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Self Proclaimed Yellow Dog Democrat Ken Burns Denies Political Bias in His Documentaries
NewsBusters ^ | September 13, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/13/2014 12:43:05 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Tomorrow evening begins the first of Ken Burns' 14 hour documentary on PBS, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The good news about this documentary is that we can be sure it will be free of any political advocacy since Burns has no bias and.....

Huh? Am I kidding? Of course I am. The fact is despite Burns' laughable denials, he is a bitterly partisan Democrat to the extent that he gave a speech  in 1998 in which he declared himself to be a "Yellow Dog Democrat." The speech was also chock full of scathing attacks upon Republicans which makes his later denial that he is only a Democrat because he inherited that political party from his family even more hilarious. And now a documentary in his own words about his politics, Ken Burns: Why I Am a Yellow Dog Democrat:

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Declaring yourself a Yellow Dog Democrat is the same thing as declaring yourself incapable of rational thought. But hey, he "inherited" his politics from his family so no choice in the matter.
1 posted on 09/13/2014 12:43:05 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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Maybe he could do “an intimate history” of the Bushes?


2 posted on 09/13/2014 12:46:59 PM PDT by FreeperCell
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It’s a shame.

Those early documentaries of his were masterpieces. But he just couldn’t shut-up and make films that people genuinely liked.


3 posted on 09/13/2014 12:47:53 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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I’m looking forward to a well-crafted miniseries that will show us all (in spite of Burns’ bias) the unmaking of the American dream during the Roosevelt century. Will be taking notes.


4 posted on 09/13/2014 12:50:06 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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He should be beaten just for that idiotic haircut.


5 posted on 09/13/2014 12:51:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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You're firing a machine gun at a gnat. Over and over again.

Pointing out that Ken goes on and on about race, but lives in one of the Whitest states in America ought to be enough.

Recommend by passing all this "What Ken Burns said in the last century and what he thinks of his parents" stuff and going directly to the Reason review for something of substance about the series.

6 posted on 09/13/2014 12:53:57 PM PDT by x
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He’s not bias says the guy who made an entire documentary declaring rapists innocent solely because of their race.


7 posted on 09/13/2014 12:55:02 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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His “Civil War” series was a massively biased misrepresentation of history.


8 posted on 09/13/2014 12:57:17 PM PDT by PeaRidge
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Oh.

His ‘The Seventh Inning’, the history of baseball was a masterpiece.


9 posted on 09/13/2014 12:59:58 PM PDT by stanne
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You actually got through that whole thing? I lasted about 2 episodes and that was it for me.


10 posted on 09/13/2014 1:00:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks PJ-Comix. Defund PBS, defund NPR.


11 posted on 09/13/2014 1:01:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Even the Beatles finally ditched the Beatles haircut.


12 posted on 09/13/2014 1:02:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Charlie Crist (D-Green Iguana))
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Even if you end up agreeing with your parents in the long term, at some point, a rational human being questions and tests the assertions of truth laid out before them. You come to your own conclusions, even if they were biased by your upbringing, a rational person comes to those conclusions on their own terms, not just because their parents saw the world the same way.

Intellectual dependence is the acceptance of ideas,beliefs,concepts,and conclusions of other men without understanding the steps that led to them.Such men attempt to function on the higher levels of a complex structure of knowledge without having established the requisite base of knowledge.Their mental activity consists in building confusion on confusion, instead of knowledge on knowledge.Their beliefs and opinions are detached from facts and from cognition.

13 posted on 09/13/2014 1:03:15 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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I always wondered if he was born a guy, he seems very effeminate and there’s a few photos of him out there where he seems to have breasts while wearing a tee shirt, plus his middle name is Lauren. Hello! Lauren?


14 posted on 09/13/2014 1:05:07 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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I always wondered if he was born a guy, he seems very effeminate and there’s a few photos of him out there where he seems to have breasts while wearing a tee shirt, plus his middle name is Lauren. Hello! Lauren?


15 posted on 09/13/2014 1:05:27 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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He’s a married fag, Yoda. He trots around a Reggie Love person at interviews I’ve heard.


16 posted on 09/13/2014 1:06:13 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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Just think of it. We live in the freest, richest, least taxed country on earth, and still to them the best government ever invented is somehow not good enough. There is, of course, a honorable tradition throughout the two centuries of our history to rein our government, to ask tough questions of our elected representatives, to demand a more accurate accounting of its finances and affairs, to insure the power of states and individuals in exquisite tension with the Federal Government

Wow!

He certainly can’t say any of that any more.

17 posted on 09/13/2014 1:07:00 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Self Proclaimed Yellow Dog Democrat Ken Burns Denies Political Bias in His Documentaries

Read: everyone watch my new documentary.

BTW Burn's claim is laughable. Everyone says they're unbiased, yet everyone is.

What matters is the reason behind their bias.

18 posted on 09/13/2014 1:10:19 PM PDT by skeeter
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Mario Cuomo narrating “Baseball? “ If he hadn’t already lost me by opining that the black female professor who ruminated whether the Civil War was truly over when “Some people live in houses and others are homeless” was his favorite part of the presentation, he would have lost me with that odd choice.


19 posted on 09/13/2014 1:10:39 PM PDT by gusopol3
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Burns? Flaming liberal...


20 posted on 09/13/2014 1:11:50 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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