CosmicCowboy
06-29-2011, 08:58 AM
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2011_0629bachmanns_petty_move_has_rocker_fuming/
Bachmann’s Petty move has rocker fuming
By Herald wire services
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - Updated 3 hours ago
Michele Bachmann played a trump card after her official presidential announcement Monday, using singer-songwriter Tom Petty’s song “American Girl” to casually point out to voters that she is the only female candidate as yet in the Republican nomination race.
But Petty let NBC reporter Kelly O’Donnell know Monday after Bachmann’s presidential declaration in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, that he wanted no part of Bachmann’s celebrity or her campaign.
O’Donnell reported that Petty’s manager let her know in no uncertain terms that the megastar didn’t want Bachmann to use the song again, the Washington Post’s Sarah Anne Hughes reported.
Bachmann isn’t the only or the first Republican to get the hook from Petty. In 2000, George Bush was advised to halt use of Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.”
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was also asked in 2008 to stop use of music performed by the Foo Fighters and John Mellencamp.
But not all candidates are created equal.
Hillary Clinton used the same Petty standard, “American Girl,” during her own 2008 presidential campaign without the singer’s objection, Today.com
Bachmann’s Petty move has rocker fuming
By Herald wire services
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - Updated 3 hours ago
Michele Bachmann played a trump card after her official presidential announcement Monday, using singer-songwriter Tom Petty’s song “American Girl” to casually point out to voters that she is the only female candidate as yet in the Republican nomination race.
But Petty let NBC reporter Kelly O’Donnell know Monday after Bachmann’s presidential declaration in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa, that he wanted no part of Bachmann’s celebrity or her campaign.
O’Donnell reported that Petty’s manager let her know in no uncertain terms that the megastar didn’t want Bachmann to use the song again, the Washington Post’s Sarah Anne Hughes reported.
Bachmann isn’t the only or the first Republican to get the hook from Petty. In 2000, George Bush was advised to halt use of Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.”
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was also asked in 2008 to stop use of music performed by the Foo Fighters and John Mellencamp.
But not all candidates are created equal.
Hillary Clinton used the same Petty standard, “American Girl,” during her own 2008 presidential campaign without the singer’s objection, Today.com