Ad casts Verizon as cure for racism, sexism

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Verizon has dumped its oft-parodied "Can you hear me now?" tagline in favor of "Rule the air." To visually show just how much their network rulz, they've got the mcgarrybowen spot with the transmitters exploding out of buildings all Michael Bay style. But I'm interested in this one, called "Prejudice," in which a bunch of nice teenage girls tell us things like: "Air has no prejudice." "It does not carry the opinions of a man faster than those of a woman."

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