Why I hate commercials
Probably the best known lines of the "New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Compare with the advertisement I keep catching for the 2012 New York Olympic bid:
Give me your tired, your swift,
Your brave, your dreamers.
Send these, the strong, the driven, the unyielding to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
This bastardization turns the meaning of the lines completely upside-down. Liberty now welcomes the the powerful, the sure, the secure.
Forgive me as I weep for the America that I was taught to love.
posted by KOM @ 10:38:00 PM
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1 Comments:
That is sad and strangly I have yet to see the new Olympic Bid comercial by New York. I may need to watch more T.V. I aggree that most if not all comercials now days are crap and rarely if ever even show us what they are trying to sale.
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