Yes, this Ken Burns, and Clarence Thomas, and David Koch One of the the interesting side stories from the most recent Clarence Thomas story is that they led with a picture of Ken Burns posing with Clarence Thomas and David Koch at a get together for their political network.
Ken Burns is saying that it was a chance meeting lasting perhaps 5 minutes at which little more than pleasantries were exchanged with the Justice.
I'm inclined to believe him, but while most people focus on this, the important bit was that Burns was at an exclusive event held at an exclusive, and very expensive, venue.
Notwithstanding his stated politics, Ken Burns is a Democratic donor, it's clear that he was there to appeal to the Koch brothers as donors, both to PBS and to his documentary projects.
This makes me wonder about what drives the content of his documentaries.
In particular, his choice to platform faux historian and lost cause proponent Shelby Foote in his Civil War documentary, which I have detested since I first saw the documentary, seems a less random.
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