October 24, 2006

That Damn John Mellencamp Ad

Yes, I get it. This is your country. You “stand beside the ideals I think are right.” (Who the hell doesn’t?) But I really don’t need to see the commercial roughly 500 times every day. And after I and every other sports fan saw the ad hundreds of times during football on Sunday were in for a rude awakening that night when Mellencamp showed up, live, to sing the song in Detroit before Game 1 of the World Series. Thanks a lot, John- I’ve had the song in my head constantly for the last 48 hours.

I remember the good old days, when the most offensive thing about the ad was that it was using Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Vietnam footage to sell cars.

Posted by Stephen Silver at October 24, 2006 08:59 PM
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