Bruce Springsteen has been busy vacationing with former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle, along with Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey. In fact, they were all spotted on an ultra-luxurious French-Polynesian yacht traveling to Tahiti.
And if it wasn’t clear before, given the nature of his songs, you could probably guess where his political views lie.
But Springsteen just admitted something during the Tribeca Film Festival at the Beacon Theater in New York over the weekend – and it was a shocking admission.
Breitbart reported:
Bruce Springsteen says writing and performing “Born in the U.S.A.” helped him reconcile the mixed feelings he has about decisions he made during the Vietnam War era.
‘I had some friends, very close friends of mine… guys who came home in wheelchairs and, then, I didn’t go. I was a stone-cold draft dodger,’ the New Jersey rocker said at a Tribeca Film Festival conversation with Tom Hanks at the Beacon Theatre in New York Friday.
‘I pulled the whole ‘Alice’s Restaurant.’
‘I’m sorry, sir. I don’t understand what you are saying because I am high on LSD.’ I did everything in the draft-dodger’s text book,’ Springsteen recalled.
‘So, perhaps, I felt guilty about that later on. I had friends who went. I had friends who went and died.
I had friends later on who were seriously hurt.
And whether it was that or whether it was just the fact it was an event that defined a generation and if you were going to write about the world, if you were going to write about who we are at this particular moment.
If you were going to write about your place, if you were going to try to seize your little moment in history, which were all things I wanted to deliver to my audience, it was something that needed to be reckoned with. …
And, so, it was something that I felt I had to come to terms with myself and I needed to sing about.”
That sounds incredibly self-serving – to have write a song, which ended up making you millions of dollars, just so you can sleep better at night for skipping out on your duty as a citizen of the United States.
And to think President Obama gave Springsteen the Presidential Medal of Freedom award before he left office. That award is the highest honor that a civilian can receive, supposedly.
So, we’re honoring a guy who skipped out on the draft and made millions off music instead? The award should be given for the complete opposite reasons. At least Muhammad Ali looked them in the eye in their protest.
And specifically, the Born in the U.S.A single on the Born in the U.S.A album is widely regarded as being one of the most misunderstood songs.
What seems to be a celebration of being from America is actually a complete liberal protest. Upon the release of the album in 1984, President Ronald Reagan was on the eve of his re-election, and conservative columnist George Will praised the album and thought he would endorse Reagan. Will pushed the album up to Reagan’s high-level advisor Michael Deaver.
When trying to make the album a part of Reagan’s campaign, Springsteen and his managers scoffed at the idea.
Nevertheless, Reagan said at a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey:
“America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts; it rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen. And helping you make those dreams come true is what this job of mine is all about.”
And to think that Springsteen had the audacity to scoff at the President of the United States wanting to use his music, which was ultimatelt inspired by his overwhelming guilt.
Knew he was a effing Liberal Loser.
HOPEFULLY THEIR DAMN BOAT WILL SINK A THOUSAND MILES OFF SHORE
I SECOND THAT! And if not, they should colonize Mars. Then them and all the other liberals can go regulate themselves there.
well, Trump did say he would like to colonize mars while he is office, there’s his first colony
We can only hope
Springsteen is a looser. He thinks his admitting a draft dodger excuses him from his actions? No, he could have joined the National Guard, he could have joined the Air Force where he would have been in a safer mode, but he didn’t, which makes him an unpatriotic draft dodger with no class.
TOTAL ASS!!
Total COMMUNIST.
Just another arrogant left-wing maggot who thinks his you-know-what doesn’t stink. Too bad so many folks actually revere such a person, but that’s a major problem with the world these days. Classless, just classless, and a disgrace and embarrassment to the country.
I never did like Bruce Springsteen and now I won’t be watching anymore tom hanks movies.
Any more, stupid. The common word ‘anymore’ is a measure of time, not quantity. It figures that you just taunted others as being unable to read and write.
Kimberly is going to see a side of you she likely only suspects exists.
wow, you got Millard there, fucking retard lib.
I’m not a lib…your brain simply does not afford you the benefit of what must appear to be complex options.
I am not a lib. You over-use that word in the exact same way that blacks abuse the word ‘racism’, and gays incessantly cry ‘homophobia’, and sissy snowflakes foolishly call responsible adults ‘war mongers’.
That’s some company you keep…
Ok, you’re not a lib. You are an azzhole though.
He sucks, always has and always will and that goes for his music also. I’m a song parody writer and think I’ll use his “Born in the USA” and write one for him being a draft dodger
Do it!
how about a parody of owe-bama. More appropriate maybe?
Call it”Stayyyyyed in the USAaaaaaay”
Sounds great I would like to pre order a copy.
What do you expect from him, he is a worthless as obama was as president.
Both are worthless sorry POS.
I never saw what others must have seen in Bruce Springsteen. Never bought his music and typically turned it off when it came on the radio. I remember back in the 70’s the record company launched his career and played him up to be the 2nd coming of Christ.
Jesus said people like Bruce Springsteen,obama would come using his name saying I am the CHRIST.
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When this crazed leftwing liberal was crying and blamed himself for Hillary Clinton’s loss, I knew then that he had gone off the deep end. I stopped watching anything with Tom Hanks or his son, when he started his leftwing crap. However, I didn’t realize a yacht could float with that many big turds on it.
LOL very funny.
And all this time I though “Born in the USA” was an anti owe-bama song
Which young soul died in your place Mr. Springsteen?
Being a combat Vietnam Vet a lot died in his place.
Gee—-and President Reagan was busy sending our young men to War and getting his sons out of serving our country. What does that make our President?
You are an idiot. Ronald Reagan wasn’t president until 1981. Moron liberal thinks she knows stuff.
Reagan was California Governor at this time in history. He was very loud in his disdain for any person trying to get out of the draft. He got his son Michael –who bragged about it–out of the draft on a 4F just like our current Commander-in-Chief. Those without connections went off to war while those like Trump and Michael got a free pass.
Liberals and democrats know NOTHING always want someone else to look things up because most can’t read nor can they write.
Hey President Reagan had nothing to do with the war in Vietnam dude get your story right and go see who was President back in the 60’s and 70’s
So what war did Ronald Reagan send young men to, while getting his sons out of serving our country?
Never liked the Jewish kid.
You sir (and I use that term loosely) are a scumbag.
will never buy anything he puts out the boss man is dead as far as I am concerned he is loser man piece of crap just like the ones he hangs out with he needs to donate every dime he made off that album and song to help Viet Nam Vets and other vets
so sick of liberals- a shame on our country.