BRIAN ROSS REPORTS
- Like Jay-Z + the Beatles, But Worse
- Update: Help for Homeless Children
- Bush Era, Revised -- and with More Barbeque
- The Tax Woman Cometh
- Paging Mr. Stanford: Antigua Called
- Who Are You Calling Partisan?
- Update: IRS Won't Use Private Debt Collectors
- But Is It Art?
- PMA Scandal a Sore Point for Dems in 2010?
- Down in Flames
- A New Mystery for RNC Chief
- PMA Clients Were Big Givers
- Raided Lobby Firm Still a Force on Capitol Hill
- Stanford Update: Another $143 Mil Found
- Cheney, Hooked on Controversy
TOP BLOTTER CATEGORIES
- Abramoff Lobbying Scandal
- American Al Qaeda
- Avian Flu
- Beirut Hospital Out of Gas
- Cheney
- CIA
- CIA Secret Prisons
- D.C. Madam Affair
- FBI
- Federal Air Marshal Service
- Homeland Security
- Hurricane Katrina
- IRS
- Mark Foley Internet Scandal
- Millionaire Sex Scandal
- Nigerian E-mail Scams
- Norman Hsu, Clinton Fundraiser
- NSA: Wiretapping
- Osama bin Laden
- Payola
- Pharmacy Investigation
- PMA
- Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert
- Stanford
- Steele
- Terror
- Troopergate
- U.K. Airline Terror Plot
- U.K. Bombing Attempts
- Wen Ho Lee
- William Jefferson
- Zarqawi
« Previous | Main | Next »
NFL Refuses to Run Ad to Recruit Border Agents
February 13, 2007 4:06 PM
The National Football League refused to include a print ad recruiting U.S. Border Patrol agents in its 2007 official Super Bowl program because they were uncomfortable with "the sensitive political nature" of the spot, according to a league spokesman.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Border Patrol, had offered to pay for the advertisment, which was part of a campaign to boost the number of agents by 18,000. But money wasn't the issue, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told ABC News.
The ad "was specific to border patrol and mentioned terro rists," he said. "The game was in Miami, where [immigration] is a sensitive political issue...[it] made us a little bit uncomfortable."
Aiello said the league's discomfort stemmed from the ad's mention of terrorism in a program for the high-profile event as well as how it intertwined terrorism and immigration.
The league told DHS it would be willing to run a more generic recruiting ad but never received a response to the offer. "We take recruiting ads from the military that are generic," said Aiello. "We were willing to take one from DHS."
Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.
The issue came to the attention of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who raised it before Congress last week. "We tried to put an ad in the...Super Bowl program this year, and it was rejected, much to my chagrin," he told a panel of lawmakers.
DHS spokesman Mike Friel said he could not confirm the NFL had offered to take a "more generic" ad. He said that other organizations had accepted the same ad the NFL rejected, including the NBA, which ran the advertisement in its official program for its annual All-Star Game, the NCAA, which will publish it in programs for its Final Four championship tournament and "Pro BullRider" magazine.
The ad the NFL didn't want you to see...
February 13, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (46)
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Now the NFL is catering to illegals........when does it end? Mr. Aeillo's income is probably in the high 6's or 7 figures. I'm sure the economic impact of illegals on this country's middle class has absolutely no impact on him or his family. The NFL probably uses illegal workers in their facilites nationwide. Makes me sick.
Posted by: Louise | Feb 12, 2007 2:53:32 PM
a)who drinks the most beer
b)who are your fans in the largest states?
That will answer your question.
Posted by: Aaron C | Feb 12, 2007 4:25:59 PM
Who can really blame the NFL when our own government doesn't know whether it supports our Border Patrol. Our Border Patrol agents are sent out and told not to chase illegal crossers. And if the agents should get shot at, they have to decide whether it is worth going to prison for a decade or more to shoot back because the government will take the word of an illegal over the word of an agent. With all this controversy just within the government itself, would you want to run an ad?
Posted by: JDA | Feb 12, 2007 4:29:35 PM
how the heck are we supposed to get the right people to do the job that's gotta get done when agents are thrown in jail for enforcing the border and organizations in the US refuse to cooperate with the recruiting process?
Posted by: J | Feb 12, 2007 4:33:18 PM
Gee DHS didn't "know" what the NBA's response was? Another example of their tone-deaf, head-in-the-sand bureaucracy. Any wonder why they can't stop the illegal wave?
Posted by: TrueLiberal | Feb 12, 2007 4:44:38 PM
Shameless... i guess its politically incorrect to want to protect our borders.
Posted by: steve | Feb 12, 2007 4:52:51 PM
No I think that they should have run the add. It was just advertising for jobs that is it. There are many area's that people will leave for work. Instead of stopping this add they should have taken the snickers and coke a cola adds off of tv. The snickers add went a little too far with the pulling out of chest hair to show how manly the people were.
