On Wednesday, NewsBusters premiered a new video from our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming called "Two Below Honey."
Those that watched it saw and heard a clever global warming parody sung to Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey."
The video has now been removed by YouTube with the following explanation:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by VAN MORRISON/EXILE PRODUCTIONS
A YouTube search of "Van Morrison" identified 5,090 results. Many of them were created by Exile, with clear reference to www.vanmorrison.com.
The covers that I've been able to find do indeed denote the following: "Copyright music and lyrics reproduced by kind permission of Exile."
As such, Exile and Morrison appear to have a firm hold on all his material...but parodies?
Elmer at M4GW is going to try to get Exile's permission to resubmit his video. Stay tuned.




















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It isn't
February 5, 2009 - 11:35 ET by UpNortha copyright issue, it's making fun of the Goreacle and all his mind-numbed robots repeating his global warming mantra. Youtube/Google are firmly in the leftard/global warming camp, mustn't let anyone make fun of the fat one from Tennessee.
No copy?
February 5, 2009 - 21:18 ET by km2002Am I detecting that no one pulled off a copy of this video while freedom thinkers had the chance, such that it could live outside the ScrewTube environment?
As Any Fan of "Weird Al" Knows
February 5, 2009 - 11:50 ET by srhoadesYou don't need permission to produce a parody. He only does it as a courtesy. Van Morrison and Exile have over stepped the bounds.
Some people don't know a
February 5, 2009 - 11:54 ET by bigtimerSome people don't know a good thing if it hits them in the face...I find it pitifully amusing.
Now heres a chance for Eyeblast tv to shine???
February 5, 2009 - 11:55 ET by upcountrywaterUpload a copy to Eyeblast tv????
FREEDOM
(D)
Noel, what are you speaking
February 5, 2009 - 12:13 ET by Carl KolchakNoel, what are you speaking about?
Noel, there never was a video called "Two Below Honey." We have checked the Ministry of Truth and no record exists of this video. You had better stop spreading rumors about this "supposed" video that was played.
Signed
The Thought Police
Apparatchik Kolchak.....
February 5, 2009 - 12:38 ET by HillbillyKingYour individual thought has been noted and will be duly logged.
You dared offer advice to a fellow member of the collective. Therefore, you are hereby sentenced to memorize and recite the entire contents of the esteemed Goreacles enlightenment site;
Ascent of the Charlatan
Signed
The Gorerheitsdienst
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
ha hillbilly -- Karl has
February 5, 2009 - 12:47 ET by Jack Bauerha hillbilly -- Karl has already been relocated to the Salt Lake Gulag ... luckily it was shovel-ready and with the Porkulus package should be up and running fully by 2011 -- capacity 10 million conservatives, 1 million libertarians, all of talk radio.
Dissident Bauer.....
February 5, 2009 - 13:16 ET by HillbillyKingyou know nothing! Your children are more enlightened than you, you fool! How do we, of the GD, know this? Why, simply the Goreacle has proclaimed it to be so.
Gore to Children: Question Your Parents' Climate Beliefs as We Questioned Segregation
Audio aired on Glenn
Beck's radio program has media-darling telling kids, 'there are some
things about our world that you know that older people don't know.'
By
Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
2/4/2009 3:43:35 PM
Imagine
this – a former high-ranking and well-respected government official
telling your children that they know something you don’t. Is this Cold
War-era Soviet Union? Nope. It’s Maryland, and the official is former Vice President Al Gore.
In
audio aired on the Feb. 4 “Glenn Beck Radio Program,” Gore was advising
school children on the eve of the inauguration of President Barack
Obama, presumably at the University of Maryland Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference. He said that it’s up to them to question their parents on conventional wisdom in order to overcome the challenges of modern America, one of them being global warming.
“But
I’m thinking back a long way to when I was your age and the civil
rights revolution was unfolding,” Gore said. “And we kids asked our
parents and their generation, ‘Explain to me again why it’s OK for the
law to officially discriminate against people because of their skin
color?’ And parent’s try to tell their kids the right thing, you know?
Usually, I do. And when our parent’s generation couldn’t answer that
question, that’s when the law started to change.”
