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Springsteen's Homage to Pete Seeger
By Tom Moon

World Cafe, April 25, 2006 - On the new collection We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Bruce Springsteen honors the folk music tradition that has inspired many of his own compositions over the years. All the tracks on the new album are standards closely associated with folk icon Pete Seeger.

Springsteen assembled large ensemble of acoustic musicians to flavor the proceedings with everything from accordion to tuba. Rock critic Tom Moon talks with host David Dye about why he reacted so strongly and positively towards this latest offering by The Boss.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5360791
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetwork.org:
Profile: PETE SEEGER

*Musician, folksinger, songwriter, and political activist

*Joined the Communist Party in 1942

*"I'm still a Communist" -- Pete Seeger, 2004

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1619
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"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. To Nichols -a rather dense left-winger -it is good form to acknowledge that perhaps 'Stalin was a bad guy,' and then simply get over it, and move on to campaign for very American socialist causes." --Ronald Radosh (former communist)

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=01133F31-CE9A-40BC-B797-47CBB0023EF4
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NYT Writer Corrects Record: Pete Seeger 'Only' 40 Years Late in Denouncing Stalin
By P.J. Gladnick
2007-09-02

The New York Times has now corrected [1] a "smear" about Pete Seeger being 50 years too late in denouncing Stalin. Thanks to the intrepid research of Times reporter Daniel J. Wakin, the record has now been set straight. Pete Seeger was only about 40 years too late in criticizing Stalin.

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2007/09/02/ny-times-writer-corrects-record-pete-seeger-only-40-years-late-denounc
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"We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial"

Source:
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/4Jfw6fON_zH/One+Obama+Inaugural+Celebration+Lincoln+Memorial/1NNi5cTZF2d/Bruce+Springsteen
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YouTube video clip: Pete Seeger & Bruce Springsteen HQ "This Land is Your Land" "We Are One" Obama Inaugural
note: there's a brief shot of Obama singing along at approximately 3 mins and 15 secs into the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5KnYADCSms
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"... on April 22, 1970, [the very first] Earth Day was held, one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy... "
--American Heritage Magazine, October 1993
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Earth Day, April 22, 1970:
"The nationwide event included opposition to the Vietnam War on the agenda, but this was thought to detract for the environmental message.
Pete Seeger was a keynote speaker and performer at the event held in Washington DC."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day#Earth_Day_1970
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Vladimir Lenin
Владимир Ильич Ленин
Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars
In office: November 8, 1917 – January 21, 1924

Born April 22, 1870
Died January 21, 1924
Political party Bolshevik Party
Profession Politician, revolutionary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
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Earth Day founded on Lenin's 100th birthday? --yeah, it's a "coincidence". LOL!

[library user]

Bruce is a douche. Pass it on.

[Liberty Valance]

Why do gazillionaire musicians turn into commies after making their fortunes within a capitalist system?

[DakotaRed]

“The Boss,” huh?

Truer than ever, Boss spelled backwards is Double s o-b.

[reg45]

Bruce Springsteen and AARP (Anti-American Retarded Propagandists) deserve each other.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The “Boss” doesn’t speak for me.

[rlmorel]

Word of the day: “Banal”.

[Clara Lou]

Well, it’s conlusive, then. The Boss is a tool of AARP. I don’t like him, and I don’t like AARP. They’re a matched set.

[noname07718]

I met him in a bar no more, Ralphs on St. Hwy 34, back in the eighties and he was a schmuck then. Now he is a rich schmuck that has forgotten how and what made him rich.

[Blind Eye Jones]

60 years old and still brain dead. Altimers must have hit early.

[autumnraine]

Bruce is an ass. Far beyond his political beliefs, he cheated on his wife by knocking up his back up singer while married and dumping said wife for poontang slut. Then wants to come off like he is some good ole boy family man. Douchebag.

[STONEWALLS]

...looks tickets to see the “the Boss” at Giant’s stadium aren’t exactly going for egalitarian prices...

http://www.ticketliquidator.com/tix/tickets.aspx?evtid=1098095

[Popman]

Bruce used to play at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park NJ when I was a teenager. Saw him and the E street band play in a local theater in Red Bank, NJ when I was about 17 years old. Thirty plus years ago

Who know he would become such a d**khead

[Right Wing Assault]

I never liked Brucie in the first place. No offense to anyone here, but ‘Born to Run’ seemed like such an overwrought thing. I can’t believe a man would sing something like that and in that way.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

“At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the middle of my head...”

Now maybe he can sing it to his night nurse.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, happy birthday Bruce. Still ain’t a fan of your music, or your moonbat politics.

[TheVitaminPress]

This is a man who made some fantastic albums that never made any money. Then he started making atrocious albums that had commercial potential so that he could make some money. I will not be lectured to by a man who so thoroughly betrayed his talent to make a quick couple of million bucks and now demands that the real middle class turn over the product of their labors to those who have committed no labors at all. I will not be persuaded by an artist who diminished the aggregate quality of art in the world just to increase the aggregate amount of bucks in his bank account and now dares to call the system of economy allowing the greatest amount of economic liberty to the greatest number of people as oppressive. I will not be ingratiated to a working class hero who has never done a days worth of work in his life.