MLK Jr. selling RAM trucks

[exboyfil]

Super Bowl ad.

I am speechless.

[lisa58]

1. As an I - except for the swearing

[malaise]

2. Hated it n/t

[Strelnikov_]

3. . .

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/01/18/martin-luther-king-i-have-a-dream-copyright-license-editorials-debates/21969365/

[dsc]

5. I am pretty sure they used a different speech

but still aggravating.

[Strelnikov_]

7. ? n/t

[dsc]

10. I don't think they used the I Have A Dream speech

the speech they used was from 1968 and that speech was 1964.

[mcar]

4. I kept saying "it's a freaking car ad!"

[dalton99a]

6. WTF

[RobinA]

8. That Was

seriously strange. I guess i’m older than the target market. Where I come from the ad is supposed to have something to do with the product.

[FloridaBlues]

9. Very strange commercial so far the M&M one is the best one.

[geardaddy]

11. What a POS

[hatrack]

12. This is the rebuttal you need to see (from the same speech):

Link to tweet

[exboyfil]

13. Thank you for that

I will definitely share it.

Of course I think the commercial did exactly what it intended too. The deplorables will love it - it prostitutes King's name and devalues him by extension in their eyes.

On average, pickup drivers are three times more likely to be Republican than they are to be Democrat.

http://www.odometer.com/lifestyle/10873/13-ways-to-guess-someones-political-affiliation-based-on-the-car-they-drive/#page=1