Opinions on Ken Burns PBS documentary on the Vietnam War this evening.

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[tired&retired]

Looking for opinions on the new documentary on the Vietnam War that aired on PBS this evening.

Accurate?

[tired&retired]

Yes. And that he was a trained Soviet agent. And, he worked in New York City.

[dfwgator]

"I know that's the popular version of what went on there..."

[T-Bird45]

Yup - he had photos when HCM was being trained in Moscow and China. Didn’t hold back, just papered over it with HCM using Jefferson’s words in some speech and a letter to Truman to show he was a simple anti-colonialist like Jefferson & Franklin, et al.

[Kenny Bania]

SAYYY IT!!! SAYYY IT!!!

[dfwgator]

A common trick of the Communists to ingratiate themselves with the so-called “Anti-Colonialist” movement.

Of course what they were really working for was to make them colonies of Moscow.

[RitaOK]

Really appreciate the thread. I recorded the series but have not started to view it.

Hope you guys continue to analyze the programs. I appreciate it, since I too distrust sources.

[DJ Taylor]

No, I don’t intend to watch this PBS version of the Vietnam War. I was there for most of the war, and I prefer to remember it the way it was, not the way some PBS Liberal tells me it was.

[dfwgator]

Let’s just say they aren’t many Professor Turgesons in academia today.

[Skooz]

I saw it. PBS did a Vietnam documentary over thirty years ago.

The one brought to us by the Chub Group?

[rbg81]

Heh, heh. One of my favorite scenes. I miss Sam Kinnison.

[dfwgator]

Me too.

[TADSLOS]

From Wikipedia.

Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, with almost $40,000 in political donations.[16] In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Edward Kennedy's August 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention, a video described by Politico as a "Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port."[17][18] In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln.[19] He said he had planned to be a regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV.[20]

No thanks.

[ABN 505]

As a preliminary to the series the History of Vietnam and the French was accurate as was the story of Ho Chi Minh but alot was left out, the interspersing of future stories of U.S. servicemen was a bit disconcerting and interrupted the flow of the narrative. As a sidebar the Annamites [as the French called the Vietnamese] served in trenchs beside the French and worked in French factories during WWI there is a long and interesting history between the two Countries other than what was presented tonight.I know that not everything can be included but it seems like there was quit a bit of skipping around. I will try and watch the next part but if it heads down the PC path forget it.

[RckyRaCoCo]

bfl

[dfwgator]

I wonder if he’ll quote HCM, “I’d rather smell French s—t for five years, than Chinese s—t for the next thousand years.”

[basalt]

yeah...that was weird. “Vietnam A television History” was an excellent series,.. this looks like a typical left wing hit job from comrade Burns.

[Laslo Fripp]

Ditto

[basalt]

he did a baseball doc that was really good..except for how racist America was and is every 10 minutes....

[dfwgator]

“Battlefield Vietnam” was really good as well.

[euram]

I wonder if the leftists Burns runs with will take him to task for comparing Ho chi Minh to Thomas Jefferson. After all, to the left Jefferson is a racist, rapist, slave owner, and Ho Chi Minh is one of their many idols.