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Brickbat

(19,339 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 12:45 PM Feb 2012

Did anyone see the Randall Terry ads before or during the Super Bowl?

Here are the markets where the ads were going to air:

Pregame
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
St. Louis, Missouri
Tulsa, Oklahoma

During the game
Ada, Oklahoma
Grand Junction, Colorado
Joplin, Missouri
Paducah, Kentucky
Springfield, Missouri

Anyone catch any of them?

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seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. i was curious, too. i was sure we would hear on du. but then, du has about died.
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 12:49 PM
Feb 2012

i was telling hubby after third quarter, still hadnt heard. i knew it would not be in our area. but i am curious.

no_hypocrisy

(46,029 posts)
2. I'm in NJ and didn't see it. But I want to share a personal Randall Terry story with you.
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 12:54 PM
Feb 2012

I was marching in a Reproductive Rights event in D.C. in the mid-Eighties. I made a special "sign" for the occasion: I made a wooden cross out of 2 x 4's and nailed an upside down unfurled wire hanger with blood-red nail polish on it that dripped onto the wood. You get the idea.

So we're marching past a bunch of bleechers and there's Randall Terry, with his ever-present megaphone, screaming at us, asking for God's wrath to visit us, etc. He was loud. Until he saw my cross. He literally lost his voice and was incredibly stunned. Struck dumb.

You can shut him up.

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
3. I heard he wasn't allowed to air
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:04 PM
Feb 2012

FCC RULES AGAINST TERRY
On Friday, the FCC ruled that anti-abortion activist
Randall Terry was not a bona fide candidate for president
and therefore WMAQ-TV did not have to allow him to
purchase time in the Super Bowl or Super Bowl pre-game.
He claimed to be a write-in candidate for the Democratic
nomination for president in Illinois.

I got that from our Advertising online magazinr spots-n-dots

MineralMan

(146,262 posts)
6. I didn't see any here in Minneapolis St. Paul,
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 01:55 PM
Feb 2012

but I only watched the game and none of the pre-game stuff, so it could have run when I wasn't watching.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
10. I didn't watch the game
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 06:57 PM
Feb 2012

But I am in the Springfield, MO market, and I have heard no comments at all on it, from any quarter. Indeed, this is the first mention of the ads I have seen since before the game.

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