Posted on 09/29/2011 7:13:41 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If Ken Burns ever decides to stop making documentaries, he could always go into comedy . . .
On today's Morning Joe, Burns claimed he was non-political, despite repeatedly attempting to draw parallels between Prohibition, the subject of his current film, and themes in current conservatism, particularly immigration. At the same time, Burns ignored the modern-day prohibitionist sitting right across the table from him--Mika Brzezinski--the neo-Carrie Nation who would ban everything from cigarettes to soft drinks, transfats to fast food.
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This is certainly true. How he could tie to to anything else boggles the mind. It proves he had an agenda in mind rather than rational analysis.
You younger people....look it up.
“Don’t throw away your Confederate money boys, the South shall rise again!”
I’m a Yankee, there’s no doubt, but my blood lines are hillbilly, which is right next door to being a southerner. :)
I sympathize with the South’s view of things. I support state’s rights. I think the USA should be, what it was meant to be, an association of 50 separate countries for mutual economic and defense benefit.
Yes, the Civil War documentary was great. It was marred by giving too much attention to the one Black Studies (or whatever) lady who ranted and raved, and added little about actual history. However she was a small enough part that you could enjoy the scope of the rest of it, and the rest was very good.
I also watched his WW II one, and it was spotty at best. It wasn’t really about the war. It was, surprise, about race relations during the war, with that minor war thing as a backdrop. I watched the whole thing, but honestly, World at War is infinitely better .
I might have a copy of the same text book.
The one in my library is from the late 1950s.
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It is one of the funniest things I have seen on YouTube.
The woman in “The Civil War” is Barbara Fields; she’s a professor of history at Columbia. I agree, she is annoying. Every time I watch the episodes she’s in, I press mute when her face appears. She’s an especially unpleasant contrast to the great Shelby Foote.
In “The War,” they interview a black man who tells a story of how he wanted to join the service and go fight, but some racially motivated incident discouraged him, so he didn’t. I remember seeing that and thinking, “And the point of this is what?”
If Ken Burns did a series on the race to the moon he’d find a race angle.
I would like to find a copy...can’t recall the book title...do you know, plus an ISBN number and publisher perhaps? I took Virginia history during 1967-68 at intermediate school (junior high). Could be the same text, or perhaps a later edition.
I’ll try to remember to get the information from that book this evening and send it to you.
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I am always surprised when some freeper proudly claims ignorance of some well-known historic or social figure.
Didn’t say I was proud. Just said I never heard of him. I don’t watch many documentaries. Don’t make a big deal out of it. There are a lot of actors, singers, and entertainers I haven’t heard of, either. So what?
Thank you.
Well, his documentaries on The Civil War were frequent and fairly common material on both TV on PBS as well as material for students in schools by teachers who were covering that portion of American History in their lesson. That’s the only surprise the other Freeper has, the documentary of the Civil War by him is fairly commonplace.
I sympathize with the South’s view of things. I support state’s rights. I think the USA should be, what it was meant to be, an association of 50 separate countries for mutual economic and defense benefit.
In terms of states’ rights, I agree, the idea of there being a degree of sovereignty among states is not a bad thing, especially looking at the problems associated with Prohibition, the need to probe extensively into people to find if he/she was an offender, and the bias of both the police and federal agents in the enforcement of the law. Again, there are duties such as The Common Defense and hierarchy in law enforcement, but personally, the federalization of the Prohibition act was a problem on so many levels.
Perhaps I’ve seen it and didn’t know who did it.
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