GM Under Fire: Super Bowl Ad Deemed Unsuitable

America needs to grow up!!! This whole politically correct thing is getting really old.

agreed

i thought the commercial was funny....not as funny as the careerbuilders.com ones, but funny

I agree - totally stupid - get over it.

omg please...

bunch of morons

We can bring war to innocent nations but we can't "possibly" offend someone with a robot joke.

During WWII, when President Truman gave the order to drop two Atomic bombs there was no ads like what we see today in print or on radio.

Not many owned a TV then.

"War to innocent nations".... Wow you leftist bloggers can never keep it in your pants can you.

EL34,

once again with some completely un-related WWII comment. Shut up you moron.

News for you, Autophile,
I'm a TRUE conservative, not these messed up republicans we see today. A classic, true conservative sees what we are doing in afghanistan and is upset because we arent doing enough. A true conservative sees what we are doing in Iraq and gets pissed because we opened a pandora's box we should never have even looked at. So spare me your BS.

Lol...okay Hillary...

neutral, I'M a liberal, and i'm 100% with you on this!

autofile is a neanderthal. you're probably ASHAMED of him making ALL conservatives seem like ignorant ashholes.

Yikes... there is A LOT of hatred floating around here. I was just asking "neutral" to keep it relevant to the post rather than using it as an opportunity to blow off steam for his hatred of our administration. The attacks I've received certainly don't seem proportional to the nature of my comment. Seriously, what is all this "real conservative" defense and calling me a "neanderthal." Call me whatever names make you feel superior, the fact remains that "Iraq" has nothing to do with GM's advertising department in this case.

My wife and I thought the ad was fine. We took it as an ad for Quality being a priority for GM and nothing more.

I agree - the political correctness has hit new heights. In Canada, we had a similar Kia ad last week that has provoked such an outcry from police organizations it is ridiculous.

The ad starts with a couple doing some heavy making-out in the front seat. They’re interrupted by the crackle of a police radio, and as the camera pans back, we discover the female in the liplock session is a police officer. She climbs out of the Kia, walks back to the cruiser and drives away, with a little toot of the siren as her final goodbye.

I thought the ad was brilliant - and it shows you don’t have to drive a $100,000 car to be sexy. It wouldn’t have lost its message if the woman involved had been a nurse, a student or a CEO.

For some strange reason, though, police organizations in Canada have reacted with outrage, insisting that the depiction of a female police officer is offensive.

The Kia ad was amuzing and I loved it! I hope GM sticks to their guns too!

Mod me down for this, but this S*P quote nails it perfectly for me:

"Do you consider what kind of suicide rate we'd have if people killed themselves just because they're stupid?" "Yes. An acceptable one."

I don't like any of these commercials that have violence and there are more and more.

I think it started with the Capital One TV ads and now we have to indure this crap with GM and Snickers.

I don't buy any products that market that way.

They can go straight to hell.

When did football become a sport for the weak-hearted? The annual, post game "I’m Offended Gripe Fest" gets more attention than the game itself now. Apparently, the wardrobe malfunction debacle was merely a catalyst for creating the mother of all slippery slopes... Since Prince didn’t reveal any noteworthy body parts, we’re now reduced to discussing homophobia-phobia over a cheesy Lady and the Tramp attention grab, and a suicidal robot.

If you’re so offended by a robot commercial you should probably kill yourself. Get it over with now, the world is too rough for you... or maybe its my turn; I just can’t take this anymore.

FYI, those commercials are replayed for weeks after the Superbowl is over.

How about a commercial that shows Union bosses shooting themselves in the head with all the bloody special effects after all the UAW workers are laid off from GM?

lol

Another thing webguy, didn't Prince suck and screw up a perfectly great football game with all of his outdated and antiquated pop rock tunes from the 80's?

EL34,

you just whined about how you hate violence in TV ads and then you promote violence in your next post.

Are you "special" in any sort of way? Did your mom have to pin notes for the teacher on your jacket every morning before you got on the short bus?

neutral, I think it's important for young children to be able to watch TV without seeing robots committing suicide.

I mean what's next?...a commercial where a husband comes home and finds a man raping his wife and he grabs his baseball bat and beats the guy over the head?

It would be a good baseball bat commercial, right??

