AT&T has admitted that it edited the lyrics of a Pearl Jam song during a live webcast, taking out parts that criticized George W Bush.
Monitors of the band's set at Lollapalooza in Chicago cut the two lines referring to Bush. The show was being shown through AT&T's Blue Room entertainment website. Spokesman for AT&T Michael Coe said that the lyrics should not have been cut.
He said: "What was edited out of those songs should not have been edited out. "That was a mistake and we regret that." The lines which were cut were from a song being done to the tune of Pink Floyd's famous "Another Brick in the Wall". They consisted of "George Bush, leave this world alone" and "George Bush find yourself another home".
AT&T's Blue Room is a site that contains concerts, video game advice, interviews and other content and can only be accessed with a high-speed internet connection. Currently George W Bush is floundering badly in the polls due to the unpopular war in Iraq.
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