In "Hard-Rocking Hypocrisy" Brent Bozell looks at some of the wealthy, sanctimonious 0.1 percenter entertainers, like Bon Jovi and Bono, who pose as working-class heroes and use class warfare themes to boost their street cred and sell tickets. At the top of the list, perhaps, is Tom Joad The Boss:
In 2008, Springsteen’s song "The Rising" was a staple on the Obama campaign trail and Springsteen performed at his inauguration. He lectured the public that Obama was necessary because "We granted tax cuts to the richest one percent...increasing the division of wealth that threatens to destroy our social contract with one another...’”
Yeah, Bruce, those disgusting rich people shouldn't have loopholes, they should pay their fair share of ta….
(Springsteen) owns more than 200 acres in Colts Neck, New Jersey. The taxes for his house and three acres are more than $138,000. But because of a state tax break for farms, “the Boss” grows a few (organic) tomatoes and has horses, so the tax bill on the 200 additional acres is less than $5,000.
Somewhat related:
One-percenters in the Hamptons, a predominantly Democrat area in both citizenry and representation, are furious over an influx of immigrants they claim are tainting their area….
Lefties never walk their own talk. They are lying hypocrites who tell others how to live and then do the exact opposite. Even Micheal Moore is full of $hit. He talks about how unions are important for workers and then he only uses cheap, non-unionized employees to work on his films.
Funny how Democrats/Liberals imagine the OTHER Parties are the "Party of Big Business/the Rich", but not the guys they support.
I enjoy mentioning Liberal or Democrat billionaires to Lib/Dems,seems they haven't heard of the Aspers,Desmarais, Bombardiers,Kennedy's,Buffet,etc.etc. Nope, the Dem-Libs are the Parties of the "little people", by whom I suppose they mean midgets and leprechauns.
That link to the "Hamptons" gave me the best laugh I've had all day! Thanks! :-)
Libs are the Parties of the "little people", by whom I suppose they mean midgets and leprechauns.
Cracked me up.
8^)
“Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.”
― Michel Templet
So are you small dead hypocrites for farm subsidies, or against farm subsidies, or for or against depending on the politics of the recipient, or what? Whatever it is, it is certainly not based on principle. So if you are without principle, who in the hell are you to preach?
Never cared for Springsteen.
Hey phil, masturbating again?
Cut it off.
@phil.....It's pretty obvious that Bruce Springsteen has never been or intends to ever be a farmer. He like so many leftists never put their own money where there mouth is. He is taking advantage of a subsidy meant for people who actually make a living providing food for the masses. Somehow I doubt Bruce Springsteen maintains his garden for purposes other than a tax haven. This immoral behaviour is common with people on the left, who believe the social causes they advance somehow gives them the right to swindle the system as a form of payback for their support. This behaviour has been scientifically studied before. A university set up opportunities for shoppers to switch price labels to a lower price in 2 different stores. One a normal store and the other that catered to green shoppers. Guess which shoppers swindled the stores by manipulating the price labels, yes, the Green shoppers. So phil, people who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
"So are you small dead hypocrites for farm subsidies, or against farm subsidies, or for or against depending on the politics of the recipient, or what? Whatever it is, it is certainly not based on principle. So if you are without principle, who in the hell are you to preach?"
We're against hypocrites who make use of tax loopholes, especially when there's a degree of dishonesty involved, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME lecturing the rest of us about paying our "fair share".
It's the same with climate change zealots like Gore and Suzuki who consume huge quantities of energy while telling the rest of us that we need to "conserve".
Typical leftard.And you bet your bottom that this gimp doesn't even tend to his few "organic"(ALL effin food is organic)tomaters,but has his butt-boy gardener to it.After all,contrary to what they tell you,next to Arabs in general,and muzzies in particular,leftards are the second biggest supporters of slavery in the world.Always have been.
Wasamatter phil darling? Get a steak from Mommy not properly done for you today?
The folks in the Hampton's being overrun by immigrants, that cracks me up! It's all good until it comes to their hood.
Reminds me of how Albertans are characterized as ignorant, intolerants rednecks by much of the press, yet a study showed Calgary & Edmonton in the top three cities in Canadawhere people were open & tolerant to neighbors who's cultures were different that there own. Albertans are just not as open to Leftard socialism as the press would prefer.
Phil seems a little cranky. His mommy/nanny/custodian must not have put him to bed and tucked him in at his prescribed bed time. Go to bed ,Phil. The grown ups are talking.
The folks in the Hampton's being overrun by immigrants, that cracks me up! It's all good until it comes to their hood.
Reminds me of how Albertans are characterized as ignorant, intolerants rednecks by much of the press, yet a study showed Calgary & Edmonton in the top three cities in Canadawhere people were open & tolerant to neighbors who's cultures were different than their own. Albertans just tend to not be as open to Leftard socialism as the press would prefer.
