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Are PBS and Ken Burns about to Rewrite History Again? (Viet Nam)
americanthinker.com ^ | 7/17/2017 | Stephen Sherman

Posted on 07/17/2017 7:08:59 AM PDT by rktman

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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Is this a great country or what? Why all the bitching?


21 posted on 07/17/2017 7:36:33 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Mostly because Democrats are hypocrites.


22 posted on 07/17/2017 7:37:36 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: rktman
His series on Baseball was enjoyable. The Civil War, somewhat less so, but still worthwhile.

However, his series on WWII was utterly unwatchable. It was like reading the diary of a vacuous teenaged girl, and about as deep.

Mr Burns should stick to simple, non-contextual topics like sports.

23 posted on 07/17/2017 7:37:44 AM PDT by wbill
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for the correction. It was still a Democrat who escalated it into a full war and it took Ike’s VP to eventually end it.


24 posted on 07/17/2017 7:37:48 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: dfwgator

You are correct. Started a little slow but picked up speed over time. ;-) I shook Ike’s hand as a little kid when he came to Carmel/Monterey in the early 50’s. I think I was in like the 2nd grade or something.


25 posted on 07/17/2017 7:39:04 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Mariner

Makes you wonder how he will reconcile himself to the fact that the Communists are (and were) brutal murders on a massive scale. They make the Nazis looks small in comparison.


26 posted on 07/17/2017 7:39:26 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dfwgator
LBJ's Viet focus was lost on progressives decades ago.
Milhouse got the blame...
27 posted on 07/17/2017 7:39:29 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: dhs12345

True, and they should be called out on their hypocrisy.


28 posted on 07/17/2017 7:40:34 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: dowcaet

When Ike left office, we had about 900 men in Vietnam as advisors to the South Vietnamese Army. By the time JFD was killed, that number had risen to about 16,000.


29 posted on 07/17/2017 7:40:49 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: dfwgator

Truman sent the OSS to Vietnam 1945.
Colonel A. Peter Dewey could be considered the first casualty in Vietnam

Interesting read here

http://apjjf.org/-Geoffrey-Gunn/3137/article.html


30 posted on 07/17/2017 7:40:49 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Agreed! And they should be beat over the head with it until they relent and admit it that they are wrong (either now or then). Unfortunately, the MSM refuse to hold them to task because they are in bed with them.


31 posted on 07/17/2017 7:43:01 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dfwgator

Bwahahahahaha!!!

Used to be even libs would get a laugh out of bits like that. If anything it accurately skewers Burns’ weirdly primitive “documentaries”.


32 posted on 07/17/2017 7:43:08 AM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Bull Snipe

Interesting too that we took over from the French. Probably French colonialism?


33 posted on 07/17/2017 7:45:12 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: rktman

Burns has been advertising his Vietnam documentary a good six years. PBS has reruned every single series he did. I kept wondering why he wanted to do another series on Vietnam. I don’t know if I can trust him. But PBS did Vietnam A Television History in 1983.


34 posted on 07/17/2017 7:47:31 AM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fictionr)
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To: Mariner

his jazz history is also awesome, and I am enjoying his dust bowl right now.

that said...I would like someone with knowledge to contribute here...they say absolutely with no equivocation that the dust bowl was 100% man made. they give good evidence for that, for sure...but still, it has a little bit of a propagandish feel to it.

would anyone here be able to clarify what I suspect is the truth, that it was an ecological disaster which the wheat rush did not help, but which wasn’t 100% manmade? I’d like to hear something on that..


35 posted on 07/17/2017 7:48:46 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: dfwgator
"I liked this one. The Old Negro Space Program"

A great classic!

36 posted on 07/17/2017 7:49:35 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: stylin19a

Thanks for the link.


37 posted on 07/17/2017 7:49:42 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Mariner

I’ve seen better more accurate documentaries done on the Civil War. What separates Burn’s series from the others was the fact he it gotten underwritten & shown on PBS, so he got to make the bigger PR splash to the mostly non-reading uninterested in history (unless spoon-fed & jazzed up with nice music! Which he did!) TV crowd. Now this crowd does think its sophisticated & intellectual since it watches PBS. Then the other part of the Burn’s documentary that makes it stand out was the late Shelby Foote. He made an otherwise mediocre series worth watching.


38 posted on 07/17/2017 7:51:14 AM PDT by Reily
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To: dfwgator

No, only 30% of it

Another 30% will be on the “unfairness” to Latinos (see e.g. the VN Memorial Statue”

The other 30% will be on the “unfairness” to the VC and N Vietnamese army


39 posted on 07/17/2017 7:52:26 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! Boycott Mex/Can, nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: dfwgator

Ike sent career military, officers, often volunteers, after Dien Bien Phu, concerned about another “domino falling”. This was the height of the cold war, remember.

Using that fact to argue that he “started the war” is tenuous at best. We had “advisors” all over our hemisphere and all over the world then.

Lyndon Baines Johnson escalated this proxy conflict between superpowers, fired up the draft and responded each time General Westmoreland requested more troops.
Even Kennedy only sent advisors, the Green Berets were his idea.

This was Johnson’s war. Our troops did their jobs and followed their orders. LBJ and the `rats were the loosers: the same fierce hawks who ginned-up the war, like RFK, then became peaceful, love-dove hippies. We never lost a battle.


40 posted on 07/17/2017 7:52:48 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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