I NEVER watch Ken Burns stuff. He’s is supposedly fair, but his bias is really glaring. But Lefties always subscribe to the meme ‘if you say it enough times, it becomes the truth’.
Ken Burns: Student of History—or Left-Wing Gasbag?
Accuracy in Media ^ | December 16, 2016 | Arne Steinberg
Posted on 12/17/2016, 2:22:41 PM by MarvinStinson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3505720/posts
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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Documentaries on the WWII Pacific theater elide so much information they should be called Dummy guides by anyone familiar with events there. A Vietnam documentary would be no different, even if approached non-politically.
Ken Burns specializes in skipping what doesn’t fit his narrative. I wouldn’t accuse him of outright lying, but he selects what bolsters his leftist viewpoint and is not interested in material that refutes it.
Burns seems to be a serious producer of leftist history. I did watch his Civil War series years ago but nothing since. I definitely dont care to ever see this VN series. It was my generation and i was lucky enough to be there, admittedly as a Maritime Patrol crewmember (no combat), but i was still spit at in the airport in Honolulu on my way home. The lefty view of VN is an insult to those that served.
Tried to watch his Baseball then gave up on him altogether.