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The IQ of the base of the GOP has dropped even lower than we thought

As one of the diarists at my pad said, this guy makes Joe the Plumber look like a Nobel Laureate. I mean, Jeebus H. Christ on a cracker…has this poor gentleman had a severe head injury or something? There has to be something organically awry with him.

I know we often discuss low-information voters, but I think we need a new term for this level of GOP enthusiast, who discusses chewing tobacco/dip, why Obama’s thinking is gay, and how he needs to be impeached. Well, I think that’s what he’s trying to say. I may be from the South, but this particular dialect is, um, unfamiliar. Kentucky? West Virginia? Tennessee?

 

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Posted by Pam Spaulding on 08:51 PM • (72) Comments

Not just any chawin’ terbacky—flavored chawin’ terbacky. That’s a real man’s dip.

Comment #1: Scott  on  09/27  at  09:16 PM

(curse ye, too-quick-on-the-draw blaspheming finger—ye’ve foiled me again!)

I mean, that’s a real man’s dip.

Comment #2: Scott  on  09/27  at  09:17 PM

Well.  Wasn’t that a special experience.  I don’t know if that “moran” is Beavis or Butthead, but he sure is a credit to inbreeding.

Here are the only real questions:

#1: Does this escapee from Idiocracy represent 1% of the American populace, or more?

#2: Who uploaded the video for him?...

Comment #3: MikeEss  on  09/27  at  09:27 PM

Well, don’t want to sound like a dick or nothin’, but…you’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.

Comment #4: Nil  on  09/27  at  10:20 PM

nutpicking is wrong even when we do it… :(

Comment #5: sujal  on  09/27  at  10:28 PM

He may say “nigger” but he doesn’t have any Nazi symbols.  Okay, and those latest arrests of those would-be terrorists didn’t include the confiscation of their Al Qaeda decoder rings, so it must be part of Obama’s “nigger Jew” conspiracy that targets that bastion of freedom and liberty: flavored tobacco.  I’m sure he’ll get to the connection as soon as the Weekly Reader is distributed at his school.

Now I kind of agree with Mister Graystater about whether or not such idiocy should remain legal for sale, but I truly have to worry about the addictive qualities of such a disgusting habit.  I’d rather watch someone get his penis halved in some sort of modern primitive tribal bullshit ritual thing than experience the gag-reflex overdrive I experienced while watching that moron stuff wads of disgusting crap into his mouth and then loudly spit it into his little bedpan/spittoon thingy.

Sorry buddy, your habit of choice is more likely to cause illness than sticking hundreds of random penises in your mouth, so it really makes your suggestion that banning tobacco leaf mouth-stuffing “gay” seem illogical.  If anything, gay sex is pretty normal in comparison.  Putting leaves into your mouth so you can look like a total imbecile who can’t be understood by most of the English-speaking world doesn’t have much that would cause me to call it “homosexual,” but it’s certainly stupid.  Yeah, I guess penises and tobacco aren’t my chosen things to suck on, and I’m, like you, all for people getting some pleasure from what they put in their mouths.  But if given a choice, this heterosexual man would choose to have a mouthful of dick rather than some tobacco leaves, flavored or not.  I wouldn’t be ashamed to be gay, but I have far too much pride to be stupid.

Comment #6: 3letterjon  on  09/27  at  10:38 PM

Youtube…letting idiots make idiots of themselves in public since 2004….

You know, I gave up after about 3 minutes, but was really sad was that my husband didn’t even think it was funny…he was like, go ahead and laugh, baby, I actually have to work with people like that.

Comment #7: wednesdayaddams  on  09/27  at  10:38 PM

I didn’t realize Hell was such a bastion of gayness.  Which kind of makes me even more excited about ending up there, because I bet that means Satan’s dance clubs will be fucking awesome.

Also, does the title of that video say “inpeached”?  Ok, just checking.

