Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf? But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater's famously anti-war anthem “Fortunate Son”—at the ostensibly pro-military “Concert for Valor” this evening on the National Mall?
The song, not to put too fine a point on it, is an anti-war screed, taking shots at "the red white and blue." It was a particularly terrible choice given that Fortunate Son is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On a musical level, “Fortunate Song” is not a bad song—that's one hell of a riff. But the “Concert for Valor,” a Veterans Day event sponsored by HBO and Starbucks, in front of the Capitol Building, was not the place for it.
You know what. I never liked Springstees music. It always bored me. Then when I learned he was basically a communist. He is worthless and a sad choice for this event.
Stop being such a knee-jerk reactionary who parrots right-wing, neocon talking points for a change.
Even better, go back to bashing "faggots".
That's more your speed.
My dad is a veteran. He doesn't like Springsteen.
Lots of people haven't liked Springsteen since way before Fox News was even on the drawing board. So your reactionary response of Fox News... is just blather from someone who likes regurgitating liberal talking points then regurgitating them again.
Lots of people haven't liked Springsteen since way before Fox News was even on the drawing board. So your reactionary response of Fox News... is just blather from someone who likes regurgitating liberal talking points then regurgitating them again.
Check.
Springsteen is a condescending punk who ridicules America as well as the military grunts who merely do their duty. Between he and the whigger Eminem, this Veteran's Day "homage" was an absolute disgrace and utter embarrassment to any SANE observer.
As to Deckard/IW's menopausal reaction, it is FOX News and *only* FOX News reporting on 0bumkaCare author Gruber who admitted "stupidity" of the American people was the reason they passed that trash to begin with -- NOT MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, the Times or any other media/network.
Springsteen is a condescending punk who ridicules America as well as the military grunts who merely do their duty.
Yeah, that must be why he performed for the troops.
As opposed to Henry Kissinger who said "“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
When are you taking the time to perform for veterans? I don't hear any of them complaining about Springsteen, it's just the FAUX News parrots who are perpetually offended.
Springsteen is a condescending punk who ridicules America as well as the military grunts who merely do their duty.
Yeah, that must be why he performed for the troops.
He's recruiting. Pimping for the lib crusaders. NOT seeing it? That's shame.
As opposed to Henry Kissinger who said "“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
Here's MORE irony: BOTH Springsteen and Henry the K are ON THE SAME SIDE. Both are elites globalists who think they know better than the rest of us. Where do YOU stand? With THEM or US??
When are you taking the time to perform for veterans? I don't hear any of them complaining about Springsteen, it's just the FAUX News parrots who are perpetually offended.
BOTH Springsteen and Henry the K are ON THE SAME SIDE. Both are elites globalists who think they know better than the rest of us.
Kissinger is a big promoter of the type of free trade deals that destroyed the Washburn Wire Company. Springsteen went on an Amnesty International tour, the interventionists who whine about human rights in third world countries have caused us no end of trouble, Iraq being but one example. I'm tired of guys like Kissinger and Springsteen making the rest of the world's problems America's problem.
Kissinger is a big promoter of the type of free trade deals that destroyed the Washburn Wire Company.
Come to think of it, you're right. "Free Trade" killed Washburn Wire and thousands of other American companies who were undercut by Asians. Henry the K was indeed instrumental in this "globalist" economy and never been an American-Firster. Kissinger: THE face of Globalism and economic Treason.
Springsteen went on an Amnesty International tour, the interventionists who whine about human rights in third world countries have caused us no end of trouble, Iraq being but one example.
Great point and observation some are missing. Brucie isn't so much giving a rat's azz about American troops as he is recruiting future social and economic subversives like himself.
I'm tired of guys like Kissinger and Springsteen making the rest of the world's problems America's problem.
Amen! These are the .01%-ers who believe THEY are the World's royalty.
Amen! These are the .01%-ers who believe THEY are the World's royalty.
Very true. They are the scumbags who got us into Somalia. Those craphole places over there that are under the heel of despots, they have exactly the government they deserve. It gets proven time and time again in crapholes like Libya and Iraq, and they're trying to do it is Syria right now.
We need to worry about America, tie for us to re-industrialize at home. The resources that have been poured down foreign ratholes by the Davos "We Are The World" class would have done wonders here at home.
Very true. They are the scumbags who got us into Somalia.
And after we waste blood and resources battling these Neanderthals and former pirates there, Bush and 0bola have IMPORTED them as parasitic, criminal "immigrant " saboteurs to places like Maine and Minnesota.
Those craphole places over there that are under the heel of despots, they have exactly the government they deserve. It gets proven time and time again in crapholes like Libya and Iraq, and they're trying to do it is Syria right now.
Hear ya. What's wrong with this picture? Simply EVERYTHING. You can't fix stupid and Cro-Magnon civ.
We need to worry about America, tie for us to re-industrialize at home. The resources that have been poured down foreign ratholes by the Davos "We Are The World" class would have done wonders here at home.
What we should do, but won't do are two different things, aren't they?
The globalist-elites know exactly what they're doing: SABOTAGING AMERICA and our Middle Class as they import the riff-raff demo of the world's Third World hell-holes.
