Our ad critic, Barbara Lippert, says, "It's not often that a commercial pops up that's so bad it's hard to believe it's not a relic from the Reagan era."
I grew up with great affection for the simplest, most primitive environmental public service announcements -- the spots with Smokey the Bear and the Native American canoeist with the (glycerin?) tear.
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