Pepsi finally unites America with its terrible Kendall Jenner ad
One group saw an out-of-touch Hollywood celebrity and corporation glorifying a liberal agenda.
Another saw an out-of-touch Hollywood celebrity and corporation profiting from the fight for civil, LGBTQ and immigrant rights.
Both of them agreed: Kendall Jenner's new Pepsi ad is complete garbage.
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In case you missed it, Pepsi released a new commercial where, um, a guy plays a cello and then nods at Kendall Jenner in the middle of a protest and then she stops modeling to give a police officer a soda and then people cheer ... or something.
This pretty much sums it up.
Conservatives complained about it.
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Liberals complained about it.
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And so, for a few brief moments, the country came together.
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Just as Obama said, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.
And they all think Kendall Jenner and Pepsi shouldn't exploit the very pressing problems facing this country to make a profit.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
