Pete Seeger Visited North Vietnam

[erpowers]

Pete Seeger, like Jane Fonda, visited North Vietnam. How is it that everyone talks about Jane Fonda, but not Pete Seeger? For years I have always heard about how Jane Fonda went to Vietnam, but until tonight I had never heard that Pete Seeger had visited North Vietnam.

[Captain Hilts]

1. He wasn't photographed at the controls of an anti-aircraft gun that shot at our planes.nt

[Webster Green]

3. If you don't invade other countires for no good reason..

..then you won't get your airplanes shot at.

[Captain Hilts]

6. That's the answer to a different question. nt

[erpowers]

7. Thought About Asking About That

I thought about including a sentence asking whether it had anything to do with Fonda having been pictured with North vietnam soldiers.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Yeah. Even if you were against the war, you might have had kin that had been drafted...

so, it made your skin crawl.

[TheWraith]

11. Bing.

Fonda's common sense was obviously turned off that day.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Ramsey Clark did also. So did a lot of antiwar activists.

Go figure. Good question.

Jane's pr sense was bad: the photoshoot on the anti aircraft guns was pushing it. Also she was female and very prominent in the mainstream popular culture.

Seeger,OTOH, was sort of an acquired taste. Popular on campuses and in countercultural circles. Also a veteran lefty and one-time CPUSA member, if I'm not mistaken. People expected him to go.

Also he didn't sit on the turrets.

[AndrewP]

4. I guess he had nothing against no Viet cong.

[brooklynite]

5. He wasn't "famous"

A notable folk singer, true, but he never achieved the success and fame of Jane Fonda.

[elleng]

10. The reason he never achieved her level of 'fame'

was the gov't got him EARLY, Pete AND the Smothers Brothers.

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/S/htmlS/smothersbrot/smothersbrot.htm

[gratuitous]

9. Because he's not a woman

Sheesh, does everything have to be spelled out? Hawks like their victims as weak as possible.

It also doesn't hurt that Seeger has been targeted by the brightest minds on the Reactionary Right and he's sent home every last one of them, cryin' to momma.

[Hannah Bell]

12. Cause Fonda is cousin to Standard Oil heirs?

cause she was more famous than seeger at the time?