Ken Burns' "Congress" Is Pure Blather

Oregon Magazine ^ | 26 May 2003 | "LL"

[Paleo Conservative]

Does he explain that West Virgina left Virgina so that Robert Bryd could stay in the Senate?

And play a Confederate general in a movie.

[foreverfree]

I rented a few parts of Burns' "Baseball" series from 1994. The players chose a heckuva time to strike that year, right before "Baseball" aired on PBS.

foreverfree

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I saw part of one episode, than became distracted. There was some wet paint on the wall above the TV set, and it looked SO NEAT as it dried...

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

what would you say counts as getting whipped? >>

Surrendering at Appomatox.

[4CJ]

Ken Burns: Socialist lackey.

Socialist REVISIONIST lackey. ;o)

[4CJ]

And play a Confederate general in a movie.

He played in whatever scene they were filming the day he appeared. The producers acknowledged that if it had been another day, he would have played a Union general.

[Paleo Conservative]

played in whatever scene they were filming the day he appeared. The producers acknowledged that if it had been another day, he would have played a Union general.

I noticed he turned up the same day as Ted Turner.

[yoe]

I too enjoy listening to Shelby Foote, sort of an American treasure. However if you haven't read Thomas J. Dilorenzo's the "Real Lincoln", it sheds a truer light on the man than what some slobbering historians and others have written, Lincoln was no saint. I found it fascinating. As far as I know, Foote did no histories on that President in depth and Ken Burns does not go into such singularly deep research.

[mrustow]

Any valid points you raise are diminished by your constant hawking of your wares on FR.

What a crock! So if the guy wrote a book, and then never mentioned it among the greatest concentration of people in America likely to be interested in buying it, you might show him some respect? Not!

By attacking the conservative vote, you do the GOP no good.

Oh, so it's his politics you hate, not his self-promoting ways. You have so damaged your own credibility, that not only are all of your points now tarnished with the stain of dishonesty, but I wouldn't trust you to give me the correct time of day.

[goody2shooz]

Ping for later.

[metalboy]

Ken Burns in a nutshell: Effeminate photographer who photographs photographs and interviews 3 people

[metesky]

What rank is your book, sir?

Haven't written one?

I thought not...

[David Isaac]

"Today's Republican Party places itself at an immense disadvantage. Rather than express clearly what we should be for -- the free market society we Republicans won the Civil War to preserve -- on too many issues, too often our Party's policy is merely that we are against whatever Democrats are for, or perhaps we want less of it than they do. Our Party is an athlete who has lost his balance -- we are in good shape, with plenty of drive, but until we regain our footing we are going nowhere."

I cannot help agreeing with your statement. Also, I cannot help noticing that this is the exact approach to political "debate" taken by the Democrats. Neither party would like to be tagged with being for or against certain basic principles. Mostly because neither seems to have any basic principles.

Who is responsible for setting the Republican Party agenda, leaving aside the personal agenda of Bush Jr., and why are they tolerated?

I sincerely hope your book does well. It deals with subject matter that needs to be examined by all who consider themselves to be Republicans.

[WaterDragon]

C'mon. If Clarence Thomas likes it, it has to be pretty good.

[4CJ]

There were no ballots, such as we know them, in use in the United States until the 1880s.

Ya think? I seem to remember color-coded ballots being used during the War of Northern Agression. I can't speak for other states, but the state of Georgia, on 4 Dec 1799 required ballots for all elections:

Supplementary to an act entitled, "An act to regulate the General Elections in this State, and to appoint the time of the meeting of the General Assembly;" passed the eleventh day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and an act entitled, "An act for the appointment of County Officers," passed the sixteenth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

Section I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That in future, all elections shall be by ballot ...
Acts Of The General Assembly Of The State Of Georgia: Passed At Louisville, In January And February, 1799, Augusta: Printed By John E. Smith, Printer To The State. MDCCC, Volume I, Sequential Number 040, pp. 7.

[Redleg Duke]

Who won at Gettysburg?

[stainlessbanner]

Explain to me how attacking conservatives does the GOP any good.

[stainlessbanner]

I have not written a book metesky. What's your point? If you want to add to the discussion, jump in.

[Clint N. Suhks]

How many people are aware that the KKK is a wholey owned subsidiary of the DemocRATic Party?

I thought so too but on a recient History Cannel doc it said that in the 1930's the KKK was all Republican.

[metesky]

The point is that you were knocking the guy because he wasn't anywhere near the best-seller lists, yet he managed to organize his thoughts well enough to write a book length dissertation on his political views, so I was wondering if you had managed to organize your thoughts anywhere near as well.

I know that at times (especially Friday nights, LOL!) I have trouble organizing my thoughts well enough to get beyond a one sentence reply on FR, therefore I admire people who can actually crank out a book, bestseller or not.