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PBS Aired ‘Rat Film’ Documentary About Baltimore’s Rodent Problem in 2018
Breitbart ^ | 28 July 2019 | MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY

Posted on 07/28/2019 7:36:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

More than a year before Donald Trump criticized Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) in a tweet on Saturday for ignoring his Baltimore district’s “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” PBS aired a documentary titled Rat Film about the city’s rodent problem. The Baltimore Sun reported on February 26, 2018, that the documentary “about Baltimore’s rodent fight” was scheduled “to air on PBS” that evening:

Across walls, fences, and alleys rats not only expose our boundaries of separation but make homes in them. “Rat Film” is a feature-length documentary that uses the rat—as well as the humans that love them, live with them, and kill them–to explore the history of Baltimore. “There’s never been a rat problem in Baltimore, it’s always been a people problem.”

“Rat Film,” a documentary that takes the decades-long fight waged against Baltimore’s rat population and uses it as a lens through which to look at how the city has addressed myriad social issues over the decades, airs tonight on PBS.

The hour-long documentary from Baltimore filmmaker Theo Anthony, a crowd favorite at last May’s Maryland Film Festival, airs at 10 p.m. on Maryland Public Television as the latest episode of PBS’s “Independent Lens” series. It repeats at 1 a.m. and 4 a.m.

A longer version of Anthony’s film played festival, as well as at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway in September. In chronicling Baltimore’s decades-long battle against its unwelcome rodent population, Anthony details some disturbing parallels with the ways city leaders have tried to deal with various urban situations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; defundnpr; defundpbs; elijahcummings; maryland; mayarockeymoore; npr; pbs

1 posted on 07/28/2019 7:36:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ROTFL!


2 posted on 07/28/2019 7:39:34 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A Joke:Lynch,Comey And Brennan Walk Into A Barr...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

They should show it again.


3 posted on 07/28/2019 7:41:47 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

TRUMP should TWEET this.....

It would cause major HEAD EXPLOSION on the D-RATS and the propaganda media...

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/rat-film/


4 posted on 07/28/2019 7:42:08 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

PBS is racist! Who knew?


5 posted on 07/28/2019 7:43:23 PM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now a bunch of videos showing lefties bashing the city of Baltimore are popping up everywhere. The city has been a mess for decades and plenty of Democrats have spoken out about it long before Trump even ran for the presidency. This man’s political genius is off the charts!


6 posted on 07/28/2019 7:46:29 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: ArtDodger

THANK THE LORD FOR TRUMP!

WE WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER PRESIDENT LIKE HIM

HE SHINES THE LIGHT OF TRUTH ON THOSE OF THE SIDE OF DARKNESS


7 posted on 07/28/2019 7:47:30 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump has been using twitter to his advantage AMAZINGLY lately.

He gets better and better and just strikes right through the heart.

Since I’m 51, this may be the last NYer at the senate or Presidential level that I will get to be proud of.

I am basking in it :)

I am honored to have met him (by meet, I mean he was in Rockefeller Plaza where I worked and I ran over and pushed my hand out and he shook it!).

He was genuine. You could feel it.

Only other know entity that was as friendly was Nicholas Cage. Go figure :)

Here’s a shock. Chris Matthews was a ####.


8 posted on 07/28/2019 7:48:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: LibFreeUSA
Ultralight rod, check.
Baseball bat instead of dip net?
what are they using for bait?
9 posted on 07/28/2019 7:48:37 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: LibFreeUSA

Gone Fishing


10 posted on 07/28/2019 7:51:00 PM PDT by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: LibFreeUSA
Is that for real?was that from tonight's airing? 😂
11 posted on 07/28/2019 7:59:02 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are flat out RACIST!!! ;o)


12 posted on 07/28/2019 7:59:23 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: ZOOKER

Peanut butter I think. Pizza works to I’ve heard. Substitute 357 snake loads for dip net, also helps to keep other fishermen from stealing your spot.


13 posted on 07/28/2019 8:07:37 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: dowcaet

It all started after Cummings went after Homeland Security head for the treatment/conditions of gazillions of IA’s due to coordinated Soros invasion-GLAD TRUMP WENT FULL PITT BULL on this


14 posted on 07/28/2019 8:08:54 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: dp0622

Lucky dog, wish I was 51 again.


15 posted on 07/28/2019 8:22:49 PM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Local Philly TV carried stories just this week of the city’s attempts to deal with rats overrunning Lawncrest in Northeast Philadelphia - not an especially shabby section of the city - Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Baltimore - I’m trying to think of the common denominator in all these places - it’s not that the leaders are all black - wait a minute - they’re all - ‘rats........


16 posted on 07/28/2019 8:43:23 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Jane Austen

“They should show it again.“

This will not see the light of day again until this Era of Madness ends.

Hopefully it will not end when the plague begins, but maybe that’s what it will take to end it.


17 posted on 07/29/2019 5:11:16 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

PBS is racist.


18 posted on 07/29/2019 12:48:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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