It looks like the Bush campaign got busted for using the music of a pedophile….again :

George Bush?s campaign is in the center of a major storm for repeatedly using the music of a notorious convicted pedophile rock star at its campaign rallies in recent weeks. George Bush has been seen by millions of people on TV in recent weeks – grinning and holding babies at campaign rallies while the song ?Rock And Roll Part 2? blares in the background. But that song is the signature hit of British glam-rock star Gary Glitter ? who in 1999 was convicted of possession of horrific kiddie porn ? including over 4,000 graphic images of boys and girls as young as 2-years-old being brutally raped.
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A deeply embarrassed Bush campaign spokesman informed the newspaper that the music had now been dropped and would never be used again. Asked why they had been playing the music of a notorious pedophile rock star whose arrest, courtroom admission and conviction for possession of staggering quantities of child-rape pornography had received worldwide media coverage – the spokesman claimed ?we didn?t know.? This statement appeared in the UK Mirror on Friday October 15th.

Unfortunately for the Bush campaign ? which is legendary for its micro-management and precision planning ? the claim directly contradicts a definitive statement that Team Bush made 4 years ago ? by chance on virtually the same date – October 13th 2000.

That is because the entire situation is a blow-by-blow replay of a scandal that erupted in October of 2000. Same song by the same convicted pedophile rock star. Used by the same presidential candidate. Exposed by the same political commentator (that would be me!) Same challenge to the campaign by the same British newspaper. Same dumping of the song by the Bush team. And same claim of ignorance of Gary Glitter?s pedophile conviction by the campaign.

Whoops. I guess they’ll have to go back to their other favorite campaign song, Toby Keith’s “I’m gonna whoop Saddam’s ass (for what he did that September morning)”.