Just got an email from my best friend who watched Springsteen on the Today Show this morning. He said Bruce had this little intro before a song:

"Over the past six years, we’ve had to add to the American picture - rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter supression, no habeus corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and her people, an attack on the Constitution and the loss of our best young men and women in a tragic war. This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here happening here." Read more…