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Ken Burns Politicizes Commencement Speech With Anti-Trump Rant
NewsBusters ^ | May 13, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 06/13/2016 8:02:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix

If Donald Trump wins the presidency this November it appears documentary filmmaker Ken Burns might need to be fitted out for a straitjacket. If you have any doubt of this, then take a look below at the unhinged rant Burns performed during his commencement speech at Stanford University yesterday. Rather than ditching outright partisanship for the day out of respect for the victims of the tragic terrorist attack in Orlando, Burns decided to stick with his prepared speech to declare his crazed obsession about Trump.

The self-proclaimed "yellow dog Democrat" just couldn't give politics a rest yesterday of all days. The speech was also especially egregious in view of the fact that Burns is largely dependent on taxpayer based funding from PBS and he just insulted at least half the people paying for his career. Here is Burns, looking at times like he is about to leap out of his thin skin, as he delivers a political campaign speech disguised as commencement address:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldtrump; kenburns
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Burns will definitely be ready for the Rubber Room should Trump win in November.
1 posted on 06/13/2016 8:02:17 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Shut up, Ken.


2 posted on 06/13/2016 8:05:29 AM PDT by Senator Goldwater
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Yep. Ol Burnsie’s gotta keep that Gravy Train runnin


3 posted on 06/13/2016 8:05:46 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#BoycottTarget Women & children hurt the most. #BoycottPGA.)
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He’s always looked like a little girl to me. Even the mustache doesn’t change that.


4 posted on 06/13/2016 8:07:42 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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Went to a screening of one of his films at CalTech and he did the same thing. Just assumed everybody agreed with him.


5 posted on 06/13/2016 8:07:53 AM PDT by Inkie
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Stanford? That’s pretty rare air for just another lefty propagandist.


6 posted on 06/13/2016 8:09:11 AM PDT by major-pelham
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Not a Ken Burns Documentary

The Old Negro Space Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8


7 posted on 06/13/2016 8:09:32 AM PDT by dfwgator
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I always thought he looked like a lesbian.


8 posted on 06/13/2016 8:12:08 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: dfwgator

LMAO.


9 posted on 06/13/2016 8:13:40 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: PJ-Comix

Hope his head explodes on election night when Trump wins.


10 posted on 06/13/2016 8:19:05 AM PDT by simpson96
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Just another SP Capo!


11 posted on 06/13/2016 8:23:23 AM PDT by vette6387
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The saddest thing: All those Stanford students and faculty yelling and cheering his rant.


12 posted on 06/13/2016 8:25:15 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Make America Great Again!)
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alpha male he is not, poor widdle guy.


13 posted on 06/13/2016 8:25:38 AM PDT by georgiegirl
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The self-proclaimed "yellow dog Democrat" just couldn't give politics a rest yesterday of all days. The speech was also especially egregious in view of the fact that Burns is largely dependent on taxpayer based funding from PBS and he just insulted at least half the people paying for his career.

So what? He knows we don't pay for PBS by choice and he'll get the money from us regardless. So why not show his contempt for us? What's he got to lose? Nothing, we go on funding him because the government forces us to.

14 posted on 06/13/2016 8:26:35 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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Ken Burns proves himself to be a babbling moron..... and his films are waaaaayy over-rated, pompous, verbose, and plodding.


15 posted on 06/13/2016 8:28:46 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverSHRILLARY)
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Post # 10 ~ Hope his head explodes on election night when Trump wins. ~

His girly head will IMPLODE - such is the nature of a vacuum!


16 posted on 06/13/2016 8:29:04 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

Don’t be surprised when he-she-it announces a gender transition and expects to be named Woman of the Year.


17 posted on 06/13/2016 8:30:52 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverSHRILLARY)
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Ken Burns proves himself to be a babbling moron..... and his films are waaaaayy over-rated, pompous, verbose, and plodding.

I loved his Civil War one. Everything after that has bored me to tears. He even made the old west boring. That's a rare gift.

18 posted on 06/13/2016 8:34:32 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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Good call. Ken Burns rocked the lesbian look before Justin Bieber.


19 posted on 06/13/2016 8:34:39 AM PDT by Pelham (Islam, our favorite murder cult)
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20 posted on 06/13/2016 8:37:51 AM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("Go not a step from your door unarmed, travel armed for war, you may at any time need a spear." ODIN)
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