McCain Digs Orleans
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- June
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John McCain will never be accused of being hip. His attempt at humor with the “bomb, bomb Iran” take off on the Beach Boys 196os tune “Barbara Ann” fell flat for poor taste… and it was also a crappy song.
Now the McCain campaign has co-opted “Still the One,” the Orleans hit that, if played enough times, can make your head explode. U.S. Rep. John Hall, a Democrat whose 19th Congressional District includes Putnam County and much of northern Westchester, was the front man for Orleans and he’s not happy that the song was used without his permission.
“We objected just as we did when George W. Bush did the same things four years ago,” Hall complained in an e-mail newsletter. “It seems like John McCain just keeps on demonstrating that he hasn’t learned from any of Bush’s mistakes.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
