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Politics

From the Annals of Advertising History

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2010 4:52 PM

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The "Top 48 Ads That Would Never Be Allowed Today." (NSFW!)

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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