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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 09:38 AM Jun 2012

SPRINGSTEEN!

BECAUSE HE DOESN'T LIKE HIM 8:30 PM JUNE 21, 2012
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WON’T EVEN GIVE SUPERFAN CHRIS CHRISTIE A HANDSIE
BY JIM NEWELL

Despite heroic efforts by Christie, Springsteen, who is still a New Jersey resident, will not talk to him. They’ve met twice—once on an airplane in 1999, and then at the 2010 ceremony inducting Danny DeVito into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, where they exchanged only formal pleasantries. (Christie does say that Springsteen was very kind to his children.) At concerts, even concerts in club-size venues—the Stone Pony, in Asbury Park, most recently—Springsteen won’t acknowledge the governor. When Christie leaves a Springsteen concert in a large arena, his state troopers move him to his motorcade through loading docks. He walks within feet of the stage, and of the dressing rooms. He’s never been invited to say hello. On occasion, he’ll make a public plea to Springsteen, as he did earlier this spring, when Christie asked him to play at a new casino in Atlantic City. “He says he’s for the revitalization of the Jersey Shore, so this seems obvious,” Christie told me. I asked him if he’s received a response to his request. “No, we got nothing back from them,” he said unhappily, “not even a ‘Fuck you.’”


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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/jersey-boys/9019/
http://wonkette.com/476087/bruce-springsteen-wont-even-give-superfan-chris-christie-a-handsie
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JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)
3. "...not even a 'Fuck you'"
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 09:59 AM
Jun 2012

Stay classy Governor. Oh, and dumb as you are you obviously don't understand, he's being subtly telling you to "fuck off" with every ignore. Dumb-ass.

Julie

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. Good, wish waiters, guards, government employees etc., would give Christie same acknowledgment.
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 10:03 AM
Jun 2012

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
6. ...and stay away from our concerts!
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 10:22 AM
Jun 2012

If you have been to a Springsteen show, you will know that a segment of the crowd will actually boo (not Bruuuce) Springsteen if/when Springsteen brings up social justice issues from the stage.
No doubt Christie would be one of these people who apparently either got lost on their way to a Ted Nugent show or just plain don't understand Springsteen's art.
These are the same people who jumped on the Bruce bandwagon during the often-misunderstood "Born in the USA" tour.
Most rock & roll has strong roots to the liberal movement. I'm old enough to remember that we were a relatively small sub-culture who embraced artists such as Dylan and Springsteen - among many, many others - early in their careers. I also remember many of our peers on the right dismissing these artists as "commies" or some other ridiculous epithet until the artist achieved vast commercial success.
It's our music. If they don't get it, they should stay away.

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