This is not a repeat from every Republican candidate ever.

Newt must drive a Kia Sorento.

and Dyke and The Blazers had fark all to do with The Heavy sampling Let a Woman be a Woman / And a Man be a Man (new window)

On the Newt tip, how much do you just want to give Bobby Moynahan's Newt a hug and a cookie?

Why doesn't the RIAA ever sue these republican infringers for a bazillion dollars per song?

For the record, John McCain's campaign paid for the use of "Barracuda".

From: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1594443/mccain-palin-still-using-hear ts-barracuda.jhtml

"The Republican Party did in fact obtain the necessary license to use the song, which can be played when a venue pays a blanket fee to ASCAP, the organization that protects music copyrights.

While the Wilsons are clearly upset, "Barracuda" co-writer and former Heart guitarist Roger Fisher (Nancy's ex) has a different outlook. He's happy to receive the publicity, he told Reuters last week, and he pledged to give part of the royalties from the song's use to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's campaign."

The story in this case was a liberal artist not paying attention to whom their song was licensed, lying about it afterwards, and keeping the money while expecting their customer to cave to their insults and unreasonable demands.

Of course, what can you expect from a band who moved to Canada when one of its members was dodging the draft?

vladimpaler: Of course, what can you expect from a band who moved to Canada when one of its members was dodging the draft?

shiat his pants?

FishyFred: Cue persecution complex over those damned hippie liberal musicians.

Is it Newt's problem that the victims of the British socialist education system don't understand the awesomest free market that God ever gave the world? That if someone wants to use your stuff, you let them, because their paying you for it which means you get theyre money and isn't that what its all about? Somewhere an eagle is crying because this band has rejected capitalism for a future in socialism and I don't think anyone here has ever heard a russian rock band (except for TaTu, and they totally rock because lesbians) before so they're not going to make any more money which is probably ok for them because their socialists anyway. go back to russia you damm commies

433: Ed Finnerty: Why do Republicans have Ted Nugent?

There aren't too many candidates that need Wang Dang Sweet Poontang for a backing track.

Not many, no, but to be fair, Newt Gingrich is certainly one of them.

Why don't politicians actually listen to to the music they pick for events? "How do you like me know?" is all is about breaking up with someone and revealing that you have been cheating on them, which after a bit of though is perfect for Newt.

"If i was to cheat on you
Would you see right through me?
If I sing a sad sad sad sad song
Would you give it to me?"

/first heard the heavy from a link on fark about a year ago, great band

Just say the song has cancer, Newt will stop using it.

He was using this song before...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV2l0k8bbf4

I see what happened. they meant to play the Toby Keith version and there was a mix-up.

If I was a musician and a politician wanted to use my music my only question would be this:

Am I getting paid?

karasoth: If I was a musician and a politician wanted to use my music my only question would be this:

Am I getting paid?

That song has been in so many commercials, films, and TV shows that the band can afford to pick and choose who gets to use it. Especially if the person using it is a pasty, doughy, sanctimonious, gelatinous pantload of a pile of dog shiat like Newt Gingrich.

wedding vegetables: I see what happened. they meant to play the Toby Keith version and there was a mix-up.

Toby Kieth is a Democrat, actually. Though he is a money whore, so it may balance out.

cystis: Why don't politicians actually listen to to the music they pick for events? "How do you like me know?" is all is about breaking up with someone and revealing that you have been cheating on them, which after a bit of though is perfect for Newt.

"If i was to cheat on you
Would you see right through me?
If I sing a sad sad sad sad song
Would you give it to me?"


This

The song was written for Newt.

Now there was a time
When you loved me so
I could have been wrong
But now you needed to know
See, I've been a bad, bad, bad, bad man
And I'm in deep, Yes I am
I found a brand new love for this man
And I can't wait till you see
I can't wait

Instead of biatching that Newt is using the song, the artists need to point out how perfect their lyrics illustrate what an asshat Newt is.

Romney's also in trouble for showing Tom Brokaw announcing Gingrinch's ouster without getting permission from NBC.

If a political campaign pays a record label to have the rights for a song in its commercials, and the band who performed the song objects, who gets the final say?

skinink: Or do the the Republicans secretly want Obama back because they like poking their fingers in his face?

I think they are just saving their best effort for 2016 when Obama has paid down the debt and the economy has recovered somewhat from Dubya, Then it'll be big time election fraud and hello treasury, the GOP has missed you!!
Time to feed.
They'll be sniffing Obama's crotch closely for evidence, expect lots of investigations.

Cartoon topless demons dancing in the forest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM

These guys never watch the music videos before they yank them, do they?

