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2011-03-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Famous elderly folk singer who's not dead endorses boycott of Israel
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Posted by tu3031 2011-03-04 10:49|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Well here I am, not finished with my coffee, and already accomplished my Learn About Somebody or Something New to Me once a day goal.

Apparently he is an insecure muser who looks for the freedom of others to take care of him with a strange obsession with guilt. And can play a banjo.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-04 11:33||   2011-03-04 11:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't this the Icehole who said we should stay out of WW2 back in the days of the Molotov-Ribbentroff Pact? I'm trying to remember the exact wording, I think it was something about staying out of Mr. Roosevelt's War For The Jews.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-04 11:40||   2011-03-04 11:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Isn't he the guy who tries as hard as he can to look just like Lenin?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-03-04 12:13||   2011-03-04 12:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Shut up and Sing!

Seeger was a very talented Folk Singer in the day this is just sad
Posted by Bill Griling5080 2011-03-04 12:23||   2011-03-04 12:23|| Front Page Top

#5 It was "Mr. Roosevelt's War For J. P. Morgan". Can't say he's an anti-semite, but he was a card carrying commie until he found out Uncle Joe wasn't such a nice guy. He has settled for being a useful idiot for about 50 years.
Posted by tu3031 2011-03-04 14:31||   2011-03-04 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 In 2007, Seegar did a song that criticizes Stalin. Seegar claimed then to have realized Stalin's errors back in 1996 or so (although no one else corroborated it). Nonetheless, if one gives Seeger the benefit of the doubt and accepts the 1996 date it would mean Seegar supported Stalin 40 years after Khrushchev denounced Stalin, 50+ years after Stalin's takeover of E Europe and 60+ years after Stalin's genocide in the Ukraine.
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-03-04 14:45||   2011-03-04 14:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Wikipedia sez...

With the ever-growing revelations of Joseph Stalin's atrocities and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, however, he became increasingly disillusioned with Soviet Communism. In his PBS biography, Seeger said he "drifted away" from the CPUSA beginning in 1949 but remained friends with some who did not leave it, though he argued with them about it.
Posted by tu3031 2011-03-04 14:50||   2011-03-04 14:50|| Front Page Top

#8 At this point all ol' Pete is famous for is not being dead.
Posted by regular joe 2011-03-04 15:06||   2011-03-04 15:06|| Front Page Top

#9 He's the guy who ran around back stage with an axe at Newport '65 looking for the cables to Dylan's electric guitar.
Posted by Victor Emmanuel Wheger1262 2011-03-04 16:34||   2011-03-04 16:34|| Front Page Top

#10 And now he's someone who supports killers who run through Israeli settlements with an axe. The boomer counter-culture is the gift that just keeps giving, no matter how much you wish it would stop.
Posted by ryuge 2011-03-04 18:23||   2011-03-04 18:23|| Front Page Top

#11 The boomer counter-culture is the gift that just keeps giving, no matter how much you wish it would stop.

I hate to break this to you, but at 92 he is hardly considered a boomer. Counter-culture or otherwise.
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-03-04 20:27||   2011-03-04 20:27|| Front Page Top

#12 LOL You are right. I guess I knew less about who he was than I thought. In my mind, I have him sort of lumped in with the whole folk/protest music scene of the early sixties, without understanding how far back his career goes.
Posted by ryuge 2011-03-04 21:10||   2011-03-04 21:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Pete "I knew Stalin when he was good" Seeger
Posted by Frank G 2011-03-04 22:46||   2011-03-04 22:46|| Front Page Top

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