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coalition_unwilling

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6. What is uncannily creepy (and by the same token absolutely

Reply to Happyhippychick (Original post)

Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:00 PM

Jul 2012

brilliant) is the way the audio quality seems to worsen as the image quality gets more grainy heading into the Bermudas\Caymans.

Form and content mesh and merge at the ironic level, i.e., America isn't really 'beautiful' with singers and corporate honchos like Mitt running amok.

The ad will be discussed many years from now, right along LBJ's "Daisy Petal" spot (which ran only once before it was pulled).

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You know why Obama's ad featuring Mitt singing "America the Beautiful" is so brilliant? [View all] Happyhippychick Jul 2012 OP

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I love that every time abolugi Jul 2012 #3

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... CatWoman Jul 2012 #7

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What is uncannily creepy (and by the same token absolutely coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #6