So there I was, watching the Daily Show at about 3am in the morning on a Saturday like I tend to do because I’m mostly conservative and I hate Fox News, and Jon Stewart is funny. Now that I have typed that out, I realize I have particular issues that I need to deal with in private. Anyhow, I was watching the Daily Show on Hulu, a media broadcasting website that has turned into a giant within the industry, and suddenly I was slapped in the face by a particular commercial. A commercial that has apparently offended a great number of Hulu subscribers.

I have other issues with the Hulu service, such as why in the hell am I paying for a service when the free service on my computer actually has more shows. I hate it when I try to find a show on my Xbox version of Hulu plus just to be told it is online only, that is bull! But I do appreciate I can click what ads apply to me, which is to say I click “no” on all of them, except for Geico or Allstate ads, those ones are funny.

Yet, there I was, with the Daily Show, and wham, Scientology ad. What the hell? It actually frightened me a little bit to see that there, I didn’t even get to click “no“. I was too damn busy staring at all the facts about the growing number of Scientologists and the want for me to join them, that I couldn’t. Apparently though, I was hardly the only person to notice this.

What I didn’t know until looking up this oddity was that the church has decided to skip the whole person ridding on a bike and going door to door thing, and just start one hell of an ad campaign. You know, pause there. What would a missionary from the church of Scientology be like? He’d have to have a lot of money in order to get high up in the church and go recruit someone, so I see him riding around in a sports car wearing a Gucci suit, and when you invite him into your home, he jumps on your couch and tells you how awesome Scientology is. Then he hands you a copy of Battlefield Earth (the book, not the movie… maybe the movie too, it does star John Travolta), charges you $12.99 for his time, and then leaves. I don’t know about you, but being handed a Sci-fi book instead of a Bible is a bit of a plus.

Where was I? Right, the sudden ad campaign by the church of Scientology. Apparently if you were watching the Miss America pageant, the football playoff game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Houston Texans, or the Golden Globes, you would have caught a long Scientology ad to the face. Speaking of which:

SCIENTOLOGY AD TO THE FACE:

Yep, there it is, the offending ad that is on Hulu. 50,000 years of knowledge my ass!

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