Ken Burns
New York's Top PBS Snobs Raise Money by Mocking Commercial TV for 'Rea
May 29th, 2013 8:09 AM
The top PBS station in New York is marketing itself to potential new donors in the most natural way: by snobbishly mocking commercial TV as “a sea of madness.” Sadly, commercial TV stations probably won’t fight back by mocking prissy British period dramas like “Downton Abbey.” (I might suggest a mop-topped Muppet that looks like Ken Burns that constantly boasts of his own importance as a…
'Meet the Press' Panelist Ken Burns Denounces Tea Party: 'Vitriol' Mot
November 26th, 2012 4:50 PM
During a discussion of the new film Lincoln on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, documentary film maker Ken Burns ranted about one of the supposed lessons he took away from the movie: "Race is always there in America....Do you think we'd have a secession movement in Texas and the other places, faddish secession movement, if this president wasn't African-American? Do you think the vitriol that came…
PBS for Obama: USA Today Puts Gushy 'Essay by Ken Burns' on Front Page
May 24th, 2012 8:17 AM
On Tuesday, USA Today topped their front page with an "Essay by Ken Burns" headlined "National parks feed the American soul." Naturally, this liberal PBS filmmaker/sermonizer began by celebrating Barack Obama, which the newspaper put in large type.
"Just before our documentary film series on the history of our national parks was first broadcast on PBS in the fall of 2009, I had a once-in-a-…
Ken Burns Uses 'Prohibition' To Bash Conservatives, Ignores Mika the M
September 29th, 2011 10:02 AM
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…
Ken Burns: A CPB Cut is 'Purely a Show Trial, and We Don't Do That In
April 10th, 2011 9:16 AM
AP reports something that's not very shocking: hallowed liberal PBS filmmaker Ken Burns (in between his Kennedy tribute films for Democrat conventions and the tens of thousands in donations to Barack Obama and other Democrats) is decrying Republicans for a "show trial" atmosphere in proposing cuts to public broadcasting subsidies:
"I just don't think they have fully thought through what they'…
Ken Burns Spins Reagan as a Supporter of PBS, Cites Presence of Buckle
March 1st, 2011 12:29 PM
Liberal filmmaker Ken Burns on Sunday highlighted conservative William F. Buckley as an example of the diversity of PBS. He also claimed Ronald Reagan as a supporter of public financing public television.
Writing in the Washington Post, the director lobbied, "[PBS] contributes to cradle-to-grave continuing education services that are particularly appreciated in rural states - belying the…
PBS Star Ken Burns Bashes Palin: 'Supremely Unqualified...American Ido
September 23rd, 2008 12:28 PM
From Reuters and the Hollywood Reporter comes news that PBS filmmaker Ken Burns used a New York panel discussion preceding the news and documentary Emmy Awards as a forum to denounce the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, as proof the selection process devolved "into a high school popularity contest and an American Idol competition" and insisted "in the whole history of the…
