According
to tea-bag lover and complete wing nut Glenn Beck, Bruce Springsteen’s song “Born
in the USA" is anti-American propaganda that people must wake up
from.
The
lyrics of the song weave a story about a working class guy with a factory job
who ends up in Vietnam, loses one of his friends to the war who left behind a
baby in Saigon. When he comes home he works hard for 10 years and is stuck in a
rut with nowhere to run.
Springsteen
explained in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that he kept out of partisan
politics for a long time because he wanted to remain "credible" and
"independent. It was the Iraq war that brought Springsteen back into the
political foray, as it did for many other Americans.
"I
knew after we invaded Iraq that I was going to be involved in the
election," he said. "It made me angry. We started to talk about it
onstage. I take my three minutes a night for what I call my public-service
announcement. We talked about it almost every night on our summer tour.
"I
felt we had been misled. I felt they had been fundamentally dishonest and had
frightened and manipulated the American people into war. And as the saying
goes, 'The first casualty of war is truth.' I felt that the Bush doctrine of
pre-emption was dangerous foreign policy. I don't think it has made America
safer." [...] "Sitting on the sidelines would be a betrayal of the
ideas I'd written about for a long time."
Beck may not remember this but the late president Ronald Reagan
and his campaign advisors asked Springsteen to use his “Born in the USA” song
for campaign events in 1984. I guess Reagan was un-American also for wanting to
use the song. Springsteen refused.
Listen to Glen Beck call Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
anti-American:
Listen to Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”:
Is Beck so stupid that he didn't know Reagan wanted to use this song for his reelection campaign.
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