Next time we take several billion dollars from taxpayers and use it to bailout a private automaker, we should probably think about attaching a condition that forbids that company from running jingoistic commercials depicting a Dukes-of-Hazzard-style revolutionary war battle with George Washington driving a black Dodge Challenger, all while the voice of a cable-TV serial killer solemnly informs the world that America “got right” a couple of things: “cars and freedom.”
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I’ve seen it, and nearly swooned at the presumptuousness. “Two things you didn’t get right!”
This is the worst thing I’ve ever seen.
Well said, sir!
“Two things it took America at least 80 years to figure out.”
I don’t understand where the problem with this is? It’s an advertisement. It isn’t vulgar, it isn’t disrespectful, and it isn’t necessarily untrue.