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Archae

(46,312 posts)
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 02:00 PM Aug 2013

Would anyone here trust DW Griffith to make a documentary?

Griffith was the guy who made the 1915 revisionist movie, "Birth Of A Nation," showing blacks as lazy rapists, and the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.

Griffith himself was quoted as dismissing a critic of "Birth Of A Nation" as a "Bolshevik." (Communist)

I can't think of anyone here who would agree with Griifith.
(Maybe Free Republic or Stormfront.)

There's a TV-movie called "The Road To 9-11," that is revisionist, it absolves Bush and Cheney and blames 9-11 almost entirely on Bill Clinton.
I wouldn't trust a documentary made by this guy either, in fact I've read he's tied in with many of those religious right groups like "Family Research Center."

So now we're supposed to trust a documentary made by a guy who did revisionist history on John F. Kennedy's murder and Nixon's political career?

And said that "the Jews" were to blame for his documentary not being accepted?

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Would anyone here trust DW Griffith to make a documentary? (Original Post) Archae Aug 2013 OP
Watched BoaN on netflix Blaspherian Aug 2013 #1
No, but I would trust the man who made Intolerance CBGLuthier Aug 2013 #2
what documentary is this referring to? Enrique Aug 2013 #3
Two words: Oliver Stone. Archae Aug 2013 #4

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
2. No, but I would trust the man who made Intolerance
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 02:46 PM
Aug 2013

Just because he was blind and ignorant in one area does not automatically mean he is blind and ignorant in others.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
3. what documentary is this referring to?
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 02:46 PM
Aug 2013

and who is saying we should trust it? (I would agree with you we shouldn't necessarily trust any documentary)

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