That was fast

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Oswald

BMG Shuts Down Romney Campaign’s Singing Obama Ad

A Mitt Romney campaign video posted on his campaign website appears to have been taken down due to a “copyright claim by BMG_Rights_Management.” The video included January footage of President Obama singing Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” juxtaposed with headlines accusing Obama of awarding donors and lobbyists.

The video came in response to an Obama campaign ad released over the weekend that slammed Romney for tax evasion as the former governor sings “American the Beautiful.”

The original video of Obama singing the song uploaded by the Associated Press is still available on YouTube. The Obama campaign also made a ringtone of the president’s rendition of the Motown classic available on its website. Requests to the Romney campaign and BMG for comment were not immediately answered.

That’s funny, BMG didn’t have any problem with Obama singing the song in the first place. That video has been up since January. I guess it’s just a coinky-dink that YouTube is owned by Google and Google is a big supporter of Obama.

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19 Responses

  1. Oswald, on July 17, 2012 at 12:26 am said:

    Sometimes I worry that I’m being paranoid. Other times I worry that I’m not being paranoid enough.

  2. indigogrrl1, on July 17, 2012 at 3:21 am said:

    can google be boycotted? who owns bing?

    • myiq2xu, on July 17, 2012 at 3:36 am said:

      Bing is owned by Gill Bates

      • Lulu, on July 17, 2012 at 3:55 am said:

        Bill just cut off MSNBC which will have to be something other than MicroSoft NBC now. Even he is starting to see the business problems with being too closely associated with proglodyte-bots. Solyndra, Oprah, LightSquared, Jamie Diamond are just a few. It’s the merde touch.

  3. DeniseVB, on July 17, 2012 at 3:46 am said:

    The article’s been updated saying the Romney campaign’s going to fight it. :D

    • angienc, on July 17, 2012 at 5:33 am said:

      They should fight it — it’s a good case of fair use — especially in light of the original POTUS clip still being up as “news.”

      • DandyTiger, on July 17, 2012 at 7:12 am said:

        Clearly fair use. The problem is the time it will take. But they don’t have to go through google/youtube. They can just put the video up on their own site in standard video formats. There’s nothing magic about youtube.

        • angienc, on July 17, 2012 at 8:10 am said:

          True, but youtube might get more traffic. Nonetheless, I think this is about Team Romney wanting to show how different Romney is treated by the media than Obama. On Hillaryis44 they have a great clip of Howard Kurtz — dumb as he is — getting it:

          Media critic Howard Kurtz warned CNN on Friday that “to many people” it looks like the media has a massive double standard in its campaign coverage of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

          “[W]hen you combine all the stories, all the airtime, all the column inches, it looks to many people, I’ll just say this bluntly, like the press is giving much more aggressive scrutiny to Romney and his background than it ever gave to Barack Obama,” Kurtz told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

          Kurtz added that “to some,” the media sound like they are “echoing” the Obama campaign’s talking points.

          “And I’ve increasingly been worried about whether the media which have been pushing a lot of these stories,” Kurtz insisted, naming “the Boston Globe, the Washington Post on outsourcing, Vanity Fair on Cayman Island accounts, seem to some people to be echoing the message of the Obama campaign by raising so many questions about Romney’s business background.” [snip]

          HOWARD KURTZ: All legitimate questions, Wolf, but I think this may be overkill on the part of the Obama campaign. All the megatonnage it has dropped on Mitt Romney’s head over the many events that happened 14, 15 years ago. And I’ve increasingly been worried about whether the media which have been pushing a lot of these stories, The Boston Globe, the Washington Post on outsourcing, Vanity Fair on Cayman Island accounts, seem to some people to be echoing the message of the Obama campaign by raising so many questions about Romney’s business background.

          LAUREN ASHBURN, editor in chief, Daily-Download.com: I don’t agree with you. I think that when it comes to this kind of stuff, the more questions the better. This is a man who’s running for President of the United States of America. Ask the questions, answer the questions, if you want to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

          BLITZER: Because if you want to be President, you know this Howie, I’m a little surprised to hear what you’re saying, because no more secrets. Everything basically becomes an open book if you want to be the President of the United States.

          KURTZ: I am not saying, Wolf, that journalists shouldn’t be asking these questions, probing Romney’s business background. It is, after all, his principal credential for running and saying he’s going to fix the economy. What I am saying, is that when you combine all the stories, all the airtime, all the column inches, it looks to many people, I’ll just say this bluntly, like the press is giving much more aggressive scrutiny to Romney and his background than it ever gave to Barack Obama.

          You can view the clip here (it’s the last one embedded):

          http://www.hillaryis44.org/2012/07/14/clue-for-mitt-romney-stop-whining-start-fighting-youve-got-a-golden-opportunity-and-you-are-blowing-it/

  4. Anthony, on July 17, 2012 at 4:31 am said:

    Not even the four bars that you’re usually allowed? WTF????

    Re: Google – does anyone remember “Scroogle”? I was delighted to find a search engine that was set up for you to search anonymously (especially during the 2008 primary). Google eventually shut them down…

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroogle_Scraper

  5. Sing Along With POTUS! « Uppity Woman, on July 17, 2012 at 6:29 am said:

    [...] HT/The Crawdad Hole [...]

  6. trixta, on July 17, 2012 at 6:44 am said:

    “So it is interesting that the company that pulled down Romney’s web ad shares a German parent company with Obama’s publisher.

    According to their Wikipedia entry, “During World War II, Bertelsmann was the biggest single producer of Nazi propaganda.” The BBC reports that “German media giant Bertelsmann has admitted it lied about its Nazi past and that it made big profits during Adolf Hitler’s reign in Germany using Jewish slave labour.”

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/16/youtube-yanks-romney-web-ad-over-al-green-song/

  7. DandyTiger, on July 17, 2012 at 7:14 am said:

    The solution is simple, just put the video up on their own site (not using youtube). In fact, they should mirror all their youtube channel videos on their own site. There’s nothing magic about youtube. It’s just a website hosting video files with enough power to handle streaming from lots of people. There are alternatives for them to use.

    Then when the MPAA or RIAA or other organizations say take it down, it stays up while they battle in court.

  8. DandyTiger, on July 17, 2012 at 7:15 am said:

    The best way to battle bad, unfair business practices like what Google is doing is to compete. Offer the same thing. It’s easy, but it does cost money.

  9. HELENK, on July 17, 2012 at 8:09 am said:

    there are other sites that have videos.
    on this list that I have it shows other places. can they use them??

    http://www.allmyfaves.com/

  11. HELENK, on July 17, 2012 at 10:20 am said:

    http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/how-the-democratic-media-spin-the-news.php

    some small business owners speak out but the msm will never feature their comments

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