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To: buccaneer81
Big deal. No different than The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. If we're going to be that sensitive, we might as well hang it up.

Yes, for some strange reason that I just can't put my finger on, the threads about the Obama's never include pictures or quotes from The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, or Petticoat Junction. Just shows like Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, and Good Times. Why not Magnum, PI or Hawaii 50? Hmmmm, what single trait does Obama share in common with just those sitcoms he's compared to?

And if the people on DU or DailyKos started posting pictures from The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, or Hee Haw in a thread about Sarah Palin and her family and how they dress, and the people started calling her kids trailer trash and meth addicts, that wouldn't be a cheap and stereotyped shot at her class and rural background, right? (And, yes, I'm sure you can find examples of them doing exactly that.)

164 posted on 07/10/2009 11:03:50 AM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: Question_Assumptions
You're WAY too PC on this subject. If the DUmmies want to use hilljack comparisons on the Palins, so what? That really doesn't offend me.

No more double standards. Equality for all, good, bad or ugly.

168 posted on 07/10/2009 11:07:55 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Question_Assumptions
Once upon a time in America...satire was recognized for what it was, not criticized as "insensitive."

Carter Country was set in the fictional small town of Clinton Corners in Georgia (presumably near the part of the state from which U.S. President Jimmy Carter hailed, thus the title), and featured Victor French as police chief Roy Mobey and Kene Holliday as city-bred, college-educated, African-American Sergeant Curtis Baker.

It also featured Richard Paul as Mayor Burnside (who coined a minor catchphrase with his manic, "Handle it, Roy, handle it!", sometimes referring to his way of dodging a parking ticket fine), Harvey Vernon as officer Jasper DeWitt, and Barbara Cason as town employee Cloris Phebus. Additional comic support was provided by Texas-born actor Guich Koock who played the part of goofy deputy Harley. Vernee Watson rounded out the cast as the mayor's secretary. The plot centered around the stereotypical racism of the Deep South, and was often characterized as being an irreverent, comedic version of the movie In the Heat of the Night.

175 posted on 07/10/2009 11:15:38 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Question_Assumptions
Yes, for some strange reason that I just can't put my finger on, the threads about the Obama's never include pictures or quotes from The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, or Petticoat Junction.

Strange claim, as I've seen pictures portraying Obama as Barney Fife, Joe Isuzu, Jesus, Steve Carell, Adolf Hitler, Spock, Superman, Alfred E. Neuman, etc.

195 posted on 07/10/2009 11:34:48 AM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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