Leftists Hollywood hacks like Ben Affleck don’t like it when the truth comes out. So it’s only natural that he tried to force PBS to edit out information about Ben Affleck’s slave owning grandfather.
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| Leftist Ben Affleck tells PBS to edit out slave-owning grandpa |
Ben Affleck asked the producers of PBS’ Finding Your Roots television show to edit out details of an ancestor who owned slaves, according to a Sony internal email exchange leaked this week.
In an email sent to Sony CEO Michael Lynton shortly before the show’s second season premiere, Harvard professor and Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that an unnamed “megastar” had asked producers 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,” Gates wrote. “What do we do?”
Lynton responded by asking who else knew about the information in question, advising that “it gets tricky” when editing out material “based on this kind of sensitivity.”
Gates replied that the producers of the show, the star’s PR agents, and PBS already knew about the slave-owning ancestor.
“To do this would be a violation of PBS rules, actually, even for Batman,” Gates wrote.