Tn an attempt to put its mew line of popular pickup trucks on a pedestal. Ford manages to drag the rest of us through the muck. "I figure the engineers who built the all new '09 F150 are probably the same guys we all cheated off of in science class," the manly narrator intones in a TV commercial. "We're thinking about pizza; they're thinking about aerodynamic weight properties. Crazy smart..." Watching Ford's commercial with my 14-year-old son, I was more than a little annoyed by the unintended commentary on society: When "normal" kids aren't stuffing their faces, they're cheating at school; hard work and ethical behavior are for over-achievers or weenies.
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