Posted on 10/01/2007 5:59:05 PM PDT by american_ranger
Dear Mr Burns; I just turned off my TV. I have watched 5 of your episodes on WWII. I have defended your negativism by posting positive comments on several blogs. But tonight is the end. Your blatant anti-Americanism propaganda in repeating bullshit about a recent West Point graduate being a battalion commander and ordering American soldiers to execute German POWs is way over the line. Recent West Point graduates are 2nd Lieutenants (O1). Bn Commanders are normally LTC(O5) or Majors (O4).
You sir, are a commie pinko. Maybe you should get a haircut and a real job. I will never watch a show produced by you again.
Thank you! My thoughts exactly about this little pinko elitist prick. Thank you!
The first three episodes were highlighting our failures in the war. Botched war plans and botched tactical executions. I foolishly thought that Mr Burns was detailing how far we sank before we Americans fought back from the abyss to win ultimate victory. Sort of a tribute to our willingness to keep on fighting through all adversity.
Tonight I realized that Mr Burns was just denigrating our leaders and playing up what saps we were to follow them. He is a real loser and you can spend your money better by buying/watching other shows.
Haven't seen the show you reference, and don't disagree with your comments.
However, during WWII competent officers often went up the rank scale very quickly.
In August 1941 Eisenhower was a colonel. In 1942 he was Commanding General of all US forces in the European theater.
They hate us because we are an "artificial" nation and didn't spring organically from the soil like everyone else allegedly did.
I appreciate you comments. If I had this guy’s financial support, I could produce a TV show that would blow this show to hell.
Mr Burns has taken a bunch of old people and warped their memories to match his expectations.
What a loser is Mr Burns.
The one guy I recall saying that he wasn't necessarily proud of that - but you did what you had to do. It was war. I also read a book by a military doc. He said they were the first group in to one of the Nazi camps and were treating the prisoner's. In looking for survivors they came across some of the guards hiding. The doctors and medics dragged them out and shot them on the spot.
Im watching it, a vet said this not the narrator.
I guess that soldier didn't know the rank or he made it up to get on TV.
It’s a terrible distortion of the history of the US in World War II. I watched the first four episodes. All I heard was a lot of bellyaching by various minority groups...except Hispanics. That’s because the little fag Ken Burns forgot to include Hispanics.
Last night I tuned in for about 15 minutes, to hear some old Indian guy tell a fantastic story about stealing 15 horses from a group of Germans. The story was wild and unsubstantiated. (But weasel commie Burns had to get Ol’ Injun Joe in there for diversity reasons.) Injun Joe forgot to tell the part about the white soldiers giving the Indians bankets contaminated with the measles virus.
Any sober person could tell that this old Indian was embellishing and improvising as he went along. He reminded me of Feech LaMann on The Sopranos. An old man’s ramblings.
Tonight I am skipping it...and any other episodes to come.
I have my own DVD of “Band of Brothers” which I pop in whenever I want to watch something about WW2.
The one on Guadalcanal was not about losing, but about toughing it out and eventually winning.
The thing I don't like about the documentary is that they never really explain why we eventually won a particular battle.
For example, in Guadalcanal (according to Ken) there were a number of skirmishes between the Americans and the Japanese. In all of these skirmishes the Americans lost far fewer men than the Japanese.
Througout the whole process the Japanese and American navies fought it out to control shipping routes to their troops on Guadalcanal. Eventually the American navy triumphed over the Japanese and cut off supplies to the Japanese on the island.
Why was it that our forces won all of the skirmishes? Why was it that our navy beat out theirs.
Neither is explained. Only that a lot of people got killed in the mean time.
If documentaries are supposed to educate us, then Ken Burns's WWII is certainly not doing much of that.
Oranges and apples.
Eisenhower’s appointment to his position can not logically be applied to an unnamed butter bar being appointed a Bn commander. Eisenhower was a LTC for years, served as assistant to many people (including MacArthur) and was bumped up because of his organizational abilities and ability to get along with others (crucial to working with allies.)
Watching a film about the U.S. military and patriotism on public television is like the people who read the N.Y.Times to get the ‘news’.Thank goodness I do neither.
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Having been to the Custer battlefield, I remembered that the Crow were on the US side in that war...so a member of that tribe might be less inclined to spout the usual anti-white talking points.
In actuality, it was the Nippers who laid out the ground rules. From the beginning, they murdered the USMC wounded, and the Marines took it from there....very little in the way of being taken prisoner - on either side - for the rest of the war.
The stereotyping was just too much.
I liked his Civil War for the most part because it included great story tellers and photos. His Baseball was rediculous. Who the h@ll wants to hear Billy Crystal and others singing Take Me OUt to the Ball Game. I mean when he put this together there were still many of the games best older players still alive. Why not more interviews and storiesfrom the players. Instead, only a bunch of elitist New Yorkers singing Take Me OUt etc...
I haven’t watch War II and decided tonight that I won’t.
The plodding pace of the series doesn’t work for me. It worked for the Civil War one, but it is aggravating here.
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