The McBournie Minute: Pulling commercials

Millions of people watched the Super Bowl, many of those people watched it for the commercials. This time last week, the only comments being made were, "Wow, the commercials weren't that great this year."

Now, it's all talk about what commercials were inappropriate. This is going beyond the Rolling Rock ads, where they intentionally announce the pulling of fake ads, Snickers and General Motors have faced the wrath of critics in the week since the first airing.

For those of you who do not remember, the Snickers commercial had two guys doing the ol' Lady and the Tramp thing with a candy bar. Two men kissing! Then expressing disgust at what they did! Sinful!

The GM commercial was a favorite, with one of those machines that assembles cars going through depression and eventually jumping off a bridge, only to wake up and find it was all a bad dream. Of course, this commercial drew criticism for its portrayal of suicide. We all know machines cannot self-terminate.

The big issue here is that companies should be able to make jokes however they want. After all, it is their millions of dollars going to make it. But just so you know, if you tried kissing a man and have now faced public scorn for being homosexual, end your depression and jump off a bridge.