youtube attempts to censor Mccain's 'bomb iran' video

[Hildegarda]

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6178173.html

YouTube confirmed Friday that it had erroneously deleted and would restore a video of presidential candidate John McCain singing an impromptu ditty about starting a war with Iran.

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According to a video recorded by what appears to be a camera phone held by someone at the back of the room, the audience laughed at McCain's rendition of the classic song (the video was restored in the last several hours and can be seen here).

But the clip was deleted by YouTube, which is owned by Google. A spokesman for YouTube, who asked that his name not appear in this article, said, "We appreciate the prompt feedback from our community regarding the McCain video. It was flagged by our users, we reviewed it and it was mistakenly removed. We have examined the situation and have since reinstated the video."

google=censorship, if anybody had any doubts

 

[PopHistorian]

I remember a recording of the song, "Bomb Iran," sung to the tune of "Barbara Ann" that was done back in 1980 during the hostage crisis and was in regular rotation on Boston commercial-music radio stations, and I think, the whole country.

Here's an animation with Bush joining in the singing. I don't know if it's the original track or a new one:
hXXp://www.atomfilms.com/film/bomb_iran.jsp

FYI, pop music enthusiasts know that this is a song by The Regents, written by member Fred Fassert. The Beach Boys version is a faithful cover version done four years later. Identification as "a Beach Boys song" inaccurately implies that they originated it.