Posted on 07/21/2016 7:41:07 AM PDT by rktman
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News followed the example of CBS the previous evening in spotlighting the latest Republican presidential candidate to get in trouble with a liberal musician for using their music at a campaign event. Peter Alexander zeroed in on how "just hours after [Donald] Trump tried to cast himself as a winner, Queen complained the billionaire used the song 'against our wishes.'" He also cited how "George W. Bush had to 'back down,' after receiving a cease and desist letter from Tom Petty." [video below]
Anchor Lester Holt led into Alexander's report by noting that "sometimes, a song fits with a candidate in perfect harmony. But for the artist, it's not always music to their ears." The correspondent first spotlighted the current campaign music from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's rallies: "Hillary Clinton's come out swinging, with the help of pop stars Rachel Platten and Katy Perry. Donald Trump routinely revs up crowds with the Stones." He featured Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO Greg Harris, who claimed that "rock and roll musicians are some of the greatest idealists on the planet. They believe in three cords and the truth."
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I agree
Screw liberal music
Use some decent Classic Country or Big Band
Please.
It’s like the cliche thing every 4 years since “Born in the USA” in 1984.
Song is used, and then some washed-up hack complains about it being used (mainly to save face with their friends), while they gleefully cash that 25 cent royalty check from the music company that actually owns the song.
Laura was wrong last night. Journos like this are already doing their jobs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3VLqLLWxbQ
The petty liberals in the media even resorting to bashing the music being played. Oh, they are so objective LOL
Yep and every four years (or even more often) they forget abou the law and how this works (selective memory):
http://lawstreetmedia.com/issues/politics/campaign-music-fair-use/
More liberal mouthpieces speed-dialing indignation again.
Times like this reminds me of how many musicians are similar to professional athletes, the majority are followers used to reacting unquestioningly to their coach or their band leader.
A LOT of police have been executed because of Lester Holt.
If they are gonna claim their music is for libtards only they should make that clear from day one so we don’t make the mistake of buying it in the first place. Once they sell it to “everybody” they sort of have lost that so they should, at this point, STFU.
Silly thing is, probably the only line in the POS song that people know is “born in the USA”. Anti-war, anti-American song. I have ALWAYS hated that friggin’ song. And no, I don’t care about bwucey spwingstien either. No talent hack that would be zip diddly without his band. A couple of which are uber lefties as well. Yes little stevie van zandt. I’m talking about you.
NBC...that’s all you can whine about? Pathetic.
LOL! They are really reaching!
I especially love the way military historian Bruce Springsteen crafted the lyrics “I had a brother at Ke Sahn, fighting off the Viet Cong.” Sheer genius I tell ya’!
They would have complained no matter what the music was. If there was mostly country music it would have been “too much country music because they only appeal to stupid white rednecks”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they wrote the outline of a negative article last week and just plugged in the details once they heard the music.
A couple of the notes are canted to the left. But some are not. :)
All I see is “MAGA” under the notes ;)
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