Fast Company

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on February 19, 2008 - 2:59pm.
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A country music site says Richard Moore was doubly wrong.

The Great American Country site notes the recent brouhaha over the Democratic gubernatorial candidate's use of "Life in the Fast Lane" in a YouTube attack ad.

But it says Moore's team misinterpreted the lyrics: 

Moore called a press conference on Friday in which he indicated his team had made a mistake, but it might have been an even bigger one that he realized. "Life In The Fast Lane" isn't really about traffic; it's a metaphor for the dangers of cocaine. 

According to Wikipedia, the song was inspired by a drive on the freeway, though.

With a drug dealer, but still... 

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Oh for crying out loud

Submitted by Isaac136 on February 20, 2008 - 3:00pm.

It's not kicking a man when he's down. Reagan never had a clue then (I doubt anyone ever pointed the misuse out to him), and he certainly isn't tuned in now, so it's not "kicking" anyone.

And please don't tell me that "meme" is the new "paradigm."

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Re: Fast Company

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on February 20, 2008 - 10:06am.

Sorry. It took a while for it to circulate through the music world.

— RTB 

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Re: Fast Company

Submitted by MeckDeck on February 20, 2008 - 8:59am.

I'm all for kicking a man when he's down, but this meme has about run its course.

JAT

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Re: Fast Company

Submitted by Isaac136 on February 19, 2008 - 5:23pm.

I remember that well. No one in the Reagan administration had any sense of irony, though, so I doubt they were much bothered by it when someone clued them in.

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Re: Fast Company

Submitted by liam on February 19, 2008 - 4:00pm.

Politicians are notoriously bad at interpreting lyrics. Anyone Reagan's campaign using Springsteen's Born in the USA as their campaign's theme song in the 1984 re-election?

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