Ron Reagan’s ad for the FFRF

May 14, 2014 • 1:12 pm

The Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), our Official Website Secular Organization™, has sent its members a link to a brand-new secularist ad by Ron Reagan, son of the late President. Reagan fils is, of course, a longstanding and outspoken atheist, and has won the FFRF’s “Emperor Has No Clothes” award.

I love the last line. It will be cool to see something like this run during popular television shows.

The FFRF (which I urge you to consider joining; you can do so here for only $40/year) notes where and when the ad will run:

In an exciting development, FFRF has contracted to air our 30-second spot on Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report,” Comedy Central’s two award-winning comedy-cum-news shows — some of the nation’s most watched, most influential, and most irreverent TV shows. This will be the first atheist/freethinking commercial aired on either program.

Our ad will broadcast live on both programs on Thursday, May 22, once per show, then again when the show is rerun two hours later on Comedy Central. “The Daily Show” live broadcast starts at 11 P.M. Eastern, followed by “The Colbert Report” at 11:30 P.M. Eastern.

It’s eerie that you can see the Gipper’s genes in his features!

41 thoughts on “Ron Reagan’s ad for the FFRF”

  2. “It’s eerie that you can see the Gipper’s genes in his features!”

    And in his voice. It has alternate-dimension feel to it.

    1. YES, totally. His right eye seems to sit lower than the left, just like the Gipper, too.

  4. This is excellent!

    (I renewed my FFRF membership a few days ago. My favorite annual contribution.)

  6. R.R. has always come across as a remarkably sane and likable fellow. It would be great to see him on national television more frequently.

  7. Excellent. Ron Reagan is a courageous man.
    re: “Not afraid of burning in hell.” Ron, see you there. I’ll bring the hotdogs.

      1. Warszawa

        Hey, since you’re in Poland, perhaps you could stop by Hili’s place and help her out with her canine dilemma?

        b&

        1. If only I could, but I am completely at the mercy of our local sales people, who have left me with no free time before I fly home tonight!

          /@ / Pepsi Arena (former Polish Army Stadium, Legia Warszawa’s home ground)

          2. Rag reed locally as better than being pissed on by Stalin! (Except for the metro!!)

            /@ / Warszawa

            Sent from my iPhone. Please excuse all creative spellings.

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  8. If they are smart, a lot of religious people should also be invested in church and state separation. Only one “winning” state entangled religion can stay in power, and everyone not a part of it will suffer, including the religious of the “wrong” denominations just as much as the atheists.

    Not that prime time TV could not use more shameless atheist self identifications. I wouldn’t change the add in the slightest.

    1. That is a good point, but a symbol like a cross is innocuous enough to keep most Xian factions happy without implicit endorsement of one denomination. The same obfuscation that distills so much of religious dogma is simultaneously an advantage because so much meaning is left to interpretation.

    2. OTOH, it would be cool to have a lot of houses with priest holes and secret passages.
      😉

      1. Doomsday preppers, drug dealers and paranoid gun nuts (yeah, not discrete sets) agree with you.

  9. There’re a couple other father / son actor combinations who’re eerily similar. I’m spacing on the names, but one of the classical pratfall comedians later had a murder-mystery show where he played a doctor, and his son the doctor’s police detective son. If you weren’t looking at the set, you’d have a hard time telling who was speaking.

    But it’s heartening to know that the batshit crazy Republicanism trait isn’t heritable, even if the voice is! Junior may yet redeem the family’s reputation.

    …I wonder how he feels about the current effort to name the entire planet and all possible subdivisions of it after his father. Must be weird.

    b&

    1. That’s what I was going to imply: Ron Reagan Jr.: more evidence that batshit conservatism is not genetic. (or at least not a dominant trait)

      But you have given me a little idea on a campaign to deface some highway signs going through this county. Just stencil “Jr.” on them.

      (we have one of these signs on I-25 through town here… couldn’t find an example at the moment)

    2. I think you’re thinking of Dick Van Dyke on Diagnosis Murder. Can’t think of the son’s name at the moment.

        1. Yes — thank you!

          …they say it’s the mind that goes second…never could remember what it is that goes first….

          b&

          1. Hitch: “Once I determined that my male member would give me no peace, I resolved to give it no rest.”

    3. “I wonder how he feels about the current effort to name the entire planet and all possible subdivisions of it after his father.”

      I wish we could contact The Gipper himself and ask him what he thinks of how the Tea Party is trying to remake him in their own image.

      1. That site has got to be a spoof. Like The Onion or Landover Baptist Church. Doesn’t it?
        Please tell me they’re not serious.

    4. A bit of website bloviation: “Reagan’s leadership . . . a resounding impact on the lives of citizens hear at home and individuals worldwide . . . policies led us out of double-digit inflation, twenty percent plus interest rates, and double-digit unemployment.”

      Not one word about his effect on the federal deficit, or about Grenada or the Iran-Contra tomfoolery.

      1. How about the fact that the double-digit inflation was ended by the deliberate imposition of the twenty percent plus interest rates by Paul Volker? Reagan tried to make Volker stop, which would have kept us in a stagflation death-spiral.

      3. Seminal in invigorating the view that poor people were welfare parasites…

    1. Interesting. In 30 years Oprah hasn’t learned a damn thing about non-believers.

  12. Ooh, run this on Fox News! Think of all the head-splodes that would cause!

  13. What’s great about the last line is the note of amusement in his voice. That conveys more than the words do.

  15. Reagan for president!

    “Not afraid of burning in hell”

    Me neither. See you there with all the interesting people!

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