08-29-2020, 11:23 PM
Quote: @Nichelle said:Trump campaign asked permission to use Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah for the RNC. They were denied. RNC used it anyway.
I thought this was interesting:
Report: New York tenants were not aware they would be featured at the Republican National ConventionJeanine SantucciUSA TODAYStory here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/08/28/report-tenants-say-were-not-aware-they-would-rnc-video/5662768002/Tenants of New York City housing who were featured in a video at the Republican National Convention said they were not made aware how the video was going to be used, according to The New York Times.
Three of the four people featured in the video told the Times that they were misled into appearing before the convention. The video was used to criticize New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat who also sought his party's nomination, and his handling of public housing, and to attribute funding and improvements to the Trump administration.
"I am not a Trump supporter,” Claudia Perez told the Times in an interview. She said she was upset about the deception but stood by her criticisms of the city's housing issues.
I just have to say, can we hire someone to explain to republicans what these songs are about? Wasn't it bad enough that Reagan thought "Born in the USA" was a patriotic song?