Tonight Nightline: Koppel talks to Sprinsteen about rocking against Bush

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Between Rock and Poll

Wednesday, August 4

The Vote for Change Tour, unifying artists in their desire to defeat Bush, was announced today. Many musicians are finding their political voice and joining the tour, not necessarily because they are for Kerry, but because they are against Bush. Ted Koppel sits down with one of the headlining artists, Bruce Springsteen, and discusses the the popular culture of politics.

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He just said Bruce is going to PISS a lot of people off!

not as many as YOU do, Howdy Doody, with your nonstop Bush fellatiolio

Koppell looks like hell tonight...like he just drank 25 beers....yacccck!

a prerequisite for ABC

for being out of the mainstream

Kerry.

Right.

he's kicking ted's skinny white ASS!

after an insultingly put question about why anybody should listen to HIM, haha

he compared his right to speak out, contribute any way he can, with the GIGANTIC CORPORATE INFLUENCE on our political scene!

PERFECT ANSWER, you DICK, teddybear for bush!!!!

Whats the diff in Bush vs. Kerry's Iraq policy

DUHHHHHH, Bush has come around to KERRY's of course, just like the gigantic flip flopper he is

he could have expounded at length on that. easy one

is it pro John Kerry, or Anybody but Bush, says Ted

WTF DIFFERENCE does it make, like is this an anti-Hitler, pro Hindenburg stance?

what lameass questions

He;s on the East now. Westers catch it if you can. Bruce is telling it straight and clear.

WHAT? Did anyone in their right mind think he was a conservative or something?

Cheez!

who still think "Born in the USA" was a rah-rah America song.

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Springsteen in a campaign speech in New Jersey, Springsteen became a registered Democrat.

Springsteen was also supportive of the Dixie Chicks when the media was freaking out that someone had dared to criticize Bush.

Reagan not only praised Bruce but tried to use "Born in the USA" as a campeign song. I don't know whether or not Bruce registered Democrat. What he did, however, was publicly denounce Reagan during one of his concerts. He also suggested that if Reagan liked "Born in the USA" he might like a song called "Johnny 99" which is about a laid off auto worker who gets drunk and kills a night clerk in a botched hold up. Oh yeah, and I believe that Reagan's campeign also got a visit from his lawyers.

Bruce was non-partisan at the time and respectfully requested that the Mondale campeign not use his music either. Because of this, when I heard that Kerry was using Bruce's music, I was pretty certain that Bruce was quietly backing Kerry.

Now he's come out. Good for Bruce.

;)

verging on feeling like an attack

I mean he's grilling a fargen Rock Star about a political concert? :eyes:

Asked Bruce about "big money" and progressives having issues with that in campaigns, and how we reconcille that with the concert yada yada. :eyes: My thought was it's not big money, it's lots of small money, GRR!

the money comes from individual ticket sales, thats everyone who buys a ticket Ted.
That he could keep a straight face and refer to concert proceeds as "big money" showed what a phony Koppel is.
Springsteen let him slide there somewhat, it would have been so tempting to demolish him at that point.

that the tour was ANTI-BUSH rather than PRO-KERRY if it killed him, wasn't he?

Max Weinberg even spent time campaigning for Kerry during the Iowa primaries. Bruce was ALWAYS going to come out at some point for Kerry.

Their generation is quite familiar with the fact that Kerry helped save plenty of their asses from going to Vietnam.

motivational Bush is. Well Teddy, I'd say it's a bit of both.

I am voting against Bush and for Kerry. Simple.

his whole tone was antagonistic, like 'what right to do you second class citizens have to put on concerts to influence an election?'

Koppel suxx

ever wanted to throw their panties at him.