Dick Smothers, at NATPE promoting his A Minute with Dickie Smothers, took time Tuesday to pay tribute to the late Pete Seeger. The Smothers Brothers ended 12 years of blacklisting of the folk singer when they bravely booked Seeger on their CBS show in 1967. Smothers' A Minute with Dickie Smothers is described as “an informative, wellâ€Âresearched, fun and entertaining message/segment with easy-to-follow tips and strategies for TV news viewers to use when tackling everyday life.”
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Ellen Samrock says:
January 29, 2014 at 6:07 pm
As someone who stood up against the weasels, dullards and spineless mediocrities in Washington, Pete Seeger was a hero for me, a cynical college student who lived through the darkest days of the Vietnam War. So I find it disingenuous to see the government that persecuted him then for his beliefs and civil disobedience, is the same one who now praises him as the ‘conscience of America.’ But no doubt Mr. Seeger would have smiled at the irony of it.