mentioned the Superbowl commercials in Scripting News today, and wondered aloud, “What’s coming next. A link between abortion and terrorism? A link between voting Democratic and terrorism? A link between being black or jewish and terrorism?”

I suggest that the link between abortion and terrorism has already been made, albeit with relative subtlety. Go watch it again. The very last frame of the second commercial features a young woman delivering one of the “reverse testimonials” that is at the heart of the piece. She says, “My life, my body,” followed by a voice-over (female) that says, “It’s not like I was hurting anyone else.”

If that isn’t a very thinly veiled anti-abortion message that more or less equates abortion with terrorism, I’ll eat my hat.

by Tom Tomorrow: “This isn’t just about bringing down skyscrapers and murdering civilians and wreaking havoc and discord–it’s about setting into motion a chain of events through which we end up doing irreperable [sic] damage to ourselves, to that part of our society which can only be destroyed from within, to the very ideals which define us.”

Bingo. And if the hyperbolic “anti-drug” ads aired last night during the Superbowl (#1, #2) are any indication, the White House (at least the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy) absolutely does not get this. Or, worse still, they do get it, but don’t mind.