Along with his hero Chomsky, McGrath of Harlow invokes Pete Seeger's name in saint-like fashion.

Now, I'll agree that Pete Seeger has been an important folksinger over many decades. But he's no saint. For far too many decades, Seeger unquestioningly toed the Communist Party line.

When genocidal Nazi mass murderer Adolf Hitler was pacted up with genocidal Communist mass murderer Josef Stalin, Seeger was at the front of the movement keeping the USA out of World War II. The American delay in entering the war cost millions of innocent people their lives.

Then, when Hitler turned on Stalin, Seeger was, suddenly, pro-war. "Round and round Hitler's grave," he sang as he went off to enlist in the army.

Somewhere, recently, I read the lie that Seeger has been "a lifelong pacifist." He wasn't a pacifist during the Spanish Civil War when he supported the Communist fight against the fascists. He wasn't a pacifist when the Communist Party finally broke their pact with the Nazis.

Wittingly or unwittingly, Seeger was a tool of Stalin at the same time that Stalin was murdering 20 million of his own people.

A great folksinger, yes. The saint that McGrath of Harlow makes him out to be, no!