Bruce Springsteen at Nationals Park Roll Call

hutch wrote:
talked with david corn on subway ride home…

not to thread-jack, but my theory on the boss and DC is that the political elite here, irrespective of party but often dems, latch onto him partly out of an insecurity that they don't understand regular outside-the-beltway people and see bruce as a proxy for a regular joe.  by adoring him they prove their average guy credentials.  or something.

^ You may very well be onto something. Tend to fully agree with you on this.

Meanwhile, when the elite Republican insiders do the same thing, they seem to lean more towards some sort of mainstream Country music.

Like either of these groups have any clue what it's like to be a regular Joe or Jane anymore. Even the ones who started out that way. It's like once they 'make it', their brains are lobotomized and they lose complete understanding of what's going on off the Hill or outside of their highly protected secure little worlds. Guess that's why they have to hire focus groups to figure out all that stuff for them. We all know how well that did for mainstream radio. You get your choice of A or B. Meanwhile, we're all grooving out to X, Y and Z.

Hutch - those were my same thoughts when we saw Bruce earlier this year…

Or maybe it's middle-class people feeling better about themselves by hearing about the struggles of lower-class people.  I know that's why I watch Cops.