Umm, so if you’re going to write the “Battle Hymn of White Supremacy” don’t steal lines from the Civil Rights Movement. “We will overcome” is way too close to “We Shall Overcome,” and coming from this bottom feeder it’s disgusting.

BTW, did you all catch this news tidbit out of the Golden State; right up Hank’s alley:

Poll: 26% who responded would try pro-white political party

While most online readers said a pro-white political party would be too extreme for their taste, about 26 percent of readers who participated in a Register poll said they’d likely join the group.

A story on the Golden State Party, a self-proclaimed pro-white group pushing for political representation in California, pulled about 285 comments and nearly 600 participants the online poll.

More than 400 readers said they would not join ranks with the GSP, while 157 readers said they favored their political views. Thirty-three readers said they weren’t sure about the new group.

The GSP is a Garden Grove-based group trying to gain status as a registered political party. But experts said its links to white supremacist groups and its leader’s felony record would make it difficult for them to qualify.

Somewhere in space/time, Leni Riefenstahl sheds a sentimental tear…

I’m compelled to admit it’s better than those two rapping white dudes from Dartmouth. Well, catchier, at least.

Disturbing, Pam, but if those results came from an online poll, well, PZ Myers regularly points out their worthlessness.

Nice bit of lyrical doggerel, too.  Puts me to mind of the sanguinary songwriting of one John Ashcroft.

Hey, if the right wingers want to start a White People First party, I say go for it.  Given that they’re headed for minority status in a few decades, this should be epically entertaining to watch.  I look forward to Brian Williams and George Stephanopolus musing over how the White People Party plans on capturing the Latino vote.

There’s already a White People First party.  It’s known as the Republican Party—y’know, the GOP.  They’ve been this way since, oh, 1964 or thereabouts.

Republicans using out-and-out white supremacy motifs would be the best thing that happened to the U.S. political scene in a very long time.

Newt’s off by one word: The GOP rallying cry is “Don’t Tell Me It Can Be Done”.

They aren’t trying to do anything but halt changes that would interfere with their vision of privilege.

Go ahead - let them form their own Tidy Mighty White party.  It will be just as effective an electoral force as any/all very specifically ethnically or racially focused parties have been throughout history.

“Note to teabagging subtitlers: it’s Capitol Hill, not Capital.”

Well now, it wouldn’t be a shitkicking redneck tea-bagging racist fucktard statement without a proper nod to illiteracy.

By the way, when does the subliminal message in Obama’s school speech kick in? I want to be prepared for the millions of zombie children marching down the street with their Capitalist scum parents heads on spikes.

*watches video, slaps forhead*

What a shmuck. I grew up in rural Mississippi amongst some serious country folk in the ‘80s, so Bocephus’ music is a part of the soundtrack to my childhood. And, frankly, his music’s pretty damn good. Not many made post-sixties hard country honky tonk better as he did from ‘75 till about ‘86. But goddamn, the guy makes me embarrased to share an accent with him sometimes, much less be a fan.

During his government “Don’t Tread On Me” blather, he launches into ”Ain’t too many things my beautiful people can’t do…...” (gesturing to look at his hands and his face).

That’s actually not anti-government blather, it’s lyrics to one of his songs. “A Country Boy Can Survive”, one of his biggest hits. The original line is “there ain’t too many things these ol’ boys can’t do”. He’s got another song called “If The South Would’ve Won”, and the following line is “we’d've had it made”. He also had a pro-Gulf War tune called “Don’t Give Us A Reason”. This was all during the latter part of his “glory period” when he was the biggest thing in country music since his old man. Funny, to me anyway, he made a big deal about how much black musicians, especially Jimmy Reed and Fats Domino, influenced him, both stylistically and vocally, and you can really hear the influence in his pre-uber redneck MGM days. It’s sort of represenative of how the South has changed for the worse inre: race relations since I was a kid. Maybe I’m just looking back with rose-colored glasses, but even the rednecks didn’t seem as mean and hateful 20 years ago as it they do now.

Interesting tidbit. In 1975, celebrating the release of his much-acclaimed Hank Williams Jr. & Friends, where he finally broke free from not only the shadow of his father but also the control of his mother and his years drinking and drugging, Hank Jr. went hunting in Montana and somehow managed to fall nearly 500 feet down the side of a mountain. His face was crushed - which is where the ubiquitous beard and shades come in - and he basically had to relearn not only how to sing but also how to talk. The fall also cracked open his skull and his brain was exposed to the elements for several hours.

Make of that what you will.

By the way, when does the subliminal message in Obama’s school speech kick in? I want to be prepared for the millions of zombie children marching down the street with their Capitalist scum parents heads on spikes.

That was actually on the morning shows today, but soon after it hit the wires that Paris Hilton spilled a drink into Jon Gosselin’s lap and the cable channels have been running with that for the past six hours…

The thing is, his rendition of “Whole Lotta Shakin’” is pretty damn good.

Funny though that no one has told him to shut up and sing…

So, what is he saying his beautiful people CAN’T do?
I mean, I’m glad there “ain’t too many things”, but what are they? 

And please don’t say ‘jump’.

But…but…one of his best friends was Fats Domino.

Something tells me you wouldnt have a problem with a black man expressing a similar sentiment.

I try to pretend that there is no Jr., and that Hank Williams III is actually a clone of Sr.

I braved his asinine, semi-incoherent, grating, obnoxious ranting/rambling to watch the gesture in the video and ... wow. That’s so obvious it blows me away. He’s clearly displaying his skin color (the fronts and backs of his hands, then gesturing to his face) as he says “My kind of beautiful people”.

I don’t know how anyone could defend it. Well, unless you try the pathetic-ass kind of whining this douchenugget “chris” is trying.

The lyrics to the 1981 original, excerpted in pertinent part:

The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
And you only get mugged
If you go down town

I live back in the woods, you see
A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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I see no problem with Southern “whites” taking pride in themselves and the non-predatory aspects of their cultural heritage.  Bocephus’ “beautiful people” - the near all-white/Euro-American West Virginia hills, practically everyone at his concerts or in country music generally if you ignore Charlie Pride - is of European, largely Scotch-Irish ancestry.  Didn’t bother me either when Jay-Z beamed “My President is Black,” or when the Sounds of Blackness didn’t apologize for being Black when they sang “Optimistic.” It’s lack of pride, lack of actual mature self-respect, that fucked up Southern society in the first place and made many aspects of it so poisonous particularly post Reconstruction.