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Groupon's Tibet Ad A Super Bowl Snafu

The Chicago-based startup Groupon thought it was being funny with its first-ever TV ad -- which ran in the Super Bowl broadcast -- about human-rights abuses in China-controlled Tibet. The ad seemed to be about serious issues around China's suppression of liberties in the mountainous region of what would now be the Western region of China.

But the ad actually has actor Timothy Hutton making light of the issue because the Tibetans still make a great fish curry in the restaurant he's eating at, thanks to a deal he got at Groupon. Oops. "Tasteless," "tacky" and "vulgar" were probably a few of the nicer terms people tweeted.

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