Mark’s Soap Box

Geez, get over yourselves NYT. Once again the liberal bias of the NYT and it’s use of news articles to push it’s agenda have reared it’s ugly head…. again.

This time they are using the Superbowl to flog their liberal ideology and attack Bush. Oh they don’t come right out as an adult would, and say the Ads are Bush’s and Rove’s fault; they just make silly and idiotic comparisons that even a child can figure out are completely off base.

No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, unlike a patriotic spot for Budweiser beer that ran during the game two years ago. But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.

More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoon like vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.

That is the 2 lead paragraphs. The fact that the Bud ad was an anomaly escapes (yea right) the NYT.

Yea, liberal bias does not exist! Uh-huh. After a few examples of what they called violence, which was in reality just slapstick; they threw in somen intelligentsia references to prove their superiority.

It was as if Madison Avenue were channeling Doc in “West Side Story,” the gentle owner of the candy store in the neighborhood that the two street gangs, the Jets and Sharks, fight over. “Why do you kids live like there’s a war on?” Doc asks plaintively. (Well, Doc, this time, there is.)

They must think the Three Stooges were warped by WW1 or 2. The offensiveness of this comparison is clearly lost on the NYT, and the rest of the liberal media I am sure. So let me explain. Equating a real fight for freedom (remember all those stats you liberals use to justify your hatred?) with a story about dancing and singing punks is offensive to people making real sacrifices in real fights for real ideas and values. Get it?

This was followed up by the writer yearning for those halcyon days when the media elites controlled the news and they believe, the world.

During other wars, Madison Avenue has appealed to a yearning for peace. That was expressed in several Super Bowl spots evocative of “Hilltop,” the classic Coca-Cola commercial from 1971, when the Vietnam War divided a world that needed to be taught to sing in perfect harmony.

Other wars? You mean Viet Nam, the first war with which Television was a part. The fact that marketers merely play on popular culture eludes the NYT. Much of the real world eludes the NYT.

Most likely the NYT bias is due to the fact that they are blinded by their own desperate attempt to justify their agenda of Bush/America/Christian/Troop bashing which drives all of their news pieces/ In an attempt to validate their editorial stance they desperately find meaning and validation where there is none. No doubt living in NYC and the echo chamber of the elite media helps to insulate them form their own stupidity.

Those who wish the last four years of history had never happened could find solace in several commercials that used the device of ending an awful tale by revealing it was only a dream.

Are you kidding me? The fact that the game everyone was watching was a violent sport seems to elude the times. Pity, they could of dug up some more irrelevant metaphors and made desperate pitches for the liberal point of view poised as reasoned analysis. Hmm,now that I think of it, maybe I should jet over to the Sports page. Truly pathetic NYT.

Showing how completely out of touch the NYT is, they lauded the one ad that had offended people. Not all people, just a few who can’t accept that what they do is not the top of the “food chain” and as per the victim mentality created by the likes of the NYT were on cue with the requisite hue and cry of “that’s not fair. The NYT seems to be oblivious to their plight. Pity, it was a good chance for them to blow and bluster about “national health care” and “minimum wage” unfairness. Must have been running out of inches.

The same gag, (referencing GM’s ad about robots making mistakes. What no attack on the troops as being robotic? missed one NYT) turned inside out, accounted for one of the funniest spots, a Nationwide Financial commercial by TM Advertising, also owned by Interpublic. The spot began with the singer Kevin Federline as the prosperous star of an elaborate rap video clip. But viewers learned at the end it was only the dream of a forlorn fry cook at a fast-food joint.

Maybe they were just too focused on bashing the war to be good all around liberals?