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Who knew Ken Burns is an idiot?
Hot Air ^ | 8 Mar 2023 | David Strom

Posted on 03/08/2023 2:00:22 PM PST by Rummyfan

Having spent a lot of time around academics and media types I learned years ago that people can be smart, talented, and complete dunces at the same time.

Orwell captured that reality with his typical genius, explaining: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

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Ken Burns–who at his best is a talented documentarian–proved his intellectual bona fides on CNN, displaying once again that intelligence, wisdom, and even attention to reality are entirely different from each other. He is smart, but an idiot.

Burns clearly needs an editor and a fact checker in order to sound coherent–and having enjoyed the Civil War documentary from decades ago I appreciate their good work. Burns is a superb storyteller, as long as he is surrounded by people who know what they are doing. But left to his own devices he spouts nonsense.

Burns gets so much wrong in his diatribe, but the ideological incoherence isn’t the striking part of his rant. You almost expect that in the way you expect Stephen Colbert to misrepresent his ideological opponents in the most unfunny way possible. Cable news is filled with ideological incoherence and ignorance of the most basic truths.

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A twit. But a twit supported by our tax dollars through PBS.
1 posted on 03/08/2023 2:00:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

“Having spent a lot of time around academics and media types I learned years ago that people can be smart, talented, and complete dunces at the same time.”

So true.

I liked Jazz, Baseball, Civil War and Country Music, but I figure if I watched them again I’d see a lot of leftist micro aggression (to use their term) in the narration and presentation.


2 posted on 03/08/2023 2:04:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Rummyfan

Virtually every liberal has dysfunctional logic circuits.


3 posted on 03/08/2023 2:04:59 PM PST by allendale
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To: Rummyfan

Let me answer the question, “Who Knew Ken Burns is an idiot”, the answer is just everyone knew that who is paying attention and looks beyond his movie making skills.


4 posted on 03/08/2023 2:06:31 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: srmanuel

Same as Stephen King.


5 posted on 03/08/2023 2:08:11 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Rummyfan

PBS ONLY HIRES TWITS!!


6 posted on 03/08/2023 2:10:15 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Rummyfan

Ken Burns slandered Ty Cobb, so I’ve always assumed he is a leftist with little regard for the truth.


7 posted on 03/08/2023 2:11:43 PM PST by devere
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To: Ann Archy

Many years ago I sat next to him on a flight from LAX to Newark. We talked baseball for a couple of hours. Was really cool.


8 posted on 03/08/2023 2:13:12 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: Rummyfan

9 posted on 03/08/2023 2:13:24 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Rummyfan

Not sure “smart” is the right word here. Talented, capable, gifted - yes. But intelligence is something you either have or you don’t. Take Trump for example - he is clearly a smart man and the fact that he can’t write code doesn’t make him and idiot - because that is a special skill that any intelligent person can learn. Ken Burns is gifted in the specialized area of filmmaking but his lack of logical analysis and integrative thinking prove he is not smart.


10 posted on 03/08/2023 2:15:35 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Rummyfan

Does the author EVER make his point?


11 posted on 03/08/2023 2:15:51 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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“Ken Burns slandered Ty Cobb, so I’ve always assumed he is a leftist with little regard for the truth.”

That’s not all he did wrong, but he did more than enough for me to tune him out long ago.


12 posted on 03/08/2023 2:17:27 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s actually common knowledge.


13 posted on 03/08/2023 2:17:40 PM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Rummyfan

I think Dan Bongino says it best: A lot of dumb smart people out there.


14 posted on 03/08/2023 2:18:34 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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Concerning "smart" people being dunces. I think its more accurate to say that society is selecting for a certain kind of dunce-ism. The fake-intellectual. People that view themselves as being part of the intellectual class in terms of learning to parrot the views that seem to be the social requirement--and who do not even realize that they are fakes since they have no conception that there are more authentic counterparts. One such real intellectual was CS Lewis who warned of this trend decades ago in his essay Lillies that Fester
15 posted on 03/08/2023 2:18:54 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: subterfuge

A talented documentarian?-what that means is that if you can sit through his 20 hour shows you can think of yourself as an intellectual deep thinker. What it really means is that you have the patience to sit through a subject that can be covered in a third of the time.


16 posted on 03/08/2023 2:19:30 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Rummyfan

How much time and effort has Ken Burns wasted over the last three years putting together a propaganda movie about January 6th that’s now worth nothing?


17 posted on 03/08/2023 2:22:05 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Rummyfan

A left wing IDIOT.


18 posted on 03/08/2023 2:22:50 PM PST by Pearfect
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To: Rummyfan

I always knew this guy was a jerk.


19 posted on 03/08/2023 2:22:56 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: GraceG

Me thinks the nail he hit was on his left hand index finger.
Those tend to hurt.


20 posted on 03/08/2023 2:23:06 PM PST by sasquatch
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