Rocker Springstein Bashes Americans For Not Supporting Obama’s Radical Agenda
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 10:20 AM
It looks like it’s time to torch a few Springstein CDs.
The idiot leftist rocker bashed Americans for not supporting Obama’s radical agenda.
The Telegraph reported, via FOX Nation:
The 61 year-old rock legend, a high-profile supporter of the US President, railed against critics for their use of the “most extreme language” to describe “the most modest reforms” being introduced by Mr Obama.
The singer-songwriter, whose song The Rising became a theme of the Democrats’ “Vote for Change” events, said there was a “tremendous distortion of information” in American politics.
The “Born in the USA singer”, who has won 20 Grammys award, an Oscar and sold more than 120m records worldwide, appeared to also blame wealthy Washington lobbyists for hampering Mr Obama’s reform agenda.
“There’s a widespread political consciousness that’s perhaps deeper in Europe than it is in the States,” he told the Sunday Times magazine.
“The climate [in America] is very, very ugly for getting things done. The moderate reforms President Obama fought to make are called Marxist, socialist.
“I mean, the most extreme language is put into play to describe the most modest reforms that would move the economy back towards serving a majority of its citizens.”
Maybe The Boss didn’t notice but federal spending is up 84% under Obama, the deficit has tripled, unemployment has doubled and he’s nationalized anything he can get his hands on.
Keep to singing, Springstein.
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Mikey commented:
Seriously, who cares about Springsteen? He is a has-been anyway. You give the guy viability by writing about his liberal/illogical rants. I can proudly say I don’t own one Springsteen CD – always thought the guy was way over rated.
Mac commented:
Ditto Jim! Hey Springsteen, Obama is a Marxist/ socialist- just shut-up and sing.
grond commented:
who?
Doctor Bulldog commented:
From the Telegraph article:
“He once criticised Ronald Reagan, the late American President, for using his name to rally Republican voters in the 1980s. ”
Well… That tells me all I need to know…
Cheers
Taqiyyotomist commented:
His elitist, rich, white, artsy, NPR-totebag-carrying, latte-sipping, Apple-cultist fans still have the $250.00 for a ticket to a 40 minute Springsteen show.
WTF does this tool care about the economy?
bg commented:
++
see him, feel him, touch him, oh wait..
he knows nothing of reality, as Laura
Ingraham would say, shut up & sing!!
i say, cry me a river Boss..
==
No Man commented:
Just a jerk from Jersey posing as a tough guy.
Always was a liberal.
Another one of the 20% lib idiots polluting the landscape.
The Tunnel Dweller commented:
His name is SpringstEEn. I do agree fully with you in your attitude towards him, however. You needn’t feel it necessary to print this, but I wanted you to have the spelling right. Bill
savage24 commented:
Why would anybody listen to this typical left wing liberal, he’s just another one that talks to much about things he knows nothing about.
RedBeard commented:
Laura Ingraham was right.
wheezer commented:
I was born in the U.S.S.R….. I was born in the U.S.S.R….. (sorry guys I can’t carry a tune like I used too but Bruce understands.)
JKB commented:
First off, back in, what the eighties, we had a one night or hit stand with “the boss”. It was fun but he is so over. Really, stop calling, we’re just not into you.
“The climate [in America] is very, very ugly for getting things done….”
Funny how they trot this out when they find it hard to get the things they want done when they are opposed by the majority of Americans.
Bill H commented:
It appears a “majority of its citizens” disagree with you Bruce.
Especially those of us who work for a living.
Reaganite Republican commented:
In the runup to the 2004 presidential election, ALICE COOPER declared in the press that the crop of rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf John Kerry -such as Bruce Springsteen, Cheryl Crowe, and John Cougar Mellencamp- were “treasonous morons”.
Cooper went on to state “When I read the list of people supporting Kerry, if I wasn’t a Bush supporter already… I would have switched!”
Wanda commented:
Heard Springsteen rewrote “Born in the USA!” for Obama.
It is now called “Born in the Ghana!”.
LOL.
