Scarce sent in this video and rough transcript of Bruce Springsteen’s appearance on NBC this morning. He slammed the Bush administraion over the way they have attacked our core US values. He sums it up nicely, wouldn’t you say?
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“This is a song called Livin’ In the Future. But it’s really about what’s happening now. Right now. It’s kind of about how the things we love about America, cheeseburgers, French fries, the Yankees battlin’ Boston… the Bill of Rights [holds up microphone, urging crowd to cheer] … v-twin motorcycles… Tim Russert’s haircut, trans-fats and the Jersey Shore… we love those things the way womenfolk love Matt Lauer.
But over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture: rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeus corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and its people, an attack on the Constitution. And the loss of our young best men and women in a tragic war.
This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here—happening here.”
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Boss!
He’s right - womenfolk loving Matt Lauer shouldn’t be happening here.
The BOSS is first and right on.
I like Bruce a lot more than I used to. I guess we’ve both mellowed.
Of course, when you write a song called “Born in the USA” and all the right-wingers mistakenly appropriate it, I guess that gives you some perspective…
Still the Boss!
and meanwhile the narcissistic teenage girls are more concerned about getting on tv and waving to the camera to say to mom or their gf’s.
now THAT’S america….so stupid and wrapped up in their own narcissism that they haven’t a clue what’s going on.
Far F*king out! On the Today Show? BROOOOOOOCE!
The Boss has always been for the regular guy and the working people! He never could stand elites like Bush
Tim Russert’s hair cut?
Quite telling that the “Yankees battling the Red Sox” got a much bigger cheer than “The Bill of Rights”. Even New Yawkers are sheep.
a guy @ 8:
he is the same brand as Bush….trying very hard to promote stupidity and folksy american pie patriotism. if he were a true revolutionary he wouldn’t be trying to appeal the generic stupid masses.
Thank goodness for artists who have the courage to speak out on behalf of their country and their world. We need them.
Contrary to the idiots who say they should “Shut Up and Sing,” it is artists who are best able to convey the ideas and dreams of our society and our people. We need more of them to do so. And that is why I call upon all citizens to …
Join The Art Insurgency
LET THE SWIFTBOATING COMMENCE!!!!
Isn’t that the show that Bush loving sycophant Matt Lauer’s on? His head must have exploded!
Clavis @ 4:
True Conservatives or right-wingers never really read or listen to the lyrics of songs. How do you think all the protest songs got out there during the 60s and 70s? Songs like “Afternoon Delight” or “Puff the Magic Dragon”? Now, radio is all corporate and commercialized. That has been the death of American Rock & Roll, and the seemingly endless hackjobs that continue to spew forth from the radio dial and MTV.
Some douchebag uses Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” as a bumper song. Of course it’s cleverly cut, but the song is about a woman that puts an end to her husband’s abuse.
Praise the heavens for musicians like Bruce Springsteen that don’t bow to corporate pressure.
Irradiate and keep it fresh forever
Springsteen goes where others like Katie Couric fear to tread and that is a place where the truth can be sung.
I betcha the Today show didn’t know he was going to do that intro before he sang. I betcha one cold as ice martini.
Where can we read the lyrics to this song? Was anyone there really listening to what he said or were they just there to see him and be seen on the Today show?
bruce…the voice of the people
i still remember how reagan stole “born in the usa” and turned it into a positive anthem, when it was really the cry of a vietnam vet who had been forgotten by his country
Gotta tune in—pico waves. Gotta tune out—PCB’s
Gotta tune in—market crash. Gotta tune out—polar shift
Gotta tune in—narrow minds. Gotta tune out—space junk
Gotta tune in—bombs. Gotta turn out—atomic lasers falling from the sky
Where’s my umbrella?
Hamburger ads!—Pop up in my head—
On the edge of Aquarius—I’m living on the edge
Secret wars!—Take my money away!
Nice to have a little Bruce juice on a friday afternoon. :)
can anyone post the lyrics for a deaf guy like myself?
Channel Z’s all static all day forever—time to open your windows,
Let in better weather
rasta @ 11:
Rasta:
You must be a troll. Bruce wasn’t born into wealth. In fact he was more like the kid in “Bronx Tale”. One of the jobs Bruce’s dad had was a bus driver. Folksy American pie patriotism? Did you ever read his lyrics?
paranoia @ 23:
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/
The lyrics won’t be up on Bruce’s site till Tuesday(That’s when the new album is out).
pissed off patricia @ 18:
Patricia:
See my comment above this one.
