Sore Winners

Townhall.com ^ | November 27, 2012 | Mona Charen

[Tax-chick]

Is this the standard of evidence Burns employs for his films?

Yes. Hadn't you noticed?

I find it hard to accept, too, Mona, but no matter how "engaging and amiable" a leftist seems to be on the surface, he's almost certainly a Stalin or Mugabe at heart.

[Impy]

Post-election season is a time for healing, for putting aside the rancor of a long campaign and rediscovering what unites us. It has not been that way this year.

When was it ever? When you were a girl Mona?

Post election is time for gloating if you won and pointing fingers and whining if you lost.

Guess what? Nothing unites us with marxist swine. Nothing. Time to stop pretending.

[dpetty121263]

Well the nation is dying and in 4 years will be dead simply from the numbers of people looking to the Federals as Santa Claus...secession is the only remedy....

[V_TWIN]

“small government, right to life, states’ rights, free markets, right to work, judicial restraint, family values.”

Gee, I thought these were some of the things that made America great and set us apart from the rest of the world.

[foreverfree]

bump

[Venturer]

I have relatives I refuse to speak to because they voted for Obama.

I am not looking to be friendly with people who are brain dead.

[sergeantdave]

The Nazi democrat party and their flop-eared Leninst god have declared war against America. Let’s see if enough people can figure that out and get organized enough to field the leadership and manpower to fight back. I have my doubts. About 10% will be involved and engaged, just like in 1776.

As Twain said, History doesn’t repeat itself but it sure rhymes.

[Mouton]

Same here...I don’t want to hear a word from them and I know they don’t want to hear any from me either.

I cannot wait till Jan rolls around and the jolt about how much this is going to cost them sinks in a tad, only to be outdone by next January.

[FreedBird]

Everything is just a lot of talk. The media keeps talking and Obama is still President. They want him to keep his addiction to spending, blaming and telling lies.

[MrB]

Ken Burns attributed conservative unhappiness with the election to racism. "Race is always there in America," Burns opined. "It's always something we don't want to talk about. Do you think we'd have a secession movement -- a faddish movement -- if this president wasn't [sic] African-American? Do you think the vitriol that came out of some elements of the Tea Party?

Yes, Ken, tell us how we'd support this Marxist/Islamofascist if he were white.

[SMARTY]

“...It’s painful to see him descend to this kind of defamation...”

Descend? Really?

It’s hardly a 'descent' if you have been a careful observer of his work.

There has never been any doubt in my mind about the steel core of his single-minded and unalloyed Socialism. It has driven his entire work product... and is apparent in everything he says and does, unless you permit yourself to be caught up in the smooth and seamless delivery!

[autumnraine]

This, “False accusations of racism are an attempt to delegitimize those who disagree with you.” needs to be bumper sticker.

[StAnDeliver]

"Ken Burns is a fine filmmaker."

Uh, The Civil War was pretty much Shelby Foote's movie, and I don't think Mr. Foote had any illusions about race relations in this country. Burns merely edited a book to video.

[StAnDeliver]

"I can't recall the last time a mainstream American politician referred to "state's rights," but I'm pretty sure that whoever it was, he was a Democrat"

Oooh, I can. Check Bush v. Gore and the minority (Left) dissent: Souter, Breyer, and Stevens!

[grumpygresh]

Burns’s Leftism is on open display in his National Parks and Dust Bowl documentaries. I don’t mind watching them, but it’s kind of like picking croutons (I don’t like croutons) out of my salad.

[popdonnelly]

The goal of the Democrats isn’t to beat their opposition, the goal is to crush them. That should be obvious to anyone who has come into contact with these creatures on the internet.

[StAnDeliver]

"Race is always there in America," Burns opined. "It's always something we don't want to talk about. Do you think we'd have a secession movement -- a faddish movement -- if this president wasn't [sic] African-American?"

Do you think we'd even have Obama "if this president wasn't African-American?"

[skeeter]

What is the inevitable outcome to a situation where half of a large nation not only refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the values of the other half, but seeks to deny them the platform to even express their point of view?

[skeeter]

Burns has received alot of positive attention for his many documentaries but aside from the Civil War, which was fantastic, the rest were mediocre fodder for public television.

And I thought this before I found out he was a raging socialist.