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What Carl's Jr. offers for sale is beef burgers, but what it serves on TV is smut burger and possibly a broadcast pig
NEW YORK (May 26, 2005) - On May 23, a California mother with elementary school children called Morality in Media to complain about a new Carl's Jr. ad airing on broadcast TV starring Paris Hilton. Robert Peters, president of Morality in Media, had the following comment:

"First it was Hugh Hefner, who founded a sex empire that in the 1950s brought soft core pornography into the mainstream and that now pumps hardcore pornography into millions of homes via pay TV channels, using sexual innuendo to promote Carl's Jr. fast food.

"Now it is Paris Hilton, whose rise to fame hinged in part on a pornographic home video featuring none other than Paris herself, performing in a lascivious manner to promote Carl's Jr. fast food.

"The Paris Hilton ad is also being used on the www.SpicyParis.com and www.hardees.com websites (Caution: these sites contain material that some may find offensive) to promote the popular Hardee's, another chain owned by CKE Restaurants, Inc.

"I would still object to the Hilton ad, but at least I would understand if the ad were promoting a company like Abercrombie & Fitch that decided it didn't need the business of mature adults.

"But I don't see how Carl's Jr. and Hardee's can prosper without the patronage of millions of adults who are concerned about the erosion of decency in the mainstream media and the effects that pornography and 'popular culture' (like the prurient Carl's Jr. ad) are having on youth.

"Barring an emergency, I won't be stopping at Carl's Jr. or Hardee's in the future, and I would encourage other adults who are concerned about the decline of moral values to also pass them by.

"I would also encourage adults who see the Paris Hilton ad on broadcast TV and who are offended by it to make an indecency complaint to the Federal Communications Commission at www.fcc.gov The FCC defines indecent to include patently offensive depictions of sexual activities; and if the oozing with sex performance by Paris Hilton didn't depict sexual activities, what did it depict? As the ad's director put it in an interview, 'One of the things you can expect to see is pure hotness.'

"Had the Carl's Jr. ad aired on HBO, I suspect that few viewers would have objected, but as the Supreme Court observed in a 1978 case upholding the broadcast indecency law, 'a nuisance may be merely a right thing in a wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.'"


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Wonder if she complained when priests molested little boys, or if she just continued to go to church.

God I wish I could come up with an ad campaign that got me so much free publicity... fucking brilliant!

i thought this would be a joke thread about bluff

Notice they used the words "lascivious" and "prurient"? Watch out!

Nah, there is already too many of those. I'm sure he'll crank up a new one tonight.

Lets all go get a Spicy BBQ Burger from Carl's Jr. :thumbsup

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

People are entirely too sensitive to this kind of stuff.

I signed up for their newletter. It is great comedy.

blah blah blah we have billboards with naked womens bare ass on them hre in hollywood

30 feet of naked ass, for a jeans ad.

i love california.

I'm going to send them a fax of my big, furry ass.

Same in Vegas, tits and ass everywhere. :1orglaugh

get a life, there are more important things to worry about

They need to be more concerned with the effects the fast food garbage itself is having on their youth :glugglug

Fuck 'em all, Morality in Media, Focus on the Family all those bull shit conservative organizations are nothing but fronts for religious extremists. They probably have their own hit squads. Have any high-profile liberals bitten the dust in odd ways recently?

well said :thumbsup
attention whores!

I love the Ad though! Sorry to spoil madam...

It's been on every 'coming up in the news commercial' & news broadcast since 4 o'clock this afternoon - talk about free publicity - they aired & replayed it about 3-4 times during their entire 'coverage'. hahahaha Had it not been because of the news, I wouldn't have seen it in Canada - I'm thinking this group was 'paid' to complain about it! It's go around the world by month end - does Carl's exist in Canada - never heard of them.