Gore’s
solution to overcoming this – children, like the ones he was addressing
on Jan. 19, should question their parents because according to him,
this is an era of rapid change and children are the ones who will make
it possible for society to adapt.
“There
are some things about our world that you know that older people don’t
know,” Gore continued. “Why would that be? Well, in a period of rapid
change, the old assumptions sometimes just don’t work anymore because
they’re out of date. New knowledge, new understandings are much more
widely available, sometimes to young people who are in school who
aren’t weighed down with the old flawed assumptions of the past.”
Gore
also pointed to Galileo’s discovery of the earth revolving around the
sun, as opposed to vice versa, as one of these new ideas that was
accepted by younger people challenging conventional wisdom. According
to the former vice president, these new ideas and ways of thinking
would be instrumental in tackling three biggest threats he said that
were facing our country – the economic crisis, the national security
crisis and his pet issue – the climate crisis.
“The
third crisis is one I talk about a lot – the climate crisis, global
warming,” Gore continued. “What’s that all about? Most of you know what
it’s all about, so I’m not going to dwell on it. But basically, because
we’ve been relying so heavily on oil and coal, we’ve been burning
larger and larger amounts of it in ways that pollute the atmosphere –
not just of a city, not just of a region, but the entire world. And
carbon dioxide, CO2, the principle global warming pollution, is different from the kind of pollution we’re used to thinking about.”
Gore
reiterated that the old ideas of another generation must give way to
those of a younger generation, and the issue of global warming was no
exception.
“Today,
Jan. 19, 2009 – we will put 70 million tons of this global warming
pollution into the atmosphere,” he continued. “A lot of people think
it’s OK. They go outside, they look up at the sky. The sky seems like a
huge place. How could we possibly have any impact on it? Just like they
used to go out on the ground and look at the sun rise in the East and
set in the West and conclude that the sun went around the earth – they
were wrong then, and anybody who thinks it is OK to put all this
pollution up there is wrong today. We have to change it.”
“The
entire North Polar Ice Cap is melting,” Gore continued. “The sea level
is rising, the storms are getting stronger. You know the story. It has
to be dealt with and you have to help us deal with it because you –
you’re not encumbered with these old assumptions that it’s OK to put
all the pollution up there.
Beck had his own reaction to the Goreacle’s philosophies, and explained them on his radio broadcast to his audience.
“’There
are some things that you know that older people don’t know?’” Beck
said. “That is – and I’m just getting started. That is one of the most
incredible things I have ever heard. ‘There are some things that you
know that older people don’t know.’ He is pitting the youth of this
nation against their parents. We have a former vice president of the
United States, a man who claims to have been President of the United
States saying to the best and the brightest 12-year-olds that, ‘You
know better than your parents,’ that ‘you don’t have to listen to your
parents on things because they just don’t know.’”
Beck
made his own analogies to past regimes and how they used youth to mold
what was considered the mindset on issues of the day.
“I’m trying to think where else this has been done – Soviet Russia, Nazi, Germany, Mussolini’s Italy,”
Beck said. “In fact, the Nazis took an extra step. Not only did they
indoctrinate the kids and tell them you’re probably right, you know but
your parents don’t; in fact, here’s the next step: Why don't you tell
us what your parents are telling you. Are we having the new Hitler
youth? Is that what this is? The new Hitler youth? I’m sorry, that’s so
politically incorrect – the new green guard. Man your station,
12-year-olds, your parents just don’t know.”
Consider yourself honored Dissident Bauer, we are considering "volunteering" you to participate in the upcoming propagandizing, errrr, promoting of the Goreacles message at these upcoming events.....
TCG North America: Events 2009
Signed,
The GD
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
HBK
February 5, 2009 - 14:34 ET by sherylsimsMy children (who are homeschooled for this very reason) were in the car with me when we heard Glen Beck discussing this with the parent of the girl who made the recording. My son said, "He is telling kids that their parents are STUPID!" I wonder if the kids who were there that day caught that or if it just went in there as part of the big brainwashey picture for them. Having been a teacher I know that they are taught to believe that they know what is better for the students because THEY are the professional, and have even known one who told the students not to even ask their parents about something because they wouldn't know as much as the teacher, not being professionals and all.
It is intentional, it is disgraceful, and I am GLAD every once in a while we get to hear proof that we are not imagining it.
