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Changing His Tune
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| 12 May 2019
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 05/17/2019 5:17:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Pete Seeger leads the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York
Seeger was an unrepentant communist whp practiced personal capitalism. Like all lefties, a total hypocrite.
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:17:23 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Nothing worse than a rich, smug communist. Bernie Sanders fits that model too.
To: hardspunned
James Lileks, the bard of Minnesota, once offered this trenchant analysis of Pete Seeger: "'If I Had A Hammer'? Well, what's stopping you? Go to the hardware store; they're about a buck-ninety, tops."
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:23:05 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: Rummyfan
One could substitute “Woody Guthrie” and maybe not be exactly right with some details, but then again wouldn’t be far from right, not far at all.
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:24:17 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
("...cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..." - Marcus Antonius, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
To: Rummyfan
People like Pete Seeger make me want to spit on the ground.
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:24:29 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
To: Rummyfan
socialism is not for the socialist leading the charge
To: Rummyfan; All
The child of wealthy New York radicals, Seeger has always been avowedly anti-capitalist - supposedly. Yet his publisher had a deal with Gallo Music: they snaffled up the rights to "Mbube" cheap and in return sub-licensed to Gallo the South African and Rhodesian rights to "Wimoweh". And Seeger knew Solomon Linda was the composer. Years later he would plead that back in the Fifties he instructed his publishers to give his royalties from the song to Linda, and he was shocked, shocked to discover decades later that they hadn't in fact been doing so. But it never occurred to him, as an unworldly anti-capitalist, to check his royalty statements. It was, on his part, supposedly a sin of omission.From:
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:36:56 AM PDT
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Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: rlmorel
I kind of liked Night Moves. One of my favorites, in fact.
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:44:57 AM PDT
by
BobL
(I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
To: BobL
Heh, I think you are thinking of good old Bob Seger, who I like as well.
That mistake is easy, at one point when I first became aware of that old damned communist, I thought it was Bob Seger too!
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:49:51 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
To: Rummyfan
My husband once saw him come into the Dick Cavett Show wearing a tux. He went into the men’s room and changed into his overalls and emerged all-faux Everyman.
To: Rummyfan
I would add to that “...thanks to capitalism.”
To: rlmorel
Well, you could substitute your screen name for “Wimoweh” in the song.
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posted on
05/17/2019 5:56:05 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: Rummyfan
Sometimes, in my brain, I playfully change the third verse (of the Tokens' version of course) to "hush my darling, shut up my darling". :)
ff
To: CrazyIvan
Whooosh!
Right over my head...:)
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posted on
05/17/2019 6:12:54 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
To: Rummyfan
Had a friend in NY City working as a waiter who was allowed to wait Seeger’s large dinner party. He found out later why no one else wanted to handle that table. Seeger, being a communist, didn’t tip! Marx wrote extensively about tipping being a decadent habit of capitalism.
To: OKSooner
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posted on
05/17/2019 6:14:43 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(Stupid is supposed to hurt. - Lurkers Granddad.)
To: Rummyfan
Pete Seeger changed his tune whenever Moscow's party line shifted. During Stalin's pact with Hitler, he was anti-war:
The Ballad of October 16--The Almanac Singers (1941)
After Hitler invaded the USSR, he turned on a dime and became pro-war:
The Sinking of the Ruben James--The Almanac Singers (1942)
To: mindburglar
Your Russian buddy has it figured out. :)
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posted on
05/17/2019 6:34:23 AM PDT
by
OKSooner
("...cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..." - Marcus Antonius, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
To: Rummyfan
Force fed to me by Sesame Street as a young lad.
To: Rummyfan
“Banjo Bolsheviks” That was my favorite description of all those commie creeps.
I have to admit I was hot for Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary though.
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