problem is government sticking their nose into everything and then failing.

People in  a free society are free to choose but Marxists like Michelle Obama prefer control over freedom.

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