Jackson Browne versus McCain

jackson Browne is suing the McCain campaign because they illegally used his song “Running On Empty” without permission on an ad. The ad itself was a deliberate distortion of Obama’s perfectly accurate point that properly inflating our tires would save more oil than could be gained from McCain’s proposed policy of offshore drilling. McCain’s campaign was suggesting that a tire gauge was the sum total Obama’s energy policy, when in fact it was an illustration of the absurdity of McCain’s energy policy.

Browne, a lifelong Democrat, is seeking unspecified damages as well as a permanent injunction prohibiting the use of “Running on Empty” in any form by the McCain campaign.

So we have a deliberately deceptive ad, accompanied by stolen music. Way to go, John McCain!

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