Ken Burns is full of it, doesn't even remember The McLaughlin Group featuring Pat Buchanan on PBS 1982-2016

 

 Ken Burns: "I Push Back" On Allegations Of Bias, PBS Had William F. Buckley On "Firing Line" For 32 Years

 

 

Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., broadcast 1966-1999, was exclusively on PBS only from 1971, so 28 years.

Burns, a Democrat and Democrat donor, was 18 in 1971 and can't have been very well acquainted with the long-standing opinion already existing at the time among conservatives that PBS was hostile to conservatism.

 

As it was, neither The McLaughlin Group nor Firing Line ever received favorable time slots on PBS.

 

In point of fact, in Chicago back in the day Saturday night at our house was always make-pizzas-at-home-night, when most people went out. We wanted to stay home to enjoy watching both of these programs, which were broadcast back to back during the dinner hour on PBS, often followed by The Three Stooges and Svengoolie on a different channel, WCIU 26.

 

The playing field for conservatism was never level at PBS, and certainly isn't now.

Speaking of reversals, now Jeffrey Epstein did kill himself, clients on list relieved to learn that there is no list

Exclusive: DOJ, FBI conclude Jeffrey Epstein had no "client list," committed suicide

Epstein client list doesn’t exist, DOJ says, walking back theory Bondi promoted

Laura Loomer rips AG Pam Bondi over Epstein files: ‘She was always lying’

 

Jeffrey Epstein had no 'client list,' died by suicide, DOJ and FBI conclude

 

MAGA Demands Pam Bondi’s Head for Falsely Hyping Epstein Client List

 

‘Complete disappointment’: Kash Patel once pushed Epstein conspiracies, now leads Trump’s FBI and dismisses them, but MAGA isn’t buying it

From ‘where's the list?’ to ‘there is no list’: Kash Patel’s Epstein U-turn - Hindustan Times

Trump Issues Statement on Kash Patel and Dan Bongino — As MAGA Torches Them Over Epstein

Once again, Trump is wrong because the executive does not possess the line-item veto

 

Trump signs executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS

 

This is simply another example of executive branch overreach.

 

Funding for NPR and PBS, with which I disagree, is lawful. It has been passed by Congress and signed into law by the executive.

 

This executive can't simply come along and exercise a veto after that fact.

 

Rule by executive order is not republicanism.

 

We are either a nation of laws or we are not.

Trump is the enemy of the America I once knew.

 

 

 

 

Donald J. Trump was against the H-1B Visa Program before he was for it lol

Donald J. Frankenstein is the GOP's version of Boltneck, who was for the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan before he was against paying for it. 

Elon Musk has that effect on people lol.

Don't get the Neuralink from the mad scientist or it could happen to you, too!

 

The mother of Emily Baden, Barbara Baden, was a long time executive with PBS, thought her daughter's vulgar signs in front of her house were OK

Explains a lot.

Her mother Barbara Baden, a former PBS executive, said her daughter's "Fuck Trump" sign, placed "near where children wait for the school bus", was "made with good intent".

The daughter and her boyfriend stayed in the house with her mother during COVID.

They are proud liberals and BLM-ers and readily admit they called Mrs. Alito a cunt.

Story.

The former president of ABC News James Goldston was the Joseph Goebbels of January 6th The Movie

About 6% of the country at best tuned in for the Jan 6th theatrical production, compared with 71% for the Watergate hearings.

 

Laugh of the Day: WGVU's school closings page shows its most recent information dates to Dec 31, 1969, or 25.7 million minutes ago

Prohibition: An Alliance Between Evangelical Christians and Criminals

So said George Will last year in his review of Daniel Okrent's book which details how the women's war on men's drinking inspired a chain of constitutional and social changes ills:

Women's Prohibition sentiments fueled the movement for women's rights -- rights to hold property independent of drunken husbands; to divorce those husbands; to vote for politicians who would close saloons. ...

Women campaigning for sobriety did not intend to give rise to the income tax, plea bargaining, a nationwide crime syndicate, Las Vegas, NASCAR (country boys outrunning government agents), a redefined role for the federal government and a privacy right -- the "right to be let alone" -- that eventually was extended to abortion rights. But they did.

Now the "darkly hilarious" story has been immortalized by none other than Ken Burns on none other than PBS.

Don't miss it.

You can watch it online, here.