GOP Manages To Tick Off A Couple Of Aging 80’s Rockers
At the GOP convention the Republicans, in a nod to Sarah Palin’s high school nickname “barracuda,” were rocking out to 80’s girl rock band Heart’s song by the same title.
Turns out that the band’s chief members, Ann and Nancy Wilson (who aren’t surprisingly liberals), aren’t very happy about it.
John McCain’s campaign has suffered a Heart attack—of the legal variety.
TMZ.com is reporting that Ann and Nancy Wilson are upset that their 1977 rock hit “Barracuda” was used without their permission in the Xcel Energy Center at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul.
The Heart duo has “fired off a cease and desist letter” to the McCain/Palin campaign, the gossip website is reporting this morning.
Am I the only one thinking that this whole “get ticked off at the Republicans for using our song” thing (Jackson Browne has also sued McCain and the Republicans this year over the use of a song) is a way for aging entertainers who most people have forgotten about it to get a bit of the spotlight again?
Think about it. A big campaign starts using your song. You sue the campaign and BAM: liberal reporters across the country are eager to give you a quick 15 minute revival in the limelight.
Frankly, at this point, I think most Republicans are resigned to the fact that the entertainment industry hates them. Indeed, if Republicans were forced to only enjoy the songs/movies/shows/books produced by entertainers who are even just ambivalent toward right-leaning politics they wouldn’t have anything to do. It’s just one of those things we on the right accept, and move past.
Indeed, it’s something that most Republicans stopped caring about long ago.
