I can say that because he only EVER does documentaries sanitizing Liberal creeps who have sullied the WH and American culture generally.
If he'd JUST once do an unbiased and equally sympathetic bio on some Conservative, I'd have to fall over.
Leftist propaganda at your expense, folks.
And I saw a commercial for this during Jeopardy last week. So we get to pay for that too.
Until 0bama I thought the FDR was the worst president since Grant. Now I think 0 is giving him some intense competition for the title.
And this country just HAD to have this guy for a 3rd and 4th term?
Like did they think WW2 would have turned out THAT different? FDR barely did much more than get out of smarter people’s way, and F-up the whole thing at Yalta.
I was intrigued by how similar TR was to Churchill. They seem to be the same animal. I didn’t bother to watch the FDR one.
So, in somewhat defense of Keynes he did write a letter to FDR that was incredibly effusive in wordy praise of FDR, but basically called him an idiot who didn’t understand Keynes’ economic philosophy at all.
I mean, Keynes was still wrong, but the letter was truly a work of art in simultaneously sucking up to someone while calling them a retard.
Although Hoover had his faults, the disastrous policies of Franklin Diablo Roosevelt and his so-called "Brain" Trust only served to prolong the depression by nearly a decade. Those who were the closet advisors to FDR were out-and-out America-hating communists such as Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins and Frances Perkins.
Don’t EVER expect to get a fair and unbiased program from PBS.
The other night we watched their one hour hit piece on the Koch brothers. It was so biased and unfair, it was completely ridiculous. Of course they would NEVER do such a hit piece on large Dem contributors such as George Soros.
PBS should be renamed to simply BS. Or...DNCBS.
But, to give FDR credit, he didn’t head to a golf course right after his speech to Congress asking for a declaration of war on Japan...as Obama would have done.
The only president worse than FDR was “Honest Abe.” Until the Obamanation.
These 2 books told me EVERTHING I Never wanted to know about the TURD “Roosevelt”:
http://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Secret-Agents-Subversion-Roosevelts/dp/143914768X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410808159&sr=8-1&keywords=stalin%27s+secret+agents AND
http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Snow-Soviet-Triggered-Harbor/dp/1596983221/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1410808159&sr=8-2&keywords=stalin%27s+secret+agents
More proof that we are still losing the culture war.
I have no brilliant plan for winning it. At least no plan that has a chance of being implemented.
I believe we could make serious headway IF we had a Republican party that was honestly and seriously principled for conservatism. AND if that party was firm, unyielding and unified in its pursuit of conservative goals.
The Democrats are the party of loud and foul mouthed bullies. They win because the Republican party is little or none of the above.
That said, the indoctrination of the last couple (and current) generations is close to successfully reaching the point were it can’t be rolled back by the truth. Very little time left.
FDR never carried Hyde Park, NY, where he lived, in any election. Why? The locals knew what a fraud he was.
Roosevelt’s New Deal - like Wilson’s War - was a complete disaster.
“We Do Our Part” what a load of rubbish.
I never heard about a few of the remarks made in this article. I always thought Joseph Lash was just a good friend of Eleanor's and still do. As for Lorena Hickok, I still don't believe the rumors. I thinks Eleanor was naïve about a lot, and befriended many people. She had a good heart, and meant well.
Franklin was in over his head, and was swayed by the wrong people with the wrong policies. He had a wave of supporters similar to those that Obama had early on when they believed that these men were the answer to all of their problems. My opinion.
Ken Burns has a way of softening the reality, but I am enjoying the program anyway.
I saw the first segment Sunday evening. Ran for three hours. So far FDR just had minor stuff about him. I’ve read histories on FDR ... to me not a likable character politically and emotionally. I’ve been to Warm Springs, GA and saw the house and room where he died. Fairly well done museum. I’ll see how Burns pulls this off ....
On economics, Hoover was, on the conceptual level, not much better than FDR. He jawboned for higher wages; he spent like crazy (until FDR re-defined “crazy”); and raised the tariff and the income tax. If Harding or Coolidge had been in office, the depression of 1930 would have been over by mid-1931.
Kenneth Lauren Burns, the effeminate man who can barely grow a beard who said the Duke Lacrosse students were “three rich white boys who were mildly inconvenienced by rape charges”.
By the way if you want to see a movie on FDR watch Bill Murray play him in “Hyde Park on the Hudson”. It’s actually pretty good and Murray did a great job playing FDR.