Comment #8: ladybronwyn  on  09/27  at  11:10 PM

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.  And that bit near the end, where he proudly displays the “Rebel Flag” and then claims that he’s a True American…Either he has the most massive case of cognitive dissonance, or he actually doesn’t understand how the two things are contradictory, especially as he phrased them.  Where the hell is my brain bleach?

Comment #9: Karinna A.  on  09/27  at  11:12 PM

It’s not just the racism, it’s that he’s got such pride in his racism that he films it and puts it on the internet.  It was so over the top I was having trouble making up my mind whether or not it was a parody.  I think the mixed flag on the ceiling has me pretty well convinced it’s for real.

Comment #10: libdevil  on  09/27  at  11:14 PM

Sounds like Louisiana to me.

Also, wow.

Comment #11: Babieca  on  09/27  at  11:15 PM

There are radically stupid people on the left, but most aren’t that stupid.  They can be blindly naive and privileged, but not quite that stupid.

I actually feel kind of sorry for this guy - here, in bold relief, is what happens when government fails somebody who is extremely vulnerable.  By that I mean his entire family.  This guy could have had and used much more help than he got, and his momma probably could have had better care too.

Comment #12: Ms Kate  on  09/27  at  11:20 PM

I wonder who cut his hair like that. My bet is it is either granny or the county hospital.

Comment #13: Ms Kate  on  09/27  at  11:23 PM

In another video (yeah, I’m a masochist) he pops some Seroquel before dippin’ his chaw.

Seroquel is for bipolar disorder/depression.  Suddenly, I’m sad.

Comment #14: UncleMike  on  09/27  at  11:47 PM

That’s the classic southern Kentucky accent. You get it basically from Bowling Green east, into the mountains. It’s not quite Appalachian, not quite southern. It’s just pure, unadulterated rural Kentucky. The prototypical example would be <a >this guy</a>. If I had to bet money, I’d bet our Confederate American here was from Bowling Green.

Also, not to nitpick, but this guy obviously isn’t a member of the GOP base. He’s likely a Paulite Republican, meaning he probably thinks most Republicans suck. All of the cussing and talk of legalizing everything, even prostitution, excludes him from the religious right, and suggest he’s one of those quasi-libertarian sorts. I bet that if he voted in 2008, he voted either for the libertarian or constitutional party, or for McCain because Palin was on the ticket.

Comment #15: Chris MM  on  09/27  at  11:48 PM

Screwed up the link, sorry: this guy.

Comment #16: Chris MM  on  09/27  at  11:49 PM

Inbreeding is alive and well.

Comment #17: pajmahal  on  09/28  at  12:07 AM

He is not politically active.

This bears repeating. Someone espousing “The president should be impeached” is not, in this context, espousing any genuine political sentiment. This is the equivalent of whining “there ought to be a law.”

There is no movement. No advocacy. No attempt at actually bringing anything about.

I feel there is a real need to distinguish any and all complaining about Obama from actual political advocacy.

Comment #18: karpad  on  09/28  at  12:16 AM

If I didn’t know any better, I’d thought he was stoned to the max. 

Had a college classmate who may not have spoken as slowly, but who was equally incoherent in attempting to explain why he joined and believed in the environmental activist organization he joined and raved about.  He also kept repeating stuff like “just because” and “dude” over and over again.  Like him, it was as if he was in the clouds mentally…

Comment #19: exholt  on  09/28  at  12:44 AM

I love how he doesn’t even bother trying to edit out all that horking and coughing before the monologue even starts.  That’s a real man!

Comment #20: Fiona  on  09/28  at  12:46 AM

This was far to sad for me.  I wanted to laugh, but honestly, I’ve never been the type to laugh at those people with mental disorders.

The scary part is I doubt he’s the only person supporting conservatives.  For every intelligent conservative, there’s 10 of these.

