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Title: Frontline:Divided States of America
Source: www.pbs.org
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Published: Jan 19, 2017
Author: sneakypete
Post Date: 2017-01-19 20:19:05 by sneakypete
Keywords: Obamacare, Tea Party, Sarah Palin, Trump
Views: 696
Comments: 5

Frontline:Divided States of America

Just watched the 2 hour part one of this series,and it was both very balanced and very interesting. The producers interviewed many of the movers and shakers behind what went on behind the scenes from the time Obama left the Illinois Senate to the US Senate,and how he was talked into running for president "Now,before you have a record of votes that makes it harder (or maybe impossible.Operating from memory here.) for you to run and win in the future. IIRC,it was Tom Daschle that revealed this.

It goes on to discuss his early days,the push for Obama Care and the dirty deals done in the background that splintered the alleged (MY adjective) Republican Party and resulted in the rise of the Tea Party.

It also did an excellent job of detailing how McLunatic brain farts and how he dealt with Sarah Palin and defended Obama during the election cycle was Ground Zero for that splintering and the creation of the Tea Party that led to the Republicans taking over control of Congress despite being vastly outnumbered at the start. It even highlights how after Ted Kennedy died his Senate seat in Mass went Republican for the first time in over 40 years.

All of which ended up step by step leading to "outsiders" taking the Republican Party away from the professional deal-makers,and ended up resulting in the election of Donald Trump,the final verdict on the presidency of Obama,and the probable end of his ONLY accomplishment while President,Obama Care. Which in itself should go a long ways towards revealing why he is planning on remaining in DC and operating as a "shadow president" to try to prevent this from happening.

This is just an overview that hits some of the high (low?) spots. They revealed some things I didn't know,and reminded me of other events I had forgotten about.

Getting ready to view the 2 hour final in a few minutes. I highly recommend viewing this two-part series to everyone who even has a casual interest in big-league politics.

If you can't find it on your local PBS station,you can stream it by going to PBS.COM and using Frontline:Divided States of America as the keywords.

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#1. To: sneakypete (#0)

I watched much of it last night. I didn't realize that it is a two-part series.

Yes, it is well done production with the narration, the interviews, the news clips, the black and white presentation at times, etc.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2017-01-19   23:47:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Fred Mertz (#1)

Yes, it is well done production with the narration, the interviews, the news clips, the black and white presentation at times, etc.

Yup,and I am sure it is going to come as a surprise to some that a show on PBS doesn't sugarcoat the events in Obama's favor. In fact,he comes out as the loser he is.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-01-20   2:16:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: All (#2) (Edited)

BTTT.

Can't believe anyone but Fred has seen and replied to this.

Maybe I should have used the key words "Jews","Nazi's",or "Conspiracy" to get it noticed here?

sneakypete  posted on  2017-01-20   9:45:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: sneakypete (#3)

They can watch it at this link:

www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/divided-states-of-america/

Lots of folks won't watch anything exceeding two minutes, myself included at times.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2017-01-20   10:25:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4) (Edited)

Lots of folks won't watch anything exceeding two minutes, myself included at times.

I tend to be that way myself,but PBS shows like Frontline keep sucking me in. Even with the shows that sound like they would be boring. 10 minutes in and I am interested.

Truth to tell,it kinda pisses me off that people claiming to be conservatives dismiss all of PBS as "liberal propaganda",and obviously the SOB's have never even watched it for an hour. They just respond to their knees jerking and follow along. No actual thought required.

Yeah,there is a lot of leftist-tinted viewpoints presented on PBS,but there are also a lot of conservative-tinted viewpoints presented also,as well as neutral viewpoints.

I remember back in the early 70's PBS was about the ONLY place you could see or hear conservative points of view on teebee. It was ABC,CBS,NBC,PBS,or nothing,so it's not like PBS had a lot of competition.

sneakypete  posted on  2017-01-20   18:23:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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