{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-20T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/01\/20\/babysave-haven\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T14:10:22","slug":"babysave-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/01\/20\/babysave-haven\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby…Save Haven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I always thought the WalMart and Friendly’s Restaurant television ads were bad…until the new ones for the Save Haven program starting showing up. Save Haven is that program where a mother can drop her unwanted baby off at any hospital, fire station or police station. I’m not sure if these are national or local ads (based on the poor quality – I suspect local), but they essentially consist of an obscenely politically- correct group of multi-racial teenagers (one with child) in a staged urban environment<\/P>
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…rapping.<\/P>
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It’s dreadful. It’s as if they thought some 65 year old advertising exeucutive could determine an effective method of relaying their message to today’s youth. Apparently, this 65 year-old man figured terrible actors, even worse rappers, and a simple beat box will get the message across. Horrible. I can’t even begin to explain how bad it is. Did I mention that the teenagers in the commercial can’t act or rap?<\/P>
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Anyway, the rap song is not very memorable except for the repetition at the end where the rainbow coalition of teens do the unwanted baby version of “Tastes Great. Less Filling”. Half of them say “Baby”, the other half wait for a drum beat and say “Safe Haven”. <\/P>
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So, over and over again it’s: “Baby….safe haven. Baby…safe haven…Baby…safe haven.”. ARGH! Make it go away.<\/P>
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Oh, and my picture did appear in the Metro Weekly newspaper in Washington, DC. Well, I’m not sure if it’s in the print version, but it did make it into the on-line version. I look awful (otherwise it would have been in headline to today’s blog posting). Anyway, here’s the link: http:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/scene\/index.php?k=524&fa=36<\/A> – browse at your own risk.<\/P>
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