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I think it's safe to assume that they didn't register here because they are Liberals etc; they registered here because someone posted a link on a Brucie message board which caused them to sign up to defend one of America's greatest singers.

Of course, The Great Singer is entitled to his political opinions, and we are permitted to analyze those publicly-stated opinions..

Springsteen suggested buying Prankin' Al Franken's book and (in my original post on this thread) I mentioned one of the reasons why I wouldn't buy it. For purposes of brevity, I did not mention all the reasons I wouldn't buy the book.

It did not occur to me that a poster who chose the name "AdlaiStevenson" had a music-fan's motivation rather some a politics-fan's motivation. Maybe that is because Adlai E. Stevenson was somewhat of a political hero to me, while I was growing up.

Well.....now that I've finished giving my feeble excuses for my bad behavior--

I ask forgiveness for all my conscious and subconscious wrongdoings in this thread, whether they are committed in the past or in the future
Next time, I will try to be more open-minded to the musical motivations of someone who accuses me of lacking a sense of irony.

heh heh.

Actually, I didn't notice your "bad" behaviour. I just noticed that you pointed out he was a newbie.

As you know, some of the biggest nutcases are the ones who've been here since 1998!

Seriously, I don't think that this latest storm in a teacup has hurt Brucie in the slightest. He has a fanatical following and most of the people trashing him probably wouldn't go to his sellout concerts anyway.

I'm reminded of a joke that Billy Connolly tells about a live show he gave in Australia. He was telling some pretty offensive jokes and an irrate member of the audience jumped up on stage and shouted: "I didn't come here to be insulted!"

Billy replied: "Oh, where do you usually go then?"

The guy then tried to thump him but didn't realise that the bottom of Billy's beard isn't attached to his chin so he went flying.

The other audience members probably thought it was all part of the act.

Let me publicly appologize for leaving the impression that I was accusing you, syriacus, of lacking anything, be it an appreciation of irony or any other virtue. I am the one to blame for my lack of precision and I'm sorry. You may see in my recent follow up blog I refered instead to a generalized phenemenon among many active conservative bloggers. But you have to admit that it is ironic (I won't say hypoctitical) that Mr. Ashcroft wouldn't do what he had called on young people to do, since by his own admission he thought the letter from Harvard was real. Thanks for hearing me out. p.s. I thought adlaiestevenson didn't read well as a screen name.