The Concert for Valor: Bruce Springsteen's Unfortunate Song

Anti-Military Anthem Played at 'Concert for Valor'  "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. 

 

"On a musical level, “Fortunate Song” is not a bad song—that's one hell of a riff. But the “Concert for Valor,” a Veterans Day event sponsored by HBO and Starbucks, in front of the Capitol Building, was not the place for it."

 

 

Weasel Zippers only comment was, "What an absolute douchebag" but I'm sure they meant it in a nice way.

WaPo: Bruce Springsteen’s antiwar songs at Concert for Valor didn’t go over too well
... "But it was the song’s third chorus that really got people’s dander up on the Mall. In that one, Fogerty insisted he “ain’t no military son.” Here’s Springsteen singing the offending lyric as Grohl and Brown bang their heads:" ...
 

Code Pink Holds Anti-Military Protest Outside Event Honoring Veterans… Video
"Keepin’ it classy.

"Via MRC:

On Veterans Day a free concert was held on the National Mall in honor of those who have served their country in the United States Military.  Many of these men and women lost their lives or have been seriously injured for life in service to their country.
But the fact that the night was to honor our fighting men and women didn’t seem to bother the leftist, anti-war group “Code Pink.”
The group decided to stage an anti-war and anti-military protest right outside the gates where attendees were entering the concert.
One U.S. veteran protesting with Code Pink said that, “technically,” he served in the U.S. military during the Reagan Administration – but, “I was a Communist in the Army.”