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August 12, 2008

McCain Web Ad Pulled Due to Copyright Infringement, Protests from Mike Myers

@ 6:26 pm by Hill Staff

John McCain's latest web ad–his second mocking Barack Obama for the Democrat's alleged "celebrity" status–has been pulled from YouTube due to copyright violation.

The ad, entitled "Fan Club," featured a clip from the movie "Wayne's World" in which actors Mike Myers and Dana Carvey bow and chant, "We're not worthy." Myers had his people call the McCain camp to demand that the video be removed due to copyright infringement, according to McCain '08 Deputy Communications Director Michael Goldfarb.

"Apparently, we are not, in fact, worthy," Goldfarb wrote in a blog post for McCain's official site.

The ad had also drawn fire for supposed racist insinuations. ABC's Jake Tapper noted the number of white women professing adoration for Obama (4) on his blog, Political Punch, and pondered if that was the reason the ad was taken down.

"Why do you think they put so many young white women professing their love for Obama in what is clearly an anti-Obama video? What would possibly be negative about young white women liking Sen. Obama?" Tapper wrote.

-Katie Stapleton-Paff

2 Comments »

The Hill welcomes comment from anyone and will almost always post it whether it is favorable or critical, as long as it is substantive and advances debate.
  1. McCain plagiarizes Wikipedia in Russia/Georgia speech.
    Looks like McCain foreign policy is a real rip off.

    McCain: Ready to cut and paste policy on day one.

    Comment by uuforyou — August 12, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

  2. uuforyou- yeah, it looks like McCain copied some proper nouns and dates from reference material. He should have gone over there and hit the streets to get that info.

    Comment by dualdiagnosis — August 12, 2008 @ 11:03 pm

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