Come on people, can’t we all just get along. Where is name calling on a rolling stone article really going to get us. Let’s just leave it at people will believe what they believe.

Why would ANYONE want to play this guy’s music? I heard him play the other night during the induction ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Talk about an untter lack of musical quality! He seriously needs to learn how to compose a melody if he wants to inflict his dumb lyrics upon everyone like that.

I love you John!! Keep writing music! I for one agree with many of your views. Your still hot too! Here’s more for you wackos out there…
Hillary for President!! Bush is the worst President we ever had. Oh and one more thing..nah…forget it! Love and peace to all.

So judge-mental. I think it’s jealousy. John Mellencamp is unique, a unique talent. He voices his opinions…so? Does not matter who is in office at this point..I don’t believe it’s going to make much of a difference. It’s up to us individuals to make a difference in our everyday lives. Try giving a little, it actually feels good and you could make someone’s day. How about that?

To the republicans who don’t think that the government should interfere in helping the poor, they already do an aweful lot to disrupt our chances at making it. You are right, why offset that progress of eliminating the middle class. As for Mellancamp, stupid him for singing about democratic beliefs and then not wanting a Republican to take credit. As for McCain, he is obviously completely aware of his surroundings and should definitely be our next president. He should be allowd to use this song like George Bush should have used Fogerty’s “Fortunate Son” in his campaign.

Hey John,

Five years ago I was hit by a car at 40 MPH walking in Florida and just got out of hospital on Monday this week ( 2/27/08 ) .

Will you play me a song that will help me smile again ?

I have not seen you since breakfast Hilton Head.

Thank You
Gary

With all due respect to either side, and without aligning myself to any party, the completely neutral fact is these songwriters do in fact get to approve or disapprove of the use of their work as advertisement, which this is. This is beyond buying permission to play the song, this is playing the song to endorse an idea. Whatever one thinks of any candidate or songwriter, you can surely see how someone might not be comfortable with a part of their life’s work being used to sell an idea they might not agree with. Like ‘em or not, you gotta side with the songwriters on this, and I believe it is irresponsible for any candidate to use a piece of music without contacting the artist. Do they think they’re NOT going to get called on it? Seems like the smart person would want to cover their hide in the beginning and make sure this sort of press doesn’t happen.

aw, cold_zero, you silly, pointless person.

Funny, the ass-hat republican wants to play songs about helping the poor and progressive science… yikes!

I don’t blame John Mellencamp or Boston …I wouldn’t want John McCain or Huckabee associated with my name at all …. If Hillery wins the nomination people …we will have another republican President …and that means John McCain most likely and we will be in war forever … you think the economy is bad now …wait until he gets a hold of the White House …. You have to question anyone that Bush endorses …..American People are idiots ….they have no clue to what is really going on ….Ron Paul was th only choice …he was very aware of whats really going on with our goverment ….I hope he left some kind of an impact with his words anyway.

Right on!, to John mellencamp, and Tom Sholtz of Boston, these right wing candidate’s don’t even listen to the lyrics, remember Regan and the Boss, they just think it has a nice beat and we can campaign to it.

Mellencamp is certainly entitled to compensation in the same amount he’d get if anyone played his song on a juke box in any public place. That is 25 or 50 cents. Everybody send a quarter when they here a McCain commercial, and maybe Mellencamp will shut up.

Could it be possible these cool candidates are against DRM and any form of copyright.

I guess when these music writers..such as JCM and the boston more than a feeling guy write their music they should say only buy and use the music if your with a certain party…picky picky picky..I guess they are a very sensitive group..

Drafting my Letter to Mellencamp now. Please STOP trying to represent the great state of Indiana, with everything you do. YOU do us a disservice.

Funny part is, Pink Houses and Springsteen’s Born in the USA are actually very biting negative social commentary, yet politicians utilize them as positive uplifting messages and the masses eat it up and get pumped up. Doesn’t anybody actually listen to any lyrics other than the catching sarcastic hook?

wow– so much hatred in these post!
I can see that the media has everyone convinced that the liberals are commies and the republicans are right wing wierdos.
Truth be known, some staffer was probably playing the song and McCain could give a shit.. Same with any other candidate’s songs.. so who cares??? Get over it. Lighten the F**K up! huh?

I guess its not enough that entertainers feel they need to use their stardom to endorse candidates. Now they want to limit a persons ability to play their songs (if the person doesn’t agree with their political views). I wonder how that would play out with the public in general? Maybe we should stop seeing their movies (Brad Pitt et al), if we disagree with their political views? why enrich those that will just use that enrichment to oppose our political views? It seems these entertainers don’t understand they need us; we don’t need them. They are puppets on a string, and maybe its time to retire a few puppets.

Mellencamp needs to shut his pie hole. I’m a Democrat too, but I’m a Democrat who hasn’t liked Mellencamp since he dropped “Cougar” from his name. Hey wake up John..1986 called, they want you back !

As long as McCain pays ASCAP fees John Mellencamp can’t complain plus I alway love a millionaire democrat promoting censorship…what an asshole

Libertarian, but thanks for asking.

Cheese, just as an impartial observer, I couldn’t help but note that you say “Conservatives are largely concerned with their own well-being” and then later say “Live your life, and don’t bother anyone else’s!”

These seem to be rather well aligned. I know you neither claim to be a Conservative nor claim to NOT be one. Just thought I’d point that out.

The funniest thing about all these posts is how hypocritical they are. Each side, no matter their slant, derides the other side with mind-boggling inane comments, that mostly take the form of insults with no justification or proof. A few of the posts are informative, the remainder are by and large pure drivel.

I will finish with saying this: Conservatives are largely concerned with their own well-being and are completely rigid in their views (mostly to a fault). Liberals say that they are out for the common man and support all walks of life, but a majority of the time are the most hateful people you will ever come into contact with. Luckily, liberals don’t believe in guns, otherwise we would have countless bodies on our hands.

Everyone needs to just calm down and accept the fact that in the grand scheme of things, we mean very, very little. Live your life, and don’t bother anyone else’s!

McCain was using that song… ENOUGH SAID.

Obama 08.

Ironically, the rest of America has asked John Melloncamp to stop using “Our Country.” Turns out, an entire generation of Americans hate Melloncamp AND Chevy trucks as a result of that song.

