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Warpy

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16. You couldn't win with the HUAC

Reply to Ken Burch (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 31, 2014, 05:22 PM

Jan 2014

I always thought their main purpose was to clear all the real talent out of show business to make room for schmucks like Reagan. Now there was a schmuck.

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Pete Seeger, American Communist [View all] El_Johns Jan 2014 OP

He regretted that he hadn't renounced his membership in the party sooner than he did. elleng Jan 2014 #1

A lot of people joined because they were the only outfit against the rise of fascism Warpy Jan 2014 #2

Yes elleng Jan 2014 #5

More people joined because of the Depression. Seeger joined the Young Communist League in El_Johns Jan 2014 #7

My mother went to the meetings but never formally joined Warpy Jan 2014 #8

The weirdest thing in the blacklist era was the way they treated Larry Parks. Ken Burch Jan 2014 #14

You couldn't win with the HUAC Warpy Jan 2014 #16

Nevertheless, the good he did he did as a communist & a Communist. El_Johns Jan 2014 #3

The good he did was as a compassionate member of society. elleng Jan 2014 #4

It was as a communist. El_Johns Jan 2014 #6

Lucille Ball, American Communist. MADem Jan 2014 #9

Maybe she was the "Red, with red hair" that Firesign Theater was singing about Ken Burch Jan 2014 #13

Nothing wrong with being a communist - TBF Jan 2014 #10

Well let's haul him in front of HUAC again Generic Other Jan 2014 #11

Pete stopped being an "actual Stalinist" in 1950, when he quit the Party. Ken Burch Jan 2014 #12

Pete Seeger did good because he was Pete Seeger. spanone Jan 2014 #15

Right, some people are just born with the "good" genes. El_Johns Jan 2014 #17

now you're catching on. spanone Jan 2014 #18

Too bad you're not. El_Johns Jan 2014 #19