Closing Time

Ophef in rechts Amerika! (Die deze keer zelfs tot in Nederland doordrong.)

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl en Zac Brown speelden vorige week tijdens een benefietconcert voor veteranen het nummer Fortunate Son van Creedance Clearwater Revival.

Conservatieven reageerden als door een wesp gestoken:

Who would have thought that that Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, and Zac Brown, accomplished musicians all, would be so, well, tone-deaf? But how else to explain their choice of song—Creedence Clearwater’s famously anti-war anthem “Fortunate Son”—at the ostensibly pro-military “Concert for Valor” this evening on the National Mall?

The song, not to put too fine a point on it, is an anti-war screed, taking shots at “the red white and blue.” It was a particularly terrible choice given that Fortunate Son is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.