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Pete Seeger dies at 94
Fox News ^ | 1/28/2014 | Fox News

Posted on 01/28/2014 5:58:18 AM PST by Mercat

NEW YORK – Pete Seeger, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, college students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, died Monday at the age of 94.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society
KEYWORDS: 4ththread; antiamerican; communism; folkmusic; hollywoodreds; music; nakedcommunist; obit; obituary; peteseeger; prodictator; seeger
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Never met him. Met his grandson. RIP Pete. Comments?
1 posted on 01/28/2014 5:58:18 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Mercat

Good. The old commie.


2 posted on 01/28/2014 5:59:53 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: Mercat
Unlike many conservatives I've *always* loved *some* of the folk music of the 60’s.I don't always agree with the message but,somehow,I still love it.However,Pete Seeger...the “godfather” of modern folk (along with Woody Guthrie) was a rabid,in-your-face,Communist and for that reason I say “rot in hell,Pete”.
3 posted on 01/28/2014 6:01:42 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Mercat
Off to that workers paradise in the sky.

Or some other place.

4 posted on 01/28/2014 6:01:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Mercat

Somewhere a solitary Commie is crying.


5 posted on 01/28/2014 6:03:23 AM PST by Inwoodian
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To: Mercat

Pete Seeger - the smiling musical Communist.


6 posted on 01/28/2014 6:04:29 AM PST by servo1969
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To: Paine in the Neck

He was personally responsible for the “folk movement’ which made pop music a vehicle for Communist propaganda, and he used talented musicians to further his evil agenda.

“Maggie’s Farm” was a direct affront to his self-righteous, imperious, controlling grip on the young talent of the day.

I do not mourn his passing.


7 posted on 01/28/2014 6:04:42 AM PST by left that other site
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To: Paine in the Neck

If he had a hammer (it would be on a red flag with a sickle)


8 posted on 01/28/2014 6:05:35 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: left that other site

there will be more like him.


9 posted on 01/28/2014 6:06:13 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I met and listened to one of his relatives in Canada sing his famous line, “I might be right, I might be wrong, but I’ve got the right to sing this song.” I pointed out that in Canada he didn’t have the right to sing the song, he had the permission and that it was only in the United States with its 1st Amendment that he had the right. Didn’t make me very popular.


10 posted on 01/28/2014 6:07:13 AM PST by Mercat
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In a different lifetime, I met him. Nothing much, but he played a little song for me when I complimented him. Since then, my eyes have been opened about what the American left is. I hope his family finds peace and turns from leftism.


11 posted on 01/28/2014 6:07:20 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The industry is crawling with them now. The patriotic conservative entertainer/actor/musician is a rarity these days.


12 posted on 01/28/2014 6:07:29 AM PST by left that other site
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To: PghBaldy

I expect Obama to issue a statement.


13 posted on 01/28/2014 6:09:09 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Mercat

shedding no tears


14 posted on 01/28/2014 6:09:56 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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"If he had a hammer (it would be on a red flag with a sickle)"

LOL!! Should be on his headstone!
15 posted on 01/28/2014 6:10:15 AM PST by NewCenturions
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—and , like any number of present-day Marxist hypocrites, taking advantage of a semi-capitalist system, he wandered the country obtaining “folk “ songs then copyrighted them for his own enrichment-—


16 posted on 01/28/2014 6:11:22 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Mercat

Honestly, I won’t dance on his grave, but I’m not mourning his loss either. He had a love affair with Mumia Abu Jamal, Che, Fidel, etc. He was great granddaddy of useful idiots.


17 posted on 01/28/2014 6:12:57 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Mercat

Never got into his music. Learned some 5-string from his book though. It was pretty good. Still can’t believe how The Weavers butchered “Good Night Irene.”


18 posted on 01/28/2014 6:14:48 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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The patriotic conservative entertainer/actor/musician is a rarity these days.

How right you are. The "reverse blacklist" against conservatives and believing Christians is far stronger than the 1950s era blacklist against Communists and their sympathizers. The only media venues where conservatives and believing Christians dominate are in talk radio and country music. Leftist led boycotts invariably fail when they go against persons whose market is supported by conservatives, most notably the boycotts against Rush Limbaugh, Chick-Fil-a, and Duck Dynasty. Conversely, ask the Dixie Chicks how well their careers went after they denounced George W. Bush in England.

19 posted on 01/28/2014 6:18:14 AM PST by Wallace T.
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I find it amazing that people like Seeger and Castro can live long, long lives and still not abandon the inane ideology of their youth, despite experiencing a lifetime of its failures. People who are genuine idealogs must be, in a sense, psychopaths.

Well, at least Seeger never killed or imprisoned anybody, to my knowledge, which is much more than I can say for Fidel Castro.


20 posted on 01/28/2014 6:19:25 AM PST by DeFault User
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