John McCain-Kennedy is a liberal. What is Melloncramp worried about?

lol Mellencamp music sucks. I hate hearing his stupid “our country” in every commercial. And im a frikin democrat lol

Mr. Mellencamp very quietly and respectfully expressed his discomfort and asked that his songs not be played. Mr. McCain very respectfully honored his request. End of story.

Republicans suck.

How about the “Who listens to his crap anywayz!!” stuff. Uh, the same people who care enough to first read the article and then take the time to comment. It’s a scientific fact that Red states by 99% of Melloncamp’s albums.

Which candidate most exemplifies this song ….or which candidate does this song most exemplify? If you know the difference…GREAT. LOL

soldiers anthem–going home

Mellonhead’s last hit was about a decade and a half ago. He should be happy that Anyone wants to play his drivel in public.

If Mellancamp is so irrelevant and a has been, why are the pro-war, anti-poor republicans so upset by this article? Perhaps it’s because Mellencamp’s complaint and personal request strikes a nerve. Empathy is something the right lacks but try this: imagine something that is very personal to you that you respect and how you would feel if it were desecrated.

Yeah, John Mellencamp lyrics are SOOOOO deep and SOOOOO profound. Rolling Stone magazine is a publication so asscrack stupid it actually thinks John Lennon brought peace to the world by singing songs. Mellencamp’s observations are worthless, except to brain-dead, Chomskyite Leftists.

Goodness, people. Thanks to the majority of you for confirming my staunch MODERATE, ANTI-PARTISAN tendencies. We are all now dumber (righties and lefties alike) for having read your rants. What happened to open-minded civil debate?

On a serious note, thanks to many of you who address the issue for what it is… where do we draw the line with art? And when does art cease being art and start becoming something it’s not– namely, a politic? And who has the “right” to enjoy, share, and resonate with the Truth we find in any art? In my opinion, if JCM doesn’t want people liking his art and proclaiming it (legally) to the masses… STOP PRODUCING RECORDS. And props, in this case, to “McCrazy” for politely pulling the songs from the campaign. It’s time we put the class back in politics. O’Bama or McCain for president!

Why is it unauthorized use? Isn’t music for anyone? Oh wait, everyone except politicians.
Hasn’t anyone seen Sister Act?

Good to see Jumbo is still active. If it is the same Jumbo I went to High School with. In either case JCM has strong Democratic ties and also has the creative rights to his songs. However, I have to say take a look at McCain’s background and it is quite impressive this is not to say he has a right to the song or made me a Republican it is more like he made me more open to hear the opposition without interuption. He still needs to win me over because I am an AZ resident relocated from Holbrook, NY GO GIANTS! jdehler@cox.net

How divisive can you get? I am for Obama, but how wonderful of McCain not to care, and to be willing to play music just because he likes it, not because it is red or blue. That divisive thinking is so antiquated. I think it shows more tolerance in McCain and more divisiveness in Mellencamp. Interesting. As long as Mellencamp is focusing on the faults/differences around him, he can write all he wants about , helping, but he is only adding to the sad separation so prevalent in our country. Time to know we are all One and embrace floks who are different from us.

Isaac Hayes asked that Bob Dole stop using a version of “Soul Man” called “Dole Man” in the 1996 election. John Mellencamp’s decision is based on property rights, he owns those songs, property rights are supposed to be important to Rebublicans.He doesn’t want his intellectual property being used in a way that he disagrees with. Mellencamp is no bomb throwing lefty pinko, he’s a very patriotic American who cares about his country. There is more than one way to be patriotic.

McCain and Bush are the embodiment of the very thing that Republican President Eisenhower warned the country about. That would be the dangers of the military industrial complex. McCain is nothing but an all too willing tool of this complex. His positions and voting record are completely antithetical to the things that Mellencamp sings about. So much anger from you cave dwelling hatemongers on the right. Get over yourselves.

Mellencamp is the typical anti-american bedbug ala hollywood. self absorbed red creeps who don’t appreciate america, and the differences a free society affords its’ citizens, thanks to heroes like mccain that asshole can make music!

JUST NEVER UNDERSTAND ABOUT BIG MOUTH LIBERAL ENTERTAINERS WHO NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEIR NEXT PAYCHECK AND WHO CLAIM TO BE PRO AMERICANS ARE THE FIRST TO ALWAYS BASH OTHER AMERICANS

“funny the ardent democrat wants to
stop free speech isn’t it?”

God, you’re an idiot. You people are so dumb it’s simply baffling. How does NOT wanting someone to play HIS SONG, about free speech? God damned buffoons. Look up what free speech means, ya tools. You just throw those words around without knowing what they even mean!

Repulicans SUCK a double..lol. I hope Chuck Berry does the same!

I see alot of rightwing morons crying because Melloncamp told McCrazy not to use his songs. Ask yourselves this question. If Mellencamp is so irrelevant how many of you simple minded douchebags does it take to say the same thing? That’s pretty much what 90% of you’ve been doing. Mellencamp is an American and his opinion matters as much as mine or for that matter as much as any of you braindead, inbred, hateful, rightwingers. Also, Pazuzus Petals is spot on. McCrazy has been pandering to the right since 2000.

It’s funny to hear complaints about Mellencamp being partisan when we’re talking about politics here.

Wow! what a heated little debate we’re having. Just remember everyone’s entitled to their own opinion.
To Jumbo Elliot: i thoroughly agree w/ you. From an international perspective, the worst thing that could happen for the US right now is to get another Republican president. I love America, but as a foreigner living overseas i hear negative things about the US everyday - and that can’t be right.
Good Luck & Good Night

Typical far right republicant, trying to take something honest and twist it to their own meaning. “Our Country” to republicants probably means shooting illegal immigrants in the back. READ THE LYRICS, republicants. Well, first things first: learn to read.

God bless John Mellencamp. This son of southern Indiana should be commended for standing up for the common folk. He’s never forgotten where he comes from and has been generous to his home community surrounding Indiana University. Some of the comments here show serious ignorance and lack the class Mr Mellencamp has displayed throughout his successful career.

So he doesn’t want particular politician to use his songs. At the very least, candidates should ask permission from the artist beforehand.

This discussion is in sore need of some facts:

1. “Nothing like a bunch of throw back dorks at Rolling Stone repeating bullshit stereotypes about conservatives not caring about the poor.”

-Nowhere in the article does the author deride conservatives. He or she only asserts that “far-right types” won’t love lyrics “which call on the government to “help the poor and common man.” Even acknowledging the limitations of generalizations, it’s a valid point. As another poster noted, conservatives “believe that individuals, families and volunteer organizations will do a better job than some government agencies.”

