What the Hell: Super Bowl Hypocrisy Is Alive and Well

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Imagine the quandary CBS finds itself in pre-Super Bowl: “Do we approve this anti-abortion commercial from Focus on the Family, whose proponents believe that to choose otherwise sends you straight to hell? After all, we did refuse a spot from the pro-choice United Church of Christ a few Super Bowls ago, though under the excuse that we weren’t running any advocacy ads at the time. Somebody might accuse us of being inconsistent, arbitrary or, worse, biased.

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