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Guest Felonies!
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We don't even need to be in a commercial to be subjected to this song

And they're still showing hamfisted clips! Jesus! I hope Detroit boos this. They're in Motown and they bring in a fuckin' hoosier. Who gets this one?

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Guest Felonies!
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Everytime I hear this song, I keep expecting them to sing "This is God's Country", in a show of self-crotch-grabbing jingoism

Wasn't there a song that went "this is gawwwwd's country" that sounded just like this and was used in truck commercials? Oh, and the one guitarist was playing "Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan.

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Does FOX have something against the National Anthem? I could live with Seger doing America The Beautiful, but must they attempt for the NASCAR demographic on consecutive nights? (makes sense, considering this was a blatant promotion for Chevy anyways)

Guest Felonies!
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Anyone else getting browbeaten with "if you go to work early and come home late, you're a Ford truck guy! IT'S TRUCK MONTH!" commercials, or is that just me? I swear, I'm going to join the Environmental Liberation Front just to destroy pickup trucks. I can't take it.

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I just hate that over half the people I know with pickup trucks aren't using it for any kind of heavy transport, they just like it as a phallic extension

 

It's the sports car of the new age

Guest Princess Leena
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I'm glad I own a Japanese car. That means I don't work hard.

Guest Felonies!
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Oh by the way, guys, I was sleeping through like the 5th inning last night until about midnight, but I was roused from my nap by a really shitty God Bless America. Who the hell was THAT?

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Oh by the way, guys, I was sleeping through like the 5th inning last night until about midnight, but I was roused from my nap by a really shitty God Bless America. Who the hell was THAT?

 

American Idol "talent". I can get some of AI singers who could pull that song off but that girl wasn't one of them.

Guest Felonies!
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Timmy just caught Kenny Rogers with pine tar. Was La Russa watching? Get him ejected.

 

Well, wait, La Russa wasn't watching, but somebody should be watching so as to let him know. Evidently not, because he would've made a move by now. It's probably too late at this point.

 

EDIT: See? Too late. You're not gonna get him tossed now.

Guest Felonies!
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Pinetaur is a reptilian man-beast that roams the forests of Minnesota.

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Pinetaur is a reptilian man-beast that roams the forests of Minnesota.

 

I'm fully expecting Rant to post Pinetaur porn soon.

Guest Felonies!
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Does it bother anyone else that Detroit's little "charge!" horn starts on the wrong note? You have to fix it in your head.

Guest Felonies!
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FROM THE EAST COAST

TO THE WEST COAST

 

CHICAGO--Having ditched its "Like a Rock" theme a few years ago, Chevrolet returns to a musical anthem to advertise its Silverado truck.

 

The new campaign from Interpublic Group's Campbell-Ewald, which includes both traditional and nontraditional elements, introduces the theme "Our country. Our truck." Television ads will feature a new song from John Mellencamp entitled "Our Country," and will be used through at least 2007. Lyrics include: "I can stand beside ideas I think are right. I can stand beside the idea to stand and fight. I do believe there's a dream for everyone. This is our country."

 

"This partnership with Chevy—an American company that is creating jobs and supporting our communities—makes perfect sense for a song that is all about standing up for the working people who are the backbone of our nation," said Mellencamp in a statement.

 

Print inserts launch in USA Today this Friday; TV spots begin on Saturday. One TV ad features the song with images of men working and onscreen text. One shot shows a man looking at an anvil, while on-screen text reads, "This is our concept vehicle." Another shows the American flag waving and the words, "This is our proving ground."

 

Bill Ludwig, chief creative officer of the Warren, Mich., agency, first heard the song as a demo while the shop was creating the campaign. "I knew the minute I heard the song that would be the music for the next epic Silverado campaign," he said in a statement. "We hope that 'Our country. Our truck' will inspire people to think, 'Yeah, these are the bruises and scares [sic?] that have shaped our nation, and we have rebuilt ourselves spiritually, emotionally and physically.'"

Three more months? ahhh!!

Guest Felonies!
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Oh God, even better: further research tells me that they originally had a clip of the atomic bomb in their truck ad, meant to symbolize America's victory over evil in the 40s, but also meant to take a shot at those car-making Japs. Oh, I wish they kept it. And good thing they don't use the second verse:

 

There's room enough here

For science to live

And there's room enough here

For religion to forgive

And try to understand

The other people of this world

This is our country

 

AW SHIT THAT'S LIBERAL

Guest Princess Leena
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I would think the non-stop truck ads would be more suited for Nascar viewers.

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Oh God, even better: further research tells me that they originally had a clip of the atomic bomb in their truck ad, meant to symbolize America's victory over evil in the 40s, but also meant to take a shot at those car-making Japs.

There's your self-crotch-grabbing in-your-face jingoism!

 

And if they had kept that, it would've all been worth it

Guest Felonies!
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The only baseball comment on page 5 is me telling La Russa to get Rogers tossed. Fucking trucks.

 

 

If nothing else, we've found our Ad From Hell for postseason baseball. A Chevy Silverado is risking a patient's life!

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