2. ” McCain is far from “far-right,” and if Rolling Stones has been paying any attention…”

The author never said McCain is far-right. The author pointed out McCain is courting far-right voters.

3. “John McCain is not courting far right wing voters.”

Really?

In 2000, McCain called Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson “agents of intolernance.” In 2006, he delivered the commencement address at Falwell’s Liberty University, and hired Brett O’Donnell from Liberty as a communications advisor.

McCain is speaking at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an event he skipped last year, much to the vocal consternation of conservatives.

In 1999, McCain said that overturning Roe v. Wade would be “dangerous”; now he supports a constitutional ban on abortions.

In 2007, McCain held private meetings with far-right activists at the National Religious Broadcasters convention. Said
Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition, McCain “helped himself in that room tremendously today.”

4. McCain is a liberal/McCain is a conservative.

His bona fides on either side are mixed, but he’s much more conservative than liberal. He opposes abortion, gun control, gay marriage, federal hate-crime legislation, and the International Criminal Court. He supports the death penalty, school vouchers, private social security accounts, and teaching “intelligent design” in public schools.

But he also favours citizenship for illegal immigrants, climate-change action, and federal funding for stem-cell research.

He’s no purebred conservative, but consider this: In 2004 he earned a perfect 100% rating from Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum, 22% from the ACLU, and 0% from NARAL. The National Journal ranked him solidly center-right in 2006. Even the John Birch Society gives him passing grades.

Ahh, conservatives. If you geniuses believed half the garbage that comes out of scummy mouths, you would have enlisted to fight for your country a long time ago. But you’re too busy trolling for man sex in public restrooms and jerking off to ‘24′ re-runs. Scum.

i used like mellencamp, not anymore, what sick #itch!

It’s no surprise muck-cane is too dumb too realise what the lyrics are saying. As for “Tom B’s” delusional rant, thanks for the belly laughs, pal. And please, do yourself a favor and get the hell out of “church” and step into the real world if you really want to help

Man, who calls John Mellencamp Johnny Cougar anymore? I stopped calling him John Cougar when I was 2. I am a 22 year old liberal democrat. I have seen John in concert 4 times. It is refreshing to hear him talk about politics. For a long time he did not say anything. Like when Bush used “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” I liked “Our Country” way before it was in the chevy commercial and I grew up with “Pink Houses”. He has the right to have some control over his material, especially after the chevy mess. I love John Mellencamp and so do all of my friends. Mellencamp is still very relevant in the world today. I was very happy to be able to meet the man back in October.

This is ourrrrrr… Chevy paycheck. Hypocritical windbag.

I’m pretty much a right wing conservative but I’m perplexed by the implication that we don’t care about “the poor and the common man”. Most of us are common men/woman. As far as conservatives helping the poor, go to church my friend. Those religious fanatic conservatives are always taking up collections for the poor here and abroad. For example: Catholic Relief Service (Who’s more conservative than the Catholic Church?) does more in Africa (food & medicine) than most all countries combined. Man do you have it wrong.

Mellencamp just needs to sing his songs and shut up. Be thankful anyone wants to play them at all!

lot of folks cared what he thinks when he helped the farmers when our own gov would not ,and now with all the forclosures get 600 bucks and go shopping ,what a group !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love it when left-wing liberals make fools of themselves.
Hey Johnny boy, I promise to buy one of your cd’s if you can make a fool out of yourself again in the next couple of days. Then I get to trash it where it belongs.
Moron!

I love it when left-wing liberals make fools of themselves.
Hey Johnny boy, I promise to buy one of your cd’s if you can make a fool out of yourself again in the next couple of days. Then I get to trah it where it belongs.
Moron!

I love it when left-wing liberals make fools of themselves.
Hey Johnny boy, I promise to buy one of your cd’s if you can make a fool out of yourself again in the next couple of days. The I get to trah it where it belongs.
Moron!

mcain and rove can dance to it together as they win the election and within a year you will be sorry for voting for him just like everyone woke up with bush but a bit to late

Uh…why all of the bashing? Maybe you guys missed the words ‘hasn’t’ and ‘quietly’ in the story which I highlighted in the quote from the story below. It seems that John is acting with class.

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M ellencamp HASN’T yet made a public response, but his reps are QUIETLY reaching out to McCain…

Johnny and McCain, both blow-hards with an inflated view of themselves.

Hey Phil 2/5/2008, 7:07 pm EST. Do you really think Mellonhead really cares about the work’m man? He suuports that group so they can raise the wage closer to buying his stupid CD’s. You don’t have dipstick EDWARDS buying them anymore so now your hoping to get JMcCain to make a deal. A drop out that has done nothing to serve his country except to exploit it by getting people to think he cares about the poor. Everyone should boycott your bad CD’s. You and all the others that complain about the Republicans all the while making movies, CD’s and MONEY from the POOOOR work’n man. YOU Mellon, Penn, Cruise. You should be lucky for those bad rich tax cuts those REPUBLICANS have voted for. Do You Want To Do Something? Shut UP…….

Uh, Mellencamp, just play your cool songs and shut your pie-hole…that’s what we pay you for dumbarse.

I wouldn’t want any politician using one of my songs either; no matter their party or ideology/platform. That’s because it’s not the reason I would have written the songs and I wouldn’t want people thinking that I actually even /cared/ that much about politics. It’s all a racket and sucker game.

He’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. Most of you would be bitching, anyway, that he has squirmed his way into politics if he allowed the song to be used without a protest.

And, no, ‘Crumblin Down’ isn’t the best song he had. ‘Hurts So Good’ was.

GUys, has anyone ever thought of this: If you are an artist or entertainer of some sort, don;t you think that if you you will be less successful if you politicize yourself? No matter which side you are on, if you say something, you are going to anger half your fan base.

Oh yea, Rolling Stone, just an FYI, even those “far-right” people (no, I am not one) likes music as well. Don’t you think subscriptions and ad revenue would go UP if you didn’t use such language?

Mellencamp should be shaking John McCain’s hand. The Senator got people talking about John Cougar and his crap music.

FYI - He has zero say so anyway. They can play anything they wish as long as they are paid up with ascap or bmi, which by the way most hotels and public arenas are. I love the guys music, this however reminds me why I hate left winged artist who think they actually matter beyond their art.

