Ken Burns' "Congress" Is Pure Blather

Oregon Magazine ^ | 26 May 2003 | "LL"

[VOA]

I was thinking of getting the Civil War series on DVD from this guy. Has anybody seen
the series and if so, is it worth buying?

It's worth it. My will broke and I watched most of it when it was re-broadcast last year.

That series represents one of those times when the politically-correct goobers
at PBS must have been drunk/stoned and failed to turn out an anti-American politically-
correct screed.

PBS's FrontLine and "The American Experience" series also turn out similarly decent
shows. For some reason, they must not be drinking the same water dispensed at
the coolers at PBS Headquarters.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Hello! We've met several times at Maryland Republican events. My, what a beating the neo-Confederates on Free Republic have been giving me about my book!

[Grand Old Partisan]

"Democrats don't like the idea that racism and violence are the hallmarks of their political heritage"

Yes, that's the point I've been making over and over. Slavery was Democrat. The Confederacy was Democrat. Segregation was Democrat. And yet, neo-Confederates who, by calling themselves Republicans while praising the Democrats who sought in the Confederacy to defned slavery, import into the GOP the very worst of Democrat heritage.

[Trueblackman]

Believe me your book has been is a must read and it will have a place on Capitol Hill very very soon.

[Grand Old Partisan]

"very very soon" -- do you have anything in particular in mind??

Thank you, but I've been trying to spread the word here in DC for over a year, with almost zilch success. You are a man of influence, so if there is anything you can do, among GOP groups or in the media, please have at it.

[Grand Old Partisan]

"Democrats don't like the idea that racism and violence are the hallmarks of their political heritage"

Yes, that's the point I've been making over and over. Slavery was Democrat. The Confederacy was Democrat. Segregation was Democrat. And yet, neo-Confederates who, by calling themselves Republicans while praising the Democrats who FOUGHT in the Confederacy to DEFEND slavery, import into the GOP the very worst of Democrat heritage.

[Trueblackman]

I could be eyeing an office near, around, and up on Capitol Hill since I will be moving into Maryland's New 7th District at the end of the month.

[stainlessbanner]

You have never answered the question why you attack conservatives while supporting the GOP. Are conservatives not the base of the GOP? This has absolutely nothing to do with the CSA, Civil War, WBTS, etc. other than you show up every thread touting your book and speaking ill of conservatives.

In addition, the attacks you are so concerned about are a result of your advertising on this forum. I do consulting, teach, and publish myself, but I don't feel the need to advertise on this forum. I am well aware your strategy is to create controversy to promote your book.

I will reserve comment on your book after I make a trip to the library.

[Grand Old Partisan]

Barnes & Noble stores, not libraries -- unfortunately -- are the best place to flip through the book. We should do any future chatting about my book in FR private postings.

As for your question, I am not attacking conservatives. My aim is to help them. Why have conservatives been unable to resverse the socialist trend in this country? Because, many so-called conservatives today -- the neo-Confderates -- have imported into the GOP a veneration for the Confederacy which has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Party. The Confederacy was a scam, very socialist in practice, concocted by southern Democrat elites to keep themselves in power at the expense of blacks and poor whites. Slavery was Democrat. The Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the lowliest rebel sniper, were Democrats.

Republicans must break free of the chains placed on them by generations of Democrat history professors.

Other than this, I'm not going to spend my days rehashing on FR what I spent two years writing in a book.

[tsomer]

Your people? Who would those be?

Southerners.

[Clint N. Suhks]

All I know is what I heard on the History Channel, I don't claim to know anything about the KKK but my ears lit up when Republicans were mentioned.

I did a search on my satalite and the history channel doesn't have any listings but I see the Biography Channel has a listing for: Ku Klux Klan A Secret Hisrory on Thursday at 8AM and 2PM. I believe that was the same program I watched.

[Clint N. Suhks]

Republican President Warren G. Harding hosted a Klan meeting in the White House!

In 1921 the KKK supposedly wasn't the terrorest organization it became in the 30's through the 60's. But that is still just an unblievable thing a president could possibly do.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The History Channel's KKK program is very good.

