George W Bush’s ‘Biking’ CD
p2pnet.net News:- It seems US president George W. is an iPod aficionado.
Apparently, last weekend Bush went for a bike ride at his Texas ranch and with him went, "Bush’s indispensable toy: First iPod / President’s player features eclectic list of downloaded tunes," according to the caption under this pic by White House photographer Paul Morse.
"President Bush ? buckles up for a bike ride in February, bringing along the iPod his twin daughters gave him in July," it adds.
What tracks does George W. listen to?
"First, Bush’s iPod is heavy on traditional country singers like George Jones, Alan Jackson and Kenny Chesney," says the New York Times.
"He has selections by Van Morrison, whose ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ is a Bush favorite, and by John Fogerty, most predictably ‘Centerfield,’ which was played at Texas Rangers games when Bush was an owner and is still played at ballparks all over America.
"The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist during the 2004 campaign. Among them are ‘Circle Back’ by John Hiatt, ‘(You’re So Square) Baby, I Don’t Care’ by Joni Mitchell, and ‘My Sharona,’ the 1979 song by the Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor at Rolling Stone in charge of music coverage, cheerfully branded ’suggestive if not outright filthy’ in an interview last week."
Then come the Big Questions:
- Where does Bush get the tracks from?
- Does he rip them from the family vinyl collection?
- If so, who showed him how to do it and what does he use?
- Does he download them, and if so, from where?
- Does someone else rip/download them?
- If so, who? And from where?
- Does the Big Music cartel supply Presidential Tracks for the George W. iPod gratis?
- If so, how do they know which songs to send along?
Or do his daughters snag them from one of the online p2p networks and pass them along to Daddy?
Bet your boots that George W. Bush Songs To Bike By mini-albums featuring Brown Eyed Girl, Centerfield, Circle Back, Baby, I Don’t Care and My Sharona will be on the p2p networks shortly.
Stay tuned.
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See:-
New York Times – Bush’s indispensable toy, p2pnet, April 11, 2005
April 13th, 2005 at 9:23 pm
Of course every single tidbit of information that the Bush Regime makes public must pass through the president’s handlers for review – so the titles can project the right image to the public. His copy of “Ship of Fools” would likely not make the cut.
April 14th, 2005 at 3:03 am
does anyone know what the “first screen name” is in grokster or edonkey?
if “W”’s aide is downloading music for him (according to bbc news and cnn), there must be a record of this activity for auditing and accounting purposes. i’d like to know exactly from where this aide is downloading music to give to dubya.
are they being ripped from personally owned cds? if so, who owns them? according to the RIAA, the RIAA still owns them even though a person has paid money in a shop for it.
if he is using a p2p network, which one is it? and how can they justify it while the rest of the filesharing community has been under attack and the white house’s hand-picked supreme court justices are reviewing the “legality” of p2p?
if he is using a fee-based DRM service, fine. i don’t care because as far as i’m concerned he can keep paying out his own miney for crap lord knows he’s got enough of it. there must be a record of who is actually paying for this service. the prez? the aide? the taxpayers? who?
ah well, we might never know. for full disclosure and accountability and responsibility do not live in the bush administration, unless it’s in a secret session, without media, without the swearing of oaths, and without a written or recorded record of what was actually said.
April 14th, 2005 at 6:56 am
The industry used to claim that ripping your own CDs and transferring the files onto a portable player was illegal – remember that they sued Diamond-Rio into bankrupcy for selling the first portable MP3 player.
It would be a safe guess that the Prez is using an official download service – but then who is actually paying for it is another matter entirely.
April 14th, 2005 at 8:27 am
quote: “The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy”.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the kind of behaviour that qualifies as outright piracy according to the RIAA: physical P2P, unless dubya paid the copyright owners a license for each of these songs… right? Someone blow the whistle on him?
April 14th, 2005 at 10:09 am
and isn’t it usually illegal to wear headphones while riding a bicycle?
nab his ass!
April 14th, 2005 at 10:47 am
hehe!! =)