Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to Tim Russert, who has risen in death from regular guy hard-nosed journalist and Buffalo Bills fan to citizen-saint in a week in which his only competition as most celebrated cultural personage is the indomitable-even-when-injured Tiger Woods. Like Woods, Russert is being extolled for a dependability achieved by dint of hard work and determination at a time when journalistic honesty and impartiality is regarded with as much suspicion as the achievements of performance enhancing athletes. Here's the clip of Springsteen doing "Thunder Road" that was played at Russert's memorial at the Kennedy Center in D.C. yesterday.
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