This would have been so much funnier if they instead showed Mohamed taking the Pepsi Challenge, or enjoying a zesty bag of Doritos in between beheading a homosexual, or an adulteress. Maybe they’re saving that for next year.

Republitarian said:
This would have been so much funnier if they instead showed Mohamed taking the Pepsi Challenge, or enjoying a zesty bag of Doritos in between beheading a homosexual, or an adulteress. Maybe they’re saving that for next year.

lmao
TRU DAT!

Blasphemously delicious.

Yeah this is what the Catholic Church should be worried about right now. Definitely not the fact that child molesters continue to serve as priest despite have been proven to be pedophiles.

Catholics are outraged by this?!

Funny premise, unfunny commercial. Oh well. As a Catholic I am not offended at all. I’m actually offended that people would be offended by this commercial.

2 words: Free speech.

And the Moslem version would be funny as would the Jewish version and so on.

In reacting this way, Catholics sound just like Moslems angry about pictures of Mohammed. People need to get a sense of humor and stop searching for something to be offended by. This is not about anything but the ongoing intolerance by leaders of ALL religions.

SUPER Chundy said:
Catholics are outraged by this?!

SWWT said:
I’m actually offended that people would be offended by this commercial.

Everybody’s got to be offended at something nowadays. =)

Is

SWWT said:
Funny premise, unfunny commercial. Oh well. As a Catholic I am not offended at all. I’m actually offended that people would be offended by this commercial.

Exactly. This is just a marketing ploy: offend some group and then have cable news show your ad repeatedly for free! If anyone was offended by the ad, they never would have known about it without Fox News telling them about it in the first place.

As a Catholic, I’m not offended. Of course, those Opus Dei sort of Catholics get offended by everything. But, seriously Megyn, all this over an unaired advertisement! I’m far more concerned about some of the advertisements FOX “News” airs.

i really love football and i also look forward to the new commercials every year. when i see a dumb commercial, i almost feel offended and want to not by the product (although i shop more on price and practicality).
one of the best commercials on right now, in my opinion, is that allstate one.
“i’m a teenage girl. i’m emotionally compromised. i’m all…omg” hilarious.

ChiliPeppersFan said:
i really love football and i also look forward to the new commercials every year. when i see a dumb commercial, i almost feel offended and want to not by the product (although i shop more on price and practicality).
one of the best commercials on right now, in my opinion, is that allstate one.
“i’m a teenage girl. i’m emotionally compromised. i’m all…omg” hilarious.

That is very good.

They ran this story because Kirk Cameron was already booked on CNN. Frito Lay must be run by liberals the way they mock religion. How dare they blaspheme Christianity’s cannibalistic tradition. Next thing ya know The fruit guys from fruit of the loom will be pretending to be Mormons.

Knowing Lars (he’s our local treasure in a sea of liberal bullshit) I can say he’s not offended by the commercial but by the fact that you can poke fun of the Catholics but you couldn’t do this parody to Jews or Muslims. Lars’ point is that if certain religions are off limits to parody then ALL religions are off limits.

His point is 100% accurate. Religion of peace my ass…

Lars Larson (his favorite 18th-Century composer must be Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf) makes the common mistake of using a quote that is found in the so-called Bible, then claiming “Jesus Christ” said it. The books that make up the second-half of the so-called Bible were written decades after the purported events they describe; then the manuscripts were copied and recopied by hand, with so many deletions, errors and insertions by scribes with an agenda, that it’s very difficult to discern what might have been in the original manuscript. (Please see Bart Ehrmann’s “Misquoting Jesus”). Some people make the same comment about surviving ancient literary texts, like the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, etc, but copyists may not have had an investment in propounding a dogma the way religious scribes did. Today, there are many problems with the plays of Shakespeare, written much more recently.

I think Fox News should have made a bigger effort in making it clear that this was a fan-made commercial. Frito Lay didn’t go out and film it. Yes, they let it be one of their finalists so they supported it that way, but they funneled no money into producing or promoting it.

