Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!