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This has been taken from Yahoo:

By Senior Writer Brian Hiatt reports

Though Vice President Al Gore and Sen. Joseph Lieberman have bashed the music industry and other entertainment, the Democrats are nonetheless the presidential ticket of choice for many musicians.

"I'm for Al Gore — I think he's hot. I think he's gonna be for the people," said Fugees rapper Wyclef Jean, one of several artists who said they weren't bothered by the Democrats' recent attacks on the marketing and content put out by the entertainment industry.

The Republican presidential ticket of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and former Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney has yet to make criticisms of the entertainment industry a prominent part of its campaign.

In 1997, however, Bush signed a bill that banned the state of Texas from doing business with any corporation involved in producing music with violent or graphic lyrics. And, in an appearance before the Senate Commerce Committee last week, Cheney's wife, Lynne, called rapper Eminem's songs "despicable."

Ruff Ryders rapper Eve said that she endorsed the Democratic candidates' call for artists and media corporations to curb what Gore has called "entertainment that ... glorifies violence and indecency."

Eve: Teach Your Children Well

"I think every entertainer should kinda watch what they say," Eve said. "I feel that if you are in the public eye, there are a lot of children watching you. I think that it's your responsibility to ... teach along the way, say some type of message."

As an eager combatant in what he's called the "culture wars," Lieberman has in the past condemned such rap and rock acts as Tupac Shakur, Marilyn Manson, MC Eiht and Cannibal Corpse. In addition, Gore's wife, Tipper, helped found the Parents Music Resource Center, which in the '80s successfully lobbied for the parental-advisory stickers featured on albums containing "explicit content."

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, a Gore supporter, said that he looks past such issues, in favor of a single benchmark.

"Ultimately, you want the smartest guy to be president," Ulrich said. "I think that if you stack Bush and Gore up against each other, trying to figure out who the smartest guy of those two is, it's not really much of a question."

Gore and Lieberman's most enthusiastic musical supporters include Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Paul Simon and members of the Eagles. Those acts performed Sept. 14 at a multimillion-dollar fund-raiser for the Gore campaign at New York's Radio City Music Hall.

Gore Threatens Legislative Intervention

Three days before that event, Gore had threatened to encourage legislation or more stringent government regulation of the entertainment industry if it continues to market violent music, movies and video games to children. His comments were prompted by the release of a Federal Trade Commission report concluding that the entertainment industry markets to children and teenagers products that are labeled as inappropriate for them.

At least two of the Radio City fund-raiser's performers expressed concern over such threats. "[If] it's a record that's offensive, don't play it for your kids," Bon Jovi told reporters before the event.

And Crow, whose self-titled 1996 album was banned by Wal-Mart stores because of lyrics accusing the chain of selling guns to children, cautioned that politicians have no right to police entertainment. "I don't think that our right to say what we have to say can be mandated or legislated," she told New York station WOR-TV.

Singer Joan Osborne said that she, too, is worried about Gore and Lieberman's positions on entertainment but not enough to switch her support to the opposition.

"[It's] problematic. It amounts to censorship, basically. But it's not so problematic that it tips the scale in Bush's way at all," said Osborne, explaining that she supports the Democrats because of their pro-choice position on abortion.

Bush Backers

Of course, not all musicians are Gore boosters. Rocker Ted Nugent, 3rd Bass rapper Pete Nice and former Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarist Jimmie Vaughan are among the artists who have expressed support for Bush.

And while stopping short of endorsing Bush, raunchy rap-rocker Kid Rock said on the red carpet at the MTV Video Music Awards that he prefers the Republican nominee to the current resident of the White House. "I like Clinton; I like Bush better, though."

Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader, meanwhile, counts singer/guitarist Bonnie Raitt, country veteran Willie Nelson and singer/songwriters Ani DiFranco and Jackson Browne among his supporters.

Rocker Marilyn Manson, rapper MC Eiht and death-metal band Cannibal Corpse, each of whom Lieberman has condemned in the past, have spoken out against Gore and his running mate.

"I'm sitting back and watching [the campaign] with great entertainment, because there's a lot of people talking about things they don't believe in, a lot of people pretending they care about America's youth," Manson said in a video clip posted on his official Web site, www.marilynmanson.com. "They put down artists and people like myself. ... I don't think it matters who wins because they both hate me, and I don't think either one of them is going to do anything about it."

A number of artists have yet to decide in which direction they lean.

"I'm just watching and listening," said veteran rapper LL Cool J, who performed at President Bill Clinton's inaugural gala in 1993. "I don't have a problem with someone expressing their opinion [on entertainment]. But personally, I'm gonna raise my children, not a rap record."

For his part, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man expressed indifference over the presidential race. "Gore and Lieber-who? Oh, Al Gore? I don't care," he said. "The Wu album is coming out on election week, so if you vote for anyone, vote for Wu-Tang."

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