Dropkick Murphys To Scott Walker: 'We Literally Hate You'

Dropkick Murphys To Scott Walker: 'We Literally Hate You'
DES MOINES, IA - JANUARY 24: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to guests at the Iowa Freedom Summit on January 24, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. The summit is hosting a group of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates to discuss core conservative principles ahead of the January 2016 Iowa Caucuses. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
DES MOINES, IA - JANUARY 24: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to guests at the Iowa Freedom Summit on January 24, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. The summit is hosting a group of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates to discuss core conservative principles ahead of the January 2016 Iowa Caucuses. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Punk rock band Dropkick Murphys is not happy with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).

In fact, the band tweeted its members "literally hate" Walker, who used the band's song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" as intro music ahead of his speech at Saturday's Iowa Freedom Summit.

Dropkick Murphys lashed out at another Wisconsin Republican in 2012 for using the same song, posting a message about then-Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald (R) on its Facebook page.

"The stupidity and irony of this is laughable," the message said. "A Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate - and crony of anti-Union Governor Scott Walker - using a Dropkick Murphys song as an intro is like a white supremacist coming out to gangsta rap!"

Fitzgerald said he was "surprised" by the backlash, noting he chose the song, featured in the 2006 film "The Departed," because he liked the beginning and "my last name is Fitzgerald." He said he wouldn't use the song anymore.

"I don't want anyone to get angry or bent out of shape," Fitzgerald said.

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