The Democrat snooze media already is falling all over itself to canonize the old Stalinist folk singer who died Monday at 94.
So it’s refreshing to find at least one fellow refusing to minimize or ignore Seeger’s lifelong Communist warts. And in the WaPo, of all places. Well, sort of in the WaPo. Not on the front page, you can be sure.
Can’t say I ever cared much for Seeger’s songs or his voice. And I don’t think he really accomplished all the progressive stuff he’s credited with. He was a generation behind me. But, then, so was Artie Shaw and I still dig him.
UPDATE: Lest I leave out Seeger’s support of Hitler, as well.
MORE: More on the Totalitarian Troubadour, Communism’s Pied Piper.
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Rob has done a fine one on the subject:
http://joshuapundit.blogspot.com/2014/01/obama-praises-prominent-communist-as.html
Thanks for the link. It’s a dandy post, especially this summary:
“Pete Seeger was a lifelong advocate of evil, whatever he might have thought of it if he even bothered to think. He used his considerable talents to promote it and influence people to support it during his entire life. He saw what he wanted to see and ignored what was inconvenient. He mouthed support for ‘freedom’, but was himself a force for repression and slavery….In sum, he was a hypocrite whose actions supported everything he claimed to be against.”
We know Obutthead is a fool who lies by commission and omission. With help from the left, Seeger had managed to hide his foolishness (at the least) in recent decades.