Beck and crew call Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." "anti-American"
March 11, 2010 11:46 am ET
From the March 11 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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"Have you ever heard lunatic ravings by a man named McCarthy?
If you've ever heard Tailgunner Joe, then you've heard me.
Do you wonder if a half-white president is out to kill Whitey?
If that makes any sense to you, than you've heard me.
Then you've heard me, dear God, I'm such a dreadful bore,
Then you've heard me, I have less sponsors than I've ever had before,
Then you've seen me, barking like a dog and acting like I'm four,
Yet every day my bank account holds more,
Every day my bank account holds more."
You live in an ivory tower fantasy world, because of your wealth and privilege. There have always been hard times in this country. Pointing that out is hardly un-American.
If you're just figuring out song lyrics right now, you're only about 25 years late. Way to go. That's where self-education gets you.
The only propaganda nightmare we need to wake up from as a people has been woven by you and FOX, Glenn. Thankfully, as you become more and more unhinged, more and more people ARE waking up. Don't hold any more Teabagger rallies, Glenn. Attendance will be embarrassing for you.
Btw, Glenn: Khe Sanh is pronounced "Kay-Sahn", not "Kay Shhan." Dumba$s.
It's a song whose lyrics describe a Vietnam veteran who can't find work back home, despite the fact he risked his life in the service of his country, and if I recall the lyrics correctly, the VA doesn't seem to be any help ("son you just don't understand"), and I don't know just how clear and exact the lyrics are meant to be, but the song seems to wind up that the vet has committed a crime under these circumstances, and he's off to the Penitentiary, or else running from the law I don't know which... also, the song's lyrics seem to express a kind of sorrow, even tragedy, as the veteran recalls a brother he lost in Vietnam, at Khe Sanh I believe.
Anyway, it's not critical of the United States of America (whatever that extraordinarily broad term is supposed to signify), but it is critical, of certain specific things (like the VA), and it's sad too... that was one heck of a sad war I say (and I'd sing about it, or write a song even, if I was good at that kind of thing as The Boss is).
Reminds me of people that put statues of saints in front of their homes. Neighbors outdo one another to have the largest statue . .
[eyeroll]
Beck is such an ignorant tool.
Beck is more a Pet Rock or Magic Crystal - does nothing useful, but distracts the really gullible.
I'm all mixed up now
Joe Strummer is my hero...Beck, not so much.
Now Beck, who took 26 years to read the lyrics of Born in the USA and now thinks it's anti-American because it's about problems facing actual Americans, tells us to wake up.
Um, Glenn... I had the tape and lyrics in the 1980s. Thanks.
Where was student of history, Beck? Hell, that's recent history and he doesn't recall it.
Most of the 3,500,000 million people we sent to Vietnam and ignored when they returned home are still alive a$$hole.
Are you saying we should ignore them again and sell your stale Reaganite jingoism?
So remember, "mums", the word , okay?
No one enjoyed the song more than they did.
Anti-American my ass. Bruce is a patriot.
Beck would have all artists towing the uber-conservative Mormon party line? And if you deviate, you're evil? Apparently, the subversive nature of rock and roll went right over Beck's head. He's now just discovering what the lyrics of modern music actually have been saying for decades. What a pathetic creature.
Conservatives love America like a child loves his mommy. Mommy is perfect and they get mad when she gets criticized.
Beck interpreting Born In The USA with a his ridiculous lyrical read is as funny as William Shatner reading Jim Morrison.
As with most (if not all) Bruce Springsteen songs, Bruce is telling a story from a common man's perspective... one that Beck has absolutely no understanding whatsoever.
It's not anti-American, unless Beck thinks that being critical of America is anti-American... if that's the case, than Beck is anti-American.
to music.