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Political Ad: White Construction Worker Ponders Horror of Paying Welfare to the 47 Percent

Matt Welch | 9.20.2012 10:33 AM

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Walter Matthau was not harmed in the filming of this 1972 commercial:

Link via Jonah Goldberg.

UPDATE: More on the ad from Sean Higgins, who might have found it first.

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