I think the boys were just grounded
for flyin' without a pilot's license.
Posted on 03/16/2007 1:55:36 PM PDT by Hildy
A performance by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra featuring John Schneider and Tom Wopat, who appeared in the 1979-85 series The Dukes of Hazzard was canceled after complaints that the series had "racist overtones," according to Ben Jones, who played Cooter on the show and later served two terms as a Georgia Congressman.
"What could these politically correct vigilantes possibly be thinking?" Jones said in a statement, in which he called the cancellation "a dangerous affront to the rights of performing artists and their audiences." Jones particularly criticized the NAACP for endorsing the cancellation. "I'm a life member of the NAACP and proud of it," he said. "Denying an artist an opportunity to entertain an audience because of somebody's wrongheaded political viewpoint is just plain un-American. I have fought for equal rights all of my life, and that is why I am speaking out on this."
Schneider and Wopat were to have headlined a PBS special by the Cincinnati Pops on July 14 titled "Patriotic Broadway."
Dang it, ya'll know they're good ole boys.
Ya know, men with guns and know how to fight.
Real men call their lawyers.
Cooter 2008!
Cooter is such a real life liberal he has no room to criticize people being PC.
Can't say I blame Schneider and Wopat for just sayin' "to hell with it!" though.
WOW! I pretty much thought the show was red, white and blue. Hot girl, good looking manly men, family ties.....pretty slapstick and stuff, but you could watch it with your gramma and not be embarrased, unlike much of TV now.
Agreed. Cooter is right on THIS issue, but he's a lifelong leftist. I suspect he's only even sensitive to this sort of abuse because the victims happen to be old friends of his.
I guess we will be unable to teach children about President Abraham Lincoln soon.
This is a ridiculous gesture on the part of the NAALCP. It will probably get them another million in donations.
This is probably the stupidest statement I have ever read on FreeRepublic. Please tell us what is remotely racist about the flag? It's a freaking FLAG!
Ironic, isn't it?
Racist? No way. How?
New World Men don't use bows either. Except in their hair.
If memory serves, Ben Jones ran as a Democrat in Virginia for the U.S. House.
One thing that disturbed me about the show was the lack of a family headed by a happily married couple. As far as I recall, the only main character in a marriage is Boss Hogg, and that's a pretty disfunctional marraige at that.
I've noticed a similar pattern for a lot of supposedly "wholesome" shows from the late 1960's and 1970's: lack of a traditional family for the main characters. See also Andy Griffith and the Brady Bunch. Where is Opie's mother? Where are the previous spouses of Mr. and Mrs. Brady? And of course, with the Dukes, where are Bow, Luke and Daisy's parents? Why are they all living with their Uncle? I'm not sure whether this was an attempt by avant guard writers to undermine the traditional family, but it sure is weird.
I got one of those racists Flags on my porch,,,one other problem I got is my dogs name is White Boy,,glad I'm way out here in the sticks..
No, the Left hasn't 'gone mad'......y'all miss the point. Racism is an industry in this country (literally), and it must be kept alive at all costs so that the NAACP, the Sharptons and Jacksons and all of their ilk, the Black Caucus in the House, etc. etc........all have cushy jobs, limousines, expensive suits, invitations to all the right parties, etc. Anyone or anything that can remotely be considered, no matter how ludicrous the 'stretch', as even possibly "racist" in the slightest is a target. Why? Because overt racism is so damned rare any more, this is all they have to resort to. They're digging in the dregs.
Think I'm kidding or just being sarcastic? Think again.
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