If I Had a Sickle

[LogikAndReazon]

After tormenting the rest of us for nigh on a century, last week that unrepentant communist and multimillionaire folk “singer” Pete Seeger was shipped off to the Devil’s gulag.

I awoke to the welcome news via a friend’s email that had the subject line “Finally.” (This friend and I really need to relaunch our old website “Boomer Deathwatch” one of these days.)

Naturally, most mainstream media tributes to Seeger left out his refusal to (kind of) denounce Stalin until 2007 (!) and his nasty (and lucrative) little song-stealing habit.

About that Uncle Joe business: A few years back, a firm but gentle scolding in the New York Sun by Seeger’s former banjo student turned anticommunist “neocon” Ron Radosh prompted a letter from his old teacher......


If I Had a Sickle - Taki's Magazine

About time........

 

[rightwinger]

Some people call them a sickle, I like to call them a slingblade

 

[Mr. H.]

Some people call them a sickle, I like to call them a slingblade

And I suppose you like mustard on your biscuits.

 

[rightwinger]

Some people call them a sickle, I like to call them a slingblade

And I suppose you like mustard on your biscuits.

mmmmm...and I love them french fried pertaters..Uh huh