Yup bring them in to squat and squabble with the little people, "just not in my neighborhood".
The Liberal elites are all about multiculturalism & high tax's, right up until it actually affects them personally. Then it's pick up sticks and white flight to greener pastures with little or no tax, and the little brown people tend the gardens.
On the other hand, the poor useful idiot Liberals, troll sites like SDA and freely prostitute themselves out defending their rich masters like golden idols worthy of blind puppy worship.
Yeah..
Old Boss millionaire Bruce sings all about his brother having a hootch girl in Saigon,
and getting killed in Vietnam.
Then poor Boss came home from the war and poor brother couldn't find a job.
Truth:
Lying little hair headed hippie turd!
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These little lefty turds are the reason 4 out of 5 men who tell you they served in Vietnam,
can sing about it,
but it never happened.
Happy 4th!
You little lefty Millionaire dirt scum sucking
'Boss'
(paid for by the blood of true heroes.)
HAPPY 4TH!
To my friends, see you soon,
Agent Orange Short-
marking my days..
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FREDERICK (Freddie) BEARD LINK
LCPL - E3 - Marine Corps - Regular
Length of service 2 years
His tour began on Oct 25, 1967
Casualty was on Mar 1, 1968
In QUANG TRI, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
CHARLES AVERY DELLINGER
PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 17, 1967
Casualty was on Jan 29, 1968
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
MISADVENTURE-killed by his own squad.
Body was recovered
ODELL (butch) STOKES JR
PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
25th Infantry Division
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Nov 21, 1967
Casualty was on Jan 2, 1968
In TAY NINH, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
VERNON EUGENE LAIL JR
SP4 - E4 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Sep 12, 1968
Casualty was on Mar 3, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered
Steven Hayward at Poweline offers this observation that links well with EBD's post:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/07/liberalisms-biggest-lie.php
He seems to describe most of my academic colleagues, and too many other people I come across these days. They share the same definition of "the rich", namely, "Anyone who has anything more than I do."
Springsteen's horses aren't farm horses, either. His daughter, Jessica, is a world-class jumper:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1386741/Bruce-Springsteen-watches-daughter-Jessica-Windsor-Horse-Show.html
You don't join this riders' circuit on peanuts. It's money and prestige all the way.
Bruce Springsteen and the other I'm-so-righteous-rich guys aren't fooling anyone. They're so privileged, however, they can say and do anything they want and figure the rest of us won't notice.
Uh uh, Brucie. We're watching.
About the money.
Why is it that people point to other people that they are rich?
Whose business is it to decide who is rich?
Who is it that tells other people to share their wealth?
Only the rich socialist/fascist aristocrats should be pointed to, since they tell everyone else to share the wealth while evading any reference to themselves much like the socialist Michael Moore.
The socialists, as those that want to know, know, are always the producers of envy.
There is an add on radio in Alberta, where a guy is telling how companies running institutions for old people are low life, never thinking that the Alberta union of provincial employees are on par with them.
Among the many strategic weaknesses of the OCCUPY movement is its failure to garner much visible high-profile celebrity support.
But then, heh-heh, it's hard if you're a major celebrity to be seen raging against the wealthy "one percent" when, er, rather awkwardly, you happen to be one of them.
Brucee is well known and rich because he can sing, Pamala Anderson doesn't need to ,ahm, sing, tho she has the "lungs"
hippocrits all
Well of course! The point of letting them in was so exotic women could clean their toilets and pipes and cook them exotic food when the elites came to the city, and do it for nearly nothing. Then the elites could leave for their country estates to let the plain people of America clean up the mess the exotic women's pups made in the house, and lecture the plain people about racism when they complained in public (while enjoying their joke at the expense of the "bourgeoisie" in private).
It's the same everywhere. In Britain the elites take in Romanian gypsies so they can look good at cocktail parties in Brussels and Strasbourg. The gypsies don't wind up in Knightsbridge, of course---the elites dump them in Belfast to spite the Ulstermen (as if being sold to Dublin and Rome wasn't insult or injury enough).
The plan of our own moral and legal superiors when places like Calgary and Toronto fall into Islamist hands (for example) is to be far away, somewhere like Singapore or Dubai, where they can enjoy fine dining, fine scotch and fine women, and laugh themselves sick at the expense of the plain people of Canada.
That's the deal elites have with the devil---he assures them that if they play their cards right and do his bidding just right, they can have everything they think they want and will never, ever, have to face the consequences.
northemont and Lev, well said.
The champagne socialists are the experts in hypocracie.
Dammit - I grow tomatoes on my 1.2 acres in New Jersey and pay over twice as much property tax as Springsteen.
Springsteen is your usual multimillionaire lib posing as one of the people.
Complete fraud.
