Rage Against The Machine Campaign

Just downloaded a track by Rage Against The Machine or RATM as the acronym goes.

Killing In The Name is an old tune from 1992 but is currently topping the iTunes download charts apparently due a facebook campaign to prevent X Factor winner Joe McElderry from reaching number one.

Joe, showing maturity beyond his tender years, isn't that bothered and was quoted as saying "people will buy whatever they want". Cowell and Cole on the other hand are being a bit juvenile by playing the old PC card and accusing the campaign as bullying, stupid and cynical.

I like Cowell and find him refreshingly honest but lets face it he has made a lot of money off X Factor and has a vested interest in getting Joe to number one. Perhaps complacency has set in when one assumes the winning single should automatically go to the top of the singles charts.

There's a growing trend amongst people to move against the status quo and this campaign is evidence of that.

These days if you think Governments are using climate change to stitch us up with tax hikes then your a climate sceptic, if you don't agree with the war in Afghanistan your a Taliban sympathiser and if your not happy with policy on immigration your a racist.

Perhaps it hasn't occurred to Cowell that the X Factor has become part of that machinery and some people are raging against it.