By: Anne Schroeder Mullins

Another music group, the Foo Fighters, has now asked the McCain campaign not to use its song. (In this case, it’s 1997’s "My Hero.")

Every cycle this happens. And every time the result is the same. Doing the same thing over and over in hopes for a different result is the definition of what again? 

Heart, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, you name it, have all insisted their music not be used in connection with the GOP. So the question remains: Why doesn’t the campaign call and ask permission and avoid this whole news blurb?  Isn’t that what interns are for?

Anyway, the latest with the FF, as MSNBC.com reports via ABC News:

“This isn’t the first time the McCain campaign has used a song without making any attempt to get approval or permission from the artist,” the Foo Fighters said in a statement. “It’s frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property. The saddest thing about this is that ‘My Hero’ was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song.”

“We hope that the McCain campaign will do the right thing and stop using our song,” the band added, “and start asking artists’ permission in general!”

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