You should have stopped the coke-a-cola adds for black history month. They should be ashamed for advertising all about black history month. That is a racist add and should be pulled. Now if I would say where is a white history month I would be sued by the NAACP. It is sad that this nation lost site of white history.
Posted by: Curtis | Feb 12, 2007 5:13:10 PM
Who cares, non-issue...
BUT - Bush SHOULD be impeached for not pardoning Compean and Ramos. What is happening at the border, is a tragic, tragic thing. Unforgivable in the eyes of all Americans.
He says he wants to fight a war on terror, and allows the INS and DHS to terrorize these innocent victims, who did nothing but what was there duty.
Someone called for impeachment of the POTUS if any of these men die in custody (one has already been severely beaten while in prison).
Forget that, impeach him now for this utter nonsense.
(continues to wonder why the Compean and Ramos scandal still gets little to no press coverage...)
Posted by: JelloBiafra | Feb 12, 2007 5:52:45 PM
Who knows what this President stands for any more: Look at our
border; look how he has pc'ed the
war in Iraq-it could have been over
two years ago; look how he let Burger-Clinton off the hook after a decade of letting the radical Muslims run amuck by Clinton and
Burger steals classified documents
from us and Bush lets it go. Does
anybody understand this President?
Posted by: tony | Feb 12, 2007 8:13:25 PM
Who would want to join the border patrol? Our government isn`t serious about protecting our borders and Chertoff doesn`t care about your safety. Chertoff only cares about Mexican drug dealers-who get shot at.
-WHEN- we have the next 911(or worse) Americans like myself will take to the streets(yes we will be forced to become vigilantes) because Chertoff doesn`t care about you and the blood of the innocent will be on his hands and the politicians. Our only hope will be at that point our second CIVIL WAR. Our country is devided sharply now and all it will take is another 911(or worse).
Posted by: Joe H. | Feb 12, 2007 8:35:16 PM
Some bloggers, and newssites, deny democrat scandals like Iran denies the Holocaust.
Posted by: JelloBiafra | Feb 12, 2007 8:57:34 PM
The NFL like our politicians have their heads in the sand over illegal immigration. Why didn't you change the wording of the ad? Duh. The need for more border patrol is unquestionably there. Your priorities are centainly not with the safety of this country.
Posted by: Kathy A | Feb 12, 2007 9:43:54 PM
NAFL North American Football League?
Is it too late to turn this mess around?
Posted by: Citizen Jim | Feb 12, 2007 10:05:57 PM
Bottom line for the NFL,MONEY
Posted by: Peyton J. | Feb 12, 2007 10:52:12 PM
In Mexico, they arrest and deport illegal immigrants from countries to the south of them, but if we do it, we're "racist." We spent all those years building our country into what it is. Why is California such a desirable place to live, when 10 miles south people are trying to cross the border? Their ancestors made their bed, and now their offspring can sleep in it. Glad my ancestors had some gumption. Arrest, deport, and send their government the bill.
Posted by: Jason | Feb 12, 2007 10:53:40 PM
Thankfully, Americans are fully awake to the dangers of unbridled immigration from nations that are not bending enough to blend in to our country. The huge rallies last spring revealed the nature of these illegals. They are not Americans!!!!!!! We have borders for a reason. I dare say that many nations south of the USA has a good record on protecting individual's rights. There is an orderly way to come to my country. Everyone that comes here is not guaranteed citizenship. It must be earned. You would no longer be considered a Mexican after this. An American. Not African. An American. Not Italian. An American....
Posted by: Carl J | Feb 13, 2007 12:15:45 AM
What a bunch of wimps the NFL are!
Maybe they should recruit illegal alien gang-members into their teams?
The NFL has lost it's credibility in my opinion. We won't forget this.
BUMS!
Posted by: Tammy | Feb 13, 2007 12:37:13 AM
The truth behind the border agents who shot two traffickers dead is that they were unarmed, posed no risk to the agents themselves, the agents had commented just prior to the incident that they wanted to kill some immigrants, and the agents then tried to cover it up by omitting it from their report. It was murder.
Don't believe everything you see on Faux news or indeed any of the mainstream media.
Posted by: Steve | Feb 13, 2007 4:26:10 AM
This ad was probably not in spanish therefore turned down! Get use to it folks we already have many former illegals in power why not outsource the border guards! We are not dreaming here this is becoming a nightmare!
Posted by: Terry | Feb 13, 2007 5:22:30 AM
I have decided not to continue the application process for a DHS job due to the lack of support for the two border patrol agents.
Posted by: Roger Pau | Feb 13, 2007 5:36:39 AM
Post a comment
