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Is Hugh Jackman a Walmart Puppet?

Miles Kampf-Lassin

In this clip from All In on MSNBC, host Chris Hayes shows a video of actor Hugh Jackman admitting to the crowd at a Walmart shareholders meeting that he missed his daughter’s first play in order to attend the event for the corporate behemoth. If Walmart can make Wolverine sacrifice family memories to be their shill, what can’t they do?

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Miles Kampf-Lassin, a graduate of New York University’s Gallatin School in Deliberative Democracy and Globalization, is a Web Editor at In These Times. Follow him on Twitter @MilesKLassin

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