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PBS Star Ken Burns Bashes Palin: 'Supremely Unqualified...American Idol' Pick
Newsbusters ^ | 9/23/08 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/23/2008 12:32:52 PM PDT by pissant

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To: ClearCase_guy

Nothing worse than a dope who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else. A comment like this from someone who will vote for The Fraud , with ZERO qualifications to be PRESIDENT!!!!!

He is a black wanna be.


41 posted on 09/23/2008 12:58:25 PM PDT by curth (No More Smears - We're Fighting Back McCain/Palin '08)
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To: pissant

You don’t make it big on PBS without being a dyed-in-the-wool commie propaganda artist.


42 posted on 09/23/2008 12:58:43 PM PDT by Antoninus (Ignore the polls. They're meant to shape public opinion, not measure it.)
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To: brownsfan

thank you!
(taking a bow)
he he he


43 posted on 09/23/2008 12:59:37 PM PDT by housedeep
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To: Sacajaweau

Oh the ‘rats ate it up when their candidate was being treated like an “American Idol” rock star celebrity, but now that the we have Palin, and she has the charisma and the mojo, they want to get all worried about “gravitas”. Their usual hypocrisy, same as ever.


44 posted on 09/23/2008 12:59:42 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: pissant
I simply can't believe that my idol Ken Burns said this about Sarah Palin. I am in tears here.

First thing tomorrow, I go right down to my barbershop and get rid of this Ken Burns signature bowl-cut hairstyle I've been sporting since "The Civil War' appeared on PBS all those years ago...

*snif*

45 posted on 09/23/2008 1:01:16 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: Antoninus

Ken Burns seems to believe in private profits and social losses.


46 posted on 09/23/2008 1:01:22 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach
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To: Bringbackthedraft

But he was a community organiser, dammit! And so were our Founding Fathers! (Saw that one on DU)


47 posted on 09/23/2008 1:02:10 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: pissant

Ken, go back to Springfield. Mr. Burns is retiring Homer and he needs a replacement....and get a decent haircut.


48 posted on 09/23/2008 1:03:30 PM PDT by Leg Olam ("Every dog, we are told, has his day, unless there are more dogs than days." Bat Masterson)
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To: curth

Burns is one of the elites who knows what is best for all of us. He should be listened to and his views should not be questioned by any of you. Just who do you think you are??
Don’t you know any better than to leave well-enough alone? What is your problem? As far as I’m concerned, Burns can eat cow manure and die, but....that’s just me! ~:o )


49 posted on 09/23/2008 1:04:44 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: mrsmel

But he was a community organiser, dammit! ......................... Well yeah, that’s an important job too. The same can be said of Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Hitler, et.al.


50 posted on 09/23/2008 1:05:04 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Drill and you will need Refineries, Facilities, Housing, Schools, Shopping Ctrs,etc. = The Economy!)
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To: Renkluaf
I always look to Ken Burns for my political analysis!

Does Matt Damon know this?

51 posted on 09/23/2008 1:07:12 PM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Well, those are some of the DUmp monkey’s heros, so that wouldn’t faze them.


52 posted on 09/23/2008 1:07:20 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: pissant
Best Parody of a Burn's Documentary EVER...
53 posted on 09/23/2008 1:08:17 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: pissant

So Burns calls Palin supremely unqualified, but is supporting Obama??????????

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROTFLMAO! This Burns guy’s a laugh riot! He should be a stand up comedian!


54 posted on 09/23/2008 1:08:18 PM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: pissant

FOR G_D’s SAKE WTF is wrong with these people! Palin is supremely unqualified for VICE PRESIDENT (a do nothing job), but OBAMMY is qualified to be PRESIDENT?? Did anyone ask him WHY Obama is Qualified??

Foreign policy experience- NONE
Executive Experience - NONE
Fiscal expertise- NONE
National Defense- NONE
A unifier-NO
Brings people together - NO


55 posted on 09/23/2008 1:09:09 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“Burns has been worshipping black folks for his entire career. He’s got a “thing” for them that seems unsavory to me.”

Actually Burns has had a profound influence on the next generation of documentary film makers celebrating the neglected areas of Black History:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6xJzAYYrX8


56 posted on 09/23/2008 1:10:20 PM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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To: pissant

“Supremely unqualified”?

I automatically and reasonably assumed he was referring to Obama; as arrogant as he is dumb and ignorant, with no demonstrated ability to learn, either.

Generally, I pay no heed to the ‘thoughts’ of very-low-IQ left-wing ideologues like Ken Burns. Their ‘thoughts’ are of interest only for abnormal psychology research studies.


57 posted on 09/23/2008 1:10:21 PM PDT by KamperKen
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To: pissant
Ken Burns?

Isn't that the fellow who did a fair documentary about the civil war and then, puffed up by that success beyond the capacity of a normal run-of-the-mill pervert, went off the rails and into oblivion with other "documentaries" that nobody watched?

Than Ken Burns?

58 posted on 09/23/2008 1:10:42 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: JoeA

Burns’ Baseball series was full of half-truths and myths that were used as factual material. I talked to a gentleman who is a baseball expert and was an adviser on the documentary. He was originally selected to give his unbiased insights in an interview to be filmed. However, he was bumped instead and in his place was someone a bit more, shall we say, opinionated and biased in a certain direction.

Burns has had an agenda in every documentary he has produced. The facts never get in that agenda’s way.


59 posted on 09/23/2008 1:12:37 PM PDT by AnnGora (I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
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To: JoeA
You may be right. Burns is a great documentarian, but his emphasis on the exclusion of blacks from baseball in his documentary was overdone, in my opinion. It was a valid issue, but did we have to see it in every episode?

I thought the same thing--enough already
60 posted on 09/23/2008 1:13:19 PM PDT by uncbob
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