Dave are you the author of the letter? Kudos if so. This is so
well written it reads like it comes from a pro.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "theshortsalepro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> This is an unedited version of a letter sent to TriCityNews in
> response to criticism of the appropriateness of Springsteen's
> participation in politics... I guess because he isn't one of "We,
The
> People" and has no business using music to voice his concerns, or
to
> raise our level of consciences.
>
> ========
>
> Kudos to Tommy DeSeno for his incite-ful article - Losing
Springsteen
> to Haute Monde Politics - in the recent Tri City News (The
Educated
> Issue, no less!). I loved how he articulated Bruce Springsteen's
> attempt to politicize American rock and roll: "Why do you want
to
> change, Bruce? In your interview with 60 Minutes, you announced a
> change from singing about people's personal struggles to
Washington
> DC politics."
>
> Everyone knows that people's personal struggles have nothing to do
> with DC politics.
>
> Mr. DeSeno further pointed out: "Even his songs regarding war
> weren't political. They were about the soldier."
>
> Duh! There is absolutely no relationship between war and soldiers
> fighting halfway around the world in lands where they don't speak
or
> understand the language, culture, or history, with their fingers
on
> the trigger of a Colt XM 177 cold, exhausted, (undoubtedly poor)
and
> ready to shoot at a moment's notice all in a (promoted) effort
to
> protect our freedoms here at home.
>
> I mean how can someone with only a high school diploma, and who
comes
> from a small, blue-collar, working class American town whose
> classmates were deployed to "fight the yellow man" in Southeast
Asia
> in the prime of their lives - know anything about "the big
issues"?
> Stuff like that never shapes your life. Instead, it takes a Yale
> University and Harvard Business School graduate from a long line
of
> prestigious college alumni and worth millions of dollars - to
> adequately express the intricate and ever-expanding relationship
> between the common man and the common man in fatigues.
>
> Just who does Bruce Springsteen think he is? He is not fooling
> anyone, least of all Tommy DeSeno: "(Bruce) when the subject was
> politics, you stammered and stumbled. It's not your talent."
>
> That's right. Leave politics to the politicians. Hey, look at
the
> bang up job our "representatives" are doing now (with the common
> man's tax dollars, the common man's sons and daughters, and
> continually picking the common man's pockets). As an aside, I'd
like
> to share my personal decision-making criteria for
> identifying "talent" during campaign season: Always vote for the
> candidate with the most vibrant shades of red, white, and blue on
> their election signs. And if they're decorated with stars and
> stripes, it's a slam dunk.
> Rest assured, they've got your back covered!
>
> Additionally, I would love to see (court jester) Bill O'Reilly
make a
> fool of Bruce over his political virginity. Imagine the ratings
> phenomenon that would be! (Note to self: Invest in Fox stock
> today.) I can see it now. Bruce fumbling for words to illustrate
> some poor national guardsman's attempt to make ends meet while
> securing personal lives and loved ones during repeated and endless
> deployment to war zones. Just let Bruce try and find the (right?)
> words to describe soldiers watching as comrades and civilians are
> blown to smithereens.
>
> What a hoot!
>
> I hope Bruce takes the (right) hint and forgets all this political
> stuff. It can get you into a whole mess of trouble. Consider the
> words of Brazilian Archbishop Helder Camara, a man who spent over
70
> years tending to the impoverished citizens of his nation. He had
the
> audacity to speak out against censorship, torture and killings.
He
> implored the Catholic Church to move beyond charity for the poor
by
> tirelessly advocating for fundamental social changes: "When I fed
> the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked, `Why are they
poor?'
> they called me a Communist."
>
> Thank you Mr. DeSeno for pointing out that when the subject was
> music, Bruce was like "Shakespeare." That is an interesting
analogy,
> though especially considering that this author of Henry VI also
> said: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
>
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