Dropkick Murphys not impressed with Wisconsin state Rep. Fitzgerald using "Shipping Up To Boston"

[Maine-ah]

Dropkick Murphys

We just got word that Wisconsin State Rep and Speaker of the State Assembly Jeff Fitzgerald used "Shipping Up To Boston" as his walk-on song yesterday at the Wisconsin GOP Convention in Green Bay.

The stupidity and irony of this is laughable. A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!

Fitzgerald: if you and your staff can't even figure out your music you might wanna give up on the politics!!!!!

We stand beside our Union and Labor brothers and sisters and their families in Wisconsin and all over the U.S!

–DKM

https://www.facebook.com/DropkickMurphys

[tammywammy]

1. As a DKM fan, I just have to laugh!!!

Come on, do a little research into the music your going to playing. I'm surprised he didn't use this one:

[Maine-ah]

3. I don't know why their idiocy still amazes me...

meh, at least it still gives me some entertainment.

[Chan790]

6. It is pretty funny.

I'm thinking when I'm home tomorrow, I might call up whatever rock station is listened to in his district and dedicate a song to him; send his office an email that I dedicated a song to him on behalf of America's unionized labor and the millions of underemployed Americans that exist because of his party's evil policies.

I can't decide between Worker's Song or Boys on the Dock though, other suggestions?

[pinboy3niner]

7. It's like when Mitt Romney was played onstage to CCR's 'Fortunate Son'

Sometimes it's a perfect choice--just not in the way intended.

[Starry Messenger]

2. They even wrote a song for the SEIU.

*facepalm*

[LeftyMom]

4. Every time I think I have a handle on the depth of human idiocy, somebody surprises me.

He played what?

[Initech]

5. Republicans should just not use modern music as intro songs.

Every time they do - unless it's Lee Greenwood or Ted Nugent - it comes back to bite them in the ass!

[myrna minx]

8. LOL! The Dropkick Murphys dedicated Take 'Em Down to the Madison protesters.

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/116693649.html

Boston band Dropkick Murphys supports Madison protesters in song, on T-shirts

[juxtaposed]

9. They a so pro-union, what an idiot the gop is. which side are u on

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[BobTheSubgenius]

10. If you actually do succeed in making something idiot-proof...

...the Universe will build a better idiot.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. I don't even get why anyone, Dem or Repub, would use that song in Wisconsin...

That'd be like a politician in Seattle using Sweet Home Chicago as their entrance song!