Despite the rancor surrounding the issue and the sudden attention to their home town, many people here said Monday that they did not see the now-famous 84 Lumber ad as particularly political. Steve Greenawalt works on a billboard for 84 Lumber in Eighty Four, Pa., on Monday. [Company forced to retool Super Bowl ad that depicted Trump’s border wall]Fox, the network that broadcast the Super Bowl, rejected 84 Lumber’s original version of the ad, refusing to let the company show the wall. “When you are doing a big advertising campaign, especially Super Bowl advertising, you can’t just be talking about your company,” he said. “But to do it like this, in the Super Bowl for everybody to see, was an act of courage.”Samuel reported from Washington.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2017 00:16 UTC