Ellen's Elves Ad for JCPenney Gets Added Bonus of a Protest

Another small-minded outcry

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Ellen DeGeneres lets all sorts of groan-inducing, size-based bon mots innocently fly as she exhorts Santa's elves to make more toys for a seasonal giveaway contest in this JCPenney spot. But the biggest joke here is the protest and call for a boycott by mean-spirited, tone-deaf and irrelevant conservative group One Million Moms, which continues to operate under the assumption that anyone gives a crap about what it has to say, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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