I don’t understand why anybody cares? With all that is going on today, how does another musician who has annointed himself as an influential poitician matter in the least. It does not for me. I will continue to listen to him sing and ignore when he speaks.

Mellencamp should just be happy that someone is playing his music … what a has-been….

mellencamp is terrible and completely contrived. mccain should benefit from scrapping his awful and mundane music.

Mellencamp, Sarandon, Springteen. They’re entertainers. Their opinions don’t mean anything. If they want us to buy their crap then they should try not to piss half of us off every four years. Sing your little songs and shut the hell up!

Once you BUY the CD, use it the way you want. There is no implication of your support to a particular party because someone uses your song, which they “legally” purchased in their forum. One on the perks for the benefactor is that they can choose their own platform using your music. They paid for it. If you don’t like it…stop singing. Sorry! It’s their right. No infringement as I see it. Nor is there a party affiliation for the artist. That would be like comparing a Wedding Song condoning permission to marry a specific person. It’s part of the industry.

I am on the board of a few non-profits that work with at-risk and disadvantged youth. We depend entirely on donations from individuals and businesses to continue our work. Guess what? Most of our donations come from businesses and business leaders who are, I would say, at least 80% conservative and pro-business. The far left seems to want to give government hand-outs without teaching anything or requiring any initiative from the recipients. Conservatives want to teach them job skills, values, and help them get an education.

John Cougar Mellancamp, if you believe in “small town America”, which I grew up in, please help us preserve it, not encourage it to change into the crystal-meth consuming, morality evolving, gender-changing, Godless generation that you seem to support.

Gotta love it. Nothing like a bunch of throw back dorks at Rolling Stone repeating bullshit stereotypes about conservatives not caring about the poor and being heartless SOB’s.

I wonder how much money Mellencamp gave away to the “common man” from the jack he collected from GM for using ‘This Is Our Country’ in all of those stupid commercials.

And I get a big laugh out of people who supported John Edwards. A multi-millionaire ambulance chasing lawyer that’s building himself a 30,000 square foot mansion really knows a LOT about the “common man.”

Idiots.

Uh, Who are we talkin about?

It would have helped John McCain’s campaign to at least obtain written permission from John Mellencamp to use those songs. Come to think of it, it could still help. Though he may still be able to use those songs anyway, it would benefit to at least ask an artist before using his or her — or their — music; making arrangements for royalties, as Rush Limbaugh did with The Pretenders for the use of the track, My city was gone, would help even further.
As for talk radio hosts using artists’ music, there is a standard that limits the amount of time used to play that song, royalty-free to the host; that has been in place for a number of years. It is not uncommon for hosts to acknowledge the music they use in their shows, as Michael Savage and Mark Levin have also done.
Frankly, I think that this is a matter to be sorted between Mellencamp representatives and the McCain campaign.

After reading this article on Drudge this morning I decided to play Mellenamps music in my restaurant’s lavatory for a week, maybe longer…should he ask me to stop I would respectfully escort him from the premises and keep playing it, for it belongs to me now, I downloaded it from Napster.

He ought to just be glad that anyone still recognizes his old music. Yes republicans do read the lyrics we just happen to believe that “we give” not that the government makes us give everything over to them to redistribute.

BTW, Chrissie Hynde isn’t a liberal democrat.

He ought to just be glad that anyone still recognizes his old music. Yes republicans do read the lyrics we just happen to believe that “we give” not that the government makes us give everything over to them to redistribute.

Funny to say Republicans don’t care to help the poor or common man when it’s been published that Republicans give more to charity than Dems. And yes, McCain is definitely more Left than he is Right.

So, I’ll just change the station anytime his songs come on.

Keep separating music fans because of politics, that’s so cool, I wanna be like him.

…oh yeah, another has-been rocker still trying to get publicity. Besides the fact that he hasn’t had a decent hit in years, the Cougster really can’t do much about this one. Not that anyone really cares anyway. Mr. Free Speech, huh? Talk about hypocrisy. What next?—Calvin Klein having a cow when he spots McCain wearing his jeans? C’mon ding dong give it a rest and get a life.

Another multimillionaire, uneducated rock star injecting themselves into American politics. Green Day, Mellencamp, Dixie Chicks….what a intellectual bunch you democrats are! I’d bet combined they might approach an IQ of 50. What part of being an uneducated high school dropout who happens to get a record deal makes them think that the informed among us care what they think about anything? Must be the years of drug abuse gives them a false sense of intelligence. Shut up and sing indeed. John McCain should ignore him, as the rest of the country has.

McCain is just an old short dude that will go down the drain like all the rest of the bottom dwellers. John Mellencamp rules with his music, it doesn’t matter if it is dated or not…The lyrics run as much true today as they did when that other plastic fake regan ran…Down with tyranny, enough of the republican war…

I am from Indiana, and grew up listening to and playing his songs in bands. To the person that said he didn’t have any good songs evidently never heard “I Need A Lover”. That’s about the only one worth listening to. Why Jihad John M. wouldn’t want anyone playing his worthless crap songs is beyond me….

McCain should stop playing the song. I stopped playing it long ago - which was still after radio forgot he existed.

Who is Mellencamp, and what gives him a right to “let” somebody use the product he already sold. See that’s the problem with you libs, you do not have a clue about how economy works. No wander you are so obsessed with minimum wage. You got to be a loser to be earning minimum wage this day and age. (BTW I forbid Mellenboy from using this rime, it’s mine, mine, mine.)

I am pretty sure that if you use music in a public forum - from campaign rally to elevator ride - you have to pay ASCAP a fee for the royalties. As long as they pay for it, they can use it.

I am a conservative and have difficulty with some people suggesting that we do not care about the common-man. The facts are clear that conservatives tend to be more generous with charitable contributions and are more likely to be involved with a faith-based organization that provides support and assistance to those who are in need.

We conservatives care deeply about our fellow man (and we are not all rich). We just believe that individuals, families and volunteer organizations will do a better job than some government agencies.

Can’t imagine why anybody would want to use mellens bad music. Did he have even one good song? Don’t think so!

Good for JCM!

BUT, McCain and “far right” voters? Gimme a break! He’s just barely right of Hillary if you look at his record. And would Kerry ever have considered running with anyone who would have “far right” support?

McCain is on the left side of the middle of the road, a bit to the left of the rest of the Republicrats running this year.

Far right supporters seem to like like Ron Paul (of those left running).

