Lesson For GOP: Don’t Cross This Heart

Alright, Heart! I watched the McCain speech last night, and was disappointed at Heart when I heard Barracuda come on. It was almost as unsettling to hear in that context as ‘Celebration’ by Kool and the Gang (these times aren’t exactly fitting of that song). So glad to hear that they had nothing to do with it, and would not have given permission had they actually been asked. Yet another example of the GOP machine’s tactic of twisting meanings and bulldozing over standard ethical practice to suit their agenda.

I’m surprised that Heart doesn’t like strong women. Palin took on her own political party because of corruption. I thought women have always said they call have it all? With Palin, it proves women can have it all.

Palin isn’t a strong woman. She is someone who just got lucky. McCain just needed someone who would make the crazy religious anti-abortionists happy. She is a disappointment to women in my opinion.

Maybe the fat one in the band is jealous because Sarah is so skinny.

I say SUE the @&%_%)~#$$_~~*($*#@ s , Ann & Nancy, last time I checked the Heart songbook catalogue is not some “Jingle Bells, Mary Had A Little Lamb” public domain $$$+)+%*`@`+&+`_ these are copywritten songs and material that have to be used and or licensed with permission.

But hey, whats stealing artists songs coming from a party that stole the last 2 elections in this nation? they have proven with 9/11 & the Iraq occupation/ invasion (wars are when both sides agree & consent to military force & aggression) that if they want something they will stop @ nothing to get it .
If I were Ann & Nancy & they continued to use my music after I had asked them to cease and desist, I would have personally gone to that convention , stage crashed the RNC and crammed my foot down that pathetic Uncle Tom of a Woman Palin ’s throat.
the “oh so progressive ” Y2K version of Phyliss Schafly who would have women bleeding to death in a Tijuana back alley with a coat hanger up their butts if given the chance.
By the way America, when PeePaw Crazy’s ticker konks out , you will have some Beauty Queen Milk Money Treasurer who has voted absentee on every major issue running our damn nation ,

their arrogance is matched only by their ignorance and I hope Ann & Nancy get them to stop

fyi, stubby, when you use an artist’s song in a broadcast/film medium, you don’t have the option of just paying royalties . . . you must get their permission and negotiate a license fee

this is because, the power of images can have a profound effect upon the meaning of a song . . . now, for instance, millions of people will picture sarah palin and john mccain when they hear “barracuda” . . . the rnc has, in effect, destroyed the value of the song

while you denigrate the work of heart, the song is/was a classic, and it obviously had so much expressive value that the republicans saw fit to steal it for the biggest moments of their convention

Well, I guess McCain’s speech will be the very last time a packed arena hears Heart perform “Barracuda.”

I should also say that more people watched McCain’s speech, AND Palin’s speech, than Obamas…The Wilson’s should be on their knees thanking them.

They’re not “American women”. They’re Canadian.

Just like the Bush administration, the Republicans are only interested in obeying the law when it suits them. And once again, the supposed party of the rule of law, morality, character, and Christianity show so very little of it, particularly in evidence by the comments of their numb-nad acolytes spewing infantile vitriol on the pages of this blog. It is a party of emotional children who need a shoot-em-up daddy or a moose-skinning mommy authoritarian figure to protect them and tell them how to live. You’re pathetic. Grow up.

Jamman, thanks for proving my point, and so predictably. What are you, ten years old?

Sarah Palin proves that women can have it all????? What planet are you living on?
This woman is an anti- woman (and anti- humanity) as they come. Not only has she had her own share of political scandles, due to nepotism in her administration (we saw where that got us during Katrina, anyone remember Brownie and FEMA), but she is against equal pay for equal work for women (or at least her voting record is), does not believe that there is global warming, despite what is happening before our eyes in places like Alaska (probably because she is a creationist who does not believe in science) and does not believe in giving a woman the right to choose EVEN in instances of rape. As a member of the human race, a woman and a rape victim I find her views unconscionable and the concept of her as a role model insulting and a sham.

[...] The song appears to be getting some workshopping on the road. In Virginia Beach (and in the studio), Williams—wearing a football jersey—sang that Palin and McCain “don’t have terrorist friends to whom their careers are linked,” while in Richmond, he amended the lyric to “radical friends.” In the printed lyrics given to the media, Obama’s connection to Bill Ayers is ignored entirely. Hey, at least the campaign found someone who’d let them use their song. [...]