Another hypocrite poseur

Singer/songwriter, limousine liberal activist and self-proclaimed champion of the working man Bruce Springsteen is voicing belated regrets about distributing his latest "Greatest Hits" album (an unnecessary reissue, in some fans' few) exclusively (and lucratively, for him) through Wal-Mart, a corporation regularly bashed by him and his ilk for fighting efforts by organized labor to insert their union meat hooks into the company's successful business.

Springsteen apparently doesn't regret the deal enough to attempt to get out of it, though.

"Springsteen's team didn't vet the issue as closely as it should have, and that he "dropped the ball on it," he told the Times for a story to be published in Sunday editions and previewed on its Web site."

You know, because Wal-Mart's stance on unionization is such a big secret and all, and his handlers just couldn't seem to dig up that nugget before being informed of it.

"Many of his songs specifically reference the workingman’s plight. For example:

• “Johnny 99”-- A laid off and poor auto worker shoots a night clerk (presumably during a robbery).
• “Atlantic City”-- A man with “debts no honest man can pay” ends up doing a “favor” for the mafia.
• “The Ghost of Tom Joad”-- inspired by Woody Guthrie’s “The Ballad of Tom Joad” and John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” it paints a brutal picture of the Dustbowl and equates it to modern times."

I guess "The Ballad of Paying For My New Private Jet With All of The Moolah I'm Going To Extract From You Suckers" just doesn't have quite the same ring.