I just read a news story that really got my dander up.

(http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/18/henley.lawsuit/index.html)

It appears that a politician running for office in the U.S. Senate (Charles DeVore - http://www.chuckdevore.com/blog.asp?artid=25) took the music to Boys of Summer and also the music to "All She Wants to Do is Dance" - great songs of Don Henley's (Eagles) - and put his own words to them and made political ads out of them.

Don Henley is suing for copyright infringement and rightly so - and I personally hope the candidate loses his *ars* in BOTH the Senate race AND the lawsuit.

The Senate hopeful posted his videos on YouTube - which YouTube took down due to Don Henley expressing his copyright. Mr. DeVore's comment to this on his website was: "YouTube has pulled our second parody at the request of another liberal artist. We will be posting the second version on another server soon."

The CNN article quotes Chuck DeVore as stating "While the legal issues play out, it's time to up the ante on Mr. Henley's liberal goon tactics."

Firstly, Mr. Asshole- errr DeVore: Mr. Henley is by no stretch a "Liberal Goon". He's an artist, unlike yourself who cannot come up with his own commercial due to lack of talent. You think that by STEALING an artists music and changing the words is "Political Free Speech" - BULLSHIT. By STEALING and infringing on Mr. Henley's music you are insinuating that Mr. Henley endorses you in some way by giving you permission to use his material. You sir, are a thief.

Secondly- politicians nowadays think they can TELL the American people that "we are going to give TRILLIONS of YOUR dollars to GM, AIG, Mexico and Pakistan without even asking us -- NO REPRESENTATION WHATSOEVER. And now YOU come along and say I'm going to use your music to get my ass elected and there is nothing you can do about it under the guise of "political free speech"?

You are an arrogant self centered ELITEIST who is mouthing whatever anyone wants to hear and stealing the music of an American ICON for his own selfish GAIN.

It seems that I can't hear a speech without some politician TELLING us about who is getting TRILLIONS of OUR BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS.

I guess I'm coming to really hate politicians at this point - THIS politician's "HOLIER THAN THOUGH I CAN DO WHAT I WANT" CRAP has me VERY disappointed in our choices for government.

I hope our legal system is still marginally intact and Don Henley wins this one. If he doesn't -- then something has gone VERY wrong with our country.

Peace, Love and Chicken Grease,

Bob