Tuesday, February 7, 2017

What was 84 Lumber thinking with its Super Bowl ad?

Uplifting and patriotic ads are a staple of the Super Bowl, so last night the astonishing cynicism of that 84 Lumber ad really stood out. “Come on, illegal immigrants: Risk your lives, drag yourself across the harshest terrain and endure the most agonizing hardships. We need the cheap labor!”
In the 90-second spot for the construction-materials company, a Latino mother and daughter who are apparently sneaking across the southern border of the U.S. rise in the dark, walk along a barbed-wire fence, clamber aboard the boxcar of a moving train and wade across a river. Read more here: http://nypost.com/2017/02/06/wtf-was-84-lumber-thinking-with-its-super-bowl-ad/

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