PBS on Horses

The political spin that permeates America's public broadcasting is repulsive. Hearing about "global warming" and "human encroachment" in almost every "nature program" is sickening. Having Cuba, a slave state that has killed thousands of her own citizens and left millions more in a state so desperate that they are willing to brave hundreds of miles of open ocean to flee, portrayed as some sort of pastoral paradise, somehow preserved in a natural state by Castro is a joke. Brutal repression and murder may indeed thwart human progress but there is no virtue in what taken to its logical extension would of course mean the elimination of humanity in service of the earth itself. So, a woman doubtless erudite and educated to a fault takes her camera out to make some pretentious statement about "horse society"- a polity that the horses themselves are blissfully unaware even exists and imbues a rather dumb animal with characteristics that even Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa did not have. Come on nice all-concerned liberal lady- these are horses, not members of a college faculty or some esoteric priestly caste. You really ruin your own work for folks with any discernment and force us to watch with the volume off. Get off your high horse and just let the film of the pretty horses speak for itself without projecting a bunch of balderdash on your viewers.