Tonight's guests are Ken Burns on The Daily Show and Mindy Kaling on The Colbert Report.
Ken Burns is a director and producer of documentaries. He is best known for his documentaries The Dust Bowl, The Central Park Five, Prohibition, and Baseball. His newest documentary is The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Look around, Burns said. The Evergreen Point Bridge was a WPA project. So was the Washington Park Arboretum and the log-cabin shelters at Seward Park and the University of Washington baseball field.
“And at some point you’ll collect a Social Security check,” Burns said. “Maybe you know somebody who went to college on the GI Bill. Maybe you’ve flown out of LaGuardia Airport or through the Lincoln Tunnel.
“Or you can turn on a light switch and have power and build planes at Boeing.
“That’s all Franklin Roosevelt.”
Ken Burns: You can thank FDR for that light switch
Yes, Burns and Ward have produced an Intimate History that deftly weaves together the personal and the political. However, as much they remind us of the great progressive achievements of TR, ER, and FDR, Burns and Ward have not produced the democratic history that we so need, now especially.
They ignore the ways in which working people and the labor movement shaped their “heroes’” thinking and propelled their action. They note TR’s presidential intervention in the 1902 coal strike, but fail to speak of labor’s role in the Socialist and Progressive parties’ prewar battles against Gilded Age capital (labor unionist and Socialist leader and presidential candidate Eugene Debs is never named).
Ken Burns’s ‘Roosevelts’ Fine But Flawed
I really wanted to watch this but did not have the time to catch it yet so I am hoping it will stay On Demand long enough to watch it. I have felt that the Democratic party rejected the Roosevelts after the "Reagan Revolution" and it is well past time to re-embrace the good parts of their presidencies.
Mindy Kaling is an actress and producer, known for The Office, Wreck-It Ralph, and The Mindy Project which returns for its third season on Sept. 16 on Fox.
The Mindy Project," is a romantic comedy at heart, so we'll start our refresher with a look back at Mindy and Danny's relationship. After a half-season of continued escalating romantic tension, the two finally shared an exquisite, airplane turbulence-inspired kiss in the winter finale episode "The Desert."
The two continued to make out when the series picked back up in spring, and, once Mindy ended her relationship with then boyfriend Cliff, began to date in secret. What followed was a too-brief arc of bliss, which included Danny reading "Bridget Jones' Diary" out loud to Mindy in a hospital bed. Then, Danny ended things with Mindy because he was afraid of messing things up and losing her, a.k.a was being a total chicken.
In the subsequent episodes, Danny gazed longingly at Mindy and got jealous of her new Staten Island hunk, Charlie. Finally, in the season finale that famously included Mindy wearing 23 outfits in 22 minutes, Danny orchestrated a plan to try and win Mindy back. After a series of botches and hijinks, the episode ended as Mindy and Danny made out on top of the Empire State building in perfect rom-com tradition. Where We Left Off And What To Expect On 'The Mindy Project'
I've never seen it, but I have heard good things about it. Mindy is also the author of Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) from 2012, and Questions I Ask When I Want to Talk About Myself: 50 Topics to Share with Friends which is a deck of conversation starters.
This Week's Guests
THE DAILY SHOW
Tu 9/16: Bill Hader
We 9/17: Zephyr Teachout
Th 9/18: ???
THE COLBERT REPORT
Tu 9/16: Unlocking the Truth
We 9/17: Viggo Mortensen
Th 9/18: Terry Gilliam
I am looking forward to Terry Gilliam with Colbert. I expect to be entertained.