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2007-10-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Springsteen brushes off 'unpatriotic' label

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Posted by Fred 2007-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Springsteen brushes off 'unpatriotic' label

Former fan brushes off any notion of ever buying another Springsteen album.

Posted by Mike 2007-10-05 06:18|| 2007-10-05 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I think that this "controversy" is just bulldada by Springsteen's agent. I noted that even some of the media were adding that this "criticism" was from person or persons unknown.

And then, *immediately* afterwards, I see a promo that Springsteen is going to be on "60 Minutes". Uh-huh. How coincidental. Somebody that nobody has heard from in 20 years makes a reappearance twice in a week.

Why do I suspect that he is also about to launch a "comeback tour?" Since most people under 30 have never heard of him, and the over-30 crowd are a lot harder to stimulate into concert going...

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-05 09:18|| 2007-10-05 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't care what you think, Bruce. Don't care at all.

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-05 09:32|| 2007-10-05 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Another former celebrity expresses his opinion like it is important and more meaningful than anyone elses opinion. Join the legions of other liberal clowns Bruce. Just remember you are in the company of Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Dixie Chicks, Susan Sarandon, Janeane Garofalo, Martin Sheen, Tim Robbins, Rosie O'Donnel, etc. ad nauseum. Please spare the rest of us this blathering, slobbering, driveling bull$hit that stands for nothing.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-05 10:06|| 2007-10-05 10:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I met him once. Early 90s, I worked at Tower Books and he came in. He looked homeless and kept stacking coffee table books on the counter and then disappearing into the store again. He certainly didn't look like he could afford them. A couple of Tower Records employees were keeping an eye on him, and not in the shoplifter kind of way, more in the fanboy kind of way, so when he called the pregnent redhead Patty I figured it out. And lo and behold his platinum card said Bruce Springsteen.

Anyway, as a wise person once said: "Shut up and sing."

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-10-05 12:14|| 2007-10-05 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I still like Alice Cooper's take on musicians spouting politics: "Why care what a rock star thinks about politics? We're rock stars because we're idiots and can't do anything else."

/slight paraphrase, but essentially accurate

Posted by xbalanke 2007-10-05 13:31|| 2007-10-05 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Bruce who?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-05 14:22|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-10-05 14:22|| Front Page Top

#8 "Those are things that are anti-American," he said.

And, I may add, only applied to anti-Americans, Bruce-y. At what point do we give up on *educating* people that our laws do NOT apply to non-Americans?

Posted by BA 2007-10-05 14:43|| 2007-10-05 14:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Whoops, forgot to close the italics after "applied".

Posted by BA 2007-10-05 14:43|| 2007-10-05 14:43|| Front Page Top

#10 And I'm suppose to give a flying f*ck about Bruce Springsteen's opinion because _____________?

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-05 16:52|| 2007-10-05 16:52|| Front Page Top

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