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Tomorrow’s PBS Election Special is Exactly Why PBS Shouldn’t be Publicly Funded
The hour-long documentary [tomorrow] is being advertised as a “provocative conversation about race and politics,” from “both sides of the political aisle,” but it is being grossly mis-marketed. I know this because I was interviewed for and have already seen the film.
The program really deals very little with the 2012 election. It starts off pretending to be about the presidential campaign, but really isn’t at all – at least not directly. Instead it quickly devolves into a short history of how inherently racist the United States of America is, how aggrieved racial minorities still are, and how horrible white people, especially conservative white people, can be.
The brief section which deals with President Obama is a complete joke. Literally none of the “experts/commentators” whose interviews were used during that portion of the film are white. It is almost as if the film’s producers think a white person commenting on Obama is as fundamentally illegitimate as most liberals seem to think of a man’s opinion on abortion.
This is not just idle conjecture on my part. I gave the producers two separate interviews (both of which the producers went out of their way to lavishly praise), each of which was at least an hour long. Of that time, at least a full half hour was spent talking about the Barack Obama, about whose election I made a rather higher profile documentary of my own called “Media Malpractice.”
And yet, despite having – among many other things – declared Obama’s election to be “the most racist event I have ever witnessed,” not even one word from my statements about the president made it into the film. Instead, in the opening montage, they show me saying, “People are afraid to talk about race because they will be accused of being a racist, I am just too stupid to abide by that” …
old_oaks
October 15th, 2012
Stupid progs, they thought race would no longer be an issue in post Obama-land, yet they themselves are the ones squawking the most about race.
WTF?
Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 15th, 2012
There’s no such thing as a “conversation” about race in America. Two people/sides speaking “at” each other is not a conversation.
Nutjob
October 15th, 2012
Romeny defunding PBS is 1 more reason he should be president.
Is there anything government funded the progtards won’t leech off of or use?
and I thought not-for-profits weren’t allowed to endorse a party……another Obama piss on the constitution moment.
Unruly Refugee
October 15th, 2012
It’s all propaganda with them. They dupe a lot of fools.