Bruce Springsteen: Ann Coulter an Idiot 'Rambling on Cable Television'

Thank God for Bruce Springsteen and others like him who have enough kishkes
left to speak out against the absurdities of the goings-on in this country.
The idiot fringe of which Springsteen speaks must be denied the headlines
and the momentum. And the war in Iraq? Please.

Bruce Springsteen: Ann Coulter an Idiot 'Rambling on Cable Television'
June 23, 2006

SOURCE: Editor & Publisher

Appearing on CNN today to promote his current tour and album of Pete Seeger
songs, rocker Bruce Springsteen took note of the current controversy
surrounding Ann Coulter in responding to a question about whether musicians
should speak out on politics.

Springsteen was asked if getting flack about his political views, such as
backing John Kerry in 2004, made him wonder if musicians should try so hard
to be taken seriously on topical issues.

"They should let Ann Coulter do it instead?" he mused, with a chuckle. Then
he said, "You can turn on the idiots rambling on cable television every
night, and they say musicians shouldn't speak up? It's insane, it's funny,"
he said, laughing.

He called politics "an organic part of what I'm doing. ... It's called
common sense. I don't even see it as politics at this point.''

As for the Iraq war, he commented, "You don't take your country into a major
war on circumstantial evidence -- you lose your job for that. That's my
opinion and I don't have a problem voicing that. Some people have a problem
with that, others don't."

He revealed that some former fans have mailed records back to him.

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