Someone really ought to erect a statue on the Mall to Mary Jo for keeping this reprobate out of the White House. She really DID give her life for her country.
Posted on 12/17/2016 11:22:41 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Ken Burns claims, “For nearly forty years now, I have diligently practiced a conscious neutrality in my work.” This “neutrality” includes the following: In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Edward Kennedy’s Democratic National Convention speech, which, according to Politico, presented Kennedy as “the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port.” When Burns endorsed Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, he compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln. In 2012, Burns wrote, “Like FDR, Obama has walked us back from the brink. He averted a depression, ended one war and put us on the path ending the other, rescued the auto industry…Obama has deployed the shrewd combination of speaking softly and using a big stick. Ask Bin Laden.”
Burns hammers at left-wing mantras in his documentaries, using standard and easily recognizable left-wing media techniques. He omits the long racist history of Democrat politicians in his documentary “Congress,” presenting the period just before the Civil War to the post-Reconstruction era without ever identifying a single pro-slavery congressman or senator as a Democrat. He omits the strong anti-abortion views of Susan B. Anthony in his suffrage movement documentary “Not For Ourselves Alone,” since that did not fit the left-wing ideology he was pushing. When a white shooter killed black churchgoers in 2015, Burns said, “As most Americans were, I was stunned, shocked, reduced to tears by what had happened in Charleston and felt like all the old ghosts were all still present in American life.” But when a Muslim terrorist killed 50 gays in Orlando, Florida, in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Burns said of Donald Trump’s advocating a temporary halt to Muslim immigration to America: “Do not think that the tragedy in Orlando underscores his points. It does not.”
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Like turning his ‘Baseball’ documentary into a Mario Cuomo campaign commercial?
Left wing gas-bag
I saw all nine episodes of “Baseball” and have no idea what you’re talking about.
The best parody ever of Ken Burns’ documentaries.
The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8
Someone really ought to erect a statue on the Mall to Mary Jo for keeping this reprobate out of the White House. She really DID give her life for her country.
BULLSHIIT !
I liked his Civil War. Baseball was good as well. There was some social issue focus, but overall I thought it well done.
He’s a Lefty for sure. Knowing that allows you to watch with a little bit of a filter to see the subject more clearly when he presents it. Pretty much like the rest of the media/Hollywood efforts....
bmp
he’s a leftard dipsh*t b ut gasbag comes close. No, he’s an overrated moron who makes mediocre mockumentaries.
He’s a liar. lying by omission in his leftist ‘documentaries’ are probably the worst kind of lies. Historical documentaries are supposed to be educational. His are the opposite of that.
Read the whole article. Ken Burns “history” uses too much “poetic license” to be so designated. No wonder kids grow up not knowing the truth of real history. His work is smooth and beautifully made — it’s just full of lies. The guy’s a scheming, left-wing wing revisionist.
The Howard Zinn of PBS.
bmp
Burns’ “Baseball” includes errors such as film of a pitcher supposedly pitching in a World Series who did not play for either team. The blog, “So many mistakes in Ken Burns Baseball,” lists many more.
In an amusing display of utter cluelessness, Burns presents Johnson and a sparring partner in a reversed film clip with both fighters working away in “southpaw” stances, each with his right foot and right arm out in front, a laughable mistake obvious at a glance to anyone familiar with the most basic techniques of boxing.
I’ll take left-wing gasbag.
I will take leftist Gasbag for 3
Rhetorical headlines are so 20th century PC. Just say the compromised communist hack still mules in the empty echo chamber of the left.
Left-wing Gasbag Obsessed with Race
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