Mark Steyn: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

soap brain

So you admit you have no life.

Oakman

Once again you post an utter waste of time in a desperate bid for attention. Please, Troy, try harder to get a job, or at least a hobby. Something that will mean you don't need to post here to validate your existence.

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Lost User

As if he, or you, really care about the injustice meted out to poor black South Africans. The article he quotes from, Rian Malan's Where does the lion sleep tonight?[^], while still suitably snide about Seeger, gives a better account, being journalism (rather than a mash-up of others' work, seasoned to the palate of the target audience). Interesting to juxtapose Steyn's: Still, Seeger was chanting all the way to the bank. with Rian Malan's: On February 6th, 1952, just as "Wimoweh" made its chart debut, [Harvey Matusow] stepped up to a mike before the House Un-American Affairs Committee and told one of the looniest tales of the entire McCarthy era. Evil Reds, he said, were "preying on the sexual weakness of American youth" to lure recruits into their dreaded movement. What's more, he was willing to name names of Communist Party members, among them three Weavers - including Pete Seeger. The yellow press went apeshit. Reporters called the Ohio club where the Weavers were scheduled to play that night, demanding to know why the Yankee Inn was providing succor to the enemy. The show was canned, and it was all downhill from there. Radio stations banned their records. TV appearances were cancelled. "Wimoweh" plummeted from Number Six into oblivion. Nightclub owners wouldn't even talk to the Weavers' agents, and then Decca dropped them too. By the end of the year they'd packed it in, and Pete Seeger was back where he'd started, teaching folk songs to kids for a pittance. (My emphasis.)

Bob Emmett

Ilion

Ravel H. Joyce wrote:

So you admit you have no life.

I admit that you're a fool. Or, at best, a twit.

Ilion

Oakman wrote:

Once again you post an utter waste of time in a desperate bid for attention. Please, Troy, try harder to get a job, or at least a hobby. Something that will mean you don't need to post here to validate your existence.

Once again, you prove that you are an utter waste of good protoplasm. Also, that you get a quite odd frisson from writing my name. Tell me, do you still spend hours at a time writing it out by hand decorated with little curly-cues?

Ilion

Bob Emmett wrote:

As if he, or you, really care about the injustice meted out to poor black South Africans

Pfft! But we know that you are a to-the-bone liar.

Oakman

Ilíon wrote: Tell me, do you still spend hours at a time writing it out by hand decorated with little curly-cues? That happened only in your dreams, wide stance. But I still remember fondly your screams of outrage when I started using your full name. I take it that you cannot find anything but posting here to validate your life? Just searching the web for another inane link to fetch back here like a dog that doesn't realise his master has better things to do than pay attention to him

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Both democrats and republicans are playing for the same team and it's not us. - Chris Austin

Brady Kelly

This Commonwealth Copyright Law is news to me, a current student of South African copyright law, but that is not to say our copyright law doesn't work in the same way as this British Commonwealth copyright law, whatever that is. Thank you Ilion, you've just reminded me of an overdue assignment on this very subject.

You really gotta try harder to keep up with everyone that's not on the short bus with you. - John Simmons / outlaw programmer.

Lost User

Ilíon wrote:

we know that you are a to-the-bone liar

As always: evidence to support your assertion, please.

Bob Emmett

Lost User

Brady Kelly wrote:

Commonwealth Copyright Law

Have a look at Australia - [^] and [^]

Ilion

Bob Emmett wrote:

Bob Emmett: As if he, or you, really care about the injustice meted out to poor black South Africans. Ilíon: Pfft! But we know that you are a to-the-bone liar. Bob Emmett: As always: evidence to support your assertion, please.

:laugh: Listen to you! :laugh:

Ilion

You're welcome. :)

Lost User

Got me! :laugh: I must stop reading your posts, the contemptuousness is contagious. I preferred 'Changing his Tune', a much more apposite attack on Seeger, although Steyn goes OTT by including Al-Qaeda and Osama as if they, too, were 'leftie' icons. I find the idea of 'lefties' in the USA supporting Al-Qaeda and Osama hard to accept; and if they don't, why the need to repudiate them?

Bob Emmett