I was sitting down to watch the Patriots-Broncos AFC playoff game, and I was not expecting an ad from the anti-gay group Focus on the Family. The ad featured a bunch of a adorable kids quoting the Biblical verse John 3:16, closing with “life … wow.” Focus is not a religious organization but rather a [...]
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Focus on the Family buys ads on Broncos games
The Tim Tebow Effect continues in Denver, as the anti-gay group Focus on the Family has bought TV ad time on more than a dozen Denver Broncos games this season. Tebow, drafted by the Broncos, was in a Super Bowl ad this year bought by the political advocacy group. “We saw from our Super Bowl [...]
Tebow: Focus on Family ad cost endorsements
Former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow says his decision to appear in Super Bowl ads for Focus on the Family cost him endorsement deals. Tebow appeared in ads that stressed a pro-life message for Focus on the Family, a political advocacy group that is extremely homophobic. Tebow was the featured speaker at a dinner [...]
NCAA.com pulls Focus on the Family ads
That was fast. Within 24 hours of Pat Griffin sounding the alarm that the NCAA had accepted and blessed TV and internet ads from the hate group Focus on the Family, she’s gotten word that NCAA.com has pulled the group’s ads. More from Pat Griffin: I just received a copy of the NCAA’s Advertising and [...]
NCAA gives blessing to Focus on the Family ads
As if watching Focus on the Family pimp their perspective on life during the Super Bowl wasn’t bad enough, word has it that NCAA.com is running banners for the group, and that CBS plans to run their commercials during the NCAA basketball tournament with the NCAA’s blessing. Pat Griffin writes: Ok, we endured the Focus [...]
Tebow/Focus Super Bowl ad: least-watched
I had no idea that the Nielsen Company was this detailed. They actually provide individual ratings for the TV commercials shown during the Super Bowl. The most-watched commercial was the Doritos “Snack Attack Samurai” ad, followed by the “Green Police” Audi ad. The least-watched? The Focus on the Family anti-abortion ad starring Tim Tebow and [...]
Watch the bizarre Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad
What were they thinking? The Focus on the Family ad that aired during the Super Bowl aimed at fighting abortion instead promoted domestic violence with Tim Tebow tackling his mother. When it aired, everyone at the party looked at each other with a “what in hell did I just see” look. You can see it [...]
CBS helped write Focus on the Family script
Not only has CBS agreed to break its policy against political advocacy ads, but they helped the anti-gay Focus on the Family craft their anti-abortion commercial starring Tim Tebow! Gary Schneeberger, spokesperson for Focus on the Family, told the Daily Beast: We’ve worked with [CBS] almost since the beginning. Our senior vice presidents talked to [...]
Tim Tebow’s really bad day on- and off-field
Yesterday was not a good day for Tim Tebow. On top of a bad day of practice for the Senior Bowl, the former Florida quarterback who has cut a commercial for Focus on the Family is the target of a protest by a coalition of women’s organizations unhappy with the anti-abortion-rights message of Tebow’s commercial. [...]
Tim Tebow: I’m not preachy, deserve respect
Tim Tebow has obviously been catching some heat for his taped Super Bowl ad for the anti-gay Focus on the Family, in which he talks (yet again) about how his mother was told she should abort him and didn’t. Tebow spoke out about it: “I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think [...]
Tim Tebow cuts ad for Focus on the Family
University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, have filmed a 30-second ad for Focus on the Family that is set to air during the Super Bowl. Focus on the Family is antigay and gave $727,000 to support the passage of the antigay marriage Prop. 8 in California in 2008. Reports the Orlando [...]