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1. #101
   On January 17th, 2010 at 12:41 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

   “This isn’t about “baseball IQ”. It’s about elitism and arrogance. It’s not the voters or interviewer who brought up baseball, it was Coakley. And not only did she strike out, she managed to somehow get hit by her own pitch!”

   That’s good.

2. #102
   On January 17th, 2010 at 12:57 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

   Running for Senate in MA, bringing up baseball, and dissing Schilling as a Yankees fan would be like running for Senate against John Glenn, bringing up the 60’s space race, and saying John Glenn was a fan of the Russians beating us to the moon.

3. #103
   On January 17th, 2010 at 1:52 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

   I knew John Glenn. And Mrs. Coakley, she is no John Glenn.

4. #104
   On January 17th, 2010 at 4:02 pm, Wayfaring Stranger said:

   Just to clear something up; several people have brought up and discussed the McCain campaign’s use of certain songs, like Heart’s Barracuda, and the issue of copyright infringement as compared to the Coakley campaign’s legal trouble with UPS for copyright infringement.

   I’m a musician, and have had to learn about what is involved in licensing of intellectual property, as well as what constitutes ‘fair use’.

   And the bottom line is that the McCain campaign paid the copyright holder a fee that granted them permission to play Barracuda at their events, and I think they did the same with the others. Heart didn’t hold the copyright to the song anymore, so the band’s objection is moot – and they did get royalties from the licensing fee that the McCain campaign paid out.

   Coakley got no such permission from UPS to use their image in campaign ads, so it’s an entirely different issue.

5. #105
   On January 17th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, chapoutier said:

   And the bottom line is that the McCain campaign paid the copyright holder a fee that granted them permission to play Barracuda at their events, and I think they did the same with the others.

   There is a difference between a licensing fee for use in live performance (like a baseball game or campaign rally) and for use in an advertisement (like the Coakley situation). McCain may have had the rights to use a particular song during a live performance, but they also had several instances of using a song without permission in campaign ads. John Mellencamp sued McCain and the GOP for this and the campaign was forced to pull a video posted to youtube, which used Frankie Valli songs without any permission.

6. #106
   On January 17th, 2010 at 4:28 pm, GladzKravtz said:

   John Mellencamp sued McCain and the GOP for this and the campaign was forced to pull a video posted to youtube, which used Frankie Valli songs without any permission.

   McCain = past/history and he made the correction/paid up/or whatever.
   Coakley = present. The extent to which this issue is resolved will be interesting.

7. #107
   On January 17th, 2010 at 4:58 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

   I think you’re underestimating Obama’s pull.

   Then why is he campaigning for Coakley?

   Corzine actually ran a fantastic campaign and given how enormously unpopular he was for much of his term, he had a very, very good loss.

   Raising taxes with rising unemployment is a great way to get knocked out of office.

   and I also am unsure as to where you got the idea that Obama was attempting to sway the Olympics council members (he was clearly there to energize the Chicago contingent).

   You really expect us to believe that he did zero lobbying over there? Obama is alobbying mogul to the rest of the world, mostly in terms of apologizing like someone suffering from white guilt.

   Your blind hatred for Obama is bizarre and dishonest.

   Of course, as a liberal, any criticism of Obama you hear makes the skeptic a hater or a racist. But I’d rather have someone who hates government (or a particular office thereof) than someone who follows it blindly.

   BTW, how’s that “hope and change” working out for you?

8. #108
   On January 17th, 2010 at 5:01 pm, srhoades said:

   “I guess that’s what you call a football.”

9. #109
   On January 17th, 2010 at 7:24 pm, corkie said:

   On January 17th, 2010 at 12:06 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

   It doesn’t make sense or you don’t agree with it?

   It doesn’t make any sense – probably because it’s wrong.

10. #110
    On January 17th, 2010 at 7:31 pm, corkie said:

    On January 17th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    Yes. And I agree. That is not what I have been pointing out. I’ve been pointing out this practice of getting “permission” from an artist. Its goofy. Sorry but its more of this artist are “special” crap.

    Are you claiming that no artist had any management rights of any copyright McCain used during his campaign?

11. #112
    On January 18th, 2010 at 9:34 am, Danceswithdachshunds said:

    Curt and Martha, (aka Marcia), were invited on FNC this morning – only Curt showed up. At the end of the piece he was asked if he had any parting words for Martha:

    Yes I do – GOOD LUCK ON YOUR NEXT JOB