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PBS Star Ken Burns Says NOW Is Worse Than the Civil War?
Newsbusters ^ | July 21, 2021 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 07/21/2021 10:03:38 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

It's ironic that the documentarian best known for a television series about the Civil War seems to have forgotten the Civil War. That is the only conclusion one would have to make about PBS filmmaker Ken Burns because on Friday's The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, after briefly discussing Robert E. Lee and Woodrow Wilson, he declared that "this is the most fraught time I think in the history of our republic."

Really, Ken? More fraught than the American Civil War that you chronicled in which over half a million died? Well, according to the sanctimonious lecture provided by Burns, these times are even worse because of "misinformation and paranoia and the lying voter suppression."

He's saying this to Brian Williams, who is known for misinformation. There's a lecture about Critical Race Theory, and Burns cartoons the conservative (and common sense) opposition as usual.

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TOPICS: History; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; brianwilliams; civilwar; crt; education; kenburns; race; zotthekeywordtroll
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Ken Burns, sanctimonious hypocrite who outed himself as an EXTREME partisan in his "Why I Am a Yellow Dog Democrat" speech in 1998.
1 posted on 07/21/2021 10:03:38 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

The Communist Revolution does not come peacefully and does not simply seek to make “2 Americas”. It wants domination over the whole thing and its people.


2 posted on 07/21/2021 10:04:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: PJ-Comix

I always thought he was gay.


3 posted on 07/21/2021 10:05:22 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: PJ-Comix

Ken Burns should watch the series called The Civil War.
He might learn something.


4 posted on 07/21/2021 10:05:44 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: PJ-Comix

Should we take this as the Democrats threatening to secede again?


5 posted on 07/21/2021 10:06:18 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Maybe. They were putting up statues then now we’re tearing them down so............... :=}


6 posted on 07/21/2021 10:08:33 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: PJ-Comix
Ken has sat on one too many corn cob pipes


7 posted on 07/21/2021 10:09:01 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

The series “The Divided Union” was much better history.


8 posted on 07/21/2021 10:10:18 AM PDT by Reily
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To: rdl6989
always thought he was gay.

He is

9 posted on 07/21/2021 10:10:21 AM PDT by 11th_VA (Joe Manchin is the defacto President )
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To: PJ-Comix

Im a way he might be right. There were about 700,000 men killed during the Civil War. Before these Democrats are done destroying this Republic there may be 7 million Americans dead.


10 posted on 07/21/2021 10:10:37 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti)
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To: PJ-Comix

Al Gore says that everything bad is caused by Global Warming. So I must conclude that Global Warming has caused Ken Burns to go insane. Poor Ken.

Oh, wait. Maybe Ken isn’t so crazy after all. If he and his fellow liberals can get everyone all worked up, it would then be easier for Biden to suppress conservatives.


11 posted on 07/21/2021 10:10:50 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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That is the only conclusion one would have to make about PBS filmmaker Ken Burns because on Friday’s The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, after briefly discussing Robert E. Lee and Woodrow Wilson, he declared that “this is the most fraught time I think in the history of our republic.”


If he’s hinting that Critical Race Theory has the potential to start a new ‘Civil War’ then it would be hard to disagree.


12 posted on 07/21/2021 10:11:16 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Not yet, Kenny... but give it time...


13 posted on 07/21/2021 10:11:26 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The unrelenting Marxist attempt to destroy this nation as we know it and convert it to Cuba probably qualifies as the most fraught time in the history of our Republic.


14 posted on 07/21/2021 10:12:54 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: rdl6989

He’s about as effeminate as one can get without officially being gay.


15 posted on 07/21/2021 10:13:04 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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Well, to be fair. Southern secession wasn’t a threat of any kind to the Republic. The Republic continued as before in those states which had not seceded.

And the Confederacy itself was a Republic. Similar in many respects the one from which it had seceded.


16 posted on 07/21/2021 10:13:15 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: JonPreston

He does look like a typical Democrat. I can’t picture him in uniform from either side of the CW.


17 posted on 07/21/2021 10:13:28 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: PJ-Comix

REALLY? The entire first episode of “The Civil War” was about how it affected everybody in America, in every state, city, town, and village. The bemoaners went on to say that even the way the country was referred to was changed (From “The United States ARE” to “The United States IS”). “Experts of all races and creeds piled on (with droning, mournful violin music in the background) about to unspeakable TRAUMA the Civil War brought to our country.

Was he lying then, or is he lying now?

What an insufferable BORE he is.

And I’m a “Civil War ‘buff”.


18 posted on 07/21/2021 10:14:05 AM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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To: rdl6989

If he isn’t...he should seriously consider it..and possibly gender “reassignment”¿¿¿


19 posted on 07/21/2021 10:14:41 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Williams should have launched into all his experience covering the War Between the States...


20 posted on 07/21/2021 10:17:25 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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