Mellencamp is washed up and has become just a blind sheeple to the left fringe of the democrat party. When did such a maverick rocker become Nancy Pelosi’s bitch? Anyone who marries themselves to either party, like Mellencamp, is part of the problem with this country.

“Progressive” is another word for communist, fellow travellers.

Juan McAmnesty, the false (neocon) conservative, would really be proud to be pink.

Johnny who?? Johnny (yellow teeth )Cougar,Now I remember him,,,,hahahahahaha. Loserrrrr !!!

I love it when the lib media bashes one of their own. McCain is on your side. He is a wolf in sheeps clothing and opitimizes everything you dems are all about. And yet you lambaste him for playing a song from a left wing hick like JCM. WOW, this race could not get any stanger.

Mike Redyns wins!! “…a kerry sticker on his Melon Camper” - still laughing at that (well done)!!

Considering it took a Democratic congress 5 minutes to raise the minimum wage after 10 years of Republican stonewalling, I’d say the RNC is hostile to the working man and Mellencamp is right on the money. There’s nothing phonier than right wing Bible thumpers who hate the poor. Now go back to Drudge, you’ve been dismissed!

That’s true. It takes a lot of imagination to be a ‘progressive’. It took a lot of imagination to come up with a Jimmy Carter presidency. You couldn’t make up a failure of presidency that bad. And it takes a whole lot of imagination to think of ways to take votes away from the one segment of the population that deserves it more than anyone, active duty military. Kudos for stating it takes a WHOLE lot of imagination to be ‘progressive’. You have to use that word because liberal is a dirty word nowadays. It took imagination to come up with a new term to fool younger people.

You don’t see “McCain” and “far-right” in the same sentence to often. The writer does not have a clue!

You Republicans are really sad sacks of shit. Most of you are really too poor to be Republicans but you vote against your own economic interests because you are bigoted against the Blacks or Mexicans or Gays or most likely all three. What a crazy bunch of tools you are. You celebrate your lack of human empathy like its a positive value instead of the hallmarks of a Sociopath. I wish a big hole would open up in the middle of the country and suck you down to hell where you could finally join your real God Mammon.

Wow… maybe you should consider the possibility that Republicans aren’t the cartoony Disney villains that you like to image them to be?

HAHAHA…good for him. Republicans dont like to read…thus they pick songs that contradict their ideology and political platform. Go get Charlie Daniels to sing “bomb Iran”

What would be better if McCain used “Walk” from Pantera…LOL

At least they’re not playing that ear-piercing rendition of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” anymore.

If John Mellencamp doesn’t want people to listen to, or play his music, then he should stop making it.

Scarecrow was pretty much the peak of his career. Everything after was pretty much…. “Meh”.

I’m still trying to figure out why Rolling Stone featured a picture of Shooter McGavin (Christopher McDonald) from Happy Gilmore. Oh wait….

Why can’t we all get along.
Share a song share a smile!

I think John MelonCAmp has a kerry sticker on his Melon CAmper

A McCain rally would have about the same demographics as an “oldie station” considering he’s ancient. Seriously, McCrazy is a bloodthirsty warmonger who likes to sing “Bomb, bomb Iran”. He ought to make that his campaign rally song. The modern day repugs in office do not reflect any of the values that Mellencamp sings about. I can see why he doesn’t want McCrazy using his songs.

Mellenecamp (Mellonhead) is just another dopehead..

Mellenecamp (Mellonhead) is just another dopehead..

You guys obviously don’t know anything about John Mellencamp. Yes he maybe rich…but he earned it. He wrote songs about the common man. Simple Living and Blue collar workers. He helped start Farm Aid that brings in millions of dollars each year. His songs typify what John and America stands for. He will go down in history as a true patriot. His songs may not be radio worthy these days, but he ain’t trying to get a hit…he is trying to get you to understand what’s going on in the world today. To me that’s a true artist.

come on .. John Mellencamp
is a great folk singer and song writer..He has every right to
ask them to stop. He owns the music. Just because some of you
dont know that he is still out
there rockin and rolling.
Is only because if its not happening in your world its
not happening…
If Mc Cain sought out publishing
and asked permission we all wouldnt need to waste our time.

Mellencamp who? Is this an effort to have him on American Idol?

Never heard of him!!!

Mellencamp who? Is this an effort to have him on American Idol?

Never heard of him!!!

Remember the incident at a Farm Aid concert when someone in the audience dared to disagree with Mellencamp’s blowhard, leftist comments, and how the singer when bezerk because not everyone in the audience was to the Left of Fidel? Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Isn’t the Left wing media (Rolling Stone included) wonderful when it comes to not reporting news that makes Leftists like Mellencamp look like the scumbag morons they are?

He should be happy that anyone anywhere are still playing his cornball hayride soundtracks.

The author of this article does not have a clue. The Conservatives he derides as not caring about others are in fact the people who are most likely to help you out when you need a hand.
Conservatives however dont believe in government taking from those who work to hand to those who wont. The author clearly did not grow up in the Midwest.

Johnny friggin’ Couger….who new he was still alive??

I mean, aside from teenage girls back in the ’80’s…who listens to that pablem?

What a pathetic attempt to regain some sort of relevance.

Go back to shilling Chevy’s, Little Johnny, thank your lucky stars that anyone besides the “oldies station” is actually playing your pre-teen tripe and grow the hell up!

He looks like the guy who changed the oil in my car last week.
oh, wait, that was Tom Petty, never mind

Who is John Mellencamp? It seems I heard of that name a long, long time ago. Recently I heard of an alledged entertainer by the name of John Mellencamp. Maybe they are one in the same.

Mellencamp has always been wealthy. His family was wealthy. Mellencamp is “lashing out” at all the injustice and inequity. Poor little rich boy…

Its funny how all these VERY rich celebs think we aren’t doing enough for the common man, and they tell us how bad we are for not sharing. Before I listen to Mellencamp or any other rich lib, why don’t they or we back up a Brinks truck to their palaces and load their wealth it to it, give it to the poor and they live the common man’s life?

hey Doc Rock and all of you libs put down the crack pipe.

All those politicians are rich, and none of them are for the poor or the working class. 8 of top 10 wealthiest politicians in washington democrats. And just so the rest of you know, mccain doesn’t need permission to do squat!! As long as they pay the copyright fees, they can play any music they want.