Great stuff as usual
February 5, 2009 - 14:54 ET by Carl KolchakGreat stuff as usual Hillbilly.
Checkout this quote in regards to the Young Pioneers from East Germany.
"One of the most terrifying achievements of the Nazi regime was its relentless capture and corruption of German youth. In Eastern Germany, the Communists have proved themselves as good as the Nazis at that deadly game"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,888798,00.html
And then the Young Pioneers were preaching peace and pledging allegiance to the Soviet Union, it doesn't appear there was much peace for the average citizen in East Germany. Here is another good link.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/33060.html
Cut Van some slack
February 5, 2009 - 12:34 ET by IgnatzJFahrquarHe was saving that song to be used in an annoying feminine hygene product commercial for a new product from Masingil.
Now it's ruined.
"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain
Oh, thanks for that.
February 6, 2009 - 17:09 ET by Jinx McHueOh, thanks for that. Where's my brain bleach?
YouTube is a joke
February 5, 2009 - 12:51 ET by LionKingHardly copyright infringment. Its called Fair use especially since it is a parody and no one is directly profiting from the parody.
Typical liberal dopes !!!
I wanted to leave a comment
February 5, 2009 - 12:57 ET by RousseI wanted to leave a comment but I can't add or top anything that has been said here. Kolchak, you are a genius.
However, we all probably need to read "1984" again, with a highlighter in hand.
Kolchak was not only dead,
February 5, 2009 - 13:28 ET by Jack BauerKolchak was not only dead, he was abolished, an un-person.
Copyright doesn't cover parody...
February 5, 2009 - 13:37 ET by Robert17...unless someone makes money off it. At least thats my understanding. What is youtube doing? Obama Censor Patrol?
Convenient
February 5, 2009 - 14:19 ET by nkviking75What you have here is a convenient excuse for You Tube to censor views it doesn't like, especially since it would cost them money to defend a copyright infringement suit.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Somewhat Hypocritical
February 5, 2009 - 14:32 ET by considerthisSeeing as how the AP is going after the creator of the Obama "HOPE" poster for using one of their images without permission. Where is the outcry over that?
... same old stuff ...different rules required of others than they use for themselves.
The "Hope" poster was not a
February 6, 2009 - 17:12 ET by Jinx McHueThe "Hope" poster was not a parody (though it should be). The law has been very clear about this in the past. Parody is protected. Shamelessly ripping of other people is not.
To bad?
February 5, 2009 - 14:37 ET by general companyI love Van the Man, but he needs to find his sense of humor. I am realy suprised to hear his complain about this considering some of his topics in the past?
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
A better singer?
February 5, 2009 - 14:54 ET by slickwillie2001I suspect that Morrison is upset because perhaps the parody-version singer has a better voice than he does. Morrison is one of those performers like Bob Dylan, that write very well but can't sing worth a damn. Thus they are very sensitive about someone else doing their material.
You know, sometimes people
February 5, 2009 - 22:06 ET by balboaYou know, sometimes people just don't want anyone copying their music.
Hey Elmer here
February 5, 2009 - 15:05 ET by elmerI am the guy who made the video, we are trying to get a hold of Van and hopefully get his permission to repost the song. In the meantime Scott Baker may be interviewing me on his show the B-Cast between 4-5:30 est.
http://www.breitbart...
If Van says no, I will probably just do a new more different version, like "Three Below Honey"
Thanks for your support.
I doubt they have any legal
February 5, 2009 - 15:49 ET by ApacheI doubt they have any legal standing, they are just betting that you won't take the money or time to fight them.
They are also hoping YouTube
February 6, 2009 - 17:13 ET by Jinx McHueThey are also hoping YouTube will bend over backwards for them.
As a Van
February 5, 2009 - 15:59 ET by RD Kingfan for over forty years even before brown eyed girl, which was his best offering, it would be in his best interest to side with America instead of Forrest, Forrest Gore and or osama obama and the wrong. Fish from the right side of the boat Van.
The Next Generation
February 6, 2009 - 12:22 ET by elmerhas never even heard of "Tupelo Honey", I like the commenter on youTube who had never heard of the original till he heard our parody, he then went to listen to Van's original and really liked it.