R.I.P. Rush: Horrid Canadian rock band’s song is used in a Walmart commercial.
You all remember Rush, right? They used to be a rock band. But it’s time to order the flowers and start tuning your bagpipes, because that band as you knew it has died.
Geddy and Alex, you see, are endorsing Walmart by letting them use the song “Working Man” in a TV commercial. Walmart, one of the worst employers on Planet Earth, has Rush’s blessing to use its song as a way to help whitewash their appalling record of abusing workers, stealing from honest taxpayers, and paying its own working men and women so little, many of them are on public assistance.
To compound the idiocy, the band has recently claimed to have renounced their collective worship of Libertarian anti-goddess Ayn Rand. But now they show their true colors by jumping in between the sheets with the real-life Galts of the 21st century, the billionaire Walton family of Walmart infamy. These boyos are not on your side, America.
The former rock band Rush has been revealed as a load of profiteering, smirking, exploiting, greedy, manipulative, hypocritical Teabaggers. From this cranky writer to Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neal Peart: your once-proud band is dead, having become nothing more than a propaganda tool for the 1%. The “Working Man” Lee and Lifeson wrote about is being further ground under the heels of the most regressive employers of the modern age while you play chorus to their Dickensian practices, and if there were any justice in this world, he would spit in your sneering, self-absorbed faces.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/r-i-p-rush-former-rock-bands-song-is-used-in-a-walmart-commercial/
Thanks to Riqster in GD for posting this!!
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to America!
has always hated Rush so thankfully I have nothing to boycott since I have never bought anything Rush, been to a Rush concert, watched anything Rush on youtube or visited any Rush related website or purchased any Rush related merchandise. I've only ever listened to Rush under duress...usually while cringing and trying to nonchalantly plug my ears.
So, I support this boycott 
I hope Walmart is the place where rock bands go to die.
Too harsh?
now that he's selling cars. 