> > Someone down here is using a version of Highway to Hell in their election campaign. > > > Although, politicians being utterly clueless about their music choices is practically > a tradition. The Republicans picked "Born in the USA" as their song in the 1984 > elections, completely unaware that the song is a scathing criticism of pretty much > everything they stood for.
I could say something about Springsteen but I wouldn't want this post to be war roomed.
A few years ago a local politician happened to be named Joe Walsh. The musician Joe Walsh was extremely upset when the politician used one of his songs in a campaign video, who defended his use of it. A couple years later the musician personally endorsed the politician's opponent.
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