An ad for 84 Lumber, The New Yorker reported, originally showed a mother and daughter "traveling through Mexico only to be met by a border wall," in a narrative which was censored by either Fox or the NFL, or both.
What finally ran as viewers sipped their beverages and poked into their cheese and onion dips, was a shortened, softer, ad, ending before the mother and daughter reached that awful wall which Donald Trump has pledged to create across the entire U.S.-Mexico border.
The full ad, available below, was released on 84 Lumber's web site.
A much safer immigrant story, in the wisdom of the NFL and Fox, showed a largely fictional version of a German immigrant who made it to St. Louis where he unexpectedly found a partner.
Thus it was, in this advertising fairy tale, that Anheuser and Busch merged their passions for making beer.
Immigrants are safe topics for the NFL and Fox, so long as they come from Europe in an earlier century.We conclude this Brutus and Cassius visit with this stern reminder from Benjamin Franklin:
"The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, 'Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?' With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, 'A republic, if you can keep it.'"
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