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Ben Affleck Got PBS to Cover Up Slave-Owning Ancestor
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 17, 2015 @ 6:28 pm In The Point | No Comments
This is really pathetic.
Zinn fanboy Ben Affleck got PBS and Obama pal Henry Louis Gates Jr. to cover up (Gates was at the center of Obama’s ‘acted stupidly’ intervention and beer summit) a slave owning ancestor. Affleck is a card-carrying leftist, but have things gotten so bad that the left is holding people accountable for their ancestors [1].
In a hacked Sony email from July 22, 2014, now available on WikiLeaks, the show’s host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., writes to Sony USA chief Michael Lynton asking for advice: “One of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors–the fact that he owned slaves. Now, four or five of our guests this season descend from slave owners, including Ken Burns. We’ve never had anyone ever try to censor or edit what we found. He’s a megastar. What do we do?”
Gates, who is friends with Lynton and wrote “I need your advice,” goes on to admit that hiding facts would be a violation of PBS rules. “As for the doc: all my producers would know; his PR agency the same as mine, and everyone there has been involved trying to resolve this; my agent at CAA knows. And PBS would know. To do this would be a violation of PBS rules, actually, even for Batman.”
When Lynton responds that “it is tricky because it may get out that you made the change and it comes down to editorial integrity,” Gates responds, “It would embarrass him and compromise our integrity.”
In the end, producers of the episode, which aired Oct. 14 last year, gave in to Affleck’s demand and made no mention of his slave-owning ancestor. The broadcast instead focused on a Revolutionary War ancestor, an ancestor who was an occult enthusiast and his mother, who marched for civil rights in 1964.
Pathetic. So much for Gates’ integrity. And that of PBS.
Also note how “academic” Gates is plugged into Hollywood with a CAA agent and a common PR agency that he shared with Affleck.
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[1] accountable for their ancestors:
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