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Tom Petty tells Michele Bachmann to stop using his music
The Guardian ^ | 06/29/11 | Sean Michaels

Posted on 06/29/2011 11:34:22 AM PDT by MissesBush

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To: MissesBush

Leftists are LOSERS.....I’m totally convinced. Even if the world worships at their feet—which they do. LOSERS in the grand scheme of eternity.


61 posted on 06/29/2011 12:03:36 PM PDT by tflabo
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To: MissesBush

Piss off Mr Petty, your music is in the public. Get over it and keep playing the Casino circut to 200 people a night.


62 posted on 06/29/2011 12:03:55 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

but with all these lefty “musicians” filing lawsuits against Republicans


They’re not filing lawsuits. They’re issuing Press Releases.


63 posted on 06/29/2011 12:04:04 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (End the "Fiscal Fiasco" in 2012!)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

The usual way these things go is a campaign licenses a song for public performance from the label or whatever entity had the rights just like any other business concern and the twerp singer or songwriter later hears an eeeeeeevil Republican used it and has a public hissy-fit.


64 posted on 06/29/2011 12:04:24 PM PDT by newzjunkey (uh uh uh says "I've been here" (in DC) and then says "I was in Iowa"...)
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To: Samurai_Jack
Actually This is the best point of the thread... What made bachmann think that tom petty would not kick her in the backside given his history? Does she need another new chief of staff?

Of all the folks running,
I like Bachmann the best,
however there is no Adult Leadership
in the campaign.

I fear it will soon self destruct.


65 posted on 06/29/2011 12:04:28 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: MissesBush

As often as this has happened in recent years, only a fool would use a song in a campaign without securing permission prior. This kind of embarrassment is easily avoided.


66 posted on 06/29/2011 12:07:48 PM PDT by Melas (Sent via Galaxy Tab)
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To: chuckee

Petty’s problem appears to be with Bachmann’s politics. In 2008, the singer allowed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to use American Girl for her unsuccessful presidential bid.

He allowed it into the public domain. Can not take it back.


67 posted on 06/29/2011 12:08:17 PM PDT by CPT Clay (Pick up your weapon and follow me.)
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To: MissesBush

Damn this is the first time this has ever happened, NOT!!!!!


68 posted on 06/29/2011 12:10:49 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Gabz

Regardless, it was an error by a campaign staffer, probably the speech writer. It wasn’t a mistake Bachmann made. The only mistake she made was not excluding the line from the speech to begin with because who really cares if John Wayne is from her hometome?? Doesn’t mean somehow she’s inherited whatever virtues one ascribes to John Wayne. That being said—this was sloppy staff work. Bachmann can’t be blamed for that. I’d fire the person responsible though for screwing up her big day.


69 posted on 06/29/2011 12:13:09 PM PDT by MissesBush (Obama logic re: Weiner. Twitter your junk = I would resign. Destroy a nation = I deserve re-election)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

You’re the one making the accusation of theft, so the burden of proof falls on you (you twit).


70 posted on 06/29/2011 12:14:49 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MissesBush

Was it wise to pick a campaign song that includes the lyric?

God it’s so painful when something that’s so close
Is still so far out of reach


71 posted on 06/29/2011 12:15:35 PM PDT by NC28203
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To: Above My Pay Grade
Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs? (see Ephesians 5:19)

And only that? All the time?

72 posted on 06/29/2011 12:16:18 PM PDT by Bronzewound (When radicals begin to follow rules, are they still radicals?)
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To: MrB

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73 posted on 06/29/2011 12:18:46 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Beelzebubba; UriÂ’el-2012
you have no clue about intellectual property law, although your confidence in your error is impressive.

What he said.

74 posted on 06/29/2011 12:19:03 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

As long as she pays the appropriate mechanical licensing and/or royalty fees to ASCAP and BMI, Petty can do nothing.


75 posted on 06/29/2011 12:19:45 PM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: MissesBush

I really wasn’t even commenting upon what she said, but rather I was blaming the media for (possibly) being even sloppier than one of Bachmann’s campaign people.


76 posted on 06/29/2011 12:23:49 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Brilliant
You're not really living up to your name today.

There's no evidence her campaign didn't license the song from the appropriate legal entity. Petty would not have to know, just collect his regular check. He's scoring PR points because she's an eeeeeeevil Republican and he's a grand-standing jerk.

We see this dance every campaign cycle. Bob Dole couldn't use "Soul Man" even as a "Dole Man" parody. W couldn't use "Still the One." McCain had a problem with John Mellencamp over "Our Country."

A GOP campaign licenses song for public performance like any business, outraged "artist" threatens to sue, claims no permission given. Rinse, repeat.

77 posted on 06/29/2011 12:25:00 PM PDT by newzjunkey (uh uh uh says "I've been here" (in DC) and then says "I was in Iowa"...)
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To: MissesBush
during her announcement speech, the Tea Party supporter confused the birthplace of actor John Wayne with that of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Here's the tactic, repeat a lie often enough people believe it's true. Gacy was born in Chicago, while Bachmann just got John Wayne's city in Iowa wrong, saying Waterloo (where Wayne's parents lived) instead of Winterset (where Wayne was born). Most news outlets are smart enough to make this clear somewhere in the text, but they still portray this as her mistaking the birthplaces of the two people, especially for people who don't read below the first paragraph.

78 posted on 06/29/2011 12:25:42 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Bronzewound

No, there are plenty of other benign, inoffensive forms of music that do not undermine the conservative and more importantly, the Christian message.

But Rock and Roll music has for the most part always been about, or associated with, sexually immoral behavior, pride, rebellion, drugs, drunkeness, socialism, etc..

My point is, that if you are going to put yourself forth as a Christian politician does it make sense to use what is perhpas the most worldly form of music (hip hop might beat rock in that respect) known to man, in your rallies?

The fact that the vast majority of such music was written and recorded by men and women who HATE everything you stand for as a Christian and a Conservative makes the music choice even more puzzling to me.

Don’t get me wrong. I like Bachmann and am not singling her out. Just about all of them do the same thing. But she seems to be the Republican candidate who emphasizes her faith the most (a good thing IMO). Worldly Rock music doesn’t seem to fit her message or image.


79 posted on 06/29/2011 12:26:35 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: antiRepublicrat
during her announcement speech, the Tea Party supporter confused the birthplace of actor John Wayne with that of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Pretty bizarre, huh, when folks who think they're pointing out a gaffe make an even larger one?
80 posted on 06/29/2011 12:29:16 PM PDT by aruanan
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