Apalling ! Whitman must be rolling in his grave ....

[UndertheOcean]

Only in America can a company that sells jeans (Levi's) defile a great poem by including it in a commercial .

It is not enough that out of context snippets of music were exploited since the beginnings of the mediocre TV commercial industry .... now they are doing it to poems ?

[wtbymark]

1. Levi's aren't made in America anymore

[pitohui]

2. i'm sure he would be tickled pink actually EOM

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[paulsby]

3. more unfounded american exceptionalism

sure, of course this happens "ONLY IN AMERICA"

all those other countries are so much more sophisticated, wordly and genteel. none, NONE of them would ever allow a great poem to be defiled by occuring in a commercial.

they are all so much better than us.

[virgogal]

4. Only in America? Hmmmmm !

[Sparkly]

5. I agree...

Still can't stand what they do to music.

[apocalypsehow]

6. Agree & Rec, but the biggest failure of the commercials is that they are dumb, all poetry aside. nt

[11 Bravo]

7. "Onlyj in America", I'm going out on a limb and guessing that you're not much of a world traveler.

[Brickbat]

8. I find the conditions those jeans were made in a little more infuriating, m'self.