Comedy | November 22, 2010 | 49 comments

U.S. Bans Commercial

source: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-bans-commercial.html

GLOBALPOLITICAL
A new television ad about the U.S. national debt produced by Citizens Against Government Waste has been deemed "too controversial" by major networks including ABC, A&E and The History Channel and will not be shown on those channels. The commercial is a homage to a 1986 ad that was entitled "The Deficit Trials" that was also banned by the major networks. Apparently telling the truth about the national debt is a little too "hot" for the major networks to handle. But perhaps it is time to tell the American people the truth. In 1986, the U.S. national debt was around 2 trillion dollars. Today, it is rapidly approaching 14 trillion dollars. The American Dream is being ripped apart right in front of our eyes, but apparently some of the major networks don't want the American people to really understand what is going on.

The truth is that the ad does not even have anything in it that should be offensive. The commercial is set in the year 2030, and the main character is a Chinese professor that is seen lecturing his students on the fall of great empires. As images of the United States are shown on a screen behind him, the Chinese professor tells his students the following about the behavior of great empires: "They all make the same mistakes. Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called "stimulus" spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries, and crushing debt."

Perhaps it is what the Chinese Professor says next that is alarming the big television networks: "Of course, we owned most of their debt, so now they work for us".
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49 comments // U.S. Bans Commercial // Video

  • MarissaMFer
    • 0
      MarissaMFer  

    • Seems more like something made to scare people into hating the Chinese. Which is probably why news stations refuse to show it.

      Without government investment, the economy would have crashed even harder. The economy is run by a cycle of spending. If no one has a job, no one has money to spend. So, making cuts makes the economy worse.

      :/ At the same time, I don't appreciate the censorship. I like to experience things and formulate my opinions on my own.

    • 1 year ago
  • Prijedor
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • jubal
  • jubal
  • JohnA
  • freecrack
    • -1
      freecrack  

    • eh its ok.
      they deserve thir moment in the sun, its been a while and all.
      plus if all great empires fall, so will they.i vote india next, they so deserve it, or haiti.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • alexandrek
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • alexandrek:

      bigger point being that all nations have utopic eyes.none are just hanging out feeling "eh fuck it".
      so painting china as a threat in this way, is just wastefull.
      plus the narrative is that all great empires fall, wich would mean just as temperary as we are as a dominant force, so will they be.
      its an unavoidable cycle that no nation lasts forever.no big news flash on that.
      its a big bowl of nothing this clip.

    • 1 year ago
  • UndoInfluence
    • +1
      UndoInfluence  

    • The take home message of this commercial is very clear and one that I hope all Americans will wake up to: We must bomb the chinese!!!!!

      The commercial makes this very clear.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dejan_Croatia
  • aquamammal
    • -1
      aquamammal  

    • LOL, sino-phobia much? Wall street, suits, and all the leeches like it are what's fuckin' US up. Trying to blame health care reform and shit. Ya'll out of your fuckin' minds.

      XVX for life, R.A.S.H. t'il death.

    • 1 year ago
  • TN_Fireman
    • +2
      TN_Fireman  

    • Maybe the ad was banned because it was stupid.

      1) The largest holders of US debt are Americans.That's what the bond market is all about.

      2) If America did default on it's debt, it's creditors are the biggest losers - just like the banks when homeowners defaulted in 2008.

      3) In the 80's people were afraid Japan was going to own us if the debt kept increasing. Look how that worked out for them.

      The ad was nothing but a ploy to spread fear and anti-social program sentiment. The question is who would spend millions in advertising dollars to undermine the current government of the United States?

    • 1 year ago
  • Pollo_Loco_
  • Incredulous
    • +5
      Incredulous  

    • "but apparently some of the major networks don't want the American people to really understand what is going on."

      FUCK TV! People who really WANT to understand what's going on, KNOW what's going on.

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
    • +5
      remanns  

    • The message may be somewhat flawed, but there is no adequate justification for this not being broadcast if someone wants to pay for it.

      p.s Our debt issues are not "government spending" derived; capitalism is fundamentally flawed and allowing corporations and banks the freedom to, essentially. dictate policy exacerbates capitalisms flaws and hastens its charge down hill.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
    • +3
      EmperorThan  

    • I've already seen the commercial several times. Was the ban instated AFTER it already aired for several weeks?

