Waist Deep in the Big Media

Campus Report ^ | March 26, 2008 | Justin Benedict

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Waist Deep In The Big Media

by: Justin Benedict, March 26, 2008

Schools are his favorite venue but media darling Pete Seeger may want to pass on more than folk songs to the next generation.

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation pursued Pete Seeger until the only job he could get was singing to kids,” said David King Dunaway, author of How Can I Keep Him From Singing: Pete Seeger. “They never thought there’d be a problem with Pete Seeger singing to six-year-olds.”

“Little did they know that out of that came not a subversive movement, but an American folk music revival that I think we have to give the FBI credit for helping to establish.” Dunaway’s octogenarian subject is enjoying something of a media renaissance in which his past political activism is largely airbrushed.

Speaking at a March 19th Library of Congress lecture entitled “Force and Violins: What the FBI Had On Folksingers” Mr. Dunaway confirmed that indeed Pete Seeger was a Communist, though this did not seem to bother the English professor a great deal. The University of New Mexico professor had a five-year lawsuit against the FBI and CIA, eventually obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and detailed much of the “persecution” Seeger and other musicians endured while being investigated by these agencies, such as the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s hearings on prosecuting a popular folksong quartet, the Weavers, for “Sedition and Overthrowing the Government by Force and Violence.”....

....Pete Seeger and his band, the Almanacs, propogandized for unions in their songs, as well as protesting American intervention in World War II during the time that the Hitler-Stalin pact was actually being observed with lyrics such as:

“Franklin D., listen to me,/You ain’t a-gonna send me ’cross the sea.”...

[ClearCase_guy]

I was born in 1960, and as a young child I was exposed to a great deal of folk music in school. Negro spirituals, Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Tom Rush, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, they were played during recess as well as in music class.

I like the stuff. But I know how to recognize propaganda when I hear it.

[Jaxter]

"Pete Seeger and his band...protesting American intervention in World War II.."

Right. Until Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.

[Owl558]

“Pete Seeger and his band...protesting American intervention in World War II..”

The airbrush job done by these communists and media supporters in order to hide their early support of both Stalin and Hitler obscures yet another shameful betrayal of this country by the left. It was only when their hero Stalin was getting pummelled by the NAZIs that they did a 180 and started supporting American intervention in WWII.

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A book written by a guy named Ronald Rodash ID'd all the commies among us today. Seeger. Peter Paul and Mary. Dylan. He even wrote about America's own Little Red School House, and the summer camps that instructed kids in being good socialists.

Yes, Virginia, there really are Red Diaper Doper Babies among us. The media just never tells us.