PBS Star Ken Burns Bashes Palin: 'Supremely Unqualified...American Idol' Pick

Newsbusters ^ | 9/23/08 | Tim Graham

[pissant]

This moronic faux historian pantywaist probably thinks Obama is the most supremely qualified candidate since George Washington.

[ClearCase_guy]

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

[Renkluaf]

I always look to Ken Burns for my political analysis!

[Sig Sauer P220]

Ken Burns????? Wasn’t he the guy that played on “Mama’s Place” and “Mayberry RFD” ?

[housedeep]

hey burns

please go back to making those sappy manipulative “documentaries” with actor voice overs and cheezy music. As a student of history you should damn well know that an electorate often votes from the gut, and Palin has this “authenticity” you speak of in spades....

[VanDeKoik]

Make one somewhat decent documentary 20 years ago and now were stuck with this idiot.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Ken Burns????? Wasn’t he the guy that played on “Mama’s Place” and “Mayberry RFD” ?

Correction: Mama's Family

[sappy]

If there ever was an Americon Idol pick, Obama is IT!

[Doogle]

.....make sure you send in those dollars to help promote federally funded Public Broadcasting now folks.

[Inyo-Mono]

What a shame, now I’m going to have to dump my Ken Burns Civil War series into the trash. Oh well, it was on VCR tape anyway.

[telebob]

Another member-in-good-standing of the lefty borg. He’s a little late to the party, but what the hell...

[Rodm]

And Obama's not an American Idol pick?

Obama is just like most Entertainment people: totally hollow on the inside.

[FormerACLUmember]

Taxpayer parasite/mega-liar Burns has bigger menstrual periods than Palin.

[KansasGirl]

I am so sick of these elitists. Look at the mess these Washington parasites have gotten our financial markets into. They have become a corrupt and dangerous ruling class. I believe I am more qualified than most of them to run D.C. and I Palin is more qualified than me. I wish I could vote for her for President.

[nina0113]

Ken, you threw away your credibility when you left the anti-abortion views of Susan B. Anthony et al. out of your “Not For Ourselves Alone” faux-feminist documentary. It was about as honest as leaving slavery out of your Civil War series would have been.

[reagan_fanatic]

Here’s twenty bucks, Ken. Get a real haircut.

[brownsfan]

“... Palin has this “authenticity” you speak of in spades....”

Turning the proper phrase is an art. Well done.

[Right Wing Assault]

I challenge the obama people to give me a list of all the previous candidates that he is MORE qualified than.

[Mashood]

Ken Burns is a government TV star.