{"id":26286,"date":"2012-02-22T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26286"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:50:08","slug":"bruce-bruce-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26286","title":{"rendered":"Bruce, Bruce, Bruce."},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Bruce Springsteen
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Once And Always Fan
\nRe: \u00a0Janteloven<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Mr. Springsteen,<\/p>\n

I’ve been a huge fan since I was a kid. \u00a0Since before I became a conservative, even.<\/p>\n

When you’re a conservative Springsteen fan, you get used to the occasional churlish phumpher from some ideology-addled lib scold; “have any of you actually listened <\/em>to Springsteen’s lyrics?” \u00a0To which I reply “yes – in a level of detail people like you only devote to stalking Michele Bachmann. \u00a0My question for you is, have you <\/em>actually listened<\/em>\u00a0to the lyrics, especially on his first five or six albums, without passing them through your PC filter?”<\/p>\n

They rarely answer.<\/p>\n

But the fact remains that you, starting in about ’84, but escalating since 2004, have been slathering yourself and your music with politics – which, like most showbiz-lefty politics, is showy, shallow, shrill, and skin-deep.<\/p>\n

Like in your conversation with a Swedish radio station recently.\u00a0Tim Blair writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Boss goes all svag and hoppl\u00f6st:<\/p>\n

Bruce Springsteen wants to see the United States transformed into something closer to a Swedish-style welfare state, the rock legend said Thursday …When asked if he thought the United States should be changed into something closer to a Swedish-style welfare state, Springsteen responded enthusiastically \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, whenever “Springsteen music” comes up in conservative circles – as in Blair’s comment section – you get a slew of standard responses; “haters”, I believe the kids call ’em today. \u00a0You hear a lot of the same lines over and over:<\/p>\n