The Walter Reed Middle School Ain't Happy. Neither Are Recording Artists

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The Walter Reed Middle School Ain't Happy.
by AlyoshaKaramazov
Fri Sep 05, 2008 at 02:15:58 PM PDT

The principal of the Walter Reed Middle School, Donna Tobin, has issued a statement:

"It has been brought to the school's attention that a picture of the front of our school, Walter Reed Middle School, was used as a backdrop at the Republican National Convention. Permission to use the front of our school for the Republican National Convention was not given by our school nor is the use of our school's picture an endorsement of any political party or view."

First Heart (and many others!!), now this!!

For background on this story, see this at TPM

"The McCain camp has been deluged with requests for clarification on this, but they remain totally silent on the matter."

Better yet, from TPM we get this:

One other interesting development: The California Democratic Party is actually holding a press conference in front of the school within minutes, where Dems will hit McCain for not knowing the difference between the school and Walter Reed Medical Center, which is believed to be the backdrop the McCain campaign really wanted."

UPDATE: from edgeways, we get the running list of people screwed over (copyright-wise) by the McCain campaign: "Van Halen, Heart, Jackson Browne, Orleans, Frankie Valli..."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/5/17858/58276/608/588229

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1. Woo! Way to go California Dems!

That's going to be tasty.

MPK

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2. Isn't the definition of insanity repeating the same behavior and expecting a different outcome?

Amazing.