To start off I don't think this old show was particularly great but it anchored my Friday night tv schedule when I was growing up. I remember it well, Dad and Mom would come home from food shopping and Dad would give us a box of Devil Dogs but Mom would say go eat an orange. So TV Land is yanking the show because of the whole Confederate flag controversy which wouldn't be that much of a controversy had that young Aryan racist not shot up that black prayer meeting. Wondering does Katy Perry now have to tweak her hit song "California Gurls" because it includes a line about Daisy Duke bikinis?
The Duke boys sure went through a lot of Dodge Chargers .
ReplyDeleteBeen sort of a Dodge guy myself; couple years back, I started through a red light
on some wet gravel and the low geared Ram 1500 pick up threw gravel all over
the intersection. Sure enough, the flashing lights of the Law pulled me over.
"Where you going in such a hurry?" "Oh, up to McDonalds for breakfast". I handed
my docs down to the young cop and he says "You're really old to be peeling out, Mr."
I cooked up an explanation that the clutch slipped because my old leg came off, he
bought it and I got off with a warning. If it would have been an orange Charger with
a Confederate roof, I'd probably still be serving time, ya know?
When I first found out about the number of '69 Dodge Chargers being destroyed for the show I was quite heartbroken. THAT always bothered me far more than the roof of the car.
DeleteI get the decision of various statehouses to drop the flag but it should end there. Now the goal seems to purge all references and symbols to it like in entertainment and toys. No only is this wrong from a freedom standpoint but this whole purgative process has to be time-consuming and annoying as hell. It'd be like if Patrick M suddenly felt the need to delete all f-words and other profanities from his blogs.
ReplyDeletepatrick m still blogs?
ReplyDeleteActually I don't know as I haven't been over there in a while. Maybe BB can report back to us.
DeleteI agree on the overkill on the rebel flag. One of my hobbies involves Civil War miniatures and I use plenty of confederate flags; you see the same with guys that do WWII with the miniature Nazi emblems. Not a political
Deletestatement, but a historical one, and much as some would like, you cannot
change history. Patrick M apparently switched media, if he is still active...his was a blog best glanced at and not commented at.
That was a great last sentence. If you commented you were likely to be the recipient of some sarcastic karare dart from behind some bush. Like when you pet a cat and he slashes you for no reason.
DeleteRe the flag... and I'll admit this will be a little incendiary...
ReplyDeleteIn light of people going apoplectic about the name Redskins for the Washington football team being offensive, is it out of line to think the American flag would be offensive to native Americans?
After all, they were massacred and subjugated under the authority of that flag.
Why is it just to remove the Confederate flag, because blacks rightly feel offended by what that flag represents and not