Comment #21: Antigone  on  09/28  at  01:35 AM

I’d always heard that walking stereotypes like this existed in the flesh and dwelt among us, but being from the northeast, I didn’t actually see hard evidence of that until the 2008 elections.

Hank Hill said it best: “That boy ain’t right.”

Comment #22: Keori  on  09/28  at  01:43 AM

That accent is drunken West Virginia.

Keori—

Come to think of it, our tobacco chewing friend in the video looks like a grown up, very white trash version of Bobby Hill.

Comment #23: Ben D.  on  09/28  at  01:54 AM

That accent is drunken West Virginia.

Just looked up his profile. He’s from rural Kentucky, not far outside of Bowling Green. Wish I had actually made a bet.

Comment #24: Chris MM  on  09/28  at  01:59 AM

Based on the accent and UncleMike’s observation about the Seroquel, I’d wager that he’s from LA like Babieca suggested or from southwest Mississippi.  Every doctor’s office I’ve seen in the past few years has a big sign that says they won’t write you Oxycontin unless you’re pretty much in hospice.  Now, all the rednecks around here are getting Seroquel.  Throw in the fact that he seems completely fried, I’d wager that’s the case.  He’s done been neckin’ with Susie-Q in da back of his pa’s Silberaydoe.

I actually feel bad for him.  He really needs genuine psychiatric intervention and, y’know, a higher-than-third-grade education.

Comment #25: Spooky Skeptic  on  09/28  at  02:10 AM

First thing he says is how he and the boys are “pretty fuckin’ pissed”.  Silly random fact: where I come from, pissed means drunk.

Comment #26: Fiona  on  09/28  at  02:29 AM

Um, you guys do know that lead in the drinking water is not good for your population, right?

Comment #27: Phoenician in a time of Romans  on  09/28  at  02:31 AM

Based on the accent and UncleMike’s observation about the Seroquel, I’d wager that he’s from LA like Babieca suggested or from southwest Mississippi.

Except that he’s from Kentucky. For anyone who’s spent any time in Kentucky (I lived there for 5 years), this would be obvious, as would the fact that it’s not anything like a Louisiana accent to anyone who’s spent time in Louisiana.

I wouldn’t harp on this, but being from the south, and having my accent mocked once I left the south to the point that I consciously got rid of it, I’m hyper-sensitive to both southern accents (and where there from) and people picking on those who have them.

Comment #28: Chris MM  on  09/28  at  02:35 AM

Ok, my turn to play amateur psychiatrist.  My first thought was: Asperger’s syndrome. All the mannerisms make me think he’s a high functioning autistic.  I don’t think the Seroquel would cause that, at least at the prescribed dosage.  Anyway, this guy needs treatment that he’s most likely not going to get.  That’s very sad

Comment #29: Ian  on  09/28  at  02:53 AM

Yeah, this is nutpicking. And while it’s demonstrative of a certain type—Paulite Aspergian solipsism meets rural Kentucky—I’m not sure it’s helpful.

Comment #30: pseudonymous in nc  on  09/28  at  03:32 AM

I wouldn’t harp on this, but being from the south, and having my accent mocked once I left the south to the point that I consciously got rid of it, I’m hyper-sensitive to both southern accents (and where there from) and people picking on those who have them.

Speaking for myself the accent wasn’t a factor.  Rather, his incoherence, seeming confusion, long pauses, and struggling to express thoughts more complex than “I’m pissed” made me wonder whether he was a stoner or otherwise someone who was very high/strung out on some drugs.  And incidentally, the college classmate he reminded me most of was from Southern California and a private school graduate with a stereotypical Californian Surfer accent to match….

He really needs genuine psychiatric intervention and, y’know, a higher-than-third-grade education.

Agree with the first.  Not sure, however, if it is necessarily a serious psychological problem that’s causing him to be as incoherent and “in the clouds” mentally. 

