Going After Embedded Advertising: Hate-hate Relationship between Hollywood and the FCC

The FCC won’t go after Rush Limbaugh for inciting to riot or vote tinkering; or Michael Reagan for hate speech; or all the rest of the Republican’s on-air voices for disseminating lies, because they are their good neocon, spout-the-Republican-bullcrap lying friends, but the FCC will go after worse-than-dog-poop “liberal” Hollywood.

Hollywood, which they hate because it is so-called liberal, which fights all the repugnant things Republicans stand for, like war, and Hollywood which hates them back because they are up-tight, stick-up-the-arse pricks and prigs, who go after language and (heaven forbid) a bare breast. I mean, who can bear a bare breast for two seconds?

But this is surprising. The FCC is going after its big business friends. The people who brought us “embedded’ advertising. You know. The boxes of General Mills and Post cereals seen ad eat-ems on Seinfeld.

Or the copious quaffing of Coke, Pepsi or Bud, or KY stimulating lubricating gel on the nightstands, or any of the myriad of products that assault our eyes in movies and television shows.

These cads. These miserable maleficent moguls are actually paying production companies to use their products in films and on video tape.

Maybe worse, Hollywood is taking their money. The FCC seems to be slightly conflicted on which to pursue, persecute or prosecute.

Hollywood has been embedding products in films and TV for years, and suddenly the FCC is investigating?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t run out of the movie theatre dying for a Pepsi or an Uzi or a Mercedes just because I saw them on the screen.

No, I run out of the theatre with a huge craving to demand my money back, because I haven’t seen one movie that was worth paying more than twenty-five-cents to see, if that much.

How about going after the deluge of intelligence-insulting, non-real reality and incredibly insipid game shows the four networks (if you count Fox) are inflicting on an already dumbed-down public.

More important, the FCC could find something meaningful to go after their friends on the religious right, who troll their email box complaint box and flood it with bitchings about programming they think is too sexual, violent or anything else they do not want us to see.

I’m sure they hate the intelligence of Meet the Press or Bill Moyers.

The P & P crowd, the pricks and prigs, can do what the rest of do. If we don’t like what a network is offering…we vote by remote and change the channel.

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