...but here's a new(ish) Conservapedia howler for you. This one comes from their news page entry for Super Bowl Sunday:
An overweight and over-the-hill Bruce Springsteen is performing songs from the 1980s at the Super Bowl halftime. Wonder why? He supports the liberal agenda hook, line and sinker. But he hasn't yet performed his "Born in the U.S.A." ... perhaps Obama types wouldn't like that one???
Andy Schlafly, this tinfoil hat's for you.
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But isn't Born in the U.S.A a social criticism of the economy of the US after the Vietnam war? I thought it was about a guy who was disillusioned with his country because he got sent off to Vietnam and couldn't get a job when he got back?
"I got in a little hometown jam
And so they put a rifle in my hands
Sent me off to Vietnam
To go and kill the yellow man
"Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "Son if it was up to me"
I go down to see the V.A. man
He said "Son don't you understand"
"I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go"
This is about par for the course with Schlafly, so I'm not exactly surprised he has no idea what the song's about.
If you get a chance to listen to the original "Born in the USA", it has a real blues-folk sound, very slow, dark, and powerful. Completely the opposite of the pop hit. It really gets the feeling across that most don't understand unless they really listen to the words.
In some sense I can see why pro-Obama-types wouldn't want Bruce Springsteen to sing that song. Obama represents change and opportunity for a brighter future. Springsteen's song would be a critique of Obama *IF* he fails to create jobs for the returning veterans of the "war on terror". At the very least, the song would send the wrong message (cynicism) to people.
But I don't think the wingnuts thought of it that way. They probably think "Born in the U.S.A." is a patriotic song.
Who the heck is this guy Mike, to call Bruce Springsteen overweight and over the hill? He's so out of touch I can't even believe it.
I'm done reading anything else he has to say....
Just have to stand up for Bruce (not that he needs it)....Bruce was and is still the best live act ever....I'm sure Mike has never been to one of his concerts. Shouldn't comment on people you know nothing about!!
Just seconding the "best live act ever," Bruce plays the audience as well as he plays the music!
I'll never forget the Alzheimer's President talking about the "exuberant patriotism" of Born in the USA on the 4th of July. As previous posters have said, it's about somebody getting ripped off by the Veterans Administration, not about patriotism at all.
"songs from the 1980's" is also inaccurate. Of the 4 songs that Bruce played, 2 were from the 70's, one from the 90's and one from the 80's. Nitpicking maybe, but if you're going to criticise a musician, at least do it right.
If they did it right, they wouldn't be Conservapedia.