You might think the young folk who were gulled into joining the Occupy charade might notice a 1%er like Springsteen paying a measly $5k in taxes on a 200 acre estate in a very exclusive town, Colts Neck, and be revolted by the hypocrisy of this mock blue class squaller.
I would expect Obummer to pickup the phone to "the boss" and demand he do his share. Either that or cut a cheque for his campaign. It's all the same, right !!!
EBD
yes, thank you,
enough said, man
D
Yeah well..........how 'bout Rosie O'Donnell....tried to rip a strip of Selnick for doing an NRA commercial...
.......moved to Conneticutt, hired a body guard for her kid and then applied for a CC permit for said body guard.........
let's be honest here, most rock aristocracy are hypocrites - the whole R&R lifestyle is a decadent profligant ride of material excesses - but it was bought pimping the class stuggle mythos.
That's why I like Zappa the only thing he ever pimped was stay away from dope and don't forget to vote or you end up being ruled by your moral inferiors.
I like to remind lefty acquaintances that oil is organic. Comes out of Gods green earth same as marijuana, right? Gets 'em steaming every time.
Dick Slater >
Ya nailed it.
Only someone who has spent plenty of time in Dubai and Singapore could appreciate that comment for its plain truth.
"Posted by: Fearless Leader at July 5, 2012 4:34 AM"
There's always somebody better off, but life is generally still pretty good.
Thanks for reminding us to keep things in perspective.
Why does Springsteen get to decide the terms of the social contract and not, say, Ron Paul ?
I'm sure that the Boss' cheque for the other $133k is just lost in the mail. Should turn up anytime.
You little lefty Millionaire dirt scum sucking
Gee, you really want to go there, when you have the chickenhawk brigade in your camp, constantly beating the drums of war.... you know, Dubya, Cheney, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Adler, McMillan, etc., etc., who just love war as long as someone else does the bleeding.
Hey Phil, did you forget that Clinton sent troops into Somalia and Kosovo? And that Obama is quite fond of ordering the use of drones to kill terrorists and then spends quite a bit of time watching the videos of the attacks. Kinda like snuff movies paid for by the American tax payer for the president's thrills.
Even in Canada we have liberals sending troops off into harm's way. We had Chretien sending troops to the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda where they were poorly funded and equipped and the resulting casualties in the FRY were covered up. And when troops got into gun fights the actions were not reported by the media for fear of political backlash against the liberals. Remember the Medak Pocket incident?
And in 2006 I found myself in a war in Afghanistan at the behest of the liberal party.
So if you think that the right is the only side sending troops to war then you are as stupid as you are delusional.
There is no doubt that phil is stupid,I told him years ago to buy a farm and get in on the gravy train,but no,he continues to live off his ailing mother and,oh,I guess that he has a gravy train,pardon me phil,you just had to be born to be rich.
Well ... there is no cure for stupid...
Back to the subject at hand .... you would be hard pressed to find any financially secure person who does not harbour or openly express some form of elitist sanctimony. It's a common human failing.
This does not mean that they should be above criticism. Just that you should expect it and expect more in those who have really achieved success that exceeds their abilities. That would be most entertainers and quite a few politicians.
In the case of those like the troll of the day here it is nothing but posturing by losers who think that acting like those self entitled bozos makes them something other than the pathetic snot nozzles they are.
Also .... I don't begrudge guys like Springsteen looking for tax breaks because I'd do the same thing.
What is worth noting is when this sort start preaching on how others should abide by a set of moral standards or social rules they have no intention of following themselves.
Can't blame Springsteen for tacking advantage of a tax loophole. The politicians were planning ahead when they slipped that one in.
In case Phil was wondering, I am opposed to subsidizing Quebec dairy farmers, while putting hundreds if western dairy farmers out of business, when I can go over to Washington State and get milk, cheese and other dairy products for less than half the price. I think the Conservative government agrees with me and there are to be some changes occurring there. There'll be no crying over spilled milk except in La Belle Provence.
There'll be no crying over spilled milk except in La Belle Provence.
You think that because you are an ignoramus. Do you really think supply management exists in no other province? Have you a clue what the taxpayer cost of elimination of marketing boards would be?
There'll be no crying over spilled milk except in La Belle Provence.
You think that because you are an ignoramus. Do you really think supply management exists in no other province? Have you a clue what the taxpayer cost of elimination of marketing boards would be?
There'll be no crying over spilled milk except in La Belle Provence.
You think that because you are an ignoramus. Do you really think supply management exists in no other province? Have you a clue what the taxpayer cost of elimination of marketing boards would be?
My favorite is when The Artist© finds out somebody to the right of Kim Jong Il is using one of their songs, and comes over all huffy about how they "didn't give permission!" and such like.
Public Performance fee, genius. Read your freakin' contract sometime.
I might be an ignoramus Phil, but not so much that I need to be told 3 times! You ignoramus!