I'm tired of seeing these schlubs on

on TV.

A certain level of censorship is necessary...only a certain level though. You go to Europe and theres no drinking age and much less censorship. What do they have, oh yea. Less drinking problems and less naive kids who have the pent-up urges to do crazy things once they get the chance. Like when I turned 16 and got a liscence, all we did was try to get beer and find parties. My cousins in Europe never did that crap because there's no thrill in doing something thats not restricted.

You guys apparently didn't see the car wash on the street GM Commercial where guys couldn't keep there hands off of the GM Wagon thing???? It was so wrong.... There was this old guy rubbin' his wrinkly old chest on the side window....... I am vomiting right now..... That commercial was just wrong!!!! Not to mention the car... Does anyone really uy that color.....

They would do anything make you buy their car, how pity.

wow people just grow, its a machine and its a comercial.

I thought the robot ad was funny. But after reading this article, I can understand that some people can be offended. Think about it for a moment. GM is obssessed with quality that they will fire anyone who screw up his or her job? That seems a bit harsh to me. Especially this robot just dropped a nut then escorted out the door?

By the way, I agree with jasonqoudie, the car wash on the street ad was just done in poor taste.

Some organizations have nothing better to do than stir up issues that are nonexistent, not intended and not worth arguing about. Pretty sad scenario. I am sure GM had no intention of offending anyone. Get a life guys.

The uaw should learn from this ad, if a robot would feel that bad about it's work, then uaw humans should follow suit.

Your typical American Union worker doesn't care if they're building cars or swingsets.

Their only 3 concerns are, who's in charge, when is lunch and when do we get paid.

WOW! How low can they go?

GM produces one creative advertisement, of dozens of dull ones- and WHAM!

The Superbowl is for kids and not just a bunch of goons.

Kids don't need to see Janet Jackson at the halftime show.

You know sports have changed. I used to watch the LA Lakers win, when Magic, Kareem, Worthy, Scott and Cooper used to entertain us night after night playing great BBall, and now everytime a game is on a huge fights breaks out, and I don't watch anymore.

What does any of that have anything to do with my post?

This is great publicity for GM. The commerical did exaclty what they intended it to do, make people talk.

Good point no1listensanyway

Publicity is publicity.

this is a complicated issue.

on principal, i'm generally against any and ALL censorship. and while i haven't seen it, just the plot of the commercial made me laff too.

on the other hand, EL34 does make valid points. there IS way too much violence on the tube. companies DO have to give more thot to impressions they make on kids. of ALL ages.

I thought it was funny, personally speaking. But nowadays, everyone gets butt-hurt over the smallest things. It's a joke. It's funny. We should laugh at it. Not curl up in our security blanket and scream becaue it's 'offensive' in some infinitesimal way.

Story UPDATE: GM in fact has announced that it HAS pulled this ad for the reasons presented by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness, and a ground swell of friends & families of people affected by mental illness. Judging from the inane comments of so many, we still have a long way to go before people relize that suicide is largely the end result of mental illness....that 1 in 5 people are effected (directly or indirectly) by mental illness...and that the mental illness is a brain disorder cause by chemical imbalances - much like heart disease, diabetes and certain forms of high blood pressure.

In all likelihood, at least 20% of the authors of the above messages will some day experience the pain, stigma and lack of sympathy for those affected by mental illness. I wonder how amused and uncercerned they will be then?

GM is under fire - for lying about there being no batteries to power its Chevy Volt concept car, unveiled last month in Detroit.
1. GM's chief vehicle engineer, Nick Zelensky, was quoted (a few days after GM's "No batteries" press release) in MIT's Tech Review saying that Volt-ready large-format lithium batteries are ready now.
2. GM could get 40 miles electric range using nickel metal-hydride batteries, if it hadn't sold the right to make them to Chevron-owned CobaSys, which won't allow large NiMH packs to be sold in America. Poor GM!
3. Lead-acid batteries power most home-converted electric vehicles (EVs) in the US farther than the Volt's 40 miles on battery propulsion.
The GM commercials that I find offensive feature Hummers, but I don't wet myself in public over them.

To wrh3208. Nothing will ever make you happy and you like everybody else as depressed as you are.

To EVangel. What does your comment have to do with the post?

It was just an ad. I am getting so tired of these bitching people!