Goldberg Slams CBS’ ‘Pathetic’ “Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman” Ads

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by Robert Quigley | 9:20 am, December 8th, 2009

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Who would have thought that frequent O’Reilly Factor guest Bernie Goldberg and Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar would find common ground? But find common ground they did, over a raunchy snowman.

“Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman,” which is available on CBS’ website, mashes up video from the beloved children’s classic with risqué audio from CBS’ How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men. Goldberg described the attempt at viral hitmaking by the erstwhile Tiffany Network as “pathetic:”

From The O’Reilly Factor:

Goldberg: First of all, let’s not forget that this was the Tiffany Network that is putting Frosty the Snowman and showing his porn collection and talking about how when you have a sex dream, it’s a good thing, because you ‘can’t get her knocked up.’ That’s also in the little cartoon.

O’Reilly: And that’s dialogue from this sitcom that they lifted from the sitcom. Actual dialogue from the sitcom, and they put it in Frosty’s mouth.

Goldberg: I’m not against this on moral grounds: I don’t care about that to be perfectly honest. I’m against it because I think it’s pathetic. When a corporation tries to be ‘cool’ and ‘hip’ and says ‘look at us, look at how cool we are, we’re going to take Frosty the Snowman and have him talk about his porn collection,’ this is like some old guy going to a club, wearing tight jeans and having his baseball cap on backwards and telling some 20-year-old, ‘let’s get jiggy.’

Alternatively, in the words of Time‘s James Poniewozik, “It’s like watching grandpa get a fauxhawk and try to date college girls.” Though Goldberg’s “let’s get jiggy” was a nice touch.

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m

Something says to me Mr. Goldberg doesn’t have any authority in dictating what’s “cool” and “hip”. Backwards baseball cap? “Jiggy”? The 90s called.

Has they even *used* the internet in any point of their lives? Mashups like this are dimes a dozen on Youtube. If this is worth a segment on his show, then there’s plenty, plenty, plenty of more material to feed their frustration with the breakdown of the organic society.
ImNotBlue

Who would have thought that frequent O’Reilly Factor guest Bernie Goldberg and Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar would find common ground?

Why wouldn’t they find common ground? Are you suggesting that Media is biased leftward, and therefore agreeing with an O’Reilly guest would be uncommon? What are you trying to say here?

m says:
December 8, 2009 at 12:58 pm

I think the issue isn’t that it’s a “mashup,” rather that it’s a mashup apparently sponsored and distributed by CBS… there’s a difference.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Bernard Goldberg is so bitter he was never anything but second rate — and he blames the’lib’rul media’ for his own failed career, so failed he had to suck up to Fox Not News to sell his shallow spin on that dastardly ‘Main Stream Media.” Now he thinks he’s Robert Bork or William Bennett.
ImNotBlue

Bill Adkins says:
December 8, 2009 at 4:20 pm

We should all be so lucky as to have the “failed career” of Bernie Goldberg. How long was he in the industry? How long did his job title include, “Chief Correspondent”? How many best seller books has he written?

Yeah… Bernie is a lot of things… but a “failure,” certainly not. And just because he doesn’t report the things that the unapologetic anti-Semite Bill Atkins likes, doesn’t mean he hasn’t succeeded. Sorry Bill… get over yourself.
Sunnyr

Hey, you Liberal nutwads, leave Frosty the hell alone! lol Seriously, is nothing sacred anymore? I agree with Bernie, the media can’t do their real job of reporting REAL NEWS, so they have to prove they “still have it” by sexing up Frosty. Shame on them. Be a Journalist with cojones (low earlobes for women) and report the stuff going on right under your noses. The White House is fertile ground.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

You, blue, are an unmitigated idiot.
ImNotBlue

Bill Adkins says:
December 8, 2009 at 7:39 pm

Yeah, terrific. And you remain an unapologetic anti-Semite… and I’ve proved it time and time again.

Maybe it’s time you find somewhere else to spread your particular brand of hate.