Joe Klein’s conscience @ 25:
Thank you. I came THIS close to responding. I remember when Diet Coke tried to get Clarence Clemons to do a commercial for them and the Big Man asked Bruce what he thought, Bruce said it was selling out. so Coke got a Clarence look-a-like to blow flames out of a sax. And I believe Bruce asked that Born in the USA not be used as a Republican theme song. Next thing you know rightwingers were claiming Bruce was pissing on the American flag on the cover of Born in the USA.
And he didn’t get censored like Pearl Jam! Sweet! I guess Pearl Jam has gotta rock it live on the today show to not get censored.
The Associated Press
Friday, September 28, 2007
TEHRAN, Iran: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has extended an invitation to U.S. President George W. Bush to speak at an Iranian university if the American leader ever traveled to the Islamic Republic, state-run television reported Friday.
Wooo Hooo
Good for the boss. I know they were not aware that was coming and to be honest, that is exactly what it is going to take to get the real message out.
That is the reason media attempts to dog all of the talent, that are willing to take a stand for the right reasons and I can truly say the boss did it today
In your face Bush and all of the right wing idiots that refuse to see the light.
Here’s a link to the lyrics.
http://www.springsteenlyrics.c.....future.php
You can find the new album lyrics there as well
Springsteen has always bored me to death and I don’t buy his folksy pseudo accent, but I applaud him for having the guts to seize the national forum and tell the sheep a little something.
kudos to Bruce for standing up to the junta.
So, how soon will NBC/Today Show Personal be apolgizing to
the Bush Administration…
Has Mitt condemned it yet, as coddling the Enemy?
Or, are we heading right for a “Sense of the Senate” resolution
condeming Springsteen?
John Kyl’s calendar is pretty open, he can have this fleshed out by Monday?
I was driving to work the other day and the radio station was playing Pink’s Dear Mr. President. And now Bruce on the Today show speaking the truth.
For the times they are a-changin’
There certainly wasn’t what I would call a thunderous ovation for what he was saying. The sheeple are still asleep. They seemed to react more to “trans fat” than anything else.
Bruce sang it once before;
“War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’.”
Nice!
Yeah, Bruce should have stood on stage holding a couple of machine guns and screamed “Hey George and Dick, suck on these.”
That would have been much less “simple minded” and more befitting the party of values and civility.
Too bad it sounds exactly like 10th Avenue Freeze Out…
L.A. Confidential @ 30:
LOL Never gonna happen. Bush is too afraid.
a guy @ 10:
Sorry guy, your living in an Idol Nation…more people care about their SUV’s then the Bill of Rights, most people in America don’t even realize what the Bill of Rights gives them, most people don’t even seem to care that their country is in trouble…I always say America is the greatest nation in the world…but too many Americans are shameful and undeserving of such a nation. even the knuckleheads who spew about the 2nd amendment to our great constitution don’t even know exactly what it says. It makes me weep and it makes most other Americans yawn…and that’s the sad truth.
Bruce rocks!
I love that E Street band sound.
I’ve never been a big fan of most of his music. But I’ve always held him in high regard for his support and speaking out for the working class and unions.
Rock on and keep on, Bruce!
L.A. Confidential @ 30:
Link please? Fank you.
Dahgrostab’ph-r-i @ 43:
And as long as we can view the revolution on TV from the comfort and safety of our living rooms.
Good for him…getting away with a little truth on TV.I agree with bjhart…music sounds like a tired rehash.
Not a good sign.
Well good for Bruce to at least give the masses an opportunity to wake up to what is going on….but as you can see the crowds who get up in the morning to hang out so they can get a five second mug shot on the god dammed Today show well they have to be shallow to begin with. At least Bruce was using the venue to try and shake things up inside their muddled heads before they get back in their SUV’s and head down the Jersey pike back to their dismal jobs so they can pay the bills and try to shut out the reality of what this country does to other human beings so we can drive around in cars and waste waste waste and not just gasoline either. We wastte time we waste away we buy stuff we don’t need that will turn into waste…
L.A. Confidential @ 47:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Bruce Springsteen is good but he ain’t no Steve Earle or even Tonio K. Sorry if the truth hurts.