You can try, but you won't find a more credible voice in the music business than The Boss. It was inevitable that his participation in Moveon.org's Vote for Change Tour would generate a significant amount of publicity. From his upcoming interview with Ted Koppel:

I stayed a step away from partisan politics because I felt it was always important to have an independent voice. I wanted my fans to feel like they could trust that ….

You build up credibility, and you build it up for a reason, you know, over a long period of time, and hopefully we've built up that credibility with our audience. And I have an audience that's Democrats, Republicans and everything else, you know. And I think there comes a time when you feel, all right, I've built this up, and it's time to spend some of this.

And further…

... I think you have a bond with your audience, and it's very particular because you've put your fingerprints on their imagination. It's really intimate. We've done it for a long time ….

I think for a percentage of my audience, this may feel like a severance of that bond, you know. But basically I feel like the relationship is more complicated than that, you know, that we're one, but we're not the same, you know ….

Basically, I would hope that I'm going to clarify some of the things that I stand for, and that clarification enriches my relationship with all parts of my life.

Hopefully the message will get out to all the professional political pundits and their ilk that this election is – finally - a serious matter, and one that may not conform to their cherished "indicators" and polls. With sober and eloquent voices like Springsteen joining the fray, those who propagate absurd lies and false accusations will be forced to redouble their efforts: it takes a lot of shit to bury a giant.