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Saturday, October 06, 2007
From Drudge: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash6.htm
BRUCE UNDER FIRE? ROCKER SPRINGSTEEN CLAIMS UNNAMED CRITICS CALLING
HIM 'UNPATRIOTIC'; SAYS U.S. COURSE OVER LAST 6 YEARS 'ANTI-AMERICAN'
Thu Sept 20 2007 16:11:22 ET-----------------------
Rocker Bruce Springsteen answers critics who call his anti-war sentiments unpatriotic by saying
the real sin against patriotism is saying nothing while your country is being harmed. Springsteen
discusses this and other topics, including why he's still writing songs and performing, in an
interview with Scott Pelley to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007
(7:30-9:00 PM, ET, 7:00-9:00 PM, PT) on the CBS Television Network.
When reminded that his anti-war views, prominent on his new album, "Magic," will cause people to say he is unpatriotic -- as his critic have charged before -- Springsteen says;
"That's just the language of the day... the modus operandi for anybody who doesn't like somebody... criticizing where we've been or where we're going," he tells Pelley. "I believe every citizen has a stake in the course, direction of their country. That's why we vote... It's unpatriotic at any given moment to sit back and let things pass that are damaging to some place that you love so dearly and that has given me so much," says the 58-year-old musician.
In the interview, Springsteen points out the direction in which the U.S. is going, by his estimation.
"I think we've seen things happen over the past six years that I don't think anybody ever thought they'd ever see in the United States," says Springsteen.
"When people think of the Unites States' identity, they don't think of torture. They don't think of illegal wiretapping. They don't think of voter suppression," he tells Pelley.
"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.
"Those are things that are anti-American," Springsteen says. "There's been a whole series of things that... I never thought I'd ever see in America," he tells Pelley.
Now, the story is up on the CBS 60 Minutes Web site, including a 51 second video tease.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/04/60minutes/main3330463.shtmlIt appears that Springsteen reiterates the little speech he used during his concert performance on Today, September 28.
When introducing a new song, "Livin' in the Future," he said: "This is a song called "Livin' in the Future" but it's really about what's happening now, right now. It's kind of about how... the things that we love about America - cheeseburgers, french fries, the Yankees battlin' Boston, the Bill of Rights, V-twin motorcyles, Tim Russert's haircut, transfat, and the Jersey shore. We love all those things, and that the way the women folk love on Matt Lauer. That's right.
But over the past 6 years we've had to add to the American picture rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeas corpus, to the neglect of our great city of New Orleans and her people, an attack on the Constitution, and the loss of our best young men and women in a tragic war. This is a song about things that shouldn't happen here happening here. And so right now we plan to do something about it. We plan to sing about it. I know it's early, but it's late. So come and join us."
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