Band's Version of One-Time Presley Tune Hits Sour Note (Hyper-sensitive Democrat Alert!)

Duluth News Tribune ^ | January 4, 2005 | AP Wire

[rocksblues]

I am wondering how Sen. Spencer Coggs (D), feels about the
The ICE-T Cop Killer song? http://it.uwp.edu/gangsters/ice-t.cop.killer.html

[Pusterfuss]

This article is just an example of the many I have come accross where it is just perfectly OK to publicly bemoan the South and southerners.

It gets old.

I think it is more insidious than that. I think it is the whole PC thing. You just got in the way of this one. I've been hammered for being openly Christian -- others just for being politically to the right, or too supportive of our military. You just got hit by this particular one. We are in this together. (IMHO)

[Dooderbutt]

My cell phone rings Dixie, my dog's name is Rebel. I'm just a slave-ownin' backwoods freak, I suppose.

[dixiechick2000]

Another wonderful song blasphemed...


Elvis' "American Trilogy" is one of my very favorites.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Whether the slight was intentional or not, the selection was not appropriate," he wrote, noting that "Dixie" is often associated with slavery."

Well, slavery is often associated with slavery, so he needs to shut up and stop bringing it up.

[steplock]

"eenie meenie minnie moe - catch a tiger by the toe"

He would call that racist too - why? Because he is IGNORANT!

[patriot_wes]

"Whether the slight was intentional or not, the selection was not appropriate," he wrote, noting that "Dixie" is often associated with slavery.

What a MORON!

[Hatteras]

"Old Missus marry Will, the weaver,
William was a gay deceiver
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land."

Well now.... I'm moth thertainly offended too!

signed- Deceived by William

[skimbell]

Which is close to something that really pizzez me off to this day.

I live near the Rock Island Arsenal. As you probably know the island was a confederate prison during the Civil War. All the while I was growing up the Stars and Bars flew at the confederate cometary. No more. The poor Johnny Rebs now lie beneath Old Glory. PC you know. That's not bad but I think the Confederate flag should still be flown over that piece of ground.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Joke? I think not, my FRiend. If you doubt, or you're in the market for vacation property on beautiful Lost Coon Lake, check this link: http://www.nwwaterfrontrealestate.com/water.jsp?WAID=11330&orderBy=WATITLE&direction=ASC&offset=30

[frog_jerk_2004]

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is one of the most awsome Hymns ever written.

When they played it at the National Cathedral after 9/11 it gave me chills because I knew the man at the helm, BUSH, was a God fearing man, bent on justice...

[FauxBlonde]

I still smile when I think of the story about how Jesse Helms started whistling Dixie when Carol Moseley Brown entered the Senate elevator with him.

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Yeah, that's a real knee slapper.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

"She even taught me an alternative "counting rhyme" to replace the ubiquitous "eeny, meeny, mynee, moe"."

I led (and probably continue to lead) a sheltered life. I never even HEARD the "offensive" version of that rhyme until I was an adult. We always caught "tigers" by the toe when I was a kid.

[raccoonradio]

>>"Whether the slight was intentional or not, the selection was not appropriate," he wrote, noting that "Dixie" is often associated with slavery

Even if it is, it's part of the history of our land. I also don't believe it to do with slavery--doesn't defend or glorify the practice.

[frog_jerk_2004]

"Whether the slight was intentional or not, the selection was not appropriate," he wrote, noting that "Dixie" is often associated with slavery.

A similar question: Wagner is often associated with Hitler and the Third Reich, even though Wagner lived way before the existence of the Third Reich. Do we stop listening to or performing Wagner?

[L98Fiero]

See post 37.

Demagoguery is bad, mmkay?

Seriously, though, Southerners are hospitable people. Southern hospitality and all that. Sure we goof on "Yankees" sometimes but in good fun. We laugh at the incest jokes and all is good.

What I see in the media is constant attacks on Southern values, history and culture from northerners, most notably northern liberals, I suppose. I see none of this from the southerners aimed at the north.

Ulitimately, maybe it is the conservative south/liberal north rivalry more than anything else. I read on here about all the crap some of you have to put up with in your schools or in your communities during Christmas. After reading the articles and comments here, I really do thank God that I was raised and live where I do.

Then I get to read articles like this one from people who don't have a clue how good it is down here, how free we are, how equal we are in comparison to others in other areas of our own country. I would say that I am proud to be southern, but that is not exactly true. I can't be proud of something I took no part in. I am, however, very glad to be southerner.

No offense to you northern folks, this is just a hot-button topic for me. I'm sure you love your communities too and might be similary bent out of shape were they constantly attacked in the media.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

How about Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog"?

[MarkL]

Sen. Spencer Coggs (D), who is black, said he was SHOCKED, as were his family and other guests, to hear the strains of the Southern anthem "Dixie" played in the Senate chamber as part of the trilogy, along with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "All My Trials."

In a related issue, when senator Coggs (D) was buying a bicycle for his son, was SHOCKED to see chains and padlocks being sold at the local Schwinn store. "Ass we all know," said senator Coggs, "That chains and padlocks were used by the slave trade, and I feel that it's terribly insensitive for Schwinn to sell these implements of the slave trade. I believe that the board of directors of Schwinn needs to reevaluate the way they do business."

Mark

[Redleg Duke]

That nitwit from Milwaukee needs a large bowl of "shut-up" every morning.

I have been insulted and discriminated against by several of the minority folks from Milwaukee in my time. I am fed up with their panty-waisted whining! And, I'll wager, the ghosts of their departed ancestors are fed up with them too!