Air Force defends (but pulls) Super Bowl ad

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On Tuesday, one of the year's most obscure Super Bowl ads got a massive burst of attention when the White Stripes accused the U.S. Air Force Reserve of lifting one of their songs without permission. If you were curious to watch the spot for yourself, you were probably out of luck. The Reserve quickly pulled the regional ad from its Web site, despite its claim that the soundtrack was totally not a redux of "Fell In Love With a Girl" but was actually "original music" commissioned by Blaine Warren Advertising.

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