Posted on 01/17/2012 11:45:55 AM PST by Mustang Driver
I have no objection to the word hillbilly. Man High School in southern West Virginia calls its teams the Hillbillies. The word is colorful and accurate. But when you use the word in a derogatory way to slam someone who is not a hillbilly, then I take offense.
The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times did just that on Martin Luther King Day.
In an editorial taking a swipe at the governor of Texas, the editorial board took a swipe at hillbillies.
He is a cowboy, not a hillbilly.
The editorial itself was peculiar:
Rick Perry is not the first to defend the four Marines who were catapulted to infamy last week when an Internet video emerged capturing them urinating on what appeared to be the corpses of three dead Taliban fighters. Conservative luminary Britt Hume said on Fox News that he didn’t see anything despicable about it, and author Sebastian Junger penned a thoughtful essay in the Washington Post that defends if not excuses the Marines based on his own experiences studying the emotional state of combat soldiers. But that’s not the way Perry put it. And that’s why he doesn’t just infuriate liberals, he inspires little confidence among educated conservatives.
So it is OK to defend Marines for pissing on dead bodies, but only if you defend it in a manner that makes the Marines hapless victims of the American war machine.
Or something like that.
Fine, that is the editorial board’s opinion. But the board ended its editorial with this: “How long are we going to have to listen to this hillbilly nonsense before Perry bows to the inevitable and drops out of the GOP presidential race?”
“Hillbilly nonsense”?
He is not a hillbilly.
Why not, Latino nonsense?
Jewish nonsense?
Black nonsense?
Indian nonsense?
Islamic nonsense?
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“He is a cowboy, not a hillbilly.”
When I worked overseas, a Brit tried to insult several of us Texans by calling us “a bunch of cowboys”. He got so frustrated as we agreed with him saying “damn straight we are”. He didn’t know how to respond so he kept repeating it trying to insult us. We kept taking it as praise and confused him to no end.
Nothing more provincial than a liberal elitist, but we have a whole strain of conservative that is there to tell us how great and powerful and morally superior liberals are.
The Los Angeles Times demonstrates the liberal intellect -— name-calling.
I always loved it when Man played Graham. Graham calls its teams the ‘G-Men’. I called their cheerleaders the ‘G-Strings’.
I would have named the team the Graham Crackers.
I would have named the team the Graham Crackers.
Man, that LAT idiot needs a geography lesson. Perry isn’t a hillbilly, he’s a cowboy or cowpoke. Hillbillies are an Appalachian thing, crackers come from Florida, rednecks are a little more generic but more of a Carolina-and-further-south species. Get a clue about your rural etymology, LAT!
(I, by the way, am a product of the finest strain of Caucasian recyclables that central Virginia produces. That’s the politically correct way to say “white trash,” y’know.)
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Where`s yourn`?
Spit-shinin` my bead sight right now.
But New Yorker city-slickers in Albany want to take away our ammo- HELPP!!
I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.
Where I come from (Texas Panhandle), Perry wouldn’t make much of a cowboy, either.
He’s just a Texas Statesman.
Cowboys are their own breed. I’m no cowboy, either, but I am country.
Where I come from (Texas Panhandle), Perry wouldn’t make much of a cowboy, either.
He’s just a Texas Statesman.
Cowboys are their own breed. I’m no cowboy, either, but I am country.
Just to live in L.A. on a daily basis you have to buy into the unbelievable fact that such an artificial environment - like a giant terrarium - is 'normal'. After swallowing that, any cult psychology is cheesecake and is easily digested.
The L.A. Times is full of lemmings ready to jump at the drop of a hat. It's crazy town. Who cares what they think or say.
I've been saying that for years -- especially New Yorkers, whose little self-contained province seems to end at the Jersey shore.
I guy in KFI Radio (in LA) recently referred to Pittsburgh as a "east coast city".
That's what happens when it rains a little bit out there, isn't it?
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Arkansans are redneck hillbillies.
The term “Hillbilly” originally came from those boys from the rural hills of western Virginia who joined the Union army instead of the Confederate army during the Civil War. These southern Billy Yanks became known as “Hillbillies.”
The LAT is unquestionably effeminate in its worldview.
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