PBS Star Ken Burns Bashes Palin: 'Supremely Unqualified...American Idol' Pick

Newsbusters ^ | 9/23/08 | Tim Graham

[pburgh01]

I think Ken is a little sore his peacenik depiction of WWII ..”The War” went over like a lead balloon and got no ratings. I think even the DVDs sit next The Wiggles take Manhattan in the 5 dollar bin.

[steelyourfaith]

Is this Kenny funded with tax payers dollars? Can he take biased political cheap shots and still collect public funds?

This vile little twerp won himself a place on my avoid-list after he ruined what could have been a perfectly good video anthology of Major League Baseball when he couldn't restrain himself from constant moralizing.

[rdax]

Worst haircut ever!

Breck-girlesque

[Names Ash Housewares]

You would think studying history would have given him some common sense. Failing that, he is truly a fool.

[Yo-Yo]

How sad that for most PBS Stations, the late Summer Pledge period just ended.

This sort of statement really would have kicked up the donations. The biggest take PBS ever had was when the Republicans took over Congress in 1994 and threatened to cut off all Federal funding for CPB.

[nascarnation]

Burns made a sappy tribute film to Sen. Ted Kennedy for last month’s Democratic convention in Denver, and then went on MSNBC to tout him as an "amazing, amazing man."

well this part is true

it is amazing that Kennedy has avoided prosecution all these years and keeps getting re-elected

[Sacajaweau]

Amusing....'cause when Obama started running, I thought he was acting like the tall, handsome, smart, athlete who was destined to be King of the Senior Prom. (He might even have been that. I don't see valedictorian anywhere.)

Just a big gangly kid with a daddy who had big bucks....made in the oil business...living in Kenya...in a Mansion...with servants...doing coke as he grew wiser...never answering to anyone....doing Community Service like Jesse and Al (it worked for them)...etc, etc, etc....

[Jim Robinson]

"PBS Star Ken Burns Bashes Palin: 'Supremely Unqualified...American Idol' Pick"

I think he must be talking about NObama here.

[mrsmel]

The presidency is the most powerful office in the world," Schieffer said. "It seems to me that some would suggest we should just accept on faith that Sarah Palin is qualified."

Does he mean the way the MSM and liberals have just taken it "on faith" (in spite of a LOT of evidence to the contrary, such as Rezko and Ayres) that Obama is qualified to be president? Not Vice-President, President. Never before have I seen liberals make so much ado about the office of the Vice-Presidency, which they usually attribute as being a job that requires nothing more than appearing at state funerals. Now all of a sudden, it matters, now all of a sudden experience matters (which Palin has, and Barry Hussein, running for the Presidency, does NOT have, except in treachery).

[JoeA]

Burns has been worshipping black folks for his entire career. He’s got a “thing” for them that seems unsavory to me.
You may be right. Burns is a great documentarian, but his emphasis on the exclusion of blacks from baseball in his documentary was overdone, in my opinion. It was a valid issue, but did we have to see it in every episode?

[pineybill]

But I bet Ken Burns does not know that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our first great television president.

[Secret Agent Man]

Can’t have it both ways Ken, you idiot. How can she be the “American Idol pick” when all the dems wh otrash her say nobody’s ever heard of her before?

Moron.

[Dr. Sivana]

Ken Burns????? Wasn’t he the guy that played on “Mama’s Place” and “Mayberry RFD” ?

That's Ken Berry. Ken Burns is the guy who did a 51 hour documentary on the history of baseball, and picked Mario Cuomo and Billy Crystal as his qualified experts to interview.

[DeLaine]

and what was Biden’s selection, hmmmm????? hahahahaha

[stainlessbanner]

As if there was an doubt of the bias in his Civil War production.

[Bringbackthedraft]

“in the whole history of the republic there has been no one with as thin a credential” ..................... There is one with an even thinner credential but he’s running for President?

[rtbwood]

Ah, Ken, did you even consider the shallow resume of Barack Obama? Community organizer with no accomplishments, state senator who voted three times for a bill legalizing infanticide, now a Jr Senator from Illinois who started running for President right after being sworn in as Senator. This is just ludicrous. Sarah Palin is the GOVERNOR of Alaska and she is running for VICE PRESIDENT, Ken.

[mrsmel]

Yes, it is amazing that a man could commit what amounts to, at the least, manslaughter, and be re-elected year after year to the Senate. He walked away from that girl, he didn’t even try to save her, and he got rewarded with a seat as Senator. Just like Sheets Byrd, the former KKK Grand Dragon or whatever they’re called, being re-elected time after time. Defending Clinton’s sexual harassment and lies under oath. I do not understand Democrats at all.

Trent Lott makes an innocuous remark at an old man’s party, and is pilloried from his post, and Republicans don’t make a peep. They’re wrong for what they do, and we’re wrong for letting them hold us to a different standard.

[Charles Martel]

Worst haircut ever!

It looked okay when Steve Perry wore it back in 1978. Now, not so much.

[SECURE AMERICA]

(Ken Burns used a New York panel discussion preceding the news and documentary Emmy Awards as a forum to denounce the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, as proof the selection process devolved “into a high school popularity contest and an American Idol competition” and insisted “in the whole history of the republic there has been no one with as thin a credential” as Palin.)

So this idiot does not know that Barack Obama is running for President? I mean speak about someone with no accomplishment or credential........