Posted on 08/04/2021 6:24:05 PM PDT by RandFan
Ken Burns blasted Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as ‘an enemy of the state’ who ‘doesn’t give a s***’ about the United States and thinks he and his No. 2, Sheryl Sandberg, should be tried for crimes against humanity and put in prison.
‘He knows he can transcend it. He can get away to any place,’ Burns, the award-winning film documentarian and historian, told The New York Times.
‘And so it’s just about filthy lucre, that’s it.’
Burns, the 68-year-old two-time Oscar winner, made the remarks during an interview with Times podcaster Kara Swisher, who invited the filmmaker to talk to him about his latest project - famed boxer Muhammad Ali.
He brought up Zuckerberg’s name unprompted even though Swisher didn’t ask about the tech mogul.
Swisher did not follow up on Burns' comments, and the filmmaker did not specify why he thought Zuckerberg was a traitor.
Instead, Swisher responded to the Zuckerberg comments by cryptically telling Burns: 'You’re going to love my memoir, Ken.'
The two then move on to discuss the craft of documentary filmmaking.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Facebook and Burns seeking comment.
Zuckerberg, the founder of the world's most popular social media platform that counts more than 2.7 billion users globally, is the fifth richest person on the planet thanks to a net worth that is estimated at around $130billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don’t be fooled by the Dutch boy haircut. Burns is getting on in years, and many men (not so much women) become more willing to speak their mind as their years dwindle down and their need for social acceptance winds down.
It’s like telling a black man that he was better off coming here as a slave.
Burns have an alias on FB that was ban-hammered or something? He or a friend must have really gotten burned by FB.
Unless he’s one of those rare liberal Democrats—like an Alan Dershowitz or Camille Paglia—that is able to see and point out the flaws and hypocrisy of the looney left.
He’s angry because Zuckerberg isn’t censoring MORE right wing views, which was omitted from the article and excerpt for some reason.
I my estimation, when the Left are eating their own it means the Right presents no threat.
Kinda like, “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
I love Burns’ documentaries. I’m Gen X and didn’t know much about Vietnam and was amazed at his documentary. Watching mark twain now.
Don’t get ahead of the story. He is pissed that Zuck-Up isn’t killing conservative views more throughly to “protect” the United States of Burn’s vision — Leftist.
I keep a FascistBook account just to post stuff like this.
Put ‘em both in a cell together and weld the door shut.
“ He’s angry because Zuckerberg isn’t censoring MORE right wing views, which was omitted from the article and excerpt for some reason.”
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That’s what I was thinking.
Thank you for prompting me to read the article. Holy effing s..t!. Old Ken would probably just march us deplorables straight to the ovens.
Zuckershmuck did NOT found Facebook.
Maybe Ken Burns—an old style liberal—has finally begun to realize what the totalitarian left is all about. There’s nothing liberal about it in fact it’s the antithesis of liberalism.
Good for him, and may his tribe increase!
I wish people could break the habit of calling leftists and democrats liberals.
PBS giant might just be one of us ?!
Personally, I don’t think it was really “help”. More like just Zuck just being too busy with other things (+ believing Hillary would win) to put his thumb on the scales.
Suck it up Kenny Boy. You helped create this climate.
When they come for you be sure and tell ‘em who you are.
Tell them “I’m Ken Burns! I produced “The Civil War’’ for PBS!’’
I was a fan of Ken Burns’ Civil War series, and I liked more of his series until he did one about a subject I know a lot about, and it was filled with lies and omissions and slants. He wanted to prosecute America’s racism. The only thing that was important about baseball history was its implacable hatred of blacks.
I never looked at any more of Burns’ shows after that.
Burns’ complaint was that social media airs too much CONSERVATIVE option.
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