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"We've invited [Cowell] to be the presenter of our free show so we have to see how he responds," explained Morello. "I will say I heard Simon Cowell graciously called Jon to congratulate him. Rage Against The Machine is waiting for our congratulatory call because we're number one."
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How selfish! RATM didn't go #1 because of themselves, it was because of the impressive campaigners
Their involvement in the campaign is just ridiculous. Tom Morello's twitter comments were embarrassing, and their nonsense about saving the UK charts is laughable (or as TM says: they "liberated the UK charts"). RATM hasn't changed anything about the UK charts - it was just a "fun" competition to stop Simon Cowell from appearing at #1 with his XF Winners at the Xmas #1 page on Wikipedia.
Typing about this just gives me such a headache now. Anyways, just wanted to post this because I thought it was semi-relevant.