Republicans Lack Heart! (File Cease & Desist for 'Barracuda' Song)

To: rightwingintelligentsia; All

I wonder if the Russians will sue the Decemberists for opening their concerts with a playing of the Soviet National Anthem?

ELECTION 2008
Communist band opens for Obama
'How many of 75,000 came to hear music?'

A hip rock band that features the Soviet national anthem and communist-inspired lyrics was on stage to open for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at his record-breaking Portland, Ore., rally that attracted 75,000.

The Decemberists, a Portland-based group with a large local following, also closed the May 18 event.

The Decemberists typically begin their concerts with a Russian-language recording of the USSR's national anthem.

A YouTube video shows the Decemberists beginning an April 31, 2007, concert at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., with the anthem.

"Decemberists" refers to an uprising at Senate Square in St. Petersburg Dec. 14, 1825, when a group of Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest as Nicholas I assumed the throne, after Czar Alexander died without an heir.

The Decemberists have posed for publicity photos in period Russian costumes with the red flag of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 waving behind them. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=65510

The Soviet National Anthem / Гимн СССР
English translation (of the 1977 version)

Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics,
Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Created in struggle by will of the people,
United and mighty, our Soviet land!

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!

Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,
Along the new path where great Lenin did lead.
To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples,
Inspired them to labour and valourous deed.

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!

In the victory of Communism's immortal ideal,
We see the future of our dear land.
And to her fluttering scarlet banner,
Selflessly true we always shall stand!

Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,
Bulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong.
O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people,
To Communism's triumph lead us on!
http://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/anthem.htm

From the Decemberists' website:
"Decemberists to play Obama rally in Portland"
http://www.decemberists.com/news.aspx

YouTube video of Decemberists concert:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCTe87IxfU

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From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

41 posted on 09/05/2008 4:51:12 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)

To: counterpunch

"Maybe we should stop taking the bait."

No no no...take the bait. In fact ramp it up. Let them go on TV as living advertisement for Sarah.

42 posted on 09/05/2008 4:52:06 AM PDT by Earthdweller

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Does anyone get tired of republicans breaking copyright laws? It’s not funny and it’s not worth it...

43 posted on 09/05/2008 4:52:14 AM PDT by bahblahbah

This is bull...they can only hurt their own leftist cause by making a big deal out of this....let them go for it.

I hope their ugliness looks like a giant billboard.

44 posted on 09/05/2008 4:54:33 AM PDT by Earthdweller

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Good. The song sucks anyway. (I thought one of the Wilson sisters choked on a ham sandwich???)

45 posted on 09/05/2008 4:57:12 AM PDT by Niteranger68 (Sarah Palin - All American Girl!)

Entertainers get involved at their own peril and I happen to be one of those who loses respect and will no longer support someone if they are extremely political and Ann and Nancy lost my respect.

I've said it before on here... if you want to listen to music by conservatives, you should probably buy a harmonica.

46 posted on 09/05/2008 4:58:08 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (The first amendment doesn't end with "...as long as nobody is offended.")

Amen. I work hard for my $$ and they won’t get one thin dime of it.

47 posted on 09/05/2008 4:58:11 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (So many books, so little time!)

To: rightwingintelligentsia

How old are the Wilson sisters now? Seems like they could use a few extra bucks now they are nearing retirement age and ain't going to have anymore hits.

48 posted on 09/05/2008 4:58:21 AM PDT by McGruff (People's families are off limits and people's children are especially off limits - Obama)

To: rightwingintelligentsia; All

A little band history from wikipedia:

"By the mid-1970s the male band members were eligible to be drafted to Vietnam, so the band relocated to Vancouver, Canada.[3]"
[3] "The Canadian Pop Encyclopedia: Heart". Canoe/Jam. Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_(band)

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McCain on lower right

In August of 1968, a program of vigorous torture methods began on McCain, using rope bindings into painful positions and beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[84][79] Teeth and bones were broken again, as was McCain's spirit; the beginning of a suicide attempt was stopped by guards.[79] After four days of this, McCain signed and taped[94] an anti-American propaganda "confession" that said, in part, "I am a black criminal and I have performed the deeds of an air pirate. I almost died, and the Vietnamese people saved my life, thanks to the doctors."[79] He used stilted Communist jargon and ungrammatical language to signal that the statement was forced.[89]. Source

Also see:
John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account
By John S. McCain III, Lieut. Commander, U.S. Navy;
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account.html

49 posted on 09/05/2008 5:03:55 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)

To: Niteranger68

> Good. The song sucks anyway. (I thought one of the Wilson sisters choked on a ham sandwich???)