      It freaked my dad out. He's always on edge as is, just like the colonel in Dr. Strangelove... I thought he was just making stuff up when he explained it to me. lol

    • 1 year ago
  • Incredulous
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +3
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • censorship is wrong period. yes this is just more static to distract from the real issues, but at the heart of it, its censorship. it is the networks taking a position that they will not support or aid people who have this opinion, and while that is a right you and i should have, the networks cannot have their cake and eat it too. you are either mercantile capitalists or impartial reporters of events. you are either unbiased or opinionated, you cannot pretend to be both.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +1
      Itsbatman_Durr  
    • jubal:

      well yeah i get they have their agenda, i guess i am just tired of them trying to portray themselves as a public service when it suits their needs but then hide under the protection of being a commercial enterprise with a bottom line. i would hope more people would also be offended by this and speak out and do something abot it

    • 1 year ago
  • good_stuff
    • +2
      good_stuff  

    • No mention of building Empires? Isn't that what the last adminitration did, and what we spend a majorit of the federal budget on?

    • 1 year ago
  • Tayllerand
  • Darevalo
    • +5
      Darevalo  

    • wow... americans cant take that? oh no... oh jeez... thank goodness these networks know what we can and cannot watch... thank you networks.

      *rolls eyes*

      how effin stupid.

    • 1 year ago
  • alexandrek
  • remanns
  • ismaelo44
  • Incredulous
  • BKsaysAction
  • Psymoniac
    • -1
      Psymoniac  

    • WOW - so true (even with the blatant propaganda in it)....WAKE UP!!!! war with china is coming if you try to fool them (do your research - tit for tat cold war with china e.g. bogus gold)

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
    • +5
      Saladin  

    • Haha, what a crock of shit.

      It's our free trade policies that fucked us over with China. And currently, they're as reliant on us as we are on them. Until they can turn their own citizens into consumers of their goods, they're reliant on our market for their labor.

      As for "stimulus spending" and "government takeovers," did the advertising people forget that China is a semi-communist government?

      Most of their successful companies are STATE-OWNED. What does that tell you?

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
  • Saladin
    • 0
      Saladin  
    • JohnA:

      Not really, just GM.

      The point being that it's pretty silly to talk about the rise of China while claiming that America used too much government intervention, the exact reason why China is such a beast.

      I'm not commenting on the morality of that. A state-run, for-profit business that runs on tax dollars is pretty fucked up in some ways. Just pointing out that the commercial is full of it.

    • 1 year ago
  • JohnA
    • 0
      JohnA  
    • Saladin:

      GM, Chrysler, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, all the banks and investment brokerages that took bailouts, and coming soon to a neighborhood near you, health insurance companies. I think the commercial is pretty accurate if we don't change our ways and get our fiscal house in order.

    • 1 year ago
  • Saladin
    • 0
      Saladin  
    • JohnA:

      You make no distinction between government takeovers and government bailouts, which are not the same thing. Fannie and Freddie are particularly bad examples since they are semi-public anyway.

      Republicans specifically demanded that if we were going to do bailouts, we had "no right" to take actual stake in the company we gave all that fucking money to.

      I don't think anyone disagrees with you about getting our fiscal house in order Jon.

      It's just really silly to blame the government four our failing economy and massive deficits right now.

      Had Wall Street never been allowed to perpetrate this subprime madness, not that they've stopped their other dangerous financial schemes, we would never have spent any of this money in the first place.

      The commercial conveniently ignores that and lets the private sector off the hook, even though this is really all their fault to begin with.

    • 1 year ago
  • GENERALNATTY
  • Pawper
    • +2
      Pawper  

    • Voted down for the misleading headline. The U.S. government did not ban this ad.

      As for what is wrong with the ad... it's blatant conservative fear-mongering based on a dystopian slippery slope. IMHO, it's the same despicable brain-washing propaganda that Fox News perpetuates.

      Networks have every right to choose their advertising partners. I don't know if I'd consider declining an ad campaign as corporate censorship. If I were in the position I would refrain from the ad deal as well.

    • 1 year ago
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
    • +1
      GLOBALPOLITICAL  
    • Pawper:

      Get your facts straight, dude! The article does not say that the U.S. Government banned the ad. It states clearly that the "Corporate Media" refuses to run the ad due to it's controversial nature, i.e. telling some truth about how idiotic we are to allow the global elites to sell off our country to fatten their own pockets.

    • 1 year ago
  • notsure
  • Pawper
    • +1
      Pawper  
    • notsure:

      TV is a medium. Along the lines of the saying "guns don't kill people, people kill people," you should boycott networks and shows, not the medium itself, which is an important communications channel in our society for news, commentary, criticism, arts and entertainment.

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • Jake_Leonard
    • +3
      Jake_Leonard  
    • notsure:

      Reading in one of my US Government books, approximately 90% of Americans obtain all their source of information and news through the television; a one-way means of communication that is censored and manipulated.

    • 1 year ago
  • parisinla
  • notsure
    • 0
      notsure  
    • parisinla:

      Like Current.? ----When you aware of the mind-control techniques that are being used in a medium, it no longer has an effect on you. Watching Television can be a passive experience and can be used to manipulate suggestible people. Read "The Assault on Reason" by Al Gore.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • notsure
  • a619ko
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