Also not sure about the education remark as if the incoherence is caused by being as high/strung out on drugs as he seems to be, then he’s unlikely to be interested/be in the right mental state to be receptive/interested in learning/being educated.  Though my undergrad had plenty of potheads, very few were so strung out that they were that incoherent or otherwise seemed seriously out of it.  The ones that were tend to not last very long in their budding undergrad careers.

Comment #31: exholt  on  09/28  at  04:15 AM

This video is both awesome and sad.

And that accent ain’t LA (I think we’ve established that already raspberry).

Comment #32: Gozer  on  09/28  at  06:45 AM

I’d just like to point out, as someone born, raised and currently living and working in West Virginia, that it’s really hard to tell with these kinds of accents anymore.  We have all kinds of different dialects around here these days, from clean midwestern to smooth southern drawl to thick Appalachian to unintelligible gibberish (really, it’s like a foreign language.)  His does sound like a stereotypical West Virginia “hollar” accent though, which is fairly common around here.

Comment #33: Svlad Jelly  on  09/28  at  08:32 AM

This MUST be a fake.

Comment #34: Uhura, The Black Gurl  on  09/28  at  10:35 AM

I’m not particularly fond of the new ban either because (while only an occasional, once-a-month smoker), this ban would prohibit the sale of clove cigarettes, which as an adult citizen I should be able to enjoy in the few places left to smoke (home, car). Of course, I could always roll my own but I highly doubt the children this ban is supposed to protect can afford $8+ per pack for these delightful little buggers.
However, this troll is just looking for an excuse to hate on Obama when it’s Congress he needs to be concerned about.

Comment #35: TheMadChild  on  09/28  at  10:47 AM

“This MUST be a fake.”

I know what you mean.  It sure seemed like that at first, but then I kept looking for obvious slipups, etc.  Didn’t see anything that stuck out as pure wrong.  I’d say 95% chance it’s real.

If it’s a fake, and it may very well be, that kid could become an actor along the lines of Billy Bob Thornton…

Comment #36: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  11:51 AM

He looks like an abortion. I don’t feel an whit of pity for him. These people scare me.

Comment #37: pitbullgirl65  on  09/28  at  12:10 PM

Please tell me this is brilliant, brilliant satire.

Comment #38: Greg  on  09/28  at  12:58 PM

I doubt it’s fake, and Kentucky sounds right. You see similar specimens by the dozen on any drive through trans-Appalachia, from southern Ohio and WV down to the northern fringes of SC and GA and west through TN and KY.

The video’s more a testimony to the ravages of poverty and poor education than anything of great political significance. We could go into an urban ghetto and find equally appalling affects, looks, and attitudes, and horrifying bigotry and ignorance, but it would it less politically correct to do so, let alone say things like “he looks like an abortion.”

Comment #39: wapsie  on  09/28  at  01:03 PM

This guy is a good arguement against social security.

Comment #40: sirkowski  on  09/28  at  01:05 PM

If I didn’t know any better, I’d thought he was stoned to the max.

What makes you know better? KY’s chief export crop is pot.

Comment #41: Well, what?  on  09/28  at  01:30 PM

He sounds drunk to me.  I think he probably had a few before he started taping himself.  His slurred speech patterns are more like alcohol than anything else.  I wouldn’t count on it being a satire either.  The north Georgia mountains are full of this type of guy, and I know parts of Kentucky and Indiana that are just as bad as the deep south.  I can’t tell a lot of difference in his accent and the accent prevalent in North Georgia.  Not all racists have southern accents though.  Some of the most dangerous ones don’t, in fact, and not all bigots are uneducated.  Check out some of the fraternities in the southern colleges, and some of their graduates in Congress.

Comment #42: G Porgey  on  09/28  at  03:01 PM

This inbred dope reminds me of a song from MST3K called “A Danger To Ourselves and Others” (sing along won’t you?):

Oh, I’m a danger to myself and others.
My cousins are as close as brothers.
I stay out in the rain all the time!

