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Ken Burns: Learn Lincoln's words by heart
CNN ^ | 11-18-2013 | Ken Burns

Posted on 11/20/2013 7:29:27 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: currentevent
Un-Fk-Believable! First he allowed Obama to pick the version to 'recite' to pass it as the Gettysburg Address on the 150th anniversary, now this pathetic excuse.

And the people used to have a special treatment for such tools.

From now on, I will call him "Which Version? Ken".

1 posted on 11/20/2013 7:29:27 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Learn that bangs on middle-aged men are ridiculous, Ken.


2 posted on 11/20/2013 7:46:31 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’d rather learn the words of James Stockdale and Rudyard Kipling by heart.


3 posted on 11/20/2013 8:01:15 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Not sure if he did the Lincoln At Gettysburg film on PBS last night but it was pretty good. Except for the part where Lincoln wrote his address. My understanding is he wrote it on the back of an envelope rather than penning it on two pages on a train (that wasn’t rockin’ and rollin’) and herniating over each word or phrase.


4 posted on 11/20/2013 8:21:26 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SkyDancer

The envelope story is not true.


5 posted on 11/20/2013 8:32:20 AM PST by DManA (enis)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Ironically, the narrator in the Ken Burns series did not recite the Gettysburg Address correctly—there were several minor deviations from the text. Maybe the narrator had memorized it once upon a time and didn’t have the text in front of him.


6 posted on 11/20/2013 8:32:21 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: DManA
Just found this. Thanks.

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Also:http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=519569

7 posted on 11/20/2013 8:37:35 AM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

“...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

No more hypocritical words ever spoken by a sitting president considering what he was doing at the time.


8 posted on 11/20/2013 8:53:11 AM PST by DwFry (Baby Boomers Killed Western Civilization!)
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>>> Lincoln Gettysburg address (150 years ago): "... of the people, by the people, for the people..." <<<

Obama (Virtual) Gettysburg address (2013): "... of the My people, by the My people, for the My people ...."

9 posted on 11/20/2013 9:07:45 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: SkyDancer

Was listening to a historian talking about it yesterday. Another myth is that newspapers of the day panned the speech. Actually democrat papers hated it, republican papers loved it. I don’t know but it seems reasonable that some democrat newspaper hack wrote - The speech was like something he threw together on the back of an envelope. And the legend was born.

Actually he put a lot of thought and effort into the speech.

Another thing this guy pointed out is that it was highly unusual in that day for Presidents to give speeches (as unbelievable as that seems to us). It was something they just didn’t do. So just the fact that the President was giving a speech was huge news in and of itself.


10 posted on 11/20/2013 9:13:03 AM PST by DManA (enis)
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