Those fat bar hags kill samwiches, not the other way ‘round!

50 posted on 09/05/2008 5:03:59 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghÃ©ill mi do dhuine. FÃ g am bealach.)

“I believe this falls under what is called “Fair Use”. Their asking them not to use it only makes the Wilson’s look small and petty.”

You are correct. It’s being used no differently than being played at ANY party or dance. Now, Van Halen did the same thing when the campaign used their song “Right now” in an ad. That was a legitimate gripe.

But did anyone notice that that same song was used throughout the convention even after Van Halen decried it’s use?

51 posted on 09/05/2008 5:04:11 AM PDT by diverteach (http://foolishpleasurestudio.com/eyewool/slap_hillary.html)

To: rightwingintelligentsia

What petty assholes.
What? They only want left wingers buying their music?
Fine.

52 posted on 09/05/2008 5:04:15 AM PDT by snarkytart

If that’s all these liberals have to whine about, then they should thank a soldier.

53 posted on 09/05/2008 5:07:08 AM PDT by defconw ("Hope is not a strategy")

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Great - I have tickets to see these doofueses, along with Cheap Trick and Journey, Sunday night.

54 posted on 09/05/2008 5:09:11 AM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)

I’m a big heart fan also. Ann has one of the best voices out there bar none.

Unfortunately I guess I’ve bought my last album. I had no idea the were pro infanticide.

I hope the GOP uses barracuda as often as they can from here on out. It’s got to hurt, just like Rush’s bumper music has got to hurt Chrissy (I hope they kick our ass) Hynde.

55 posted on 09/05/2008 5:09:28 AM PDT by xmission (Democrats have killed our Soldiers by rewarding the enemy for brutality)

doofueses = doofuses

56 posted on 09/05/2008 5:09:40 AM PDT by day10 (Rules cannot substitute for character.)

To: rightwingintelligentsia

Barracuda
Heart
(A.Wilson/N.Wilson/R.Fisher)

So this ain't the end - I saw you again today
Had to turn my heart away
You smiled like the Sun - kisses for everyone
and tales - it never fails!

You lying so low in the weeds
Bet you gonna ambush me
You'd have me down on my knees
Wouldn't you, Barracuda?

Back over Time when we were all trying for free
Met up with porpoise and me
No right no wrong you're selling a Song - a name
whisper game

If the real thing don't do the trick
You better make up something quick
You gonna burn it out to the wick aren't you, Barracuda?

"Sell me sell you" the porpoise said
Dive down deep to save my head
You... I think you got the blues too.

All that night and all the next
Swam without looking back
Made for the western pools -silly fools!

...not worthy...

57 posted on 09/05/2008 5:09:40 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)

To: GodBlessRonaldReagan

58 posted on 09/05/2008 5:10:26 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)

To: rightwingintelligentsia

ask publicly? hope to be honored?

this is not for the mccain camp, this is for their efette hollywood types.

The venue PAYS AN ANNUAL FEE for songs.

They probably do not even own it.

(seriously, listen to the words of the song folks)
just hollyweird living in the past.

Heart is so Obama

59 posted on 09/05/2008 5:11:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)

“There’s nothing Wilson/Wilson can do as long as the McCain campaign pays the ASCAP fees. ASCAP covers public broadcast for an event, just as they cannot tell a nightclub or sports event not to play their song.”

Petty bullshit from the celebrity left. Just ignore them and pay them their royalty fees.

Since 98% of musicians are leftists we would have very little selection of music. They have no legal right to stop the music, only to collect their due fee.

60 posted on 09/05/2008 5:12:16 AM PDT by rbmillerjr (Democrats feat Sarah Palin like they feared Clarence Thomas)

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