Ted Nugent
and Gene Simmons
Posted on 10/08/2007 7:24:26 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
(CBS) It's hard to picture, but Bruce Springsteen turned 58 last month. His breakout hit, "Born to Run," is 32 years old. While rock stars his age are content to tour with their greatest hits, Springsteen launched, last week, what may become his most controversial work as a songwriter.
Even now, Springsteen is an artist in progress, having moved from stories about girls and cars to populist ballads that echo the dust bowl days of Woody Guthrie. Springsteen has put all that together now in his first tour with the E Street Band in four years. As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, he has returned to full-throated rock and roll, and a message that's sharper than ever, damning the war in Iraq, and questioning whether America has lost its way at home.
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There all better now.
I like singers who can actually sing. So Springsteen can shut up. It would be the most patriotic thing he could do.
If it were a contest between idiocy and silence, I would say liberal idiocy is way more unpatriotic, and dangerous, then silence.
I would think, Bruce, if you want to do something patriotic, get some wisdom and understanding. And if all you can do is spout idiotic statements, keep silent.
The E street band, like lots of bands, can crank out some good rock n roll when they want to...
Musically speaking.
But Bruce is just plain not smart enough to understand complex topics. He’s better when he doesn’t write his own stuff.
...wow how cutting edge, a hippie rock star singing about how much he hates conservative values.
How brave of him (and original).
If he really wants to show courage about free speech, he should get himself a conservative talk show on an AM band...or maybe he could start an underground conservative college newspaper.
What an *********.
It’s always Viet Nam for these brain dead cretins.
Here is a funny story about how Bob Dylan reacted to Neil Young’s anti-war album in 2006.
From USA TODAY - Interview with Edna Gunderson
Dylan aims to tell a truthful story and nourish it on stage. Keeping it real doesn’t mean copping ideas from CNN or responding to the conflict du jour, which is why you won’t find an updated Masters of War on Modern Times.
“Didn’t Neil Young do that?” he jokes, referring to the rocker’s recent anti-war disc. “What more is there to say? What’s funny about the Neil record, when I heard Let’s Impeach the President, I thought it was something old that had been lying around. I said, ‘That’s crazy, he’s doing a song about Clinton?’”
Why can’t a SINGLE entertainer sing about the blessings of freedom and liberty that God has graced our nation with? And extol the sacrifices made by extraordinary men and women to secure those blessings throughout our history? Why can’t these people praise the continuing sacrifices of today’s American men and women who defeat tyrants and bestow freedom on enslaved people?
He’s just a fraud opportunist trying to cash in on liberal sympathies. His music always sucked why should it be different now.
LOL! I know several people just like that, although I don’t know if they’d go as far as that young woman.
He’s doing what all old liberals do. Spout liberal pearls hoping to create controversy that encourages the whackos to buy his stuff in support against the big bad vast right wing. Reference Dixie Chicks.
Only the Dixie Chicks were just stupid, and opened their mouths and alienated their base resulting in the firestorm that followed naturally.
Bruce is trying to manufacture controversy. No authenticity here.
Just ignore him, that’s the worst thing one could do. He’s counting on controversy to sell this album and win Granny’s. If we yawn at the effort, this album will be considered a bust.
Shut up and SING!
Bruce put his foot in his Mouth - 3X!
1) Bruce: “They don’t think of illegal wiretapping.”
Our Intell’ on overseas communications is 100% legal and legal authority was granted for domestic wiretaps. (Happens all the time, including under Clinton-Gore, and approved of by the FISA Court;)
2) “They don’t think of voter suppression,” he tells Pelley.”
Just BS, unless he was thinking of voter fraud in Cleveland, by the radical Dem’s.
3) “They don’t think of no habeas corpus,” he says, referring to the people being held by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Habeas Corpus is *NOT* a right for unlawful combatants you fcckin’ East Street moron!
Dear Bruce,
Catch up on current events!
AL QAEDA TERRORISTS DO GET TO CHALLENGE THEIR DETENTION
Last December, Congress enacted the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA). It requires that the military must grant each detainee a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at which to challenge his detention. Assuming the military’s CSRT process determines he is properly detained, the detainee then has a right to appeal to our civilian-justice system — specifically, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. And if that appeal is unsuccessful, the terrorist may also seek certiorari review by the Supreme Court.
.....For the enemy combatants, habeas corpus, to borrow the Times’s articulation, is simply a “right to challenge their imprisonment” in federal court. So what does the DTA do? It allows a detainee who has been found by the military to be properly held as an enemy combatant to challenge his incarceration in federal court. Under DTA section 1005(e)(2), that court (the D.C. Circuit) is expressly empowered to determine whether the detention is in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States — which, of course, include treaties to whatever extent they may create individual rights.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...WI2YzBlOGRlNzU
Anyone trying to make the case that America has lost its way at home should present Springstein as Exhibit A.
Ted Nugent
and Gene Simmons
You’re right, I forgot about the Nuge. I listened to him in HS with the Amboy Dukes way back when. Since then, I read his occasional editorials in the WSJ.
” “They don’t think of no habeas corpus,” he says, referring to the people being held by the U.S. government in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Habeas Corpus is *NOT* a right for unlawful combatants you fcckin’ East Street moron! “
THIS CAN`T BE REPEATED LOUDLY ENOUGH TO CLEARLY
DEMONSTRATE JUST HOW F*****G DUMB SPRINGSTEEN IS ! ! !
I think he got that right. He just doesn't see who's really doing the lying. A hard rain's gonna fall for Bruce when he does.
Should've stayed with chicks and cars. ...especially since his last good album was released almost 30 years ago. There's no doubt he knows far more about those subjects that politics.
IF he ever does, he doesn't take the time to figure out what he is saying most of the time I think. I think he sees what he wants to then goes back to his rich lifestyle. Maybe he helps the food banks still & maybe he will do a benefit here & there. But I often wonder why he has forgotten that Asbury is where it all happened for him. He easily could have used some of his money to help save the things he sang about but he never did. Many people here now dislike him for that. Not playing a few songs for those soldiers did him quite a bit of harm too. I'm sure he thinks he knows whats going on & he has it all down but I think you are right..a hard rain is going to fall on him....
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