It’s a silly controversy. However, I agree with posters above that the premise for the commercial was funny but the execution wasn’t. Not sure why exactly. Just doesn’t work.

Jon Bershad said:
I think Fox News should have made a bigger effort in making it clear that this was a fan-made commercial. Frito Lay didn’t go out and film it. Yes, they let it be one of their finalists so they supported it that way, but they funneled no money into producing or promoting it.

It’s a silly controversy. However, I agree with posters above that the premise for the commercial was funny but the execution wasn’t. Not sure why exactly. Just doesn’t work.

Perhaps, if you has been an altar boy/acolyte …. We would have appeared to have been a group of well-dressed Holy Rollers.

Laurence Glavin said:
his favorite 18th-Century composer must be Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf

I must say, I appreciate that reference, on many levels. I particularly like it because so many posters haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

Can’t the two sides come together? I swear I saw an image of the Virgin Mary in a Doritos chip once.

Thelonious Funk said:
Can’t the two sides come together? I swear I saw an image of the Virgin Mary in a Doritos chip once.

I have no doubt.

Once, when I was eating some Dots prior to a film, a red one and a yellow one were stuck together. When I pulled them apart, a piece of the red remained on the yellow, and it appeared to be a profile of Ann Margaret. Not the actress Ann Margaret, but my sister’s friend Ann Margaret. She later became a nun. Not my sister. Ann Margaret. Not the actress Ann Margaret.

If you look around enough, I’m sure that you can find a half dozen folks to be offended at anything.

The Real Royal King said:
I must say, I appreciate that reference, on many levels. I particularly like it because so many posters haven’t a clue what you’re talking about.

Well I’m just so impressed that you are so smart. Hmm, 48 years and I have never had anyone ask me a question about 18th century poets. I’m glad I didn’t waste any time studying that. It would come in handy for you royal king the next time you make your appearance on the tv show Jeopardy. Congrats! I’ll take 18th Century poets for $500 please.

Keeva said:
In reacting this way, Catholics sound just like Moslems angry about pictures of Mohammed.

Really? Have you really thought that through? Muslims would react with violence. And the same enlightened souls who scoff at Catholic sensitivity would not say a thing. Not. A. Word.

They would do what they did with Muslim demands to censor depictions of their god: Appease them.

Jon Bershad said:
It’s a silly controversy. However, I agree with posters above that the premise for the commercial was funny but the execution wasn’t. Not sure why exactly. Just doesn’t work.

Maybe it doesn’t work because provoking Catholics to….GASP – register a stern complaint -…doesn’t seem as much fun now that the same schtick can get people killed if it involves a certain, growing religion of peace?

Keeva said:
In reacting this way, Catholics sound just like Moslems angry about pictures of Mohammed.

In reacting what way? You’re got a radio host on TV saying he finds it offensive. Nobody is calling for a boycott, nobody is burning embassies, nobody is trying to pass blasphemy laws and most importantly, nobody is looking to kill anyone. Further, you’ve got a couple more Catholics right there saying it’s no big deal. How on Earth does that sound just like Muslims angry about Mohammed pictures?

Pokerdude777 said:
Well I’m just so impressed that you are so smart. Hmm, 48 years and I have never had anyone ask me a question about 18th century poets. I’m glad I didn’t waste any time studying that. It would come in handy for you royal king the next time you make your appearance on the tv show Jeopardy. Congrats! I’ll take 18th Century poets for $500 please.

Really? Happens to me all the time. Just before Christmas, I was in Big Lots. A woman came up to me to ask about the imagery of shade in Cowper’s the “Poplar Fields”.

Of course, in speaking of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, we were speaking of composers, but more particularly of the blunt and amusing vagaries of Nordic names.

SUPER Chundy said:
Yeah this is what the Catholic Church should be worried about right now. Definitely not the fact that child molesters continue to serve as priest despite have been proven to be pedophiles.

Catholics are outraged by this?!

how can you disparage a whole religion by the actions of a few bad apples?

