Dropkick Murphys Order Scott Walker To Stop Using Their Music: ‘We Literally Hate You!’

[PAProgressive28]

Let's Go Murphys!

Punk rock and politics may have always shared a common unification, but that doesn’t mean bands like The Dropkick Murphys will allow their music to be used for just any political purpose, especially if that politician is Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

When Scott recently took to the stage at the Iowa Freedom Summit to speak in front of many key members of the Republican party, he did so to the tune of Dropkick Murphy’s cover of the Woody Guthrie song “”I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” reported conservative news source Twitchy. Walker apparently didn’t realize that the Dropkick Murphys are assertively pro-union — an interest unlikely to find any common ground with the governor. Walker has become a national whipping boy for the anti-union cause, previously reported Inquisitr.

@DropkickMurphys
@ScottWalker @GovWalker please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you !!! Love, Dropkick Murphys

http://www.inquisitr.com/1785170/dropkick-murphys-order-scott-walker-to-stop-using-their-music-we-literally-hate-you/

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

1. Shipping Up To Boston is a cool tune

Conservatives never seem to be able to use cool tunes, alas for them. Coolness itself seems to hate them.

[PAProgressive28]

3. Paul Ryan listening to Rage

Reagan using Born in the U.S.A., Huckabee playing Cat Scratch Fever while criticizing Beyonce...they're clueless about music.

[Miles Archer]

27. One of the unquestionable high points in the movie "The Departed."

[Cha]

2. THis has been posted.. but, really.. can we see too many "We literally hate you!" @ scott walker?!

Thank you Drop Kick Murphys! thanks PAProgressive

[eShirl]

23. lol NO, WE CAN NOT!

[Cha]

32. Thought so!

[dballance]

31. No, actually we cannot see too many "We Literally Hate You Scott Walker" posts.

Just FYI Scott Walker, you will never, NEVER be President.

[Cha]

33. Didn't think so!

[supercats]

4. I Like It!!!

I hope Walker gets whats coming to him....an embarrassing defeat that kicks him out of politics forever!!! He's the antithesis of what a politician should be. He does everything in his power to screw over every single person he can. What a waste of a life. I hope he becomes homeless someday and he just keeps getting kicked in the face and left to freeze in those harsh Wisconsin winters. He deserves nothing less.

[Skittles]

5. thanking Dropkick Murphys

yes INDEED

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Doesn't calling Walker a "whipping boy" for the anti-union cause imply he's not really to blame?

I'm pretty sure he's heavy into the anti-union movement.

[Still In Wisconsin]

37. Totally.

Walker (and his media friends) love to play the victim. Stories about specific, graphic threats he supposedly received during the Madison protests are a central component in his stump speech.

[samsingh]

7. kick

[Judi Lynn]

8. Just right! Thank you. n/t

[douggg]

9. If Walker can use them without permission,

then they can use him without permission.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I've never heard of Dropkick Murphys

But I'm a devoted fan now!

[nomorenomore08]

11. Anybody remember the bassist beating up that sieg heil-ing dumbass at a show in 2013?

I'm not too big on violence, normally, but I can't say the guy didn't have it coming.

[Tanuki]

19. "Nazis are not f'ing welcome at a Dropkick Murphys show!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=OsdQc2r7TPE&x-yt-cl=84503534&feature=player_embedded

[nomorenomore08]

39. ...

[Stephen Retired]

12. Dropkick Walker!

[2naSalit]

13. Get a lawyer and sue him!!!

Jackson Browne and others have had to sue politicians in the past to stop them. They should sue the slimebag.

[Bucky]

14. What kinda dumbass Republican would try using a Woody Guthrie song?

smh

[Scuba]

15. A Squatty Wanker would.

[FiveGoodMen]

18. With a few lyric changes

"This land is my land
THIS land is my land
and over here is...
...some more of my land"

[Zambero]

28. There is somewhat of a dumbass precedent

Homophobe activist Anita Bryant once covered Phil Ochs' "The Power and the Glory". Apparently, she didn't quite get what the lyrics were saying, particularly the last verse of the song.

[3catwoman3]

29. And at the Bush-Quayle nominating convention...

...they (unknowingly, I presume) played one of the songs from La Cage Aux Folles while everyone was up on stage at the end. It was hilarious. I've always wondered if there was a democratic mole behind that.

[Enthusiast]

16. Kicked

and recommended a whole bunch!

[hue]

17. K&R! Thanks Dropkick Murphy!

[Joey Liberal]

20. I love the Dropkick Murphy's!

I've been to their sports bar in Boston and loved it. I want to catch one of their shows and hopefully meet them.

The Dropkicks speak and rock for me!

[Still In Wisconsin]

24. Me too! And, as a Wisconsinite...

I love them even more now. I was in Boston last summer and thought about how much things have changed here and how in some ways I'd probably fit in better out there now.

[Joey Liberal]

21. Ladies & Gents, the Dropkick Murphy's!

[Still In Wisconsin]

36. There are not many bands who are this intense live.

Social Distortion, Soul Asylum (when they were still around), Husker Du, the Pogues..

[nomorenomore08]

40. Husker Du are one of my all-time favorites. I regret being too young to have seen them live.

Hell, I was probably still in diapers when they broke up...

[Still In Wisconsin]

41. That's some good stuff right there.

I saw Husker Du for the first time as a freshman in college. Which, of course, means that I am much, much older than you. Bob Mould is still doing great things, live and in the studio.

[rocktivity]

22. Funny, isn't it, how you never hear

about bands asking DEMOCRATS not to their music...


rocktivity

[Initech]

26. Maybe Ted Nugent.

Although I would question the sanity of any politician who uses that song in their campaign ads.

[Initech]

25. Dropkick Murphys are awesome, Scott Walker is not.

[3catwoman3]

30. Scott Walker...

...is awe-ful.

[ProudProg2u]

34. Most Exellent

Going to find some Dropkick Murphy’s to download. I figgin hate that dopey faced lying criminal Scott Walker and I don't even live anywhere near that state.

[MissMillie]

35. I guess Sara Evans and Martina McBride

haven't put out any music Walker can appreciate--at least not lately

[mstinamotorcity2]

38. Hated when Mitt used

My girl at funky ass Republican convention after Queen Ann spoke so eloquently.