Kurmudgeon: skinink: Or do the the Republicans secretly want Obama back because they like poking their fingers in his face?

I think they are just saving their best effort for 2016 when Obama has paid down the debt and the economy has recovered somewhat from Dubya, Then it'll be big time election fraud and hello treasury, the GOP has missed you!!
Time to feed.
They'll be sniffing Obama's crotch closely for evidence, expect lots of investigations.

The 2012 vote is between Keynesian and trickle down economics. By 2016 we will have either won or lost and the outcome of the election will be inevitable.

ShawnDoc: Winktologist: How are the same idiots who propose and supposed things like SOPA and ACTA the same ones who keep using unlicensed/unendorsed music in the publicly broadcasted commercials?

This isn't about use in commercials, its about its use at campaign stops. They often play music to rile up the crowd and to introduce the candidate. They don't have to get permission ahead of time, they just have to pay the standard rate for a "public performance" of the music. Similar to how radio stations don't have to negotiate for each song, there's a standard amount the has to be payed for each play.

Right. It's called compulsory licensing, and it means that most of the time, you can't prevent people from using or covering your licensed material, as long as they pay the statutory fee for use. In practice, though, compulsory licensing is usually avoided, because the reporting requirements are burdensome. Instead, companies simply do a summary negotiation (a boilerplate contract) for a fee at or very close to the compulsory rate, as a more convenient alternative. But if you're the licensing party, you *can* refuse, and force the borrower to endure the compulsory process. As far as I understand, though, it's really only a burden for continuing use, as for a cover that you plan to sell yourself. I feel sure that single-use or limited multi-use is not as burdensome.

But that's assuming you don't already have some kind of blanket licensing contract in place, and most of the parties who'd have a use for one already do. Radio stations, for example, just pay flat or negotiated fees to the major licensing powers, which covers anything and everything they own, which is nearly everything you'd ever be likely to use. When I worked at a (Class B2) NCE radio station, we paid a flat fee to each of the majors. When I worked at a non-profit arts space with a stage, we did the same, at different rates. (That space eventually adopted a license boycott, and stopped paying.) We're currently discussing webcasting, and have already figured out what the fees will be. (Quite manageable, I'd like to say, though probably still bullshiat anyway. I know very few domestic artists who've ever gotten royalties paid.)

You have to either show that they're making unlicensed use, or show how a licensed use is hurting you in some way, and that can be hard to do. That's why Chrissy Hynde can't really do anything about Rush Limbaugh using the music for "My City Was Gone" (a use that's particularly ironic, given what the song is about, and the kinds of ideas he promotes). I don't know this, but I *believe* that it's customary to respect a cease-use request, only because refusing to do so will make it harder to negotiate with that same license owner in the future. So I'm not sure why some parties seem to be pigheaded about it.

What I really don't get is why conservatives need to use essentially liberal -- even highly progressive or outright radical -- music, instead of using their own excellent conservative music. Yes, I know you're snickering about that, but such music really does exist, and some of it's pretty good. Admittedly, Newt might look a little, shall we say dictatorial, striding out to the podium to the bombastic strains of Wagner. And even if wants to appeal to the younger segment, he'd be prudent to avoid Screwdriver and the like. (Though I'd like to say for the record that however ignorant their ideology, their music isn't so bad.)

Okay, so I concede that there's a significant imbalance of conservative and liberal music, and liberals seem to have most of the good stuff. But surely Hank Jr. is available? Charlie Daniels? These are very popular and very conservative modern musicians. Why not use them instead? Why run the risk of getting caught stealing-- er, borrowing some left-wing radicals' tunes? Isn't that embarrassing?

I think I've run off the rails here a bit. Sorry.

shower_in_my_socks: Someone should tell Gingrich the lead singer of The Heavy is black.

BLACK!

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How is his robot wife supposed to feel safe at campaign rallies?

Well, given the disturbing stares that she normally directs at photographers, it has made me wonder if she didn't have laser beams installed during the last surgery....



Anybody else see her going all Cyclops on someone?

/RLY

skinink: Don't worry about it. Once Newt loses the nomination at the RNC convention he won't be playing any theme music in public.
I don't understand Gingrich. Does he hate Romney so much that he would willing hurt the Republican's best chance to get Obama out of the White House? Or do the the Republicans secretly want Obama back because they like poking their fingers in his face?

Never underestimate Gingrich's ego.

That Gingrich fellow has the most indefinably hateful face I've ever seen.

RIAA: Fark off, The Heavy. We licensed this song to Newt Gingrich, and if you think you have a say in how or if he uses it, we'll charge you with piracy. How do you like us now?!?

Has a Republican ever used a song and NOT had the artist do this?