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By Kate on February 3, 2015 2:37 PM | 11 Comments

NBC alters Nick Offerman NASCAR ad after gluten joke offends celiac community.

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Phillip G. Shaw | February 3, 2015 4:01 PM | Reply

The Political Correct Network has NO desire for American content. 30 Rock has become the worthless bastion of MSNBC sicko wimps cheering a limp incompetent President. Proud to be the EU/UN propaganda network that demonizes anything American.

I spent a career working for the American NBC Network that represented American values & ethics, was proud to be American
How far into the cesspool can they fall before the doors are finally closed.

CLIFF HANGER | February 3, 2015 5:43 PM | Reply

how did America survive with all that gluttan in the forefathers diet how did we build a great country with all that bloating let me think

james | February 3, 2015 6:40 PM | Reply

My son has celiac and I'm not sure what's offensive here. Some people need to get their brains checked out if they have any.

Spurwing Plover | February 3, 2015 7:02 PM | Reply

So a ad offends some people they need to GET A LIFE and quit their sviveling I just mute ads i don,t like

mojo | February 3, 2015 8:10 PM | Reply

Kafka is laughing.

jdm | February 3, 2015 8:37 PM | Reply

My wife is celiac. Very emphatically because she doesn't want to put up with a two to six hour bout of diarrhea, nausea with vomit, cold sweat, and general miserable-ness because some knucklehead who doesn't understand it's a food allergy, gives her something that only includes a little gluten (geez, what's your problem?).

That said, however, she wasn't bothered by the ad because it doesn't apply to her. It applies to all the other people who feel uncomfortable eating gluten because that's this week's food fad.

And that said, there are some in the celiac community who use their condition to call attention to themselves as interesting, different, special because otherwise they'd be back to being the nobodies that they were in their prior life.

Texas Canuck | February 3, 2015 10:39 PM | Reply

NBC and NASCAR??? that just ain't right. Whats next, restrictor plates so 55mph is the max speed allowed? Next thing you know NBC will be carrying the NPR finals.

Iowa Jim | February 4, 2015 8:36 AM | Reply

The "celiac community"? There is a celiac community? I'm beginning to rethink my claim that "holistic" had replaced "workshop" as the word that characterizes the emptiness of our times. "Community" certainly has a strong claim.

What's next? The "acne community"?

neo | February 4, 2015 9:43 AM | Reply

*
"iowa jim asks... What's next? The 'acne community'?"

oh, geez... you had to do it... get ready for the sh!tstorm in three, two...

jdm | February 4, 2015 10:54 AM | Reply

Sorry about that "celiac community" usage, Iowa Jim, I was unaware that the use of the word "community" was so incendiary, perhaps even forbidden in these parts.

The Phantom replied to comment from jdm | February 4, 2015 2:53 PM | Reply

Its not a community jdm, its an intestinal condition. People who have celiac are not a community. They are individuals who share a common problem. If they want to -form- a community that's fine, but merely having a celiac condition does not make one part of some pretend Celiac Community.

Just as owning a Ford does not make you part of the Ford Community. Its a bastardization of the word.

As Limbaugh says, words mean things. When Lefties bend them for stupid reasons, we bend them back.

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The Phantom: Its not a community jdm, its an intestinal condition. People read more
jdm: Sorry about that "celiac community" usage, Iowa Jim, I was read more
neo: * "iowa jim asks... What's next? The 'acne community'?" oh, read more
Iowa Jim: The "celiac community"? There is a celiac community? I'm beginning read more
Texas Canuck: NBC and NASCAR??? that just ain't right. Whats next, restrictor read more
jdm: My wife is celiac. Very emphatically because she doesn't want read more
mojo: Kafka is laughing. read more
Spurwing Plover: So a ad offends some people they need to GET read more
james: My son has celiac and I'm not sure what's offensive read more
CLIFF HANGER: how did America survive with all that gluttan in the read more

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