What, exactly, is "bullshit" here, please?

I hold the traditional singers and the songs they sang to be sacrosanct. Both are dead, likewise the tradition they were part of. The Revival (of which I am part) is, at best, a conceited & impertinent gloss which might serve as a signpost to the unitiated; at worst, however, it is a hell on earth where the glories of (say) The Plains of Waterloo might sit alongside such turgid trash as The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - as they did in June Tabor's early repertoire. Even as a wide-eyed 14-year-old dazzled by Ms Tabor's evident genius one night in the Grey Horse in Shiremoor circa 1976 I rejoiced at the genuine emotion of the former and baulked at the mawkish sentiment of the latter. They were two very different creatures and yet the wisdom was that they belonged together - not in my heart they don't! Whilst we can't preserve a Tradition, we can make some attempt at maintaining the integrity by which it has come down to us. This is something The Revival has singularly failed to do simply by conflating two very different things to the detriment of the status of Traditional Song which is now tainted by association. As I've said elsewhere, it wouldn't bother me if no one sang these songs at all - they have been sung, that is enough.

Do I have to add that this is only my personal opinion and I don't let it inferere with my appreciation & participation in the Folk Scene as a whole? I don't throw people out of my singarounds for changing old songs nor for singing new ones; my mind and heart remain open to all, just my personal Ideal remains intact to define a very particular relationship with the soul of Taditional Song and this is what I'm talking about here. People can, and will, do what they want, but as I said earlier in this thread, to do so in the name of The Tradition and The Folk Process is misleading, unless ingenuous, in which case it's all part of the learning curve.