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February 6, 2017

Watch the Scenes of the Pro-Immigration Super Bowl Ad That Fox Rejected
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And the New England Patriots scored a historic win during Sunday night's
Super Bowl, beating the Atlanta Falcons 34 to 28 after an unprecedented
comeback. During the half-time show, Lady Gaga performed Woody Guthrie's
"This Land is Your Land" and "Born This Way," a song celebrating the
LGBT community. A handful of the Super Bowl ads appeared to make
political statements, such as an Audi ad demanding equal pay for women
and an Anheuser-Busch ad that portrayed a fictionalized account of the
co-founder's immigrant story. But the most explicitly political ad
designed for the Super Bowl was rejected by Fox. 84 Lumber's original ad
depicted the lengthy journey of a Mexican mother and daughter toward the
United States, only to confront a looming wall at the border. After it
was rejected, the company broadcast only the beginning of the ad and
then directed viewers to see the rest of the ad on its website, which
promptly crashed amid the traffic surge. This is part of the rejected
ad, when the mother and her daughter first see the wall. And that's the
mother and her daughter discovering a wooden door built into the border
wall-scenes from 84 Lumber's original Super Bowl ad, which Fox refused
to broadcast.


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