--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Kenny H" <kennyhassman@> > wrote: > > > > for Pete Seeger fans you watch a really great interview with Amy > > Goodman. Amazing how lucid he is, his memory is crystal clear. > > KH > > > > http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/03/1443245 > > > > Did he mention how he supported and defending Adolf Hitler...that is, > before his masters in Moscow were duped by Adolf at which point he did > a 180 degree about-face and then, all of a sudden, was against Hitler? > > (now Judy will chime in and claim that Seeger never did such a > thing...keeping with her well-tuned tradition of defending > supporters of mass murder and racism)
Judy will point out that the above is an incredibly distorted version of what actually happened, which is what we usually hear from Shemp. And of course he *knows* he's lying about my purportedly defending supporters of mass murder and racism. If the following sounds a little familiar to you, Shemp, it's because we already had this same discussion over on alt.m.t when you made this claim about Seeger. This is a repost of what I posted then, just to remind you that we know who is lying about what. And here's an *accurate* description of what happened, from "Woody Guthrie's Life" (note that the Almanac Singers mentioned below was Pete Seeger's group): Woody's politics took a turn as the United States came into the Second World War. Early in the war, communist-sympathizing singers were confused about what stance they should take on the war. They wrote anti-war songs, citing the typical "rich man's war, poor man's fight" nature of international conflict, and since Stalin and Hitler had signed a non-aggression pact, they felt it wrong to support a fight against Hitler. Yet the far Left obviously found no consonance with Nazi ideals, and they passionately despised Hitler's ways. So for a time, Woody, the Almanac Singers, and similar performers were torn on what their opinon of the war should be. When Hitler broke his agreement with Stalin, though, the American Left could freely and adamantly support the war. After all, Americans and Soviets were fighting side by side against a common enemy, and a thoroughly despicable enemy at that. Since the US was fighting fascism, Woody and the Almanac Singers wrote dozens of songs about defeating fascism and Hitler. And since any kind of strike would cripple the war effort, all the old union songs were put on the shelf for awhile. Eventually though, Pete Seeger joined the army, and that left the Almanac singers up in the air. http://www.dhh-ev.de/alt/woody.html The copies of the anitwar (not pro-Hitler or pro-Nazi) album the Almanac Singers had made were withdrawn and destroyed the day after Hitler invaded, and the group proceeded to make a new album calling on the United States to get into the war against Hitler. And Pete Seeger, as noted above, joined the Army to fight Hitler. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