8675309 commented:
Pravda calls these “modest reforms” marxism, and warns against them. They should know. But wait, Bruce suredly doesn’t have any idea who Pravda is. Ignorance on parade.
donh commented:
Bruce Stalinsteen may have been born in the USA, but he was raised in the USSR
WRJonas commented:
Another know-nothing who thinks everyone else is stupid. At some point you would think he might question his own views . Nah1
aprilnovember811 commented:
I will be removing two songs from my i touch. “Modest changes?” What country does he come from, or what planet. You call seizing people’s health care against their wishes, and lying as easy as most of us breathe modest? What a loser in life. Get lost loser. Don’t spend one dime on this losers music. Put him in the unemployment line like his loser, marxist, impostor has put millions of unsuspecting others. I can’t stand these people. Just because you are a has been, aging rock star, doesn’t make you a good judge of character, does it? Good grief! It’s idiots like him who encouraged the vulnerable, unsuspecting, naive college kids to vote for this impostor.
P.S. Did you hear about NATO and the United States negotiating with the “Taliban representative,” who turned out to be an impostor? Just like here. People put an impostor in the White House. Everyone knows it, and yet Congress continues the charade.
HE’S A KENYAN BORN INDONESIAN CITIZEN. SOLDIERS ARE DYING AT THE HANDS OF AN IMPOSTOR. HEY CONGRESS, FBI, CIA, SUPREME COURT, IT’S TIME TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE, AND LET AMERICANS KNOW WHAT YOU LET HAPPEN. TIME TO OWN UP TO YOUR LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. AMERICANS ARE BEING VICTIMIZED ON A DAILY BASIS. BEING FONDLED, AND ABUSED AT AIRPORTS, HAVING THEIR FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS VIOLATED BECAUSE OF YOUR COWARDICE. HOW MANY LIVES WERE RUINED BECAUSE OF WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN A PURPOSEFUL ACT IN THE GULF, OR HIS INACTION TO HANDLE IT? HOW MANY LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED BECAUSE OF JOB LOSSES? HOW MANY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN WANDED, AND GROPED AT AIRPORTS FOR HIS WANTING TO GET EVEN WITH VOTERS? HOW ABOUT LT. COL. TERRY LAKIN, M.D.? HOW IS YOUR COWARDICE HURTING THIS MAN WHO IS DOING THE RIGHT THING? MAN UP, OWN UP TO WHAT YOU LET HAPPEN.
THEY’RE LETTING A FOREIGNER DESTROY THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID TO LET EVERYONE KNOW WHAT THEY’VE DONE!
This government including Congress on both sides can’t be trusted. If they hired an impostor to negotiate with the Taliban(can you believe that,) these people are from the seventh century, and they think they can negotiate with them, then maybe the rumors that Obama worked for the CIA are true? How about the “airplane” of the coast of CA? Right an airplane that goes up like a missile. My husband’s a commercial airline Captain, that was no airplane. I’m sorry for the length of this post, I needed to vent. I’m sick of this!
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
pevchamp@ao.com commented:
he can stick his concert tickets up his old butt ….
gary gulrud commented:
I’d like to offer my counter to the BlueBlood offensive:
Quite apart from the politics of ‘the Boss’ I was already a collector of vinyl when he broke out. I can truthfully swear that I never entertained a purchase of his wares or was asked in the years since to play his offerings, ever.
Chris Christie cannot be my president-his taste in music sucks wind.
Hotspur commented:
So… dissing us for not being politically “conscious” as Europe? Funny, it took then decades to realize stuff that us regular Americans have been against for years. Except dummies like you, Bruce
Beckwith commented:
Springsteen’s understanding of politics is as sophisticated as his undrstanding of music.
gastorgrab commented:
When are these millionaire Marxists gonna start sharing their own wealth?
Every damn one of them support systemic changes to the American republic that won’t affect them personally. They sit back in their cushy lives and insist that “we all need to sacrifice”, but they have no intention of sacrificing anything themselves. They promote changes to the ‘Real World’, but none of them live in the ‘Real World’.
And if we’re measuring things by the Marxist standard, then how much is a ‘Pop’ singer actually worth? Should he be allowed to earn more than his real world value? Why should they alone be allowed to sell ‘hype’, while product manufactures cannot?