He’s a danger to himself and others.
Only likes shows with Sally Struthers.
I can’t even think of a word that rhymes.

How dumb are you Uncle-Dad?
Well pretty dumb, that’s for sure!
How dumb are you Uncle-Dad?
Well, this pipe’s filled with manure!

We’re a danger to ourselves and others.
Screw the earth and steal our mothers.
Leave us in the woods and we’re just fine.

We’re a danger to ourselves and others.
Good livestock with better lovers.
Hunting leeches is what we call a good time!

Also, for the record - can any of these “Impeach Obama” folk actually specify a “high crime and misdemeanor” versus the United States of which he’s guilty?

Comment #43: CHV  on  09/28  at  03:27 PM

He sounds drunk to me.  I think he probably had a few before he started taping himself.  His slurred speech patterns are more like alcohol than anything else.

He also exhibits the symptoms of the most stoned classmates I’ve had in undergrad who smoked one too many joints.  This possibility would still go well with your explanation above as unless my phamacology teacher in high school is off, Tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in weed is technically an alcohol.

Comment #44: exholt  on  09/28  at  03:35 PM

”...can any of these “Impeach Obama” folk actually specify a “high crime and misdemeanor” versus the United States of which he’s guilty?”

Bein’ a Negra and illeegly occupeye’in the White House…

Comment #45: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  03:37 PM

I’m not particularly fond of the new ban either because (while only an occasional, once-a-month smoker), this ban would prohibit the sale of clove cigarettes

Not that the ban doesn’t suck, but you can still likely buy clove cigarettes overseas and have them shipped.  If customs catches it, the worst that’ll happen is that the shipment will be seized and you’ll be out however much you paid for them.

Comment #46: keshmeshi  on  09/28  at  04:03 PM

but it would it less politically correct to do so, let alone say things like “he looks like an abortion.”
Cry more.

Comment #47: pitbullgirl65  on  09/28  at  04:42 PM

Why was the N-word the only word he could clearly pronounce?  I’m guessing practice, practice, practice.

Comment #48: drachonfire  on  09/28  at  04:46 PM

I may be from the South, but this particular dialect is, um, unfamiliar. Kentucky? West Virginia? Tennessee?

It’s pretty textbook Pan-Appalachian Oxycontin Fetal Alcohol Uncle-raped-the-dog.

Comment #49: tb  on  09/28  at  05:33 PM

Ahem. Sorry about that last part- the big shiny “BLASPHEME! BLASPHEEEME!” button always gets the better of me.

Comment #50: tb  on  09/28  at  05:34 PM

You know what, Pam? Screw you. And screw most of the people commenting on this post as well.

I hate to make these kinds of analogies, because they’re always flawed, but I’m not sure how else to put this. If this were an incoherent, rambling black man being mocked for ghetto speech patterns by a bunch of white folks, it would be fucked up. And here you’ve put up a not-so-shining example of one of my people to receive the same kind of treatment.

I am the sole person in my family doesn’t speak with a thick accent. Most of my family speaks Appalachian dialect. I used to practice because I was so ashamed of sounding like the holler trash I am one generation from being.

Comment #51: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/28  at  05:47 PM

hillbilly holler trash, perhaps if he wasn’t spewing racist crap it might be easier to tolerate his accent.

As it is, it’s really difficult to make heads-or-tails from the rambling show he put on.

And, let us not forget, supposedly this nimrod put this on the Internet for all to see.  This wasn’t some hidden camera thing.  He wanted people to see this. 

Fair game, I says…

Comment #52: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  05:54 PM

Fine. The next time Kanye says something stupid on tv or the internets, then all of us benighted hillbillies should start posting pics of chicken and watermelon and giggling over how inarticulate he is. Bonus points if we’re all she-hillbillies and he starts spewing sexist crap, because we clearly shouldn’t be expected to tolerate his blackcent when he is saying something offensive.

