{"id":556,"date":"2007-02-14T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2007-02-14T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T18:28:51","slug":"nfl-refuses-to-run-a-recruitment-ad-for-the-us-border-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/nfl-refuses-to-run-a-recruitment-ad-for-the-us-border-patrol\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL refuses to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NFL rejects Border Patrol ad<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Stephen Dinan and Jerry Seper<br \/>\nTHE WASHINGTON TIMES<br \/>\nFebruary 14, 2007 <\/p>\n<p><strong>The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week&#8217;s Super Bowl program, saying it was &#8220;controversial&#8221; because it mentioned duties such as fighting terrorism and stopping drugs and illegal aliens at the border. <\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p><em>Note from D.A &#8211; see a list of Border Patrol Agents who have given their lives to secure American borders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=532\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  &#8220;The ad that the department submitted was specific to Border Patrol, and it mentioned terrorism. We were not comfortable with that,&#8221; said Greg Aiello, a spokesman for the NFL. &#8220;The borders, the immigration debate is a very controversial issue, and we were sensitive to any perception we were injecting ourselves into that.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/washtimes.com\/national\/20070213-115739-3816r.htm\">rest from the Washington Times here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL rejects Border Patrol ad By Stephen Dinan and Jerry Seper THE WASHINGTON TIMES February 14, 2007 The National Football League refused to run a recruitment ad for the U.S. Border Patrol in last week&#8217;s Super Bowl program, saying it was &#8220;controversial&#8221; because it mentioned duties such as fighting terrorism and stopping drugs and illegal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}