Streeter Seidell is a comedy writer and (mediocre) drummer living in Brooklyn, NY. During the day he edits the front page of CollegeHumor.com but when the sun goes down he takes his place at the helm of the Indablog. He maintains a personal blog at StreeterSeidell.com and wants to make sure you know he once wrote something for the New York Times and that it was, in the words of his mother, "Amazing! You're so talented!"
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Thursday October 09, 2008 at 09:00 AM |
The right has always had a tough time getting quality music acts. Most of the great music acts of our day tend to swing pretty far to the left. Apparently though, that doesn't stop the right from snagging a song or two and their latest target is the Foo Fighters.
Apparently, the band is asking that the McCain campaign stop using their song, "My Hero." According to the band, "The saddest thing about this is that `My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential," the band said in a statement. "To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song."
McCain has also been asked to stop using songs from John Mellencamp, Heart and Jackson Browne. But don't think the left is entirely innocent. Sam Moore has asked Obama to stop using "Soul Man." Jerk...
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