Remember that obnoxious 1990s Van Halen hit "Right Now"? You know, the one with the annoying hook and horrible lyrics? The one with the equally grating video (see below)? Yeah, well, presidential hopeful John McCain's team (I doubt McCain would know Eddie Van Halen from Eddie Haskell) used the song at a rally in Ohio. Co-writer Sammy Hagar's reaction? He got a chub.
From RollingStone.com:
“I got goosebumps from it — my fur went up,” says the band’s ex-frontman, Sammy Hagar, who co-wrote and sang the song — and said he’d be “just as happy” if Obama played it. “I was honored that a potential president of the United States used those words in a positive sense, like, ‘We gotta act now!’ ”
Hagar, you're a moron.
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2008.