Ram used a sound clip from a Martin Luther King Jr. sermon, played over a montage of stereotypically patriotic imagery, as an ad for a truck. In response, Nathan Robinson took another quote (reportedly from the same speech) of MLK's thoughts on advertising–specifically, automobile advertising–and put it to the same video.
The agency knew what it was doing. They knew it would upset people. What a rotten, cynical ad.
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