Glenn Beck Finally Gets Around To Denouncing Bruce Springsteen

[Hissyspit]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/glenn-beck-finally-gets-a_n_497360.html

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Glenn Beck Finally Gets Around To Denouncing Bruce Springsteen

First Posted: 05/12/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 04:50 PM ET

You wouldn't think this was possible, but Glenn Beck had apparently never actually sat down and listened to Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The USA," never heard the lyrics, never formed a familiarity with the song's storied history in American politics, until this week, I guess? Anyway, now that he's heard that the song isn't some glorious tongue-bath to American exceptionalism, he's denouncing it on the radio. Per Lindsay Beyerstein:

Twenty-six years after the release of Bruce Springsteen's hit song, "Born in The USA," conservative talk show host/performance artist Glenn Beck finally got around to listening to the lyrics.

Beck was shocked, shocked to discover that for all these years he'd been rocking out to a song about a bitter down-and-out Vietnam vet who has been kicked to the curb by the aforementioned USA.

Via Spencer Ackerman, here's what Beck had to say about it:

VIDEO AT LINK

BECK: You get filled with patriotic pride, and then you find out that Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The U.S.A.' is anti-American. 'Born down in a dead man's town/ the first kick I took is when I hit the ground/ you end up like a dog that's been beat too much/ so you spend half your life just covering up...' (He reads the entire lyrics in an incredulous tone of voice; manages to mispronounce 'Khe Sanh') Hmm. Yeah! (crosstalk) ... It's time for us to wake up out of our dream state. Out of the propaganda... This is the thing that people who come from the Soviet bloc or Cuba, they're all saying, 'How do you guys not hear this? How are you not seeing this?' Well, because we don't ever expect it.

[alphafemale]

1. Glenn Beck's an Asshat.

No offense intended to asses or hats.

[Solly Mack]

2. Gosh. He better not read the lyrics to "Fortunate Son" then.

Well, we knew he was an idiot...he is just proving it (once again).

[Seedersandleechers]

8. Or "American Women"

Well, maybe that's a little too obvious for GB - who knows?

[madrchsod]

3. maybe glenn can listen to "my home town" and.........

best not say what i think he can do.

[Douglas Carpenter]

4. because he finally paid attention to the words? he would be denoucing Jesus too if he ever stopped

and actually listened to his words?

[karynnj]

5. I wonder if he can get Christie to also read the lyrics -

then he would know how much time Springsteen spent before he said "no" to preforming at a ball honoring Christie becoming the governor. You think Springsteen being so active in the Obama and especially the Kerry campaigns would have been a clue.

[tanyev]

6. Dang. That's really going to hurt the sales figures.

[indepat]

7. Anyone who questions/protests a starkly anti-American policy, law, or action

risks being roundly denounced as anti-American by those of the Beck (far-right) mind-set.

[Yavin4]

9. My 60 Yr Old, African American, Machinist Union Shop Stewart Father Started to Listening to Bruce

This was right before my dad died. He discovered Bruce, and started buying all of his music. He would listen to Bruce all of the time. It was remarkable to see him almost crying as he listened to his music.

Fuck you Glenn Beck.

[Uncle Joe]

10. "Born In The USA;" isn't anti-American it's anti-Beck.

If you play it backward you can hear the words "Glenn Beck is Joseph Goebbels."

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[OverBurn]

11. Beckkk needs to listen to Springsteen & Tom Morello's Ghost of Tom Joad........

Maybe his fool head will explode.