Ken Burns Politicizes Commencement Speech With Anti-Trump Rant

7/22/16
 
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from MRC Newsbusters,
6/13/16:

If Donald Trump wins the presidency this November it appears documentary filmmaker Ken Burns might need to be fitted out for a straitjacket. If you have any doubt of this, then take a look below at the unhinged rant Burns performed during his commencement speech at Stanford University yesterday. Rather than ditching outright partisanship for the day out of respect for the victims of the tragic terrorist attack in Orlando, Burns decided to stick with his prepared speech to declare his crazed obsession about Trump.

The self-proclaimed “yellow dog Democrat” just couldn’t give politics a rest yesterday of all days. The speech was also especially egregious in view of the fact that Burns is largely dependent on taxpayer based funding from PBS and he just insulted at least half the people paying for his career. [Ken] Burns, looking at times like he is about to leap out of his thin skin, … delivers a political campaign speech disguised as commencement address:

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