PBS Continues It's All-American Work

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Bruzilla

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I watching PBS last night, and the show "The American Experience" came on. This is a show that is sort of like Biography in that it highlights the stories of Americans, or groups of Americans, and how their lives have influenced out country.

Last night's show was on a truly great American - Fidel Castro! How the Hell does a mass-murdering Communist dictator rate an episode of The American Experience? I think it's time to start writing some nasty grams to PBS.
 

vraiblonde

Board Mommy
PREMO Member
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What do you expect from PBS? I didn't think anyone even watched that channel anymore.

Our tax dollars at work! :killingme
 

Tonio

Asperger's Poster Child
Before everyone gets their panties in a bunch, read this article:

http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200501210759.asp

Veteran documentarian Adriana Bosch clearly shows the appeal of a charismatic revolutionary like Castro to a populace suffering from the oppressive Batista regime, but refuses to sentimentalize the cigar-smoking, iconic leader they got as a replacement. "It is the tragic story of a nation who saw a messiah in just a man," she says of her film, which doesn’t flinch from detailing the brutal reality beneath Castro’s charm...

At the very least, Fidel Castro is a welcome antidote to last year's Looking For Fidel, Oliver Stone's pro-Castro documentary for HBO. "I think it approached a work of fiction," Bosch said, describing the infamous moment in that film when a Cuban prisoner insists to Stone’s cameras that 30 years in jail for stealing a boat seems quite fair to him.
 

itsbob

I bowl overhand
vraiblonde said:
What do you expect from PBS? I didn't think anyone even watched that channel anymore.

Our tax dollars at work! :killingme
You don't watch the 'Red Green Show'!???
 

Bushy23

Active Member
I have a question. Is Bush going to go after Castro? He said his goal was to end tyranny, and here is a prime example only 90 miles away!
 

Tonio

Asperger's Poster Child
Bushy23 said:
I have a question. Is Bush going to go after Castro? He said his goal was to end tyranny, and here is a prime example only 90 miles away!
If I were Bush, I'd let Father Time take care of that. Castro's successors will probably be eager to normalize relations and trade with the US to help the island's economy.
 
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Bruzilla

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Tonio said:
Before everyone gets their panties in a bunch, read this article:

http://www.nationalreview.com/seipp/seipp200501210759.asp

I read the article, and I watched the show. They did paint a fairly sympathetic picture of Castro, even going back to comments from his highschool teachers. It was nauseating, and just more of the leftist dribble we're becoming more and more accustomed to.

What I still don't understand is why this show was rolled out as an American Experience episode? He's not an American, and has nothing but contempt for Americans. What's next? An expose on how misunderstood Hussein was?
 
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