Wrapped Up Like a Douche

His central argument seems to boil down to this “Howard Zinn with a guitar” bullshit, which is admittedly a good line, but he says it as though it’s a bad thing. If he happens to be “Howard Zinn with a guitar” and he personally does make my ass shake and my feet tap and my sexual organs occasionally stimulate (TMI?), then what exactly is the problem?

Springsteen should do more? He should incite revolution, or play his protest songs outside Wells Fargo instead of in an arena where people have paid money to see him? He should give all his cash to the poor and get himself jailed on a daily basis to provide truth to power? Or is it that this writer and others really DO want Springsteen to be a nostalgia act, the Beach Boys with more black people, reliving his own glory days ad infinitum so that middle-aged white guys can feel more comfortable with their own greed and selfishness?

I had to take a shot at that idiot over at the New Republic who posted the linkbait hate swipe at Springsteen.