It’s no surprise that the liberal media is once again pushing its propaganda. This was made abundantly clear when the “renowned” PBS filmmaker Ken Burns appeared on Tuesday’s CNN This Morning.
Burns sought to demonize Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in an effort to criticize a bill currently in the Florida legislature which mandates some boundaries on how taxpayer-funded universities teach American history.
The filmmaker spewed outrageous lies and misinformation in order to make his point, comparing DeSantis to Nazis and Soviets, and CNN’s hosts did not even flinch. Don Lemon introduced Burns as “renowned,” and read one of his tweets which stated: “By trying to dictate what teachers can and cannot teach, Florida House Bill 999 is an assault on the very liberties articulated by the Founders and something that all Americans should speak out against.”
Burns then went on to make his outrageous statements, claiming that the bill is “terrifying” and reminiscent of a “Soviet system or the way the Nazis would build a Potemkin village.”
CNN host Kaitlan Collins made no objection to Burns’ claims, instead gushing over him and calling him a “treasured chronicler of history and of our times.” Burns continued to spew his nonsense, claiming that this bill was part of a “reaction to anything that makes it nothing but a kind of neat, tidy, white picket fence, morning in America kind of view of things.”
He even had the gall to bring Fox News into the conversation.
Of course, Burns should be best known for his kiss-ass Ted Kennedy tribute film made for the 2008 Democrat convention. PBS had no problem with Burns doing glossy campaign ads for Ted Kennedy that leave out death at Chappaquiddick and many other sordid Kennedy scandals.
Burns’ hypocrisy was on full display as he gushed over a positive review in the liberal New Republic, saying: “They said this is an anti-fascist book. Right? So what we see is this narrowing, saying only you can treat — is right out of the authoritarian playbook. If a company, Disney, disagrees with me, I change their tax status. If somebody, you know, a state employee disagrees with me I fire them. This is not a democracy. That’s an authoritarian.”
Don Lemon then had to bring it back to racism, asking:
“You called it a narrowing. We have to run. But it’s racism, right?” Burns replied: “I think it’s — right now it’s just white supremacy. There is a kind of fear of the other and so what you are seeing, we saw it in our film on the Holocaust, you know, it’s easy to make a person other.”
I mean, it IS Lemon, after all…
The notion that conservatives are like genocidal Nazis and Soviets is absurd. It is even more absurd that Burns thinks he can lecture us about “narrowing the focus” of history.
The hypocrisy of this statement is astounding, considering his own glossy campaign ad for Ted Kennedy. The liberal media is happy to provide a platform for this kind of rhetoric, while simultaneously ignoring the real issues at play.
This is just another example of the liberal media’s attempt to push its own agenda and discredit anyone who disagrees with them. The Democrats and their allies in the media should be ashamed of themselves for their blatant disregard for the truth.