Hannibal Cash Esq.

I am sorry that Chris Christie and Jeffrey Goldberg cannot get Bruce to say boo to them (although I have to tell you, Springsteen’s outright and deliberate snub of Christie makes me LIKE HIM MORE; he is not Bono, and I do not need or want him to be) but the amount of bargaining that they have to do with themselves to not think about the fact that they are the people that the people in Bruce’s songs are fighting against is not his fault, or my fault, or anyone’s fault but their own. Yes, song interpretation is a personal thing, but to whitewash 40 years of songwriting with a statement like “he thinks it’s all a zero-sum game: in order to get poor people more money, it has to be taken away from the rich” goes much further than the complete tone-deafness involved in playing “State Trooper” over your iPhone when you are being driven by actual NJ State Troopers.