[Revolting cat!]

Imagine if he had been a follower or say Mussolini, or Alister Crowley all his life as he had been a follower of murderous Communism (100-200 million dead, and counting.) Would he still be “One of the great voices of folk rock”?

[KC Burke]

Jack Cashill has done a marvelous job in Hoodwinked and elsewhere over the years documenting fellow travelers of the 30s and 40s and how they eventually helped found the New Left Progressivism.

In a WND review in 2007 he cites in a movie review how Seegar finally repented from his support of Stalinsm and actually gives him some credit for coming clean about it.

But it focuses more on the folksinger as hero and victim, rather than shill for Soviet Stalinism.

But, if the movie doesn’t quite get it right, Seeger himself seems determined to repent of old sins.

In a letter to his former banjo student and writer Ron Radosh, he confesses: “I think you’re right – I should have asked to see the gulags when I was in USSR.”

Pete Seeger testifying before House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955

Seeger has even written a song denouncing Josef Stalin, a song inspired by what he thought his mentor, Woody Guthrie, might have written about the fall of the Soviet Union had he been around.

It’s called “The Big Joe Blues” – a song Radosh says “makes the point that Joe Stalin was far more dangerous and a threat than Joe McCarthy

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2007/10/44217/#2cI526PC4Ah6PQw4.99

If Cashill can cut him a little slack, I think we should cite the instance to go along with our just criticism.

[nickcarraway]

Does even the most loathsome of beliefs invalidate the level of talent someone has? You may not want to listen to them, but that doesn’t change the underlying beliefs.