Yes, that great “progressive” John Mellencamp. Nevermind that he relies on plaing shows for private corporate audiences to support himself. Or, that he sold out to that eeevvviillll corporation General Motors. I’m sure he passes most of that money that he is getting from corporate America to the “common man” though . Who would pay money to see him live now anyway? His guitar isn’t plugged in and he has to read the lyrics to his “classic” progressive jams from a teleprompter.

Stan…

Well said, Mellencamp’s songs speak to all Americans, or so it seems anyway.

We should all be thankful, that we can even debate such a trivial topic.

I thought John Mellencamp died years ago. I definately know his music died years ago anyway.

Progressive? That is an oxymoron.

Saying that they actually debate points and not name call made me laugh.

Melloncamp reminds me of a carny… who can disagree with that?

He was GREAT at the Super Bowl halftime!

Oh, wait- that was Tom Petty.

Nevermind.

hey man, us musicians are all about the music, man. it’s for everybody, man. it makes us all more aware, man. it’s the language of the soul, man.

(unless you dont pay us or we dont like your political stance.)

Johnny Z - go do another bong hit.

Mary Jo - you’re exactly right!

To someone else:
spoken like a true liberal. His “reps” said it. Next you’ll be asking what the definition of “is” is. Also, in typical liberal fashion you refer to our country as destroyed. Last time I checked we live in the greatest nation in the world.

When you control the mail, you control information

I like Hogan’s Heroes too

Screw Mellencamp; go find a new line of work.

Maybe he should just use music created by that great conservative musician…oh, that’s right conservatives have no imagination, empathy or artistic ability whatsoever. They just suck the life out of everyone that does and appropriate the works for their own twisted agendas.

Snore…Big freakin deal…Mellencamp hasn’t been a force in popular culture since…well, since…ever.

He’s an ASS…so is McCain but he is a politician, he’s supposed to be.

Pretty sure anyone who pays the rights can use the music.

Certainly no one else is listening to it.

i do hope that everyone realizes that it says Mellencamp’s reps, not Mellencamp himself. are asking McCain to stop using them. the reps are people whose opinions may or may not reflect Mellencamp’s. also, McCain is just being a moron using a song about how to fix the country through liberal policies when trying to win over the conservative Republican Party, all the while, Mitt Romney is winning more and more votes, and Romney will destroy the USA quicker than GW Bush ever took.

JMC should call montgomery Gentry for some tunes•

Another lefty-lib “celebrity.” How original. Not.

When will John Cougar be inviting the “just folks” to his little pink house? (BTW- does Cougar’s pal John Edwards’ mansion qualify as a little pink house?)

Listen to Melonballs, McCain! He doesn’t want you to play his ho-hum mediocre rock songs. I would also appreciate not having to hear Pink Houses for the next 9 months.

Looks like the right wing nuthouse Drudge Report linked here.

Hence, the mindless, drivelling hate being spewed forth by the reich wing sheeple.

LOL. Typical hate filled, moronic liberal wrote the piece. How do I know? He/she writes, “Not to mention that the far-right types whose votes McCain is seeking won’t love the mildly progressive lyrics to “Our Country,” which call on the government to “help the poor and common man”. Umm, bonehead, conservatives aren’t against helping out the poor and common man. We’re just against forever enslaving them by making them dependent on the government. Unlike liberals, who could obviously care less about the people they claim to want to “help” (i.e., enslave).

LOL. Typical hate filled, moronic liberal wrote the piece. How do I know? He/she writes, “Not to mention that the far-right types whose votes McCain is seeking won’t love the mildly progressive lyrics to “Our Country,” which call on the government to “help the poor and common man”. Umm, bonehead, conservatives aren’t against helping out the poor and common man. We’re just against forever enslaving them by making them dependent on the government. Unlike liberals, who could obviously care less about the people they claim to want to “help” (i.e., enslave).

McCain is a dirtbag, there is no doubt about that. What’s funny is that Mellenhead doesn’t even realize how closely alligned McCain’s ideas are with the Democrat party.

John Mellen…who? LMAO You can tell who rode the short bus to school cause they still have that whiney liberal attitude. No, Stop! you can’t play my music! You liberals need to grow a pair and grow more grey matter between your ears. Your nothing but a bunch of intellectual zygotes whove never had a real job! Ha ha ha, LOL.

Part of the de-liberalizing process is realizing that rock n roll is made possible by that ‘white collar conservative flashing down the street’.

Mellencamp’s latest musical drivel “Jena” is based on lies and misinformation. I wonder if he would have a different opinion if those 6 black boys would have beaten his head in. Indiana no longer claims you.

how about mellencamp asking Republicans not to buy his silly music anymore. People like the beat of songs and maybe a phrase or two, but for Mellencamp to act as if his songs are so politically meaningful is ridiculous. If they had a clear message that was explicitly pro-democrat McCain wouldn’t have used it in the first place. Mellencamp should check out the amount of money that’s been spent and will continue to be spent on the poor and common folk.

dog named boo: actually the IRS will not glady take your extra cash so telling people to go ahead and give it to them does not work. I have tried it they will send it back they only will take what is taxed.

It’s ultimately uncool to play somebody’s music when they’re against your candidacy.

The world’s stocked with music, man. McCain should play something that fits his world view, like “America, Fuck Yeah!”

Wow. What hate here. Simply amazing the amount of hate Mellencamp gets. There are some very disturbed, angry, self-called conservatives here. We got a Hall of Fame musician who doesn’t want a republican to use his work because it doesn’t embody what McCain stands for. That’s his right.

If the “progressive” Johnny Cougar wishes to have 50%, 60%, 90% of his earnings go to the government, he is welcome to do so now; the IRS will gladly accept them! If he (and others of his ilk) are not willing to put their $$$ where their mouths are they should stfu when it comes to their “man of the people” BS.

So, does this entitle McCain to ask JCM never to drive through or stop off in the state of Arizona?

But Real American | 2/5/2008, 3:56 pm EST:

What if Republicans like me are so discouraged that we just don’t vote? I know I should anwya, but I don’t see a candidate that I can get behind. And, no, I don’t listen to Rush — dropped that nasty midday habit over 15 years ago.

Hey Cougar! Your music at McCain Rallies is being used to promote great American Rock Roll. Dahhaa!!Senator please accept and switch to the Stones. Its better music anyway!!

Ali, you’re wrong, there are alot of people who have no intention of being productive, self-sufficient or reliable. They play the system!

