Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, contributing almost $40,000 in political donations.
In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Ted Kennedy’s August 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention, a video described by Politico as a “Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port.”
In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln. He said he had planned to be a regular contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV.
In 2016, he also gave a commencement speech for Stanford University criticizing Donald Trump.
In 2020, Burns endorsed Ed Markey in the Massachusetts Senate Democratic Primary.
Burns should limit himself to doing sports documentaries. Didn’t he do one on baseball?
Maybe he should do one on pickle ball, or badminton.
(Apologies to fans of one or the other. Nothing personal, just trying to be funny.
🙂🙂🙂