26 thoughts on “If Ken Burns documented Ammon Bundy and His Thugs”

      1. By the way, so is your website. I just read a couple of your Reza Aslan posts (may his name be forgotten forever!), and they were so well written, so on target, so much what I wish I’d been able to say, I just had to sign up for more. I’m on your email list, now. Thank you very much, Heather, for what and how you write.

        1. Thanks so much! I appreciate it. 🙂

          I always get a few new subscribers when Jerry is kind enough to mention one of my posts. I hardly get noticed otherwise! 🙂

          1. I second docatheist’s remarks. Just read your pieces on Aslan. Thought very highly of them. You just got a new subscriber.

  3. For those who’ve never heard of him,
    “Kenneth Lauren “Ken” Burns[1] (born July 29, 1953)[1] is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His most widely known documentaries are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Central Park Five (2012), and The Roosevelts (2014). Also widely known is his role as executive producer of The West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).[2]”
    (From Wikipedia)

    1. known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films

      Translation: No matter what he is talking about or what era he is describing, his films all look and sound and feel EXACTLY the same.

      1. Well, he has a style that works, and he sticks with it. But he has the series on the Roosevelts, and that at least includes film clips. I find each of his documentaries to be fascinating

  5. Yesterday government forces intercepted our supply convoy and confiscated several bottles of 409. This precious liquid was necessary to remove the cow dung from our boots. Ripping down that barbed wire fence appeared to be a good idea at first and an excellent way to poke government forces in the eye. Our leaders felt that the cow patties would dry out and make perfect Frisbees, giving us something to wile away the dull hours of this conflict. Unfortunately, it has been raining and snowing, making the patties a gooey, sticky mess that gets on everything. We’ve resorted to using our tooth brushes to brush the shit off of our clothes, but this means my two remaining teeth are beginning to decay.

    This conflict might have been a mistake.
    Love Clem

  6. Hilarious!! I can’t bear Burns’ background music and often the slooooooow-talkin’ narrators. I knew I’m not in the majority on this🐸

  10. Bea-yoo-tiful!

    Can Cold Mountain and Bareback Mountain parodies of the y’all-Qaeda uprising at the Oregon bird sanctuary be far behind?

    1. There already IS a hilarious Brokeback Mtn takeoff of it, with the guys canoodling against the bird books:-)

  11. The Burns connection is to the Civil War series on US PBS TV, from … 1990 Wiki says.

    The background music is the connection (and the style of the video), the song is “Ashokan Farewell” written (and maybe performed in this video — not sure) by Jay Ungar, fiddler.*

    (* I play a fingerstyle arrangement of this song on guitar. Beautiful (but sad/nostalgic) tune.)

  12. The original Letter from Sullivan Ballou coupled with the Music is one of the most moving things I have ever listened to.

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