Comments on: Bruce Springsteen: One-Hundred Percent Republican

By: Jakester

Jakester — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:12:40 +0000

got anymore stormfront trash you want to post, nazi?

By: Jakester

Jakester — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:10:41 +0000

Maybe Springsteen is just Springsteen and not some caricature of the right or left? I hate two bit anti-intellectual "philosophising" like this

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:38:21 +0000

I only read a third way through these comments but its obvious most of the commenters don't understand the blogger's premise AT ALL. Perhaps you should reserve comment until you understand context (that would go for both the self-proclaimed liberals and conservatives)?

By: MKULTRA

MKULTRA — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:27:10 +0000

What a moron. He clearly has no idea what a neoliberal is. Hint: Ronald Reagan was one of the biggest Neoliberals of them all. But of course to know that you'd have to understand what a liberal really is, as opposed to the slur-like usage it has taken on in recent American history. Liberalism is people like John Locke, whose ideas about property rights inform most of the ideas we hold about property today, right or wrong. But Sayet probably thinks Neoliberals are like Neo-Nazis. What a maroon.

By: Stupid conservative tricks: metaphor madness, schizo Springsteen, specious Sowell | Re:harmonized

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:42:06 +0000

[...] self-parody—Big Hollywood. I might as well bandwagon along for a minute. There’s a choice post over there written by Evan Sayet, a stand-up comedian waging a witless campaign against a [...]

By: personal trainers austin

personal trainers austin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:36:36 +0000

The Boss is no conservative. I am guessing that Sowell doen’t thinks so either. Speaking of constrained versus unconstrained, George Will describing liberals saying they are for freedom as long as they can regulate it.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:59:59 +0000

I just wanted to drop in and let you folks know that sifting through the delusion and ignorance on your little site here has been very entertaining. (And Bruno, you are especially hilarious!)

It’s amusing to hear adherents of the ideology that brought us torture and billion dollar bailouts for corporate turds thumping their chests about values and merit. Hardly anyone here knows what the hell their talking about. You folks may want to try learning a little bit about the man, instead of just spewing out whatever “Bush Phlegmball” told you to think about him on the radio.

And before you go pontificating about Springsteen not doing anything for people in the military, why don’t you check in with some members of the Vietnam Veterans of America. Ask them what he’s done for their organization as well as many others who were ignored and forgotten while Ronald Reagan was strutting around the country waving the flag and spouting platitudes about “supporting the troops”. That’s what Born in the USA is about.

By: tgb1000

tgb1000 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:45:42 +0000

This was a long, thoughtful and interesting article. It comes to exactly the wrong conclusion, but was still an interesting read. Your conclusion is necessary, however, on a website that boils down to “liberals are bad”. So you need to turn every liberal whose work you like into a secret conservative. Well real life is more complicated than that, and your thoughtful analysis of these songs demonstrates that you already know that. But you can’t allow yourself to acknowledge that good art is complex and comes from many different sources.

By: Gus

Gus — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:38:16 +0000

“Ok this is Bruce Spinsteens life.” I thought making a lot of money with your own work was a conservative virtue. I guess you also have to espouse conservative politics, too. I always get a kick out of conservatives grabbing an artist or other person they love and insisting that he must be conservative. I’ve seen “Martin Luther King was a Republican” from a Black Republican group. I’ve seen “John Lennon would be a conservative if he hadn’t been assassinated.” I’ve seen the laughable “50 great conservative rock songs.” Cripes, try to separate the art from the politics. Enjoy the songs if you like the music. Your angst over enjoying the work of a liberal makes me laugh. You don’t see me trying to say that Philip Larkin or T.S. Eliot are liberal because otherwise I can’t enjoy their poetry. You don’t see me saying that I can’t like Aerosmith because they’re conservative. LIghten up and relax.

By: George M. Cohan

George M. Cohan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Nice try, but Stringbean is in no way shape or form a conservative. He’s an uber-Leftie, no matter how deep you dig into his catalog. Sounds like the author is trying to rationalize his alligence to Spruce Stringbean… Sorry. You’ll just have to come to terms with it.