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KEN BURNS BLASTS TEA PARTY FOR RAMPANT USE OF 'N-WORD'
breitbart ^ | december 4, 2012 | christian toto

Posted on 12/05/2012 4:44:57 AM PST by lowbridge

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called both the current secessionist movement and elements of the Tea Party racist during an interview late last month on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The award-winning filmmaker doubled down on those accusations during an interview with Breitbart News.

Burns is currently promoting "The Central Park Five," a documentary detailing how five innocent teens were convicted of a horrific rape which shocked the Big Apple back in 1989.

The filmmaker, who works primarily on projects for PBS, says there wouldn't be a birther movement with a President Joe Biden in the White House. Burns then turned his attention to the Tea Party, saying a friend who attended a Tea Party event told him "almost every one she met there invoked the 'n-word'" about the president, he recalls.

That friend isn't the only one hearing that racial slur of late, he alleges.

"I have heard in last four years the 'N-word' used more often than in the rest of my life," the 59-year-old filmmaker says, adding Obama's detractors routinely call the president "un-American," the "other" and a Muslim.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: burns; kenburns; teaparty
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To: Travis McGee

Many of my friends have told me the same thing. I also heard he is into that ‘furries’ / ‘plushies’ fetish thing.


41 posted on 12/05/2012 5:08:20 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: lowbridge

You are a LIAR, Burns...prove it!

OTH, you are right: there would be no birther movement with Biden in the WH...we KNOW where he was born, effin idiot....


42 posted on 12/05/2012 5:08:47 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: ScottinVA

How can anyone respect a 60 year old man who still wears bangs??


43 posted on 12/05/2012 5:08:52 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: lowbridge

All he has to do is make his video/audio available and he’s got that $50,000 from Breitbart. Golly, gee.


44 posted on 12/05/2012 5:10:10 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Travis McGee

I can substantiate that story because I heard the same thing from a guy who knows ken burns most distant cousin who worked as a janitor in a library in Cambodia and read a book about it.


45 posted on 12/05/2012 5:12:57 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: lowbridge
The Tea Party has not been around that long. NBC is in full assault on America. Costas lies and forgot about his buddy OJ
46 posted on 12/05/2012 5:12:59 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: lowbridge

We are living in Orwell’s 1984. The media repeats that the Tea Party is “racist” enough and the low information morons like Burns believe it.


47 posted on 12/05/2012 5:13:47 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: lowbridge
That must be why Herman Cain was so popular among tea partiers, because we wanted to be able to use racist epithets no matter who won. < /sarc>
48 posted on 12/05/2012 5:14:18 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Big Bird is a brood parasite: laid in our nest 43 years ago and we are still feeding him.)
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To: lowbridge

This is really damaging stuff. Burns is a famous guy with alot of accomplishments and credibility. He is known for doing good work, people like him and he’s not known as a bomb thrower. The left will keep repeating this BS and 90% of the brain dead morons will beleive it, especially since it fits with the Tea party racist crap the left has been pushing for years. The left loves to disqualify our candidates by smearing them before they even get to the primaries. They want tea party to become synonomous with racist. The marginalization of the Tea Party is running at full speed.


49 posted on 12/05/2012 5:15:12 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: lowbridge

TP doesn’t use that word ...blacks use it


50 posted on 12/05/2012 5:15:12 AM PST by dalebert
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To: Travis McGee

Ken Burns, eh? I’ve heard that he’s a muslim cleric on his days off and that he asked to meet with Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) but was turned away because Islam thinks his politics are too radical and extremist.


51 posted on 12/05/2012 5:15:12 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: sergeantdave

I thought Ken Starr was involved in that as well...
at least, according to Serpent Head.


52 posted on 12/05/2012 5:15:44 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Future Snake Eater

What a dumbass... (Ken, not you)

Everyone knows “Constitution” starts with a C, not an N.

And that’s the word you’re going to hear most often at a Tea Party rally.


53 posted on 12/05/2012 5:17:27 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: lowbridge

According to my sources from the 92’ election, the Clinton’s also used the N word. But its OK for them, and their world of Bizarro where hypocrisy reins. The only Tea Party event that would use the word are the ones staged by the representatives from their Bizarroland. I’ve only seen mostly orderly seniors at those events who are more concerned over the Gov’t than anything personal. Burns is obviously burnt out and being divisive.


54 posted on 12/05/2012 5:18:48 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who we elect is not as important as who they bring in with them.)
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To: lowbridge

I was there for the first major Tea Party gathering on the DC Mall with about 500,000 others and I didn’t hear one inappropriate remark or see an inappropriate sign. Citizens exercising their First Amendment Rights... Maybe Mr. Burns should go back and review his Constitution.


55 posted on 12/05/2012 5:20:06 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: eartick

Cutting and appropiate comment. It is also funny.


56 posted on 12/05/2012 5:20:06 AM PST by billhilly
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To: KarlInOhio

It’s too bad these leftists are too smart to state their charges where they’d actually have to defend them.

The whole “opposition to 0bama is racial” is easily refuted by making them defend the idea that

we’d support his fascist/socialist/anti-American agenda if he were white,

and we’d oppose any black conservative who espoused a Constitutional agenda.


57 posted on 12/05/2012 5:20:13 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: lowbridge

Burns is a whore on the gov. payroll, he has to say these things to keep the money coming in.


58 posted on 12/05/2012 5:22:21 AM PST by Pietro
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To: Soul of the South

“Can it be Obama and the Democrats fear a resurgent Tea Party?”

I believe you hit the nail square on the head.


59 posted on 12/05/2012 5:23:40 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Can one say that Burns is to the Progressives as Fritz Hippler was to the National Socialists of Germany? (I did like Burn’s Civil War Documentary though.)


60 posted on 12/05/2012 5:24:27 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who we elect is not as important as who they bring in with them.)
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