GoHowie? More Candice Michelle Beckman - Nikki Cappelli News
According to Richard Huff of the New York Daily News, Condoleeza Rice appeared on Howard Stern's radio show this morning. Wait, I made a typo; it's actually Candice Michelle (who appeared as Nikki Cappelli on the Super Bowl godaddy.com commercial) who appeared on Stern.
The ProWrestling Insider has more:
Dave Nguyen reporting. ... I just wanted to let you guys know that WWE RAW's Candice Michelle appeared on Good Day LA on KTTV-TV Channel 11 this morning. She mostly talked about her controversial GoDaddy.com commercial and she explained why the second commercial didn't air during the Super Bowl, which was because of the first one. There was only one mention of her being on RAW every Monday night.
David from St. Louis, MO sent this. ... Candace Michelle was on Good Day Live today at noon. She talked about the controversy about her ad, and mentioned that she was on WWE RAW on Monday Nights.
To round out the Candace coverage, Alex Young sent this one. ... The San Francisco Chronicle has an article regarding why the GoDaddy.com commercial (featuring Candace Michelle) got pulled from its second airing in the fourth quarter, with Fox trying to explain their self-censorship, even though the network allegedly approved the ad two weeks before the game. To read it, click here.
So I did, and found the first reference to the word "Nazi" in coverage of this issue (why didn't they use "fascist"?):
GoDaddy.com, an obscure Internet firm that paid big money to run a racy commercial during the Super Bowl, got more attention than it could have hoped for when Fox yanked its ad from a second airing in the fourth quarter.
Reports of Fox's self-censorship flooded the media Tuesday, showing up everywhere from the New York Times to cable TV.
GoDaddy.com says it was wronged when Fox pulled the ad from its paid-for space at about the two-minute warning. The company, which registers domain names on the Internet, was a first-time Super Bowl sponsor....
Fox had approved the ad about two weeks before Sunday's game, said Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's founder and chief executive, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Parsons said the network had subsequently called him and asked whether he wanted to make a second buy -- the average price for the Super Bowl was $2.4 million for 30 seconds -- and he agreed.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that after the spot ran during the first quarter, a Fox executive happened to run into a group of NFL executives. "The NFL executives raised the question why a spot like that was shown,'' not knowing it was scheduled to run a second time, McCarthy said.
"It was not appropriate to have it in Super Bowl programming,'' he added.
The NFL and Fox have been under considerable pressure this year to present a family-oriented halftime show without a hint of the rowdy entertainment of last year, when Janet Jackson's right breast was briefly exposed in what afterward was called a "wardrobe malfunction." More than 542,000 complaints about the incident were filed with the Federal Communications Commission, and Viacom, the parent company of CBS, was fined $550,000, although it is appealing....
"Ultimately, Fox made the decision not to air the spot a second time,'' McCarthy said, adding that the decision was not in the league's jurisdiction.
Parsons of GoDaddy thinks the NFL was deeply involved. He thinks that Fox and the NFL have "fixed the story'' since events unfolded and that the NFL contacted Fox with a message that the ad was "inappropriate.''
He added, "The NFL, without a doubt, used its influence to get that ad pulled. That is what I believe.'' Parsons is considering his options.
"What we want to do is work it out with Fox amicably," Parsons said. "We certainly feel we have been defamed beyond the cost of the ad. ... One thing I can tell you: Our attorney has a twinkle in her eye.''
He said pulling the commercial damaged the company's reputation by wrongly suggesting that the ad was inappropriate. In addition, he said, "When instead of our ad they aired (a promotion for) the Simpsons, we were made to look like the Simpsons,'' he said....
Fox issued a statement from Jon Nesvig, president of advertising sales at the Fox Broadcasting Co.:
"When the GoDaddy.com spot aired in he first half, it became obvious to us that its content was very much out of step with the tenor set by the other ads and programming broadcast by Fox on Super Bowl Sunday, so Fox made the decision to drop its repeat airing. We understand GoDaddy's disappointment with our decision, but ultimately we are responsible for what our network broadcasts.''
Reaction to the spot, created by the Ad Store in New York, ran the gamut in polling. Some viewers were engaged by it, others had no idea what it was selling, still others thought it was goofy.
"Why is it when you try to defend the First Amendment you always find yourself supporting something sophomoric or worse? Like the Nazi march through Skokie,'' said Millie Olson, a co-founder of Amazon Advertising in San Francisco....
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