Comment #53: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/28  at  05:59 PM

“The next time Kanye says something stupid on tv or the internets, then all of us benighted hillbillies should start posting pics of chicken and watermelon and giggling over how inarticulate he is.”

...which would be a change how?  Obama gets that crap all the time and he speaks perfectly.  As it is half the Republican Party doesn’t think he’s really an American.

And why “chicken and watermelon”?  What’s up with that? 

Obama called Kanye a jackass.  That was perfect.  No racism intended.  But you want to go to “chicken and watermelon”?...

Comment #54: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  06:07 PM

As my previous comments suggest, I agree with hillbilly for the most part. Some of the comments in this thread are pretty disgraceful, coming from “progressives,” particularly those making fun of the way he talks, suggesting he’s inbred, and playing on any of the other stereotypes of southerners. It’s pretty disturbing.

I don’t think he’s fair game simply because he posted this on the internet, either. I mean, you can mock his views all you want, point out that he’s obviously ignorant (stupid is another issue; I’m not sure he isn’t, but you couldn’t tell from this video anyway) of, say, politics, history, race, the FDA (and the FDA’s current flavored cigarette ban), and spelling. But most of the commenters haven’t been doing that. He’s pretty clearly uneducated, and his surrounding suggest he’s anything but rich by American standards. Another commenter has indicated that there’s concrete evidence that he’s mentally ill, and bipolar is definitely nothing to laugh at, especially if you’ve ever seen up close how it can affect someone. He’s the sort of person progressives should want to help, not to insult for his accent, where he’s from, etc. I don’t mean helping him specifically, but helping the type of person who’s likely to be fucked over the world the way this guy obviously has.

I don’t, however, think that hillbilly’s comparison of making fun of this guy for his accent to making fun of black people for speaking Ebonics. This guy may be a member of a particular segment of white culture that’s gotten the short end of the economic, educational, and cultural stick, as far as white people go, but he’s still white, and his experience is hardly comparable to that of members of an oppressed minority who’re members of the segment of that minority group that’s gotten the short end of the economic, educational, and cultural stick. The difference is one of gross elitism and gross racism. Elitism sucks, but by itself, racism it ain’t.

Comment #55: Chris MM  on  09/28  at  06:08 PM

Chris MM—As I said, these comparisons are always flawed. However, as an Appalachian, I AM a minority. It’s a weird place to be, as I read visibly and instantly as white, but I am still a member of a historically marginalized and oppressed group. Hell, my aunt got a full ride to Howard University on a minority scholarship based on her being Appalachian. Search “Appalachian minority” on google to get started, if you’re interested. It’s entirely too facile to dismiss this as a “segment of white culture.”

MikeEss—If the “progressives” want to behave like they people they rail against, then your argument is A++. Also, Oxycontin and incest comments are to my folk what fried chicken and watermelon comments are to black folks.

Comment #56: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/28  at  06:15 PM

hillbilly, how would you have me react?

This isn’t Jay Leno talking to some people on the street who don’t know who the president is.  This is a kid who wants to express his racist views, and not privately, but in the biggest public forum on earth.

And yet he’s so impaired, for whatever reason, that he rambles through the thing and merely makes an ass of himself. 

You’re right, I don’t know about his home life, I don’t know his background, I don’t know what, if any, his medical problems are.

But I do know he hates Obama enough to call him a n****r, and then spew his racist shit for everyone to see…

Comment #57: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  06:25 PM

Hillbilly, no need, I lived in Lexington for 5 years. I had several friends from Eastern Kentucky, including my roommate of 2 years. Plus, I had a boss from Hazard who, aside from being completely insane (he once carried 2 nine mm handguns onto a chartered plane, ‘cause he was afraid there were a lot of crazy people in Germantown, TN), loved to tell stories about the people back home. That’s why I recognized this guy’s accent right off the bat. I definitely understand how Appalaichan people have been treated, particularly in the last century. And as someone who’s also been made fun of for his Middle Tennessee accent, I understand what it’s like to be mocked for an accent and where you’re from.

