Beck: Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is Anti-American

[xotoxi]

Did you know that Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen's hit 1984 song about a Vietnam veteran's difficult return home, is also "anti-American"? You would if you listened to Glenn Beck's radio show. Beck gives the lyrics a dark, sardonic reading, concluding, "That's what America's about, according to Bruce Springsteen. See, here is the thing that I don't think people understand yet, that I think you do. This it is time for us to wake up out of our dream state. Wake up out of the propaganda. This is the thing that people who come from the Soviet bloc or Cuba, they're all saying, 'How do you guys not hear this? How are you not seeing this?' Well, because we don't ever expect it."

And this is news to Glennbeck?

Welcome to the 80s, Glenn!

 

[xotoxi]

Beck: Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is Anti-American

Xotoxi: Winwood's "Valerie" is not about USMB's Valerie.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCg5EiB2AM"]YouTube - Steve Winwood - Valerie (Original Version, HQ Audio)[/ame]

 

[Valerie]

Beck: Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is Anti-American

Xotoxi: Winwood's "Valerie" is not about USMB's Valerie.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCg5EiB2AM"]YouTube - Steve Winwood - Valerie (Original Version, HQ Audio)[/ame]

And that's a FACT!

 

[Valerie]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yuc4BI5NWU&feature=related]YouTube - Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND[/ame]

 

[jillian]

Beck: Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is Anti-American

Xotoxi: Winwood's "Valerie" is not about USMB's Valerie.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCg5EiB2AM"]YouTube - Steve Winwood - Valerie (Original Version, HQ Audio)[/ame]

And that's a FACT!

what about this one?

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[jillian]

YouTube - Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

yeah, this one, too.

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[Sinatra]

Bruce is cool - he's a typical made-it-rich-I-feel-guilty East Coast liberal, but he pens some kick ass tunes from time to time.

And when push comes to shove, when its time to be paid, he is very much of the "Give me my fucking money" frame of mind.


They don't call him The Boss for nothing kids.


Now back to Keith...


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOIqauJ3_WU]YouTube - Monkey Man with Keith Richards[/ame]

 

[sparky]

as to G Beck, isn't it always amazing how these sorts that claim to love America hate 99% of the citizens in it?

~S~

 

[Modbert]

The Boss is The Boss. Glenn Beck is a moron who's a great actor.

Simple as that.

Those trying to pen Bruce Springsteen as Anti-American are hypocrites as well.

And for someone who posted him singing This Land is Your Land and tried to say he was Anti-American.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE]YouTube - woody guthrie-this land[/ame]

Woody is the man.

 

[sitarro]

YouTube - Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND

yeah, this one, too.

[youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mXGNq2-S06I&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mXGNq2-S06I&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]

Everything about that tripe sucks. He plays a lousy fucking Telecaster....... what a piece of shit. Total hack.

 

[sitarro]

The Boss is The Boss. Glenn Beck is a moron who's a great actor.

Simple as that.

Those trying to pen Bruce Springsteen as Anti-American are hypocrites as well.

And for someone who posted him singing This Land is Your Land and tried to say he was Anti-American.

YouTube - woody guthrie-this land

Woody is the man.

So you don't have any taste in music either, why doesn't that surprise me?

 

[Modbert]

So you don't have any taste in music either, why doesn't that surprise me?

Says the slime who's favorite movie is likely Birth of a Nation.

 

[sitarro]

So you don't have any taste in music either, why doesn't that surprise me?

Says the slime who's favorite movie is likely Birth of a Nation.

Hater

 

[Modbert]

Hater

I notice you don't deny it Sitarro. Or is it Sitarkkko?

 

[Zona]

Only Glenn Beck can truly explain what it was like for a Vet returning from VietNam.

If Beck says they were unamerican then they are unamerican

He can make these type comments because of his extensive personal history in the military. Oh wait......nevermind.

 

[oreo]

Glenn Beck vs. Bruce Springsteen | The Atlantic Wire

Glenn Beck vs. Bruce Springsteen
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By Max Fisher on March 12, 2010 12:04pm
Glenn Beck vs. Bruce Springsteen

Did you know that Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen's hit 1984 song about a Vietnam veteran's difficult return home, is also "anti-American"? You would if you listened to Glenn Beck's radio show. Beck gives the lyrics a dark, sardonic reading, concluding, "That's what America's about, according to Bruce Springsteen. See, here is the thing that I don't think people understand yet, that I think you do. This it is time for us to wake up out of our dream state. Wake up out of the propaganda. This is the thing that people who come from the Soviet bloc or Cuba, they're all saying, 'How do you guys not hear this? How are you not seeing this?' Well, because we don't ever expect it."



As Lindsay Beyerstein points out, President Ronald Reagan ran into ideological issues with Springsteen back in 1984 over the song. Reagan praised the song while campaigning for reelection in New Jersey and even used it briefly as his campaign song, until Springsteen asked him to stop. The Boss is not afraid of politics. Last year, Springsteen even got involved the New Jersey's governor's race.

Yeah it is anti-American-but coming from a "Baby boomer" whose husband fought in Viet Nam--& all though we're conservative--"there is still no better music than from Bruce Springsteen than-Born in the USA>:lol:

For you liberals you should buy this old C.D. & listen to his music on the same CD about losing JOBS.---

It's really a great CD. It will bring back some memories to those of you that weren't born Yesterday.

It's the BEST CD I have & one in which all us older than "yesterday" still want to hear.

And I am a tea party member.

 

[oreo]

It certinly wasn't a positive song about America, which made the fact Reagan used it all the more amusing.

Well-ditto head--Viet Nam was well long over before Ronald Reagan--

 

[elvis]

It certinly wasn't a positive song about America, which made the fact Reagan used it all the more amusing.

Well-ditto head--Viet Nam was well long over before Ronald Reagan--

which has nothing to do with what Xeno said, Hydrox.

 

[oreo]

Any of you young liberals out there that don't know what in the hell we're talking about? Actually a 'REAL war" where they sent back 250 American soldiers every single week--DEAD--in a war that we were never attacked- & JFK thought he would intervene anyway--That lasted for 10 long YEARS.

54 THOUSAND YOUNG AMERICAN MEN SOLDIERS DIED.

SO--WTF--are you complaining about now?

That's why Bruce's music still hit's home base with us--even though we're conservative & tea party members. It's the best music of the times we actually lived through.

Since the largest generation is still the "baby boomer" generation--guaranteed--"Born in the USA" if polled --would still be the favorite of this nation.

 

[oreo]

It certinly wasn't a positive song about America, which made the fact Reagan used it all the more amusing.

Well-ditto head--Viet Nam was well long over before Ronald Reagan--

which has nothing to do with what Xeno said, Hydrox.

Listen--you little whiner--today is nothing like what we experienced. Bruce Springstein in his old CD tells it all. While you're listening to your rap B.S. & every other piece of crap that you think is COOL--maybe you should actually buy this CD because it is your grandparents or your parents & it tells a very GOOD tale of WITF was going on in the 60's & 70's--da duh-da--duh

And Bruce Springstein could'nt have said it better. Coming from a Conservative & Tea Party member--

You might actually enjoy it!