He Sang for Joe Stalin; Now He Sings for Barack Obama {Photo/MSM-Caption/RealStoryArticle}

UPI.com ^ | 1/20/09 | staff

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We Are One Inaugural Opening Ceremony in Washington - Pete Seeger (C) Bruce Springsteen (R) and Seeger's grandson Tao Seeger perform during the We Are One inaugural opening ceremony concert at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on January 18, 2009. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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(UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

REAL STORY:

Stalin's Songbird - by David Boaz (LINK: commentisfree.guardian.co.uk)

... Somehow, though, they didn't quite find room to detail Seeger's long habit of following the Stalinist line. Take the best example, his twists and turns during the FDR administration. Seeger tells Wilkinson that when he was at Harvard during the late 1930s he was trying to "stop Hitler" and he became disgusted with a professor who counselled appeasement. Maybe so. But after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he and his group the Almanac Singers put out an album titled Songs of John Doe that called Franklin D Roosevelt a warmongering lackey of JP Morgan.

Franklin D, listen to me,
You ain't a-gonna send me 'cross the sea.
You may say it's for defense
That kinda talk ain't got no sense.

Then within months Hitler invaded the Soviet Union. The album was pulled from the market and reportedly destroyed. The Almanac Singers quickly produced a new album, Dear Mr President, that took a different view of FDR and the war:

Now, Mr President
You're commander-in-chief of our armed forces
The ships and the planes and the tanks and the horses
I guess you know best just where I can fight ...
So what I want is you to give me a gun
So we can hurry up and get the job done!"

As the ex-communist scholar Ronald Radosh puts it, "Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam".

Seeger is not the only aging Stalinist to get the misty-eyed treatment from elite journalists....

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[Dr. Ursus]

I’m surprised Seeger didn’t say he was happy the he lived
long enough to see a Marxist in the White House!

[drpix]

If he did, do you think the MSM would report it?

[wmileo]

"We Are One"

I thought it was "We are the ones we have been waiting for".

[NewCenturions]

Aw yuk! Up came my bagel!

[billorites]

"Seeger was antiwar during the period of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; pro-war after the Soviet Union was the ally of the United States; and anti-war during the years of the Cold War and Vietnam".

His parents were academics. Would you expect anything less?

I don't agree with any of Seeger's politics, but he did do one thing right when he refused to cooperate with HUAC back in the 50's.

[Dr. Ursus]

The faux Marxist Springsteen. I wonder how many people know
thr orgins of This Land is your Land?

[drpix]

"... he did do one thing right when he refused to cooperate with HUAC back in the 50's."/i>

Yeah, a real witch hunt. Just as with witches, we all now know there were no such thing as Communist! DON'T WE????

(If you were being sarcastic... I missed it & retract my sarcasm.)

[Vaquero]

I expect the worst of Marxism and Stalinism from Seeger.

but Springsteen, the millionaire, is a royal Dooooshbag for kissing up to the uber leftists like Seeger. What an elitist turd.

[End_Clintonism_Now]

Collectivist Excrement.