Still, elitism ain’t racism. People look down on Appalaicha. People beat down on black people. As Chris Rock once put it, equality would mean black people could fail like white people can.

Comment #58: Chris MM  on  09/28  at  06:27 PM

BTW, not that it matters, but I was raised poor and white.  Granted, this was California, but it wasn’t on the coast.  We lived in the heart(s) of California’s poor white trashiness, and believe me there’s plenty…

Comment #59: MikeEss  on  09/28  at  06:29 PM

Oxycontin and incest comments are to my folk what fried chicken and watermelon comments are to black folks.

Well, since they’re my “folk” too, I guess that makes me, what, a house negro? Or maybe - better! - a Chappelian black-white supremacist!

Incidentally, even though my grandparents got the hell out of Arkansas 100 years ago, there’s still a town there known by the family name, and largely populated by my relatives. I don’t know how that happens if people aren’t marrying their cousins.

Comment #60: tb  on  09/28  at  06:39 PM

Chris—I feel like we’re talking parallels, here. Yes, I know there is a difference, but there’s just enough similarity. And it’s yet another thing that makes me feel completely alienated by progressive circles.

MikeEss, how would I have you react? I’d have you (more of a generic you than you specifically) criticize what he is saying without resorting to another round of “let’s mock the inbred hillbilly.” And, no, it doesn’t make any difference that you were raised poor and white. There is a unique culture to Appalachia and it isn’t just being poor and white.

Comment #61: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/28  at  06:42 PM

Still, elitism ain’t racism. People look down on Appalaicha. People beat down on black people.
I’m up in Northern New York and there are people like him up here too. People just don’t beat down on black people: they’ve been hung, burned alive, raped, had their land taken from them et al. And it is also other people of color that have been terrorized by the likes of what’s his name up there.
You can be poor and white and still not be an ignorant racist fucktard. Some of the roughest looking and living people up here have also turned out to be some of the wiser and nicer people I’ve met. If this was some WASP on there, I’d be bashing them just as hard.
Comparing a black person speaking Ebonics to this guy? Sounds like you’re playing the Oppression Olympics 101.

Comment #62: pitbullgirl65  on  09/28  at  07:11 PM

Also, Oxycontin and incest comments are to my folk what fried chicken and watermelon comments are to black folks.
http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/coon/ So your people have a 400 year history of slavery, lynching, having to bow down to black people? Give me a break.

Comment #63: pitbullgirl65  on  09/28  at  07:31 PM

pitbullgirl65—Again, I acknowledge that the comparisons aren’t perfect, but I don’t think that they’re meritless. But, seriously, it’s fucked up that I have to justify my minority status to you. My people are the only group of US citizens who were bombed by our own military and I have ancestors up on Blair Mountain. Or, rather, I will until it undergoes mountain top removal.

Oppression Olympics. Whatever. Sounds like you’re the one who wants me to jump through hoops, here. Do you know anything about the history of the area at all? About the (illegal) land seizures and miners being burned alive, frozen, forced at gunpoint to labor for no wages?

That dude is a dipshit, but he isn’t only being mocked for his dipshittery and that’s really fucking obvious.

Comment #64: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/28  at  09:45 PM

Folks, there isn’t one “southern accent”. I have a kind of southern accent, and I sound very little likr this guys. Kind of like how someone from Wisconsin and a New Yorker don’t sound much alike.

Think of the difference between how this guy talks, how Jimmy Carter talks, and how Bill Clinton talks. They’re all “southern” accents, but they sound very different.

Comment #65: Ben D.  on  09/28  at  11:51 PM

Taters!

Comment #66: ice weasel  on  09/29  at  12:57 AM

i say we all have just a great big “pity party” for ol’ hillbilly holler trash, maybe he’ll stop his self-pitying whine. geez dude, you’re getting the place all wet.

