Pete Seeger, RIP...

Sigh, Thanks Jim. I got my wife's old turntable working for Xmas, and we've been listening to our old 33's. I've got an old children's concert album by Pete. I'll give it a spin tonight and raise a toast. (I think he was only able to do childrens music after being black listed as a communist... or something like that.)

George H.

Since when have YOU been a Leftie sympathizer, Jim?

I was going to say the same thing. Democracy Now dedicated today's broadcast to Pete Seeger. He has been a guest on the show a few times.

I just watched the headlines and will check out the Pete Seeger part tonight. BTW, the original lyrics to "Good Night Irene" are pretty shocking. I did a google search, but too much SEO is getting in the way. There is one set of lyrics regarding taking heroin. Another involves drowning oneself in the river.

If you have the "We Are One" video from the first Obama inauguration (doesn't everyone), Seeger used the original lyrics to "This Land is Your Land."

Too bad Obama didn't turn out to be a flaming liberal like we all hoped. Maybe Hillary will lead us forward to socialism.

I saw Seeger with my dad many years ago--Dad was a musical, artistic, freedom-loving folk-song-singin' crew-cut hippie.

The first time I heard "Talkin' Union" was the day Bethlehem Steel closed for good, union-killed, which was ironic since it was the last surviving victim in the song's list of unionizing successes.

The schadenfreude was bittersweet though, since I owned shares in the dang thing and rode it to zero--I was too disgusted to sell for par.

Hillary probably wouldn't bankrupt us as recklessly. Unlike POTUS, she had jobs before and managed her money. She'll just tax us into oblivion, thereby boosting the economy. She's had a job before, so that's a plus.

Too mean to get elected though--remember what she did to BHO? Her team started the whole birther thing, for one.

Cheers, James Arthur

Once I was young. When you're young, you vote Democrat or you have no heart. When you reach the age of earning, you vote Republican, or you have no brain >:-} ...Jim Thompson

Since he found out Seeger was one of the good guys & accepted AGW science.

That might have been true when Jim Thompson was young. Since then the Democrats have become less doctrinaire and the Republicans have moved a long way to the right.

Nobody with a brain could vote for the Tea Party ....

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:31:12 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:

This is sig worthy.

Well, it is worthy of a lot more than that, but...

Good stuff, Jim.

See? Jim is right. You have no brain.

"Stalin's songbird."

And not original.

JT > Once I was young. When you're young, JT > you vote Democrat or you have no heart. JT > When you reach the age of earning, JT > you vote Republican, or you have no brain >:-} In the 1980's a conservative French politician (president?) said something like this to explain his liberal son's views.

I find it kinda sad that our country is now so politically divided that we can't enjoy an entertainer if they happen to be of the other political "color". OK Pete was pretty far out there on the left. I'm "mostly" a liberal weenie, but I still love Clint Eastwood. (regardless of his politics.) Hmm well I'm not sure about Tom Cruise and scientology, (just too weird) perhaps there's a bridge too far for everyone.

George H.

I can enjoy someone singing a love song, but might not enjoy them singing about communism or union organizing.

I don't recall him preaching politics in "The Outlaw Josey Wales."

It's unfortunate that singers have so much emotional power to influence people. Most singers are flat wrong about politics, economics, and labor, and many have abusive, nasty, drugged-out personal lives.

That's too simple. The issue, here, isn't that Pete was a lefty, rather his lyrics were far left. Why would I like someone who's singing something that I completely disagree with.

The other class of leftist nitwit I won't listen to is the "expert" entertainer. You know, the one's testifying before Congress about the "homeless", or other nonsense.

As long as they'll "Shut Up and Sing", I have no problem with lefty entertainers.

Does he preach to you in his art or news?

Well...

That was Paul Robeson. But Seeger comes close.

Says krw, who must be the dimmest of our regular posters.

Krw won't listen to anybody who has a point of view different from his own. Krw "knows" that what he knows is right, and mere evidence isn't going to persuade him to change his point of view.

Sure. The problem is anybody who claims to know more - and different - from what krw "knows" to be correct. He hasn't yet realised that he can sometimes get things wrong.

Of course not, it's the mantra of the GOP. ...Jim Thompson