This is Purely a Show Trial, and We Don't Do That in America'

Why would anyone trust Ken Burns’ opinion as a documentarian when he can’t figure out the ideology of his employer?

As for the notion that the reporting of such public broadcasting outlets as PBS and NPR skew liberal, Burns says that’s nonsense.

“This supposed bias, prove it. It may be true that if you line up every journalist in print, on TV, on the Internet that there may be a significant number of left-leaning people, but is their work that? … I don’t think you can start pigeon-holing ‘Sesame Street’ or Fred Rogers into a red-state, blue-state framework.”

Which is a nonsensical jump, equivalent to Dug the Dog yelling “Squirrel!” in the middle of a sentence.

(By the way, get a load of the photo of Burns at Big Hollywood — this is a man with an unending knowledge of history — provided it’s a history of Beatles haircuts. The 57-year old Burns appears to be modeling Paul McCartney’s Let It Be-era look at the moment.)

Naturally of course, there’s no liberal bias in a government agency that fights to stay attached to the government teat:

AP reports something that’s not very shocking: hallowed liberal PBS filmmaker Ken Burns (in between his Kennedy tribute films for Democrat conventions and the tens of thousands in donations to Barack Obama and other Democrats) is decrying Republicans for a “show trial” atmosphere in proposing cuts to public broadcasting subsidies:

“I just don’t think they have fully thought through what they’re doing,” Burns said of House Republicans who want to eliminate or significantly reduce funding for the arts, humanities and public media. Such cuts would devastate film producers, he said.

Burns said Americans should know funding for public media is an “infinitesimal percentage” of the federal budget — less than the cost of a fighter jet each year. Such cuts won’t reduce the nation’s deficit or balance the budget, he said.

“Anyone going after that is just exercising political expediency,” he said. “This is purely a show trial, and we don’t do that in America.”

Really? That would certainly be news to Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.