Steven P. BarrettSO WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORD "REDNECK"?
June 19th 2008 05:17
Link: www.townhall.com/
ANDREA MITCHELL -- TAKE BACK THAT DAMN APOLOGY NOW!
You know it's gotta be a slow news day when NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who's also the wife of the formerly most influential man in all of capitalism, Alan Greenspan, catches hell for using he word "redneck" in describing Bristol, Virginia.
What did this longtime veteran of political coverage say? It must've been a real baddie, the kind that'd get all those good ol' boys reachin' for their guns and ready to raise hell an' working up their vocal chords for a good "rebel yell." Well, here's the offending remarks. Hope you readers south of the Mason-Dixon Line can handle it. (I trust they'll have a much easier time than the Old Dominion's PC version of East Germany's old STASI.
Andrea, watch out if you head north and use the phrase "Swamp Yankee" up here in New England. We still have them, but you'll have to use another term. And may God save your soul if the Boston Globe catches you using such a term. (Being of Irish lineage myself, there are a lot of things I'd like to say about THAT Yankee fishwrap that hires Irish reporters and editors and does whatever it can to make them come across like Blue Bloods; yes the same kind of non-Swamp Yankee Yankees who still love looking down on people.)
So now, Andrea Mitchell, covering the Obama campaign for NBC has to stop and apologize to Bristol locals through their area paper, the Bristol Herald Courier for something they probably took no offense in. Well, the editorial staff did. Did anybody ask the locals on the streets? At least how they felt about Mitchelll using the "R" word.
As for the geographical distinction, well, that might be a cause for alarm. I tell people I come from western Massachusetts. But I'll raise total hell in a New York nano-second if I hear the words "Pioneer Valley" come out of their mouths. (By the way, that was a p.r. packaged term invented around the advent of WWII. The only thing "pioneering" around these parts is the number of people looking for ways to get out, unless they're a tenured college professor.)
Take it from a northern Irish Catholic --from Kennedyland no less -- Up With The Southern Redneck, Down WIth All Folks Overly Afflicted By Political Discomfiture!
When we will be rid of people who love to be so damn good in the worst way so as to squeeze every last bit of humor out of every last thing we have left?
I'll take an army of Southern Rednecks from southwestern Virginia or any part of Dixie over one solitary, porn lovin', porn pumpin,' disgrace of a candidate up in Minnesota, Al Franken, a real political joke, regional or otherwise. But leave good people like Andrea Mitchell for using the word "redneck" alone if they're not using it purposely as a put-down. Maywe all learn by now, there's no such thing as "political correctness" in a free society, but there's sure a helluvalot of political busybodyness and nitpickery leading to a heap of civic indigestion!
Lawdy!
Where's my copy of Charlie Daniels' "What the world needs is a few good Rednecks"?
You know it's gotta be a slow news day when NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who's also the wife of the formerly most influential man in all of capitalism, Alan Greenspan, catches hell for using he word "redneck" in describing Bristol, Virginia.
What did this longtime veteran of political coverage say? It must've been a real baddie, the kind that'd get all those good ol' boys reachin' for their guns and ready to raise hell an' working up their vocal chords for a good "rebel yell." Well, here's the offending remarks. Hope you readers south of the Mason-Dixon Line can handle it. (I trust they'll have a much easier time than the Old Dominion's PC version of East Germany's old STASI.
"Interesting images today ... Barack Obama, Mark Warner in southwest Virginia. This is real redneck, sort of bordering-on-Appalachia country."
Andrea, watch out if you head north and use the phrase "Swamp Yankee" up here in New England. We still have them, but you'll have to use another term. And may God save your soul if the Boston Globe catches you using such a term. (Being of Irish lineage myself, there are a lot of things I'd like to say about THAT Yankee fishwrap that hires Irish reporters and editors and does whatever it can to make them come across like Blue Bloods; yes the same kind of non-Swamp Yankee Yankees who still love looking down on people.)
So now, Andrea Mitchell, covering the Obama campaign for NBC has to stop and apologize to Bristol locals through their area paper, the Bristol Herald Courier for something they probably took no offense in. Well, the editorial staff did. Did anybody ask the locals on the streets? At least how they felt about Mitchelll using the "R" word.
As for the geographical distinction, well, that might be a cause for alarm. I tell people I come from western Massachusetts. But I'll raise total hell in a New York nano-second if I hear the words "Pioneer Valley" come out of their mouths. (By the way, that was a p.r. packaged term invented around the advent of WWII. The only thing "pioneering" around these parts is the number of people looking for ways to get out, unless they're a tenured college professor.)
Take it from a northern Irish Catholic --from Kennedyland no less -- Up With The Southern Redneck, Down WIth All Folks Overly Afflicted By Political Discomfiture!
When we will be rid of people who love to be so damn good in the worst way so as to squeeze every last bit of humor out of every last thing we have left?
I'll take an army of Southern Rednecks from southwestern Virginia or any part of Dixie over one solitary, porn lovin', porn pumpin,' disgrace of a candidate up in Minnesota, Al Franken, a real political joke, regional or otherwise. But leave good people like Andrea Mitchell for using the word "redneck" alone if they're not using it purposely as a put-down. Maywe all learn by now, there's no such thing as "political correctness" in a free society, but there's sure a helluvalot of political busybodyness and nitpickery leading to a heap of civic indigestion!
Lawdy!
Where's my copy of Charlie Daniels' "What the world needs is a few good Rednecks"?
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