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Headline: Does Basab Dasgupta Have Great Jeans?

A TV commercial for American Eagles brand jeans, featuring blue-eyed blonde actress Sydney Sweeney, caused a storm of controversies in the US. Many people complained that the tagline “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans” really implies that Sydney has great genes ("jeans" being homophonic with “genes”) – thus promoting white supremacy.

The choke hold

In early January 2002, President George W. Bush while watching a football game on television in his living quarters in the White House choked on pretzel and tumbled momentarily.