Ken Burns is a liberal hack and nothing he does is worth watching. His Vietnam film is totally liberal biased.
Will Burns call the TET Offensive a disaster for the the US and ARVN or what it really was, the suicidal destruction of the Vietcong.
Ken Burns is such a leftist l am skeptical of any thing he does his track record is not good
When referencing Ken Burns’ Vietnam, I always think of “Professor Turgeson” from “Back to School”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hn9xAaKUbw
This is a very biased story of the Vietnam War. It parrots the Left Wing view of the war and has little to do with what really happened. Most of the veterans that appear in the series are followers of a Lawrence, KS commie war protester. I know some of the people that appear, and they are not happy about what happened in the editing room.
The North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong were not the national liberators that Ken Burns want us to believe.
Charlton Heston’s two-hour refutation of the 14-hour PBS series on Vietnam is a gold mine of information left-out or misrepresented in the original series. Heston’s documentary was sponsored by Accuracy in Media.
I was never ordered there so it could be argued that my opinion is essentially worthless.However,I have an opinion...regardless of its worth...and that is if it’s Ken Burns doing it and PBS showing it I can have no doubt that it’s the worst “the evil superpower attacking the peace loving leaders of the People’s Really Swell Democratic Republic of Vietnam” piece of garbage imaginable.
Up to about 2/3 of the way, he documented pretty well that there were two sides in the war and what they went through. So OK, for a documentary.
Then his tone changed and he went very patriotic - for the Viet Cong, American protestors and what ill mannered, imperialists we were.
I could not finish it.
The men I served with say this PBS film is total BS.
What years were you in Vietnam?
PBS......bet no mention of traitors Fonda and McCain.
But now that I've seen the whole thing, it's clear that if you thought the war was winnable, you'll hate the show and find it biased, since it was biased against that view.
The soldiers interviewed had different experiences and different views on some of the details, but it looked like all of them ended up in the anti-war movement and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
The show made a good case that the war was unwinnable, but it was definitely biased and should have included people who took the opposing view so as to let viewers make up their own minds.
Why didn’t we win then, ken?
“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Brigadier General Robin Olds , triple ace, encompassing WW 2 and Vietnam
When Olds came home it was to brief the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His words with then President Lyndon B. Johnson were few, “Get us out of this GD war!”
When LBJ asked how, Olds replied, “It’s simple, sir - win it!”
If you want to watch Ken Burns, watch Ken Burns.
Just be aware: you’ll end up with a treble hook in your jaw.
Of do pound sand - that stupid thing was wall-to-wall Leftist horsewash. They cleverly only featured battles that we had a hard time with and left out the operations where we kicked VC and NVA butt (which was almost all the time).
They also managed to completely ignore the pro-enemy American communists who were the backbone of the "antiwar" crowd. Bastards had a regular commuter services to the enemy's capital and our own government just let the treasonous swine go on uninterrupted. I love the VC flags and the Ho Chi Minh chants at the demonstrations; they'd never have pulled that kind of crap on the WW II vets.
Want to ask me about our war? Fine. I spent seventeen months in combat with some of the best young men ever to wear our country's uniform. All of the refugees came to us, not to the enemy - but don't depend on Ken Burns or any other Leftist propagandist to show the truth.
I hate a despise Ken Burns.
Not only is he pathetically liberal, injecting blacks/race into every single subject with an entire sob story episode or more, but he’s far overrated in story-telling. He’s BORING.
Hell, he made me want to sleep though BASEBALL, with the slow and dreary music in it and the sad-sack narration. I’ve been able to stay awake enough to notice how he always manages to make us all feel guilty about being white Americans.
No way. It has so much untold that it makes it a fake POS.
The Viet Nam War ought to have taught us, among other things, that you can’t win a war if you don’t simultaneously win the propaganda war. We know how the left does propaganda, and street organizing, and even knowing this for the people who get their news from the Alphabet networks, it is very effective.
During Viet Nam there was no alternative conservative media, no Limbaugh, no Fox, nothing but wall to wall peace marches and body counts until the people begged for it to just stop.
That, and as now, a Democrat Party that was in league with the devil.