In a CBS Sunday Morning interview to promote their new book (Renegades: Born in the USA), former President Barack Obama slams Bruce Springsteen’s fans, suggesting that their love for “the Big Man” — E-Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons — would evaporate if they saw him in a bar…and then “suddenly the N-word comes out,” Obama says. The Boss seems to agree. Is that really how most Springsteen fans viewed Clemons? Why does the former president, who could be the great uniter, continue to fan the flames of racial division?
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30 replies on “Obama Slams Springsteen Fans, Injects Racial Division into the Bruce & Clarence Partnership”
the only difference between Barack Obama and a steamy pile of pig s**t is that the pig stuff will dry up and quit stinking after a few days. Obama just keeps on getting riper and riper.
We call “Bruce” by his real name. Douche Bagstein.
I gave up on Bruce when he canceled his N.C. tour because the governor said men use the mens toilets and women use the women toilets. “Let’s go Bruce”
Obama further cements his legacy as a race baiter and a hustler. He is a grifter of the rarest sort with seemingly no conscience. He missed a golden opportunity as president to mend race relations in this country, but didn’t because he wasn’t interested in improving race relations, he was only interested in profiting from them both politically and financially. Mission accomplished!
I’d say shame on Springsteen for not calling Obama out, but the shameless can’t be shamed.
I’ve seen some nauseating stuff from The Great Divider, but this made me angry. In my early teens my two best mates (both British born Sikhs) and I would watch stand up on VHS, usually Eddie Murphy or Richard Prior. A lot of the music we listened to was Reggae and especially Ska/Two-Tone. Our whole cultural outlook was very much integrated.
Getting heartily sick of the assertion that white folk are inherently racist.
Dumb and Dumber
Back in 1979 that would have been Joe Biden’s response.
Never had the use for the N-word even in a bar. But If I saw Springsteen in the bar I would call him IDIOT and not just for the contempt he has for his fans (who made him rich) but for the things he has said in the past about anything but music.
Well that’s the narrative anyway. In his imagination. But … can he come up with even one example?
Bet he can’t. Yet this is the crap that gets repeated and everybody nods in disapproval. Tsk, tsk. White people need to step up to stop racial division.
They have. But these people insist that it’s still the 1960’s, or earlier.
Exactly. It’s not the 60’s. I was around for all of it. Blacks together with whites figured out so much. Not perfect but we learned, we had MLK. It was about love dammit!
Doing this all over again feels like it’s just an excuse for so many varied reasons.
It’s so disheartening going backwards.
Bruce who?
Obama is a puppet. I have no idea who is actually directing this disastrous time but it’s not those who are on stage.
Oh my God – Bruce isn’t a hero to me, but I have many of his albums and know his stuff well. I am hugely disappointed in him, as he agreed with Obama’s self-serving and frankly insane accusations of racism. How he could do that to his millions of fans is shameful beyond words. I can’t agree with Scott – Bruce could have taken the opportunity to tell Obama he was just wrong. God knows someone has needed to do that for a long time.
I agree that former President Obama is an egomaniac. Sadly he got surrounded by a bunch of yes men and got boosted beyond recovery.
Good music doesn’t equal good people making it. Both BO and BS are sell outs.
I was around for it too Bill. Stupid hippiism went off the rails. I saw BS before he was famous. Just another narcissist.
BO and BS! 😀
Well, what did you expect when these two narcissists entered their tidally locked mutual orbit?
Barry Hussein thinks being best buds with Brucie (who probably has access to all the really, really good drugs) is cool. Brucie thinks being pals forever with an ex-POTUS is cool. Obama pulls up his MOM jeans, sharpens up his snaky lisp and takes the dominant role because he’s half black and a former POTUS so what you get is …
A mutual mental masturbation society.
I’m not a big Springsteen fan and I’m certainly no fan of Obama either. I don’t really give a tinker’s damn what either of them think, say or do.
This is just proof that the Left poisons everything it touches. I already knew that.
I pay zero attention to what these sort of people think because whatever value they have to me is not vested in their opinions. Their opinions are absurd, their brains are starved of oxygen due to the lofty heights far above the rest of us that they believe themselves to inhabit. Even the word “think” applied to such people is an oxymoron applied to morons.