“That dude is a dipshit, but he isn’t only being mocked for his dipshittery and that’s really fucking obvious.”

yes, he is. frankly, so are you.


but serially folks, when i first chanced upon this vid, and a couple of his others (yes, i too am a masochist), my first thought was, “the boy is clearly brain damaged”. turns out, that was my second and third thoughts as well. prove me wrong.

my problem wasn’t so much with his accent (we have one here, called a “spotsyltucky. nearly impossible to understand, unless you’re native to that county in va), but with his nearly complete lack of coherency. talking with your mouth closed doesn’t help either.

Comment #67: cpinva  on  09/29  at  01:15 AM

Mocking this man leaves a horrible taste in my mouth.  Yes, he’s racist.  He is also uneducated, mentally ill and doomed to live and die as a minimum wage earner- if he’s that lucky.  Like it or not, he’s the guy we’re (well, at least I’m) fighting for when we try to get the public option shoved through congress.

I prefer my targets of scorn to be a little better able to defend themselves, thank you very much.

Comment #68: puggins  on  09/29  at  01:22 AM

cpvina: Eat a dick. Also, I’m female.

Comment #69: hillbilly holler trash  on  09/29  at  01:41 AM

We lived in the heart(s) of California’s poor white trashiness, and believe me there’s plenty…

I met an older gentleman a while back who told me about getting into fights because he was called an “Okie”, it seems hard to imagine even when one grew up in the southern San Joaquin Valley since the early ‘60s.

H. L. Mencken talked about this kind of political thinker more than 80 years ago:

Next time you’re watching coverage of the anti-Obama “birther” movement, the health care reform “town hall” brawls, or the latest outrageous comments by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, etc., consider what H.L. Mencken wrote in 1923: “The Anglo-Saxon American[‘s] history is a history of recurrent outbreaks of blind rage against peoples who have begun to worst him. . . . Theoretically launched against some imaginary inferiority in the non-Anglo-Saxon man, either as patriot, as democrat or as Christian, they are actually launched at his general superiority, his greater fitness to survive in the national environment. The effort is always to penalize him for winning in fair fight, to handicap him in such a manner that he will sink to the general level of the Anglo-Saxon population and, if possible, even below it.

“Such devices, of course, never have the countenance of the Anglo-Saxon minority that is authentically superior, and hence self-confident and tolerant. But that minority is pathetically small, and it tends steadily to grow smaller and feebler. The communal laws and the communal mores are made by the folk, and they offer all the proof that is necessary, not only of its general inferiority, but also of its alarmed awareness of that inferiority. The normal American of the ‘pure-blooded’ majority goes to rest every night with an uneasy feeling that there is a burglar under the bed, and he gets up every morning with a sickening fear that his underwear has been stolen. . . .

“His political ideas are crude and shallow. He is almost wholly devoid of esthetic feeling. The most elementary facts about the visible universe alarm him, and incite him to put them down. Educate him, make a professor of him, teach him how to express his soul, and he still remains palpably third-rate. He fears ideas almost more cravenly than he fears men.”

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Comment #70: Dark Avenger Guardian Chow Mein  on  09/29  at  11:28 AM

Dark Avenger, that was great!...

Comment #71: MikeEss  on  09/29  at  11:35 AM

But, seriously, it’s fucked up that I have to justify my minority status to you.
You don’t have to justify anything to me to be frank. I’m qualified as a minority because part Latina, even though I look German.
You know, I wouldn’t have mocked his looks if what didn’t come out of his mouth was so vile. Also telling Pam screw you was a bit out of line. Pam is a black lesbian: this man and his ilk would either rape her or kill her. BTW I fully agree with you on the mountian top removal. Once again the poor get screwed over for some fat cat corperation.

Comment #72: pitbullgirl65  on  09/29  at  03:19 PM
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