What an idiot…”right wingers” don’t care about the poor, just because we want people to work for a living doesn’t mean we don’t care. By the way, a LOT more than just “right wingers” are going to vote McCain (who is basically a liberal)…independents and Democrats will too. You’ll see, there is no way the libs will grab the white house…there are more of us than there are of you (case in point: GWB in 04). Nuff said.

What an idiot…”right wingers” don’t care about the poor, just because we want people to work for a living doesn’t mean we don’t care. By the way, a LOT more than just “right wingers” are going to vote McCain (who is basically a liberal)…independents and Democrats will too. You’ll see, there is no way the libs will grab the white house…there are more of us than there are of you (case in point: GWB in 04). Nuff said.

I remember when Springsteen had to ask Reagan to stop using “Born In The USA” during his campaign..the funny thing is, that is not even a patriotic song! It makes me think that a lot of campaign aides don’t pay very close attention to things when they are trying to come up with something gimmicky.

Mellencamp is in the right..noone can legally play his music for public consumption unless they get his express written permission from him and/or the publishing company.

“It’s copyright infringement.”

No…If McCain’s people bought the music legally and are paying ASCAP and BMI fees it isn’t copyright infringement. If it was infringement, then the lawyers would be sending cease and desist orders.

Besides, John COUGAR lost relevance after Scarecrow

Just how irrelevant does the media want to be?

John COUGAR lost relevance after Scarecrow

I didn’t realize that John C. Mellencamp’s songs were just for Democrats. I mistakenly thought they were for all Americans.

Former Republican | 2/5/2008, 12:20 pm EST

Beautifully said, my man. I’ve not crossed over only because I don’t know where to cross over to. Dems don’t cut it, Libertarians scare me a bit … I just don’t think there’s a place for me. But I’m with you on all your points. Dead on.

Stop the press! Another whining liberal, what a shock. Mellencamp should pipedown and sing.

I sure hope John McCain loses super tuesday! I do not care for anything that guy does.

But McCain is a liberal!

“Republicans want to feel like real Americans so they try to listen to music about and for the common man. It’s just a game they play with themselves.

A Republican doesn’t want anything to do with us other than to make us poor day laborer subjects. When we push back against their agenda, they accuse us of being un-American, dumb, lazy, or any other thing that their talking points suggest.

They accuse us of playing class warfare but they wage it against us daily in every way possible.

I’m tired of the personal attacks that they insist is public discourse. I have seen enough of “conservatives” the last several years to be convinced they have no idea of how to govern, only how to attack. Just sit back folks and watch them go to work on this post. Get out your talking points boys, your masters want you to respond.”

Well!

I’m a Republican labor guy and I certainly don’t! The Left continues to portray Republicans as little “Monopoly Money” men in tophats. Sheesh. Get with it.

I live and work in Hollywood and I have to watch the biggest hypocrites in history money grab then push for lefty candidates. Why don’t they simply pay us crew people more money? We;re the ones who make them look good, after all!

Oh yeah. I forgot. They;re too busy in their limos, 36′ diesel burning trailers doing PSAs for Al Gore to think about us.

You think they don’t have the BEST tax attorneys in the country saving them every single penny (rather than simply taking their income AFTER taxes)? Dont be naive.

Meow there Cougarites!

“Our Country” - it’s fine when pitching cars, but not when pitching politics.

Anything for the almighty $.

John CM is still around? Use the tunes, Mac! Hope it becomes as identified with McCain as Chrissy Hynde’s is with Rush da man Limbaugh.

also, from my perspective, is strong is not based on hatred, but based on a lack of patience for so much uninformed statements by the so-called free speech crowd. .

so fuc==ing what. and how did yr day go.yawn

so fuc==ing what. and how did yr day go.yawn

While I disagree with Mellencamp’s views on lots of issues I have no issue with him not wanting someone else to use his song.

Oh and for the uneducated in this forum:

1) I came in here through Drudge because long ago I got tired of the editorial board of this magazine masquerading as some sort of authority over topics it knows nothing about. Drudge is little more than article splicing. he also has links for anything you can think of. If that makes him part of the “right winged conspiracy” then so be it.

Finally, the author of the above article plays the same old tired class warfare nonsense insinuating that any Republican doesn’t want to help the poor etc… Seems to me in today’s society a true Republican (and not the imitators left running for President)solution for one struggling is to offer a hand and help him out of the hole free to pursuit his own successes. A modern Democratic solution seems to be keeping that individual in the hole and just bring his meals to him.

…and my perspective, although is strong is not based on hatred, but based on a lack of patience for so much uninformed statements by the so-called free speech crowd.

I find it very interesting that the conservatives on here who say that the progressives just want to attack everyone are the ones that are resorting to name calling while it seems that all the progressives are debating the points, not making flippant remarks that give no benefit to the conversation.

I will also leave you with my fave quote “When I fed the poor they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor had no food, they called me a Communist”

At least McCain uses an American’s music. Hillary went with a CANADIAN! What an idiot she is. Celine Dion. What was she thinking? Obviously a few americans corrected Hillary on her obvious error. Heck, I’m Baracking my vote but McCain beats Hillary any day (should Barack not be a choice - which is not gonna happen.

ur_name_here,

If you have legally purchased a copy of his music for your own legal usage, Mellencamp has no rights to dictate how you choose to use it. All he can do is ask, and McCain is within his rights to say NO!

I find it very interesting that the conservatives on here who say that the progressives just want to attack everyone are the ones that are resorting to name calling while it seems that all the progressives are debating the points, not resorting to name calling.

I will also leave you with my fave quote “When I fed the poor they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor had no food, they called me a Communist”

Mellencamp should sue the pants off McCain and the McCain campain. McCain is short on money and might have to drop out. Then my hero Ron Paul will win

Who the heck would want to play Mellencamp’s music in the first place?

John who?

+1

nothingshocking | 2/5/2008, 12:01 pm EST

What a freakin’ fraud Mellencamp is. This guy talks about the common man and the little man and yet he let’s Chevy use his music. Chevy, a General Motors company that has shut down factories all over this country and sent jobs to Mexico putting tens of thousand of Americans out of work. All done with the help of his good friends in the Democratic party when they supported and passed NAFTA backed in the 90’s. Hey Johnnie!. You hypocrit.

Wow, what hate. So what if ur not a Mellencamp fan, a piece of music he created is being used and he’s not happy. All legal rights and b.s. aside, he doesnt want it, respect the wishes. Heartland isnt all that hearty when taken out of context.

