Posted on 05/24/2004 7:06:22 AM PDT by Puppage
Ken Burns- the Donald Trump of PBS. I am still working on unraveling the well over 100 factual errors in the ten hour documentary 'Baseball' - averages to about one for every 6 minutes.
What a documentary filmmaker!
Yeah, and this from a man whose generation threw out all vestiges of their American Heritage and refuse to learn from history.
Kenny's just lining up backers for his next 327 hour long film "The Quagmire that was Iraq."
Ken Burns is a lightweight video splicer. Anybody could dissect his work and find countless "lies" he has perpetuated on the American people.
K. Burns: "We have begun to reduce the complexities of modern life into the facile judgments of good and evil..."
Complexities of modern life:
Mein Kampf...The Communist Manifesto...Endless jihads of the Muslim Brotherhood...Dec. 7, 1941...Sept. 11 2001...
Mr. Burns, our judgments of good and evil DO come easily.
You have somewhere lost along your way of infinite scholarship your God-given, innate sense which enabled your ancestors to survive and make your life possible.
Your speech was made possible by the service and sacrifices of men and women whose book consumption will never approach the level of yours - but who have not extinguished within themselves the flame of survival that you, yourself, treat so casually - so shabbilly.
He just tip toes through the tulips as he hummmmmms along.
Apparently Burns is much more concerned with reputation than will deterring another 9/11.
-"We have begun to reduce the complexities of modern life into the facile judgments of good and evil, and now find ourselves brought up short when we see that we have, too, some times and moments, become what we despise," Burns said."-
Um...Ken...history is FULL of good vs. evil, either in thought or action - methinks your facile statement is lacking in historical context.
That's funny stuff. He's the one that is intimidating and intolerant of others. And the media's been compliant? LOL!
That's the first time I've seen it...and it's hogwash!! Liberty has nothing to do with the sort of relativism Judge Hand is speaking of. Now, if he'd said Liberty has something to do with allowing others to hold beliefs that are different than mine, fine!! But there is an ultimate Truth, and once you find it, it makes no sense to overly doubt that which you know to be true!!
FReegards...MUD
It was awful. And why was Doris Kearns Goodwin in it?
I am so thankful Bush made it as president - I shudder to think of where we would be if Gore had won. I also shudder to think where we would be if Kerry took over.
This speaker would feel a lot safer pacifying world terrorists and buying them off with the lives of the populace (as long as he and other elites were safe).
These pacifists are just mealy mouthed cowards trying to cloak themselves in elitist anti-war rhetoric. Somehow they feel they would never be the victims only the elite.
"as they work to repair divides in American Culture"; These "divides" cannot be repaired because they are basic philosphical differences.
>>The president earned a history degree from Yale in 1968, earning what was politely called "gentlemen's C's."<<
That's a pretty strong, ugly accusation: that the president did not earn his passing grades. Wonder if NBC News has any basis for it. Not.
>> Yeah? Name ONE. Give me an example, show me proof you whimp of a woman.<<
I doubt it's one Ken Burns or his sycophant newslut had in mind, but here's one:
"I shall oppose amnesties [for illegal aliens] because they reward people for breaking our laws."
--State of the Union Address, 2001.
President Bush may have stood up to Al Qaeda, but he sold our nation down the river to the Mexicans.
I'm furious at this wimp. He had no business politicizing at a school where Bush's daughter and his daughter graduated. It is disrespectful to Barbara Bush. Even if she wasn't there. These people have no decorum. How would he like someone to get on a soapbox about his lack of directing skills at his daughter's graduation. It is wrong and only a true jerk would do it. I don't believe it would be appropriate for someone to say nasty things about Clinton during Chelsea's graduation. (not that that would ever happen). It shows absolutely no class. The graduation day is for the graduates not for the large egos of very small men.
Ah, I believe the so-called lies were in reference to war.
No, I don't think that's quite it, Ken. You are near something, but hasven't found a parking spot.
Well, yeah, I did say that those weren't the lies referred to, but you got understand: to the millions of Americans to whom immigration is a top concern, Bush's credibility is shot to hell.
I don't think he lied about WMDs because:
1. The UN was acting afraid he was right,
2. Why make up a lie when you know the turth will be revealed?
3. Recent discoveries reveal at least a grain of truth (sarin casings).
But to people who only know what they hear on ABCNNBCBS, (85% of America!), once his credibility is shot to hell (as it is, unfortunately), why should they believe him about WMDs?
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