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To: TexasCajun

>>I have Rush’s theme music as my ringtone. ...I love it.<<

“My City was Gone” by the Pretenders. It drove Chrissie Hynde NUTS that Rush grabbed it for his theme and bump music (later she changed her mind):

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_Was_Gone

>>According to Rolling Stone, Hynde took action after Limbaugh told a pair of reporters in 1997 that “it was icing on the cake that it was [written by] an environmentalist, animal rights wacko and was an anti-conservative song. It is anti-development, anti-capitalist, and here I am going to take a liberal song and make fun of [liberals] at the same time.” This led Hynde to demand that Limbaugh stop using the song, which he did. However, Hynde did an about face and offered Limbaugh the use of her song in exchange for his donating the appropriate royalties to PETA. She later wrote to the organization saying, “In light of Rush Limbaugh’s vocal support of PETA’s campaign against the Environmental Protection Agency’s foolish plan to test some 3,000 chemicals on animals, I have decided to allow him to keep my song, ‘My City Was Gone,’ as his signature tune...<<


7 posted on 04/28/2010 9:26:58 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Craven spirits wear their master's collars but real men would rather feed the battlefield's vultures)
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To: freedumb2003

AT&T didn’t offer it, I had to go to a 3rd party to get it.


12 posted on 04/28/2010 9:39:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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