President Harding's supposed Klan meeting in the White House has been throroughly debunked by historians. The story was put out by the Democrats to deflect attention from the fact that the book "The Clansmen" -- inspiration for the movie "Birth of a Nation" and for the 1915 re-birth of the KKK had been written by one of Woodrow Wilson's college buddies, Thomas Dixon. Wilson even premiered the movie in the White House to promote it.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The History Channel's KKK program is very good.

President Harding's supposed Klan meeting in the White House has been throroughly debunked by historians. The story was put out by the Democrats to deflect attention from the fact that the book "The Clansman" -- inspiration for the movie "Birth of a Nation" and for the 1915 re-birth of the KKK had been written by one of Woodrow Wilson's college buddies, Thomas Dixon. Wilson even premiered the movie in the White House to promote it.

[GOPcapitalist]

"Why have conservatives been unable to resverse the socialist trend in this country? Because, many so-called conservatives today -- the neo-Confderates -- have imported into the GOP a veneration for the Confederacy which has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Party" - Grand Old Partisan

That has to be one of the goofiest things I have read in a long time. So the Republican Party has been unable to reverse the socialist trends in this country because...

...why?...

...not the leftist media bombarding us with marxist propaganda

...not marxist indoctrination of our children in schools and universities

...not the PC Police, who target and brand anything that gets in the way of the left as "racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe"

...not the Democrat party using every dirty trick in the book to advance their marxist agenda

...not the unwillingness of GOP officeholders to stand up to these attacks for fear of looking "mean" and getting hammered in the leftist media

...not the ex-conservatives who get elected to government on a conservative platform only to become big government agents of the lobbyists themselves in order to retain and achieve power

No, it's not any of those things or anything even remotely connected to today. Why, the reason the Republican Party has been unable to combat modern socialist trends is none other than the Confederacy of 140 years ago!

Gee, Partisan. Got anymore gems of wisdom you can throw out here?

[GOPcapitalist]

"The pretense that the "abolition of slavery" was either a motive or justification for the war, is a fraud of the same character with that of "maintaining the national honor." Who, but such usurpers, robbers, and murderers as they, ever established slavery? Or what government, except one resting upon the sword, like the one we now have, was ever capable of maintaining slavery? And why did these men abolish slavery? Not from any love of liberty in general --- not as an act of justice to the black man himself, but only "as a war measure," and because they wanted his assistance, and that of his friends, in carrying on the war they had undertaken for maintaining and intensifying that political, commercial, and industrial slavery, to which they have subjected the great body of the people, both black and white. And yet these imposters now cry out that they have abolished the chattel slavery of the black man --- although that was not the motive of the war --- as if they thought they could thereby conceal, atone for, or justify that other slavery which they were fighting to perpetuate, and to render more rigorous and inexorable than it ever was before. There was no difference of principle --- but only of degree --- between the slavery they boast they have abolished, and the slavery they were fighting to preserve; for all restraints upon men's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree." - Lysander Spooner, 1870

[Euro-American Scum]

I was thinking of getting the Civil War series on DVD from this guy. Has anybody seen the series and if so, is it worth buying?

I may have to put on my asbestos suit for this, but I think The Civil War series was just oustanding. I've seen it many times, and was astonished that such a quality production could make it on to PBS, pretty much devoid of the liberal flavor for which they and Ken Burns are so widely known.

[wardaddy]

"Why have conservatives been unable to resverse the socialist trend in this country? Because, many so-called conservatives today -- the neo-Confderates -- have imported into the GOP a veneration for the Confederacy which has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Party" - Grand Old Partisan

Partisan, I actually agree with you on occasion on other topics but the surmisal above is simply....not based in reality. I don't think our Southern conservatism is harmful to the GOP...quite the contrary, it is the most reliable anchor the Pubbies have and the stats bear that out. Even detractors admit that.

[Diddle E. Squat]

I'm starting to better understand why you so strongly defended the all-white prom.

Understanding, not agreeing.

[SamAdams76]

I'm convinced. I'm getting the DVDs in the fall when I take my workouts inside (I have a treadmill and a big-screen TV in the basement). The treadmill is a lot more fun when you have good DVDs to watch.