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Anyone still think Burns is apolitical? Anyone think his viewpoints don't color his films?
1 posted on 12/18/2007 9:24:35 PM PST by mbs6
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Well, no need for elections now, the great Ken Burns has spoken. Smiley can start measuring for the drapes.


2 posted on 12/18/2007 9:28:49 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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I wonder when they’re gonna release some interviews of his high school friends into the fray.


3 posted on 12/18/2007 9:32:06 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (chaos is an illusion.)
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I wonder when they’re gonna release some interviews of his high school friends into the fray.


4 posted on 12/18/2007 9:32:13 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (chaos is an illusion.)
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Yes, but who will get the great Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore endorsements? Too bad the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Ronald McDonald or the Burger King aren’t running for office...


5 posted on 12/18/2007 9:32:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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Follow the money right back to liberal PBS, apolitical my ..a&@.. well we can’t say that here.


6 posted on 12/18/2007 9:34:00 PM PST by A. Morgan (Each terrorist we kill lowers the carbon foot print of the war.)
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What makes this nitwit think Obama is a “leader?”

Could he name ONE time Obama has ever demonstrated leadership in any shape or form?

He’s a completely blank slate upon which many are projecting their dreams - without a shred of evidence.


8 posted on 12/18/2007 9:35:08 PM PST by Redbob
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Say that headline 3 times real fast.


10 posted on 12/18/2007 9:37:03 PM PST by DaGman
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in what he called the negative tone of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign

..jeeezzz, where ya been for 15 years?

13 posted on 12/18/2007 9:40:13 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Well’ it’s all over now.


17 posted on 12/18/2007 9:42:54 PM PST by eyedigress
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they most certainly color his work same Speilbergs or DePalmas do theirs

God bless the Cohen bros


18 posted on 12/18/2007 9:44:26 PM PST by wardaddy (I have come to the conclusion that even though imperfect....Thompson is my choice.)
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I’m not surprised that white liberals living in affluent white rural New Hampshire towns support the liberal black candidate. I remember the same thing happening among libs I knew when Jesse Jackson ran for Prez in 1988.

New Hampshire demographics, 2005 (NH is first value, USA is second value):

White persons 96.1% 80.2%
Black persons 1.0% 12.8%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2% 1.0%
Asian persons, percent, 2005 (a) 1.7% 4.3%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.0% 0.2%
Persons reporting two or more races 1.0% 1.5%
Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin) 2.2% 14.4%
White persons not Hispanic 94.1% 66.9%


20 posted on 12/18/2007 9:45:32 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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Ken Burns Backs Obama

If I was on Obama's campaign staff, I'd be telling Obama:
DON'T let Ken Burns make a promotional commercial or documentary
about you!!!

Burns put the country to sleep with overall downbeat atmospherics
of "Baseball", "Jazz" and "The War".
25 posted on 12/18/2007 9:54:11 PM PST by VOA
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Only because Lenin wasn’t running, I think.


26 posted on 12/18/2007 9:54:20 PM PST by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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“Anyone still think Burns is apolitical? Anyone think his viewpoints
don’t color his films?”

He made “The War” the sort of film that will have millions of high
school students either nodding off after about 10-15 minutes...
or imploring the history teacher “PLEASE! Can we just go back to
your rote lecture format?”


27 posted on 12/18/2007 9:56:16 PM PST by VOA
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Well, I feel better knowing which candidate Burns is supporting. This news is hugh!


29 posted on 12/18/2007 9:59:32 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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30 posted on 12/18/2007 10:05:49 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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Can Burns tie his shoes? Gotta give him credit - with these pathetics running in this corrupt “Two-Party Cartel” except for Tancredo & Hunter, Paul, the rest are compromised.


35 posted on 12/18/2007 10:41:11 PM PST by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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That’s it? No 15 hour documentary explaining how and why?

I expected a little bit more from Ken Burns.


36 posted on 12/18/2007 10:50:36 PM PST by Duke Nukum (He burns at the center of time and he sees the turn of the Universe.)
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No one is completely apolitical, and your viewpoints are bound to seep into anything you do, but my impression is that at least Burns lets opposing viewpoints make their case, and you can’t say fairer than that.

The “Civil War” was very good (even though the Union side gets more air time).


37 posted on 12/19/2007 12:48:51 AM PST by Vanders9
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what a surprise. I haven’t watched anything of his since Mario Cuomo was somehow the most appropriate person to tell us about baseball. And his favorite moment of the Civil War series was the historian who questioned whether we can truly say the Civil War is over when there are Americans who live in houses and there are Americans who are homeless and to see her struggle with that issue.


39 posted on 12/19/2007 3:10:44 AM PST by gusopol3
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