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PBS Star Ken Burns Rants About Racist America, Where Cops Guns Down Blacks 'Almost Weekly'
Newsbusters ^ | May 23, 2015 | 12:07 PM EDT | Tim Graham

Posted on 05/23/2015 11:35:47 AM PDT by drewh

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To: Senator_Blutarski

Damn. I though this old bastard was dead. However, I will toast a drink to his “good riddance”’when ken burns does bite the farm- useless socialist scum.


21 posted on 05/23/2015 12:46:17 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: drewh

How can so many who claim to be historians NOT LEARN A DAMN THING FROM HISTORY!!!???


22 posted on 05/23/2015 12:47:26 PM PDT by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period. REPEAL 17 !!)
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To: drewh

Is Burns the Paul Krugman of historians?


23 posted on 05/23/2015 12:48:06 PM PDT by Thom Pain (If you like your country you can keep it. Period. REPEAL 17 !!)
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To: drewh

So sayeth the little millionaire white guy.


24 posted on 05/23/2015 12:48:24 PM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Senator_Blutarski

Somebody supports him with gazillions of dollars to produce those films he makes - many of which a are truly great (but in some if you watch closely you can see a bias). HE is just another cog in the media complex that has taken over and controls huge swaths of America in the 2000s


25 posted on 05/23/2015 12:51:38 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: drewh; All
It's a cryin' damn shame.

The man is an enormous, timeless talent. A Giant.

And he's dumb as a post.

26 posted on 05/23/2015 12:57:14 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Fledermaus

There were two really bad things about his Civil War movie. First was the endlessly whining fiddles. Second was his incompetent treatment of Civil War medicine and surgery. All he did was bemoan the truly horrible fate of the wounded; he never really covered the medical procedures and the really great strides that were made.


27 posted on 05/23/2015 12:57:58 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Thom Pain
How can so many who claim to be historians...

Because they are Utopians first, and realitarians last.

28 posted on 05/23/2015 1:07:49 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: windcliff

His hairstyle offends me.


29 posted on 05/23/2015 1:34:11 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

He’s the fifth Beatle.


30 posted on 05/23/2015 1:41:04 PM PDT by windcliff
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To: drewh

Mr Burns has made some good documentaries. One would think he is a somewhat intelligent human being. One would be wrong. Seems Ken does not know about the internet. If he did he could have done some really minimal research and found out that no cops are not gunning down blacks weekly or eeven monthly. Yes some black CRIMINAL in confrontations with Police have been killed. That of course is not gunning anyone down. He would also have learned that the most dangerous thing to young black males are other young black males...........


31 posted on 05/23/2015 1:48:16 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: drewh; All

Burns was on “Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates.

He was told that his ancestors owned slaves.

Burns was offended.

LOL!


32 posted on 05/23/2015 1:50:46 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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To: kingu
.and multiple blacks kill other blacks each and every day. Black lives only matter sometimes.

#SelectedBlacksMatter

33 posted on 05/23/2015 1:52:41 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: drewh

My personal revenge on Ken Burns occurred in the “Civil War” documentary. While showing the tragic Gardiner photos of the dead of Gettysburg, the background music was a Civil War Era Quickstep named “Mockingbird”.

A tune which ended up being immortalized in the 20th Century mind as the theme song for The three Stooges.


34 posted on 05/23/2015 1:52:45 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: drewh

And we get to keep paying this libtard wimp with our taxmoney.


35 posted on 05/23/2015 1:59:13 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: drewh

And we get to keep paying this libtard wimp with our taxmoney.


36 posted on 05/23/2015 2:00:42 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: drewh
But the shame continues: prison populations exploding with young black men, young black men killed almost weekly by policemen, whole communities of color burdened by corrupt municipalities that resemble more the predatory company store of a supposedly bygone era than a responsible local government. Our cities and towns and suburbs cannot become modern plantations.

Cool it with the rant, Ken, ol' buddy, ol' pal. Just how did those young black men happen to find themselves in prison? Could it be because they committed a criminal act?

And do you have any awareness of exactly how any young black men are actually killed by the police every year? Or any knowledge of the real circumstances? In neither case, is it what you think or believe.

Finally, those communities of color are burdened by corrupt municipalities run by who? And just who is it that manages the modern plantation, if not your very own Democrat party?

Ken Burns, you are an intellectually dishonest SOB.

37 posted on 05/23/2015 2:07:05 PM PDT by okie01
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To: drewh

This is how liberals signal that they need work.


38 posted on 05/23/2015 2:15:32 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: drewh
Maybe, if Ken Burns wants to see fewer black people shot down by cops, he could persuade the nice black offenders not to commit major felonies ...... and then fight the cops with pistols, knives, and what have you.

Major felony + vehicular assault + high-speed chase + armed confrontation = dead black person (again).

Holder Justice (now Lynch Justice -- is it just me, or does that sound horribly ironic?) will try to get those black felons some safe, "no-go" areas for cops, where black felons can be safe after their high-speed chases and gun battles with the bad old white cops.

Our leader and Osagyefo, President-for-Life Obama, has decreed it.

39 posted on 05/23/2015 3:13:38 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: drewh

I’ve got news for Burns: whitey doesn’t have a monopoly on racism and bigotry.


40 posted on 05/23/2015 3:18:35 PM PDT by windsorknot
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