Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, Gee, Marc, why don't you tell us how you really feel! Jerry Marc James Small wrote: > At 10:29 PM 9/23/2007, Stan Yoder wrote: > >How many Leica shots do you suppose we saw tonight? > > > > Stan > > With all respect, zero, as I have resisted all of the Ken Burns Mania > for the past decade and more. I was finally forced to watch his > rather inane Civil War series around 1998 by my son, and I found it, > well, inane and ill-informed. As a result, I missed his Baseball > Series, which some wiser souls advise me is worth watching. > > This WWII thingie of his seems the ultimate repudiation of the World > War II generation by making it all really "feel good" stuff about how > the sacrifices of the Home Front were every bit as hard as were those > of the doggies. NPR has been trumpeting it so heavily that I am > nauseated by the coverage. > > The really neat part is that this Leftist nut, Ken Burns, got nailed > by Leftist Hispanics for leaving out the contribution to the War > effort by the US citizens of Spanish heritage. It is nice to see a > rather shallow person hanged by his own kind. Sort of like the Soviet > Trials in 1936. A system based on a logical error is bound to > self-destruct, and such occurred here. > > No, I shall miss this Most Wonderful Explanation of How We All Worked > Together To Make Victory Real. This was not the case and the US was > never united and individual liberties were suppressed in opposing the > War. Ken Burns will not speak to that. > > So, pray, you guys go on gooing over it, but it is bunkum, from start > to finish. Hokum of only the sort PBS can generate. > > Have a nice day, wonderful people! <he grins> > > Marc > > > m