Ken Burns: Interview with Bill Maher

[@starlighter3]

I'm going to assume that everyone is SPEECHLESS, since this is the only comment here. Ken Burns is an amazing voice of all generations and I can't wait to see this documentary.

[@saltheplumber755]

Ken Burns is a GIANT of the Genre of American Documentary. His work shows the effort and the countless hours spent, "getting it right". i have never seen or heard of criticism of the materials and stories he presents. It not slanted and one-sided, you get to decide what is right and wrong with our History. ***** Five Stars for Ken and his terrific crew for educating us, with Love...

[@michaelmurratti4687]

BULLSHIT!

[@DeathMetalheadish]

An incredibly well-spoken man. I personally admire him.

[@davidswift7776]

Independent free agents: text and email instead of calling or talking face to face. It’s hard to say if will even step up to the virus, folks are so self centered not willing to look beyond themselves. Burns is a National treasure and national treasures are minimized now. My uncle was a POW in Germany and never spoke about it until his final few years.. he was a true hero. Thanks for this KZbin post 👍

[@ASwagPecan]

Two last proponents of intellectualism in modern America.

[@user-ls6wi4ho8t]

Burns is a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party, with almost $40,000 in political donations.[14] In 2008, the Democratic National Committee chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator Edward Kennedy's August 2008 speech to theDemocratic National Convention, a video described by Politico as a "Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern Ulysses bringing his party home to port."[15][16] In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama toAbraham Lincoln.

[@davidswift7776]

u1 smart man

[@townsendjean]

It is a bitter irony that in the Vietnam war we had on one hand Mueller commanding a platoon of Company H, 2nd Battalion (“The Magnificent Bastards”), 4th Marines and its mission “to close with and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver, or repel the enemy’s assault by fire and close combat”. On the other hand trump at the same time was immersing himself in the Manhattan party scene and cynically boasting that “fighting venereal disease was his Vietnam” A disgusting war coward, he evaded sacrifice not once but five times in the Vietnam war ... a draft dodger par excellence while over 50,000 americans died as he carried on his self-serving hedonistic life style with absolutely no regrets or second thoughts.

[@dashercronin]

The statement that the soldiers did not want to make friends is not completely accurate. They didn't want to make NEW friends as they had lost so many old friends in combat. Moreover, there is no paradox between that and the soldiers of today wanting to go back and help their soldier friends in Iraq. The camaraderie created by the frightening and bitter experiences of war made soldiers of all sides want to go back to the front to be with their friends. One that I know of had even lost an eye (amongst other wounds) and still volunteered to go back to the Russian front. Most of these soldiers never made as many meaningful friendships ever again, as they had little in common experience with anybody they ever met afterwards in peacetime.One soldier interviewed had lost a full company of 210 comrades. He was the only survivor. Makes Consumer Society challenges look absolutely irrelevant. The William Wyler movie: "The Best Years of Our Lives" touches on this as does "Three Comrades" written by Erich Maria Remarque, who also wrote the classic: "All Quiet on the Western Front."

[@rickyb5499]

Burns has been involved in making good documentaries, no doubt. However, I have never been able to listen to anything he talks about and never will. I can’t stand the sight of him.

[@SPBurt1]

I respect Ken Burns and appreciate his work. I feel the veiled anti-war on terror, anti-Bush sentiment here in this interview is or should be beneath him. As a historian he should understand particularly when you consider his expert perspective on the Civil War that many times tough actions and tough decisions by our leaders are not always understood or appreciated at "That Moment" in history. Now that we are back in Iraq and in 2016, US fighters are still dying in the Lorient now fighting ISIL we still cannot with all honesty say that Desert Shield was an "unnecessary war". I am pretty sure that when US forces were in Iraq in full strength (before ISIS took control) there weren't thousands of refugees pouring into outlying regions. The fight for freedom and those who oppose it is always wherever the frontline is. Thank God there are those who understand that.

[@answersinreality6316]

The Iraq invasion was a world class blunder. Even though Obama may have been mistaken in pulling the army out of there without a failsafe withdrawal plan, America shouldn't have been there in the first place. The war on terror was a classic disaster and opportunity strategy; Bush and his cronies used 9/11 as an excuse to use the American military to invade Iraq. America has destabilized the Middle East, created Isis and Amercia is reponsible for the Refugee crisis. Historians should try to use their knowledge of the past to help us to avoid making the same mistakes in the future.

[@bobbyt1318]

+warhawk "The fight for freedom" -- pretty words, too bad so-called "freedom" is rarely if ever a factor in deciding to place american service personnel in harms way. The war in Iraq was totally unjustified and if you still believe it was (or that it did anything beyond killing countless numbers of people and destabilizing the region, you're one of the few). Do your pretty platitudes justify 400,00 dead and the ongoing miseries of the country we "liberated"?

[@richardvigneault4249]

This guy tried to say that Bernie Sanders was as devisive as Donald Trump. After that nothing he say's or thinks has any credibility.

[@elliemathews6884]

I can't believe I am saying this but I have lost ALL respect for Ken Burns after saying Civil War memorials and statues of the Confederacy need to be removed.

[@captainobvious3859]

This clown still think Lincoln's war was totally about slavery. It is said that he still leaves cookies and milk out for Santa!

[@brianmallen8887]

I'd like to see you say that to some black person. If you want to fight for white supremacy, do it when it counts, face to face with that enemy. Show some real nerve.

[@captainobvious3859]

@@brianmallen8887 How about if I have you read what a black man said about Lincoln's war? www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/07/15/historical-ignorance-ii

[@pmcclaren1]

Burns a one of the worst ; beginning with the civil war series spouting the same yankee lies.

[@SmartyPantsGuy]

Well, THAT'S an ignorant statement... Good luck.