Wow, what hate. So what if ur not a Mellencamp fan, a piece of music he created is being used and he’s not happy. All legal rights and b.s. aside, he doesnt want it, respect the wishes. Heartland isnt all that hearty when taken out of context.

Do you really think it matters? Only a few people even know who Mellencamp is let alone know his music. Come on, who really cares?
Rob

Hey liberal idiots! McCain’s usage of the songs are NOT copyright infringement, nor is it unauthorized usage of a song. Unless McCain is using the songs for commercial usage, or infringement of copyright by making and distributing copies, he’s free to use the music all he wants!

Mellencamp doesn’t need to ask me to stop using his Tunes, that’s already handled

We know where you stand, great journalism skills.

McCain should use Ted Nugent’s “Stormtroopin’” to whip those campaign crowds into a brown-shirted frenzy of Fuhrer-venerating adoration. Ted is a Republican and he won’t mind. Nugent’s “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” would be a good second choice to appeal to the female voters in the crowd too. Alice Cooper says he leans Republican, and he does have a decent back catalog of catchy shock lyrics to still spin Reverend Falwell in his grave (For you younger cats, Cooper’s “Cold Ethel” is about necrophilia…).

By the way, Mellencamp shows why entertainers’ political opinions are wothless: McCain is a progressive Republican (Meaning he is essentially a goose-stepping, big government Democrat and is far removed from the Libertarian or Conservative wings of the Republican party). McCain is a close friend of both Joe Lieberman AND Hilliary Clinton (Bill Clinton even admitted that). Shouldn’t Johnny Cougar look at his demographics and figure out how that 76 year old man he references in his own “Minutes to Memories” might vote? Unless Mellencamp is about to transform himself into a steroid-abusing criminal with a double digit I.Q. wearing Liberace’s old wardrobe while he spews out illiterate lyrics over the same repititious riff over and over and over, poverty-ridden, inner city urban dwellers ain’t exactly Mellencamp’s target demographic audience. Those white, Asian, and Jewish middle class working Americans with nuclear families that make up the bulk of the Republican party do, however, strongly resemble the type of folks that probably buy Mellencamp’s CD’s.

JCM is no longer relevant in the music industry unless it involves getting paid to do Chevy commercials. I guess he’s for big business when it comes to his own wallet. Not very liberal Johnny. His Donkey-bias comes from his love for overpriced government programs like farm subsidies. As a fellow Hoosier, I saw it’s nice that he still chooses to live in the heartland but it seems he’d be truly at home on the LEFT coast.

JCM is no longer relevant in the music industry unless it involves getting paid to do Chevy commercials. I guess he’s for big business when it comes to his own wallet. Not very liberal Johnny. His Donkey-bias comes from his love for overpriced government programs like farm subsidies. As a fellow Hoosier, I saw it’s nice that he still chooses to live in the heartland but it seems he’d be truly at home on the LEFT coast.

Make that “ZOG bless the USA” as we’re already screwed. We’ve been sold down the river a long time back and it will take everyone to make a real change. Expecting the useful idiots to do it is expressing apathy at its worst.

Johnny Ringo. You shouldn’t be speaking about people’s IQs when you are making an incorrect (that means “wrong”) statement. McCain can play any album he wants to legally (as long as he bought it) and if there is a license issue (public performance, etc.) he need only pay the license fee. He cannot be told by ANY artist that he is not allowed to use the music in a public place unless it is a commercial (recorded). So I think you should stick to what you know, whatever that is.

I just love it when these mindless LIB entertainers think the world owes them everything. Hey mellonhead: the song was licensed and paid for. Can’t deal with it? Well boo-hoo, you washed up has-been. Thank the Lord for P2P - now we won’t have to spend another cent on your music ever again.

Want fries with that…eh?

Hey wooferboomus, walt etc..

Ronald Reagan was quite aware of the lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’. Indeed, his campaign manager, the late great Lee Atwater was a huge libertarian, rock and roll fan and musician (and best friend with the editor of the National Lampoon). Reagan operated on several levels himself .. that’s why both his detractors and the Reagan-wannabees do not quite get him.

Robert Allen
Arlington, Virginia

p.s. back in ‘80 I was quite active in the Republican party and we often had a good laugh at the Democrats assumption that Reagan (and by extension, we his campaigners) did not know what we were doing, or that we were somehow for the powerful. The blue-collar Democrats at the time got it .. which is why, from that point on, they were referred to as “Republicans”. (Of course W, one of those Reagan-wannabees who didn’t get it, may have ruined all that).

He could get ASCAP to force McCain to pay licensing fees. Megalomaniacs never think copyrights apply to them.

Quote: “Not to mention that the far-right types whose votes McCain is seeking won’t love the mildly progressive lyrics to “Our Country,” which call on the government to “help the poor and common man” and suggest that “there’s room enough here for science to live/ And there’s room enough here for religion to forgive”.

I almost peed my pants laughing. If they think McCain is a far right wing conservative no wonder we as a country are so screwed. Dear lazy fellow Americans - do your homework! McCain is as conservative as his best friend, Teddy Kennedy. I’m sorry, I mean “Juan McAmnesty”. I think even Hillary is more conservative than Juan.

Zod bless the U. S. of A! A place where ALL of us can spout our ignorant comments for the world to see!

Don’t forget to vote today folks!

John Cougar Melonhead is still alive?

I was born with a small mind …

Someone correct me if I am wrong but the “simple man” lyric below seems to be more close alligned to the entertainment industry where the purchase of movie tickets and songs subsidizes the worthless lifestyles of the “creative class” like Heath Ledger, Britney, et al. How does a particular political party equate to that lyric? I don’t see either party in that role. It is possible that Mr. Mellencamp is unintentionally raising a mirror and seeing himself, or was it intentional and some of you here just do not see it?

“simple man” paying for the “the thrills, the bills and the pills that kill”

Great! Another one of my favorite singers is now trying to alienate half of his fan base by mixing politics with music. My favorite actor (Sean Penn) did the same thing, and I have not watched a single movie sense.

Hey Ringo - politicians and journalists practically live on Drudge. Even the ones who hate his guts know he has sources they can only dream of. So it really speaks to your ignorance to slam Drudge readers. As for JCM…who cares? This is a rather petty move on his part, but in the end it doesn’t matter. McCain will simply pick new songs and gain a few spite votes.