In lawsuit over campaign ad, McCain claims he was a puppet for the Republican National Committee

[Are_grits_groceries]

"My friends, I didn't do it. I didn't even know it was going on."

That's the line former Republican presidential nominee and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is taking in a federal lawsuit that claims he violated the copyright of Jackson Browne's 1977 hit song, "Running on Empty," when it aired in one of his presidential campaign commercials.

A federal judge allowed the suit to move forward Friday.

More striking, perhaps, is that McCain effectively claimed in a statement to the judge that he was a puppet for the Republican National Committee in the production of advertising for his campaign.
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The federal judge handling the case disagreed. Judge Gary Klausner said McCain and the GOP have an "agency relationship," meaning that "once an agency relationship is established, the principal is liable for the acts of her agent, even if the principal does not expressly authorize or instruct her agent to take any action." He also questioned how using 20 seconds of the song in a TV ad constituted fair use, as the RNC claims.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/In_lawsuit_McCain_says_he_was_0224.html

He never knew nuttin' about nuttin'.........

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. I agree that McCain is a puppet,

but that doesn't give him permission to break laws. Ignorance is no excuse. Bully to the judge for seeing through that bs.

[Hepburn]

2. McShultz...."I know nothing...."

[NV Whino]

3. What! The maverick was a puppet?

[KansDem]

4. *All* Republican POTUS candidates are puppets...

...and have been since Regan, perhaps Nixon/Ford. They are there as "front men" simply doing what the shadow forces* want them to do.
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*I was going to use "shadow government" but I think the manipulation of right-wing, neo-con Repub political figures goes far beyond merely a "governmental" entity.

[HeeBGBz]

5. Kick his ass Jackson Browne

Hope all those other artists that told McCain to cease and desist with airing their songs will jump on that bandwagon!

[rurallib]

6. McCain is a spoiled brat who has pretty much done whatever he wanted

all his life.