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The ’80s rock band Heart is not happy about John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin using their song “Barracuda” at the Republican National Convention. (When the Alaska governor was a high school basketball champ, her teammates nicknamed her “Sarah Barracuda.)

“The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission. We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored,” the band said in a statement on Thursday.

But after McCain finished his speech accepting the GOP’s presidential nomination on Thursday night, Palin joined him on stage, and the song was used for the second time.

“I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented,” Heart’s Nancy Wilson told EW.com after the speech. “I feel completely f—ed over.” She and sister Ann Wilson then e-mailed the following statement to EW:

“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image. The song ‘Barracuda’ was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The ‘barracuda’ represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”

Sheesh. Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign are not Al Qaeda.

As Flap said about the same damn thing when Jackson Browne sued the McCain campaign over his song “Running on Empty”: The danger for the LEFT in pursuing this tactic is for the RIGHT to organize boycotts of certain artists’ music.

Look what happened to Linda Ronstadt when she mixed politics and her performance in Las Vegas. There were massive walkouts during her performance and her gig was cancelled. Flap knows many Republicans who have long memories about artists who do hold political grudges.

And, the funny thing is that the Wilson sisters are making a ton of money on the re-emergence of their 1970’s song. Look at the charts from Amazon. At the time of this posting on Amazon.com, the song was the 97th most popular single MP3 download.

You would think from a purely business sense they would desire the free promotion Sarah Palin would give them.

Flap saw Heart at the Universal Amphitheater earlier this year. The tickets were given to Mrs. Flap by a mutual friend because they did not sell out the arena. Next time, Flap won’t bother - even for free.

Three celebrity weeklies — OK!, People and Us Weekly — featured Sarah Palin on their cover, but one of those magazines is reportedly losing subscribers because of it.

Us Weekly, which unlike People and OK!, chose a rather caustic cover line (“Babies, Lies and Scandal”) is said to have lost thousands of subscribers in just the first 24 hours following the printing of the issue.

“I’m hearing it’s 5,000, maybe more,” says one well-placed source in the industry. Another source claimed that as many as 10,000 readers have already cancelled their subscriptions.

Is this surprising? The cover is biased crap that has no basis in reality. Why would anyone want to “PAY” to read this magazine.

Michelle Malkin has reader letters canceling their subscriptions and responses by Us Magazine desperately begging readers to stay.

Flap says Us Magazine readers must keep up the good work and cancel their subscriptions.

Now, about Oprah?

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OPRAH’S STATEMENT: “The item in today’s Drudge Report is categorically untrue. There has been absolutely no discussion about having Sarah Palin on my show. At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

It is Oprah’s show and she can do as she likes. But, the bias is striking and noteworthy with her blatant support of Barack Obama.

Perhaps many ordinary women, including Republican viewers will FINALLY realize that Oprah is a left wing ideologue that disguises her left dogma within the Hollywood type celebrity.

Or is Oprah just afraid?

One might assume that, given Winfrey’s demographics. The largest part of her audience is white females over 55 years of age. Almost four times as many women watch as men, although she does get about 1.7 million men a day to view her show.

How will that audience react to a freeze-out of Palin? Many want to see Palin speak to their issues, and might assume that the most successful woman in American entertainment would welcome the opportunity to make that introduction. Instead of making a business decision to do so, though, Winfrey has apparently made a political calculation that Palin will outshine the man she supports for President.

Oprah has miscalculated and is hurting Barack Obama. Want to bet that Oprah reverses her position and invites Sarah Palin on her show?

Did anyone see (Flap knows no one cares) Gloria Steinem’s pathetic piece in the Los Angeles Times yesterday?

The backlash from ordinary American women voters has just begun.

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