Lost without Shelby Foote! Ken Burns: Wrong on Obama

Ken Burns made a lucky find in in Shelby Foote. His PBS "Civil War" Series would have been lost without Shelby Foote. So much so, Burns even used him in his "Baseball" show. Burns, typically and outside of the Foote segments, relied heavily on historical novel "The Killer Angels" and race issues. His "Civil War" would have been lost without Foote.
The androgynous looking and acting Burns made several mediocre series that followed and were as milk-toast Burns and mostly thinly veiled Democrat sycophancy. He needs to suck-up to Democrats for PBS funding. m/r

Ken Burns: Wrong on Obama - By Deroy Murdock - The Corner - National Review Online

By Deroy Murdock

October 26, 2012 11:30 A.M.

Historical filmmaker Ken Burns recently penned a column for New Hampshire’s Union Leader titled, “Why I am voting for Barack Obama.” Burns rehearses several of the most common arguments for Obama’s re-election, and in doing so, he unwittingly exposes the flimsiness of the rationale for subjecting America to four more years of Obamaism.

• “President Obama took office at a time when lax regulation of the financial industry had brought us to the brink of a complete collapse,” Burns writes. “All Mitt Romney seems to offer is a return to the very policies that got us into this mess in the first place.”

Burns echoes Obama’s favorite rhetorical flourish, namely to blame his GOP predecessor for America’s every ill.

President G. W. Bush’s overspending and regulatory excesses certainly helped get us “into this mess in the first place.” However, the biggest oil slick on which America spun out before tumbling into the ditch pre-dated Bush; it was Big Government liberalism.

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