[Tymesup]

Travis Tritt, at a concert in Lake Placid last summer, sang Sweet Home Alabama. When he got to the line "Does your conscience bother you", he inserted Clinton. He then mentioned Hillary, too.

At a Brooks and Dunn concert this summer in Allentown, their finale was Only in America. They had four servicemen parade on to the stage. The crowd went nuts.

Springsteen, in contrast, did 41 Shots, about the tragic death of Amadou Diallo in New York. He has not done a song about the reduction in the NYC murder rate from 2,400 to 600 a year, largely attributable to the New York Police Department. 1,800 people saved a year for two years is already more than 3,000 on 9/11, now that I think about it.

[the invisib1e hand]

totally lost interest in springsteen when 'born in the USA' came out -- and that was for musical reasons, I was a liberal college student then. Even then, when I realized the cover was him pissing on the flag, I thought it was sick.

That awful song "I'm on fire", which I actually heard recently in a grocery store, sealed it for me.

Then when I grew up, I realized that, like most American leftists, he bites the hand that feeds him.

He's a moron, and a long, long, way from the Tenth Avenue freezeout or Rosie's house.