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He seems like an out in the open commie to me
i don’t think it’s a secret
Yesth...
What are national parks but tiny hamlets—where people go to ooh and ahh when they get tired of the cities they’ve voluntarily crammed themselves into—scattered among huge swaths of land maintained by private companies? So overrated. People really have no notion of how wild the world is, locked up in civilization.
They are everywhere...watching Chavez on CNN, wow.
Here’s hoping with this much exposure, the commies in this country will be shunned.
But you gotta read between the lines because he almost always takes the socialistic view on stuff which is oh-so-typical for public broadcasting.
La wik sez: Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, with almost $40,000 in political donations.[3] In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Edward Kennedy's August 25 speech to the Democratic National Convention.[4] The speech which Burns' video introduced would prove to be Kennedy's last in a 46-year career of public service."
he looks like a south park caricature...in the flesh.
The United States lost the Cold War. A dedicated huge cadre of communists first seized the democrat party, and then the reins of Washington power.
Ken Burns is just on of many thousands of communists receiving taxpayer money.
If the Stupid Party ever stumbles back into power, it must defund the evil NEA and Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
What’s the secret? He works for PBS.
“Burns’ films, with their lilting music and cozy slo-mo zooms, can make the most incendiary historical events appear almost as soothing as a glass of warm milk.”
Oh, don’t get me going!
This jackass is not only exactly that - a communist liberal suck-up - but his documentaries are BORING.
I don’t get anyone’s love affair with this idiot.
He made baseball seem boring (well, it is to a good extent, but it should be fun and light-hearted, not heavy-handed).
Every show about some general subject is injected chock-full of “woe to the ‘African-Americans’” as an entire chapter. About how evil America was/is because of blacks.
That tips me off right there that this dude is an America-basher.
You only need to listen to him briefly to realize he’s light in his loafers.
His WWII series was okay. The 1970’s series WORLD AT WAR kicks its’ butt in every way imaginable. Oh, and he looks like a homo...
The author of the article doesn’t have a clue. Yeah, there’s such a thing as public property, and that isn’t the same thing as communism. There’s also nothing wrong, from a conservative standpoint, about public property. So long as all citizens share in the ownership and have equal access to the property, it’s OK. A national park is basically the same concept as a road, a monument, etc. So long as the original owners of the property were paid fair market value for it and the land now serves a public use, it’s OK.
What’s not OK is taking private property from one person so that it can be turned over for another person’s exclusive use. It’s also not OK, from a conservative/moral and constitutional standpoint, to seize private property for public use without paying fair compensation to the original owners.
His view is a little skewed to the left.
Burns has made a career - and quite a good one - out of describing the tension between the individual and the group. "The Civil War" was the conflict between the individual (the states) and the group (the Union). "Baseball" - the individual within the team. "Jazz" - the tension between the soloist and the ensemble.
He is a genius as a documentarian.
He has moved on to topics which help to define us as uniquely American - Mark Twain, Lewis & Clark, National Parks - and he tells the stories very well. I could care less about his politics.
Burns’ Civil War series was emotionally potent and I was smitten by it, but then when I looked at his baseball series, an area where I am extremely knowledgeable, all I could see was his bias and agenda. Nothing existed except Yankees, Red Sox, and downtrodden excluded blacks. Since then I have not trusted his take on any other topic.