Alright. I give! I wasn’t going to blog about the Groupon Super Bowl ad, but here I am.

If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. Watch it quickly for me. Go on. It’s only 30 seconds.

Honestly? It didn’t bother me as much as it seems to have bothered CNN, the Chicago Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, and more. Then again, I’m not a China or Tibet advocate. Not that I don’t want freedom of speech and civil rights for every human being. It’s just not something I go out and rally for during my free time. Sure, I rolled my eyes. I even said out loud, “What was that?” But I didn’t find it offensive.

There were two other ads…one with Elizabeth Hurley talking about Amazon rain forests and one with Cuba Gooding Jr talking about the dwindling number of whales. (more…)