Proof – If Obama could see the real world and actually think about it he wouldn’t be fighting grudges left over from the 60’s and 70’s. If Springsteen could think and had half a spine he wouldn’t let Obama speak for him about his own lived experiences. Obama’s worldview is skewed by a lifetime of vaulting himself ever upward by stoking the grievance furnace. Springsteen is so wealthy and famous that whatever touch he may have had with the rest of us down here in the real world lies so far back in the mists of time as to be more myth than fact to him … And he acts accordingly. They’re idiots, some times dangerous idiots but idiots nonetheless.
So when it comes to the ‘thoughts’ and I use the word with great charity, or opinions of this sort or pseudo-human self appointed demigod — I pay them no heed. They deserve none and they get none from me, they’re just filling a time slot on some media outlet that must produce some sort of content perforce.
If such a person happens to be a decent actor or performer of some sort, that is the only value they hold and that is the only value I accord them. The words they speak in that capacity are not their own and they have more than demonstrated the worthlessness of their own words.
In the 70s, I was a big Bruce Springsteen fan. But I wanted to be Clarence Clemmons. Then I started to learn the link between talent and hard work and realized that I just simply wasn’t talented enough to get there no matter how hard I worked.
But if you played sax in the 70s and 80s, he was the guy. And, in the northeast surrounded by Bruce fans, I heard no one refer to CC with any epithet other than awesome.
One can argue that if it wasn’t for CC, Springsteen would not have been as big as he became. That wailing sax is present on most of his biggest / iconic hits.
But isn’t it amazing that this working class skinny poet and musician in one generation changed his family dynamic to the point where his daughter became an Olympic level EQUESTRIAN. Is there a more hoity-toity sporting event than show jumping? Maybe dressage? Heck even pro golfers look at equestrian events and go, dang that’s a country club created event.
We were discussing lyrics on the Backstage, well here is a lyric from “Badlands” from 1978 that now describes both Bruce and Obama well, though I bet Bruce didn’t think so then.
Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king
And a king ain’t satisfied till he rules everything
My favourite sax solo of all time is in Jungleland. For me, it’s more moving than Coltrane or Dexter Gordon, more moving than Bobby Keys …
Amen – I had a cassette that I absolutely ruined by FF and RW to that solo. That was the one I tried to learn and realized my talents were elsewhere.
I also love what he did at the end of Bobby Jean
And Rosalita is incredible.
I wonder if Bruce even recognizes these lyrics:
And the poets down here
Don’t write nothing at all
They just stand back and let it all be
Just to toss in my two cents sax-wise …
One of my favorite sax solos is in the middle of “The Gunner’s Dream” by Pink Floyd. The “saxmanship” is amazing and Roger Water’s pitch is so perfect it’s almost impossible to tell where his voice leaves off and the sax solo begins.
My nephew plays sax, I played that solo for him and told him when he can do that he’s a genuine sax player. That’s no sleight to him, the saxophone is a very hard instrument to master.
Gentlemen,
I must commend you for your discussion this morning. It is one of your best analyses to-date.
Thank you.
That nasty, despicable word (ni****) is too good for the likes of Barry. BO used to refer to that nasty smell in a locker room, now … well … it’s worse.
If the fans are racist, are they gravitating towards racists?
Here is something weird I experience with lefty entertainers, and I’m curious if anyone else does. Whenever I hear the likes of Springsteen, DeNiro, or Baldwin perform anything new of theirs, I just see the scumbag who hates me and has no desire to hide it and am immeidately turned off & tune out. I one star any of their films, albums, etc & move on.
And yet, I still enjoy all of their old stuff every bit as much as I did decades ago. Their new work might be great for all I know but can’t get past their character, and yet it doesn’t diminish any of their old stuff (Born to Run, Midnight Run, Hunt for Red October, etc) for me at all.
Anybody else feeling this vibe?
I feel ya Bro.
Yep, I have noticed. More so with actors but part of that is it is hard now to separate the actor from the character. Noticed this with Pacino and DeNiro many years back. I stopped seeing the character they were supposed to portray and just saw the actor speaking. If I watch Midnight Run, his is still a character. Though with musicians, John Legend was the first one to become un-listenable to me. Though that may be due to his awful wife as much as himself.
Also funny how DeNiro can be all F%^& Trump at some awards show and he is speaking truth to power but Let’s Go Brandon is a threat to the current resident. (No, that last word is not misspelled.)
Maybe it’s becasue they look so different now vs. then it’s easier to not see the same person
No surprise at Springsteen letting himself get sucked into Barry O’s demagoguery – this was the same guy who starred in a Super Bowl ad about “unity” that was punctuated with a red star in the middle of America at the end.
It’s really difficult to learn someone who we were once impressed by is a bafoon. Disappointing.