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Monday, May 4. 2009

The crazy old coot turns 90

Pete Seeger, at Powerline. Gotta admit that Pete did a good job with Abiyoyo and Sam the Sailor or the Whaler or whatever it is called. I heard him perform years ago at Tanglewood.


His dangerous innocence has made him good with kids' songs, and a fervent supporter of mass-murdering totalitarian oppressors of the common man - provided they were of the Commie variety. Thus his inscription on his banjo, Woody Guthrie-style, "This machine kills fascists," has an unintended irony which Jonah Goldberg would appreciate.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 06:43 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Dangerous innocence' is a good way to describe Pete Seeger. But I'm disappointed in him. To be a socialist at the age of 20 is perhaps understandable. But to persist in being a socialist at the age of 90 is a Bad Sign.

I always liked Richard Dyer-Bennett better.

Marianne
#1 Marianne Matthews on 2009-05-04 16:46 (Reply)
Yup, he was a card-carrying member of the ACP until about 1959, I recently read.
#2 Steve on 2009-05-04 18:49 (Reply)

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