How do ‘Pop Stars’ contribute to the collective? Can you eat a good rhythm? Can a social commentary keep you warm in the winter?
If ‘the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few’, shouldn’t he lower his ticket prices so everyone can afford them?
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Big Mo commented:
“Modest”?!?!?!?!? Spoken like a true hyper-rich cretin who has no money worries.
What a flipping idiot and jerk.
Looks like Mr Blue Collar rocker has forgotten what it’s like to be one of the little people.
Lenny commented:
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band did the only Springsteen songs that I have ever cared to listen to. The Springsteen versions suck.
Aaron commented:
Shut up and sing, Obama court jester.
mo commented:
Bruce didn’t seem concerned when Bush was being bashed- in fact, he participated in the bashing which is why I have been boycotting his music since then!!!!
Radegunda commented:
To start with, he can’t sing.
JimmyT commented:
You parents out there with children under 18 can use this example to show your kids what continued drug use can do to the brain. I read an article that said drugs kill brain cells. After 45 years of drug use, I would guess that Brucy’s is more than half gone.
Mark1957 commented:
I have an idea to reduce the debt, let’s put Bruce and Bono, and all of the other liberal musicians on an island. Then we send Ted Nuggent in with a crossbow to hunt them down. Put the whole thing on pay per view and it would raise millions of dollars to reduce debt.
RedBeard commented:
JimmyT, considering that he apparently started with less than a full allotment of gray matter, losing more than half puts him down around the level of poo-flinging monkeys.
My apologies to any poo-flinging monkeys who might read this. No offense.
squeaky commented:
bruce is taking the safest road. herd mentality. it takes much more courage and aggravation to be on record of disagreeing with obama. maybe he’s just watching his purse…
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
I see that another piece of fruit fell off the a$$hat tree.
forest commented:
“‘There’s a widespread political consciousness that’s perhaps deeper in Europe than it is in the States,’ he told the Sunday Times magazine.
‘The climate [in America] is very, very ugly for getting things done.’”
Yeah, statist Europeans have been know to “get things done” via their “widespread political consciousness” – until we stepped in a made them stop slaughtering each other every 20-30 years. Good idea Bruce, let’s imitate them.
Hey, what happened to those hemi-powered drones screaming down the boulevard anyway, Bossman? Oh right, we’ll all be driving a Toyota Pious or riding collectivist light rail soon in this Obamunist utopia. Try writing a hit song about that.
Jayne on the left coast commented:
I never cared for his icky singing since day one. His politics are typical for the wealthy class who made their money from the little people.
Trish commented:
I saw this bum many times when he was up and coming. He played at little coffee shops all over the East Coast, one of which was in Bryn Mawr PA, and called The Main Point. A lot of music sensations began there; Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne and so on. I loved Bruce back then. I never would have cared what his politics were, if he’d kept them to himself! But no, he had to be one of the first big mouths, he and Streisand and Dave Matthews along with others, who couldn’t contain themselves and violated the first rule of entertainment- DON’T TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY! If we want your opinion on things, we will write to you. While you are on stage or at a venue where I want to hear your music, shut up and sing.
I can’t stand to even hear a Bruce song come on anymore, and for that I really despise him. His views on the POTUS are completely far left love, as well as nonsensical and meaningless, but his destruction of my listening choices, well that’s a crime.
luckyone commented:
He’s a big fraud. He gave the non-union Walmart exclusive rights to his albums. When this was discovered he said the “deal” was a mistake. I never liked him much anyway.
Lil commented:
It seems to me he has done not too shabbily in the country he hates.
Maybe he should:
1. Return all the money he’s made to those who have bought his music (redistribute)
2. Travel to North Korea, Cuba or some other open minded place to play his guitar.
Buck O'Fama commented:
Are there really people in the world who will change their opinions because Bruce or Barbra or some other celebrity holds a contrary view? I used to (and still do) laugh at companies that spend big money to get a celebrity to endorse their product; to me, it’s a big waste of money. I mean, do they really expect that I will switch from a product I like to one I hate because a celebrity appears on TV endorsing the latter?
Shut up and sing, Bruce (if you still can.) Nobody really cares about your “views”. They’re not important.
