VIDEO- Super Bowl Ad Watch: Is Tim Tebow's Birth Story Even True?

By GottaLaff

This video is from MSNBC’s News Live, broadcast Feb. 1, 2010.

All my ranty posts on this subject can be found here.

Now my Twitter pal Liliana Segura sheds some new light on the veracity (or not) of the original story of the miraculous birth of "Christian extraordinaire, Tim Tebow":

Since the Tebow controversy broke, the official policy has supposedly been revised to allow advertisements from other advocacy groups as well. Yet this weekend, CBS rejected an ad from the gay dating site called ManCrunch.com, on the grounds that it "is not within the Network's Broadcast Standards for Super Bowl Sunday." [my post, including video of the ad in question, here]

Glaring hypocrisy? Absolutely.

But back to Tebow. What if his Focus on the Family-endorsed story isn't exactly true?

In a series of new interviews, the first of which was given to RadarOnline, high-profile attorney Gloria Allred argues that Pam Tebow's heart-warming story omits a rather significant detail that renders the whole thing suspicious: Namely, the fact that abortion was illegal in the Philippines in 1987. Indeed, abortion has been illegal in the Philippines since the 1930s -- even in cases of rape or incest or if the mother's health is in danger. [...]

Speaking to MSNBC's Tamron Hall this morning, Allred called the Focus on the Family ad "misleading," arguing, "[Pam Tebow] could have gone to prison for two to 6 years if she'd had an abortion." [...]

"If this ad airs and fails to disclose that abortions were illegal at the time Ms. Tebow made her 'choice,' then I intend to file a formal complaint of misleading advertising with those federal commissions," she added.

Then Liliana goes on to make a very important point: We haven't even seen this ad yet, but it has already had an impact... without having had one airing.

And after it does finally air, it will get 24/7 coverage on the newsotainment shows, the punditiots will have a field day, and the anti-choicers will have saturated the Tee Vee Machine again... without having to pay one thin dime.

Please read the entire piece here.