I knew about the exclusive HBO deal, but not this. (I didn't watch.) Mark Hemingway, NRO:
What few people seemed to have picked up on, however, was that when Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger — the lefty folksinger icon who just recently got around to apologizing for his support of Joseph Stalin — led a massive singalong of "This Land is Your Land," it included the oft-omitted "controversial" verse:There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me;
Sign was painted, it said private property;
But on the back side it didn't say nothing;
That side was made for you and me.
Pete Seeger--phony, commie-conventional, ticky-tacky as ever. And in case you missed it, Matt Bai's piece in the NY Times magazine.
Bai notes Norman Mailer being enthralled by JFK as "hipster", but was soon disillusioned:
By 1963, Mailer and other idealists were crushed to discover that Kennedy was in fact a fairly conventional and pragmatic politician, more Harvard Yard than Fortress of Solitude. In an introduction to a collection of his essays and letters to Kennedy titled “The Presidential Papers,” published shortly before Kennedy’s death, Mailer vented his bitterness at the general lack of hipsterism in the White House. Kennedy had “the face of a potential hero,” he wrote, “but he embodies nothing, he personifies nothing, he is power, rather a quizzical power, without light or principle.” In a remarkable postscript to his original Esquire essay, Mailer repudiated the article as “propaganda” and said he felt like a traitor for having written it.How long will it take for the disappointment to set in on the left? He may be a stealth socialist, but he is a conventional pol who wants to be reelected. Probably, though, for some of Obama's fans he can do no wrong. And actually, in modern policy terms JFK was a conservative:) It should be interesting.
