RNC Says ‘Don’t Start Believing,’ We Didn’t Book Journey For Convention

LAS VEGAS, NV - April 29: ***HOUSE COVERAGE*** JOURNEY performs night 1 of their residency at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV on April 29, 2015. Credit: Erik Kabik Photography/ Retna Ltd. /MediaPunch/IPX
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If you’re going to shoot down a report about your party convention plans, you might as well make a cheesy pun out of a hit song by the band you were said to have booked.

Or it least, that Sean Spicer’s thought. The communications director for the Republican National Committee on Thursday denied a Politico report that the RNC would spend $750,000 on a party featuring Journey after July’s GOP convention:

The RNC also emailed reporters a statement from chief of staff Katie Walsh calling the story “100% false.”

Journey previously played at a GOP convention event in 2012, reportedly for a fee of $500,000.

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  1. They may have to settle for the drunk Nugent to sing shitty songs threatening Obama that the Secret Service is compelled to investigate.

  2. Clint Eastwood will question the five empty Journey stools.

  3. $750,000!!?? WTF?! That would buy an altimeter dial for an F-35 fighter jet!!

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