Chippy commented:
Obama’s reforms are “moderate”. Hahahahaha! Bruce! Come back to earth and pull your head out of your a$$.
John commented:
I already torched them a long time ago when he came out as a limousine liberal. He’s a fake.
Back in the 80s, my brother hated him. He used to say: what does springsteen know about really working? Nothing”
Mongo commented:
Springsteen was always hype. Mediocre musician. Put him up against Hendrix and he looks like a high school rock wannabee.
Hyped because he was from the noooo yawk area. Nothing more nothing less.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
#31 Might just be onto something!
Marmo commented:
I used to like his music, but when he started spewimg his politics, I found his music didn’t resonate with me any more. When people mention him now my response is “Who? Bruce Springfield? Never heard of him.”
Marmo commented:
Spewimg? Yeah, ok, that. Whatever.
Andreas K. commented:
Brucey desperately needed some media attention I guess.
MVH commented:
Hmmm…Another Limousine Lib extolling the political agenda of the Alinskyite messiah that only “the evil rich,” of which Springsteen is one, can afford.
“$hut up, $ing, and redistribute YOUR wealth, Bo$$man.”
Marixism…the opiate of the ASSES!
Randy commented:
I’ve long suspected by now have it confirmed…..Springsteen is in the same category as Streisand.
Stuart commented:
I always pay attention to rock stars and their political opinions. After all they are so much smarter then the rest of us. (And I include you to Bono)
Oh yes, and by the way when I get sick I always call a tennis pro.
skgowuh3hh66 commented:
“the idiot leftist rocker bashed Americans for not supporting Obama’s radical agenda.”
And you think the right way to respond is to act like an idiot rightist blogger and bash him back with this brilliant prose?
What is the point of preaching to the choir while alenating those you would like to change their minds? You are only inflaming both sides, making the problem worse, you are not part of the solution.
dries commented:
Chris Christie is a great fan of Springsteen & wanted him to play at his inauguration. Nope. Springsteen would have none of it, even though Christie was clear it was a “NJ thing”, not a political one.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/nyregion/09bruce.html
I never cared much about Bruce, but he utterly lost me with his ballads about police brutality in NYC. Imaginary one, since NYC cops are many times less likely to use guns than Philly ones.
Never mind those in NJ. Car thieves are shot on the spot in Newark.
David Elton commented:
These guys have a couple of hits, a couple of decent songs, and they hang around for 40 years. His concerts consist of lousy music and phony excitement. Hang it up, Bruce!
maraz commented:
TRUE Bruce Springsteen story:
Back in 1976 I was on a date with my midshipman date at a Naval Academy Bruce Springsteen concert. The midshipman who was lighting the stage… had the light shining down through the audience in a way in which one midshipman’s foot (resting on the back of a chair in front of him) was casting a shadow on the wall behind Bruce Springsteen.
Realizing that it was his foot that was shadowed behind the famous Bruce… the midshipman started to make dancing motions… the audience started to notice the shadow show behind Bruce more than Bruce… and chuckles broke out in the crowd.
Emboldened by the spatterings of laughter… the midshipman became a born ham… so he started to get more imaginative with his foot shadow show… eventually adding his other foot to the show… and eventually hand motions to fill out the cast. Laughter got increasingly more intense.
Bruce had no idea what was inspiring everyone to laugh at him (because obviously… it’s all about him)… so he abruptly stops singing in mid song… chews out all the midshipmen for being rude and walks off the stage and abandons the concert in a tantrum huff.
I was actually relieved… my ears were killing me.
usamopatriot commented:
Just another dumb ass libtard. I quit listening to this jerk offs song when he bad mouthed GW all the time. I boycott all these libtards if they’re stupid enough to open their pie holes and tell the world how intellectually vacant they are.
Joanne commented:
And Bruce Springstein can’t sing either.
RevItUp commented:
Bruce is a douche.
tommy mc donnell commented:
if this phoney really cared about the working man he would stop supporting the politicans who want and do confiscate their income.
myohmy commented:
Time for old Brucy to stop charging for his singing. Howling like as if he has big gulp of phlegm on his throat is not singing.
Marsh commented:
He’s been a far leftist for years. Half of his new songs are about how he’s ashamed of being white.