On the Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band: Live 1975-1985 box set, which I got for my birthday in 1986 on cassette (!) and which was my first encounter with Springsteen live, there’s a cover of Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land”. In the introduction to this song Bruce mentions that “there’s a book out there by a fellow named Joe Klein” about Woodie Guthrie and it’s “real good” and that’s what always goes through my head when I read posts like this. There was once a time that Joe Klein wasn’t a know nothing asshole proud to lick the boots of every two bit wingnut coming down the spike and you wonder if it’s sadder if he knows how deep he has sunk in the twentyfive years since that snippet was recorded or if he doesn’t know.