Posted on 03/07/2023 11:51:23 AM PST by lowbridge
But for some reason, CNN seems to think that just because Burns has made films about stuff like baseball or Prohibition, he’s qualified to deliver competent analysis of modern American politics. Evidently they didn’t learn anything from the time they had him on and he and anchor John Berman drew parallels between Ron DeSantis sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard and the freakin’ Holocaust, because he was back today on “CNN This Morning” with more parallels between Ron DeSantis and Nazi Germany, plus a few other things sprinkled in for good measure:
Transcript:
Ken Burns: “You know, what makes America great is not the suppression of ideas, or the pursuit of every corner of those ideas may lead us, or the facts. It’s, it’s about who we are and how we investigate who we are and celebrate the diversity of who we are. All of these bills that DeSantis and others are doing limit our ability understand who we are and are not inclusive. They’re exclusive. They’re, they’re narrowing the focus of what is and isn’t American history. It’s terrifying. It feels like a Soviet system, or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village. Tucker Carlson’s doing the same thing with the footage from, uh, 1/6. It’s just, uh, a kind of rewriting of history at the most dangerous level. It’s, it’s a huge threat to our republic. I’m doing, Don, a film right now, working on a major series on the history of the American Revolution, and I can tell you that Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine, and George Washington, and John Adams, and James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton are rolling over in their graves if they think that this person is carrying the mantle of what it is to be American.”
What? No, seriously. What???
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Woke is not what we are and opposing wokeness is preserving who we are.
I thought “A threat to our Democracy” was the line.
NOW it’s a Republic?
No Ken they are rolling in their graves over the leftist destruction of this once great nation.
Projection?
Ken Burns is just whoring for the his Great Reset masters.
The DeSantis campaign thanks Ken Burns for his assistance.
He writes documentaries - he knows these things /s
First one to cry “Nazi” is the source of the problem.
Mr. Burns, in the immortal words of Rush Limbaugh, is “two tacos short of a combo plate.”
Hearing the others side of a story is not a threat. Hell Ken you made you fortune and fame telling both sides of the Civil War.
These leftist activist propagandists are very upset that their territory is being invaded with truth. That someone is actually proving they are clowns.
Who TF is Ken Burns, and why should I give a shit about anything he says?
Otter: Nazis?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
This is why there will be no living with progressives. How they can draw such a conclusion is beyond me. Ken Burns isn’t retarded yet this conclusion is something I’d expect from someone with very little brain power.
It feels like a Soviet system, or, you know, the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village.
Series, this is supposed to be someone who knows what
he’s talking about ???
What makes America great is LIMITED GOVERNMENT. Freedom from government intervention in our lives which we are quickly losing because the media and other leftist organizations pine for communism instead.
Uh.....
You know what? Forget it.
Next he will talk about the Nazi Pogroms.
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