{"id":2489,"date":"2004-01-31T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2021-06-02T16:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T20:13:45","slug":"one-minute-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/31\/one-minute-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Minute Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/tvbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Even though the airwaves are public, even though the contest was voted on by the public, CBS is still refusing to air the winning commercial in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveon.org\/front\/\">MoveOn.org<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Bush in 30 Seconds&#8221; contest. The commercial, scheduled to bookend the Super Bowl halftime show, will instead air on CNN &#8212; since God forbid CBS disappont legions of rabid football fans by interrupting the screen time of Beyonc&eacute; or Nelly.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; MoveOn.org is trying to organize a one-minute boycott of the Super Bowl, encouraging interested parties to switch over to CNN at 8:10 PM and 8:35 PM EST. To help them in this regard, I&#8217;m offering a (low-bandwidth) copy of the winning commercial here, just in case you might be online during the game.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; You might also be interested to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushin30seconds.org\/\">the commercials which won in other contest categories<\/a>. Or perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bushin30seconds.org\/finalists.shtml\">all the finalists in the contest<\/a>. There&#8217;s some good stuff there. Have fun during the game. And watch out with those pretzels.<center><video width=\"320\" height=\"240\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/video\/MoveOn_ChildsPlay.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><source src=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/video\/MoveOn_ChildsPlay.ogv\" type=\"video\/ogg\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Even though the airwaves are public, even though the contest was voted on by the public, CBS is still refusing to air the winning commercial in MoveOn.org&#8216;s &#8220;Bush in 30 Seconds&#8221; contest. The commercial, scheduled to bookend the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/31\/one-minute-boycott\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}