The Real Royal King said:
Really? Happens to me all the time. Just before Christmas, I was in Big Lots. A woman came up to me to ask about the imagery of shade in Cowper’s the “Poplar Fields”.

was she in home and gardens buying a chainsaw?

The Real Royal King said:
Really? Happens to me all the time. Just before Christmas, I was in Big Lots. A woman came up to me to ask about the imagery of shade in Cowper’s the “Poplar Fields”. Of course, in speaking of Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, we were speaking of composers, but more particularly of the blunt and amusing vagaries of Nordic names.

You like to put yourself on a on knowledge pedestal, and that’s fine. You just need to recognize one thing. Everyone is ignorant…… only on different subjects.

ChiliPeppersFan said:
was she in home and gardens buying a chainsaw?

She said it was for her husband, but she wasn’t wearing a wedding ring and her hands were filled with splinters.

Pokerdude777 said:
You like to put yourself on a on knowledge pedestal, and that’s fine. You just need to recognize one thing. Everyone is ignorant…… only on different subjects.

Indeed.

Thelonious Funk said: I swear I saw an image of the Virgin Mary in a Doritos chip once.

Is that the one on display in Vegas next to the grilled cheese sandwich?

What really riles Catholics up is Cheetos.

Oregon Conservative said:
Knowing Lars (he’s our local treasure in a sea of liberal bullshit) I can say he’s not offended by the commercial but by the fact that you can poke fun of the Catholics but you couldn’t do this parody to Jews or Muslims. Lars’ point is that if certain religions are off limits to parody then ALL religions are off limits.

His point is 100% accurate. Religion of peace my ass…

Amen!

This is not a Catholic issue, this is a Christian issue, All Christians celebrate the body and blood of Jesus Christ….let’s see Doritos mock Muslims…come on , do it….make the commercial …right now! (they NEVER will)

Thanks Megyn for the explanation at 1:16 re: what the ad’s message was.
Maybe the average Fox viewer was unable to figure out the premise on their own.
And the closing comment re: dating the grandson of the man who invented a communion wafer making machine… she’s an absolute moron.
A lawyer, yes.
A moron, DEFINITELY yes.

Hey, a little further on in the year, let’s have the same thing, only with Dor—os and Pe–i substituting for matzoh and Manischewitz at an Orthodox Jewish Passover seder! Wouldn’t that be a riot?!?

Then all during Ramadan, lets have video of the courtyard around the Ka’aba in Mecca, tens of thousands of Muslims all bowed down — only instead of the Ka’aba, it’s a giant bag of Dor–os!!

Wouldn’t that be a blast!

ChiliPeppersFan said:
how can you disparage a whole religion by the actions of a few bad apples?

To some shallow thinkers religious hypocrites invalidate their religion when what is really invalidated is the hypocrite.

Maher et al are people like this (ex Catholic of course) to blame a religious faith for the people who don’t adhere to it’s tenets is the pinnacle of pretzel logic. It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that these same folks give Muslims that benefit of the doubt they deny to Christians.

I’m a Catholic and I sure as hell AM offended by this ridiculous ad. Forturnately, it’s been pulled. Good riddance.

I was sad when I saw this because I can no longer buy doritos it would be moraly wrong if I did. But I was most sad when my little girl said why did the priest do that I think the pope is mad at him now and my son said. If the priest could take money from doritos since he should only take money we give him for donations I then noticed the real wrong in this my babys thought it was real that the catholic church alowed this priest to advertise foe doritos a joke yea right how about the children that see this and think our church is now for sale to the highest bidder doritos and pepsi next it will be pizza and beer or how about a priest selling toys and candys. They will belave this also th

The man that mad the joke how funny he has time to bike about GOD yet GOD is no joke if he ever was a catholic he would have understood the fact that I wait and pray during mass for the moment that God is present to accept the bread and wine. The body and blood of christ to make my special prayer in hope that God my savior will hear my plea for his help. For those who said to lighten up maybe you haven’t been praying for a mirical each time u revive the body of brief but I have and I will never buy pepsi or doritos again.