CBS Sunday Morning I had a chat with Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama to discuss their podcast. You might not expect me to be as candid and as humble as I was.
Introducing the segment, host Jane Pauley gushed “each of them can legitimately claim to be the boss. Anthony Mason is talking with former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen.”
CBS correspondent Anthony Mason visited the two of them at Springsteen’s New Jersey farm which he hypocritically uses as a tax write-off in order to pay less taxes while simultaneously lecturing Americans on “paying their fair share.”
Cutting to footage of Obama and Springsteen driving away in a convertible, Mason gushes: “A rock star and former President hitting the road. If it looks like a buddy movie well, it’s kind of become one.”
Explaining how it came to be, Obama claimed “Bruce Springsteen decided to charitably help out some not very well-known new U.S. Senator who had the audacity to run for President.”
Mason asked Obama if “in some ways, your father’s absence drove your ambition?” In response, Obama said “absolutely. My father wasn’t there. When I was 2, he left. I met him only once, knew him for about a month.” “That’s interesting how influential that month turned out to be” Mason gushed in response.
Later on in the interview, Mason attempted to return to reality by moving on from Obama and Springsteen’s bromance and their podcast to ask “how are you feeling about the midterms and how the President is doing?”
Obama insisted he thinks “Joe Biden is pursuing the exact policies that need to be pursued.”
Hedging a bit, he added “has he been able to bridge the polarization that we’ve seen building up over several decades now? No. And in fairness to him, I wasn’t able to slow that down as much as I would have liked, and certainly my successor, you know, actively promoted it.”
Mason didn’t jump in to tell Obama that Mason was responsible for the political polarization during his presidency. Instead, Obama let Mason act as if he were above all the chaos.
“We’re going to have to figure out how do we regain some sense of a common American story and I think that is gonna be a longer-term project” Obama lectured. “I think that’s a 10, 20-year process.”
Springsteen ended by claiming “we can be momentarily polarized, but at the end of the day, history is moving on.”
The fact that Obama and Springsteen are going to solve our nation’s “polarization” is laughable. If Anthony Mason was a real reporter he would’ve pointed that out.
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CBS Sunday Morning
July 24, 2022
Eastern at 9:59 a.m.JANE PAULEY: They can all legitimately say they are the boss. Anthony Mason talks with Bruce Springsteen and former President Barack Obama. This is a story that we think makes Sunday great.
(…)
10:00:19 Eastern
ANTHONY MAIN: Former President and rock star hitting the road. It’s almost like a buddy movie. It all started back in 2008.
BARACK OBAMA – Bruce Springsteen chose to charitably assist some new U.S. senators. The Senator who was brave enough to run for the presidency.
(…)
Eastern, 10:04 a.m
MASON: I have a question for you. Bruce, you mentioned something that struck me in your podcast. It was about how your father was influenced by your work.
BRUCE Springsteen: I am more convinced of this conclusion the more I reflect on the past.
MASON: How did you do that?
SPRINGSTEEN: I tried to make him happy by trying to become a person that he liked. I wanted to have success and I felt that I could be a vengeance for his failures. So I began to tell working class stories, filled with hope, compassion and anger. Barack probably had the same experience. You were trying to impress anyone?
MASON: That was the next question. Is it possible that your father’s absence influenced your desire to achieve your goals?
OBAMA: Absolutely. My father wasn’t there. When I was 2, he left. Although I only met him once, I knew him for approximately a month.
MASON: How influential was that month?
OBAMA: Well, that’s right. A whole book I called “Dreams From My Father” was written by me, who I had never met.
(…)
Eastern, 10:07:07
MASON: How do you feel about the midterms? What is the President’s performance in the future?
OBAMA: Joe Biden seems to have the right policies. Has he been able to bridge the polarization that we’ve seen building up over several decades now? No. To be fair to him, I was unable to slow it down as much and my successor, as you know, actively encouraged it.
The next step is to find a way to restore a sense that the common American story. I believe this will take longer than expected. It will take 10, 20, years to accomplish this.
SPRINGSTEEN – It’s the next generation.
OBAMA: This is a process that will take place over many generations. It is a generational process. The bad news is, I think young people have a more common story, while older people like us had to leave the path.
SPRINGSTEEN – There’s no way back. Although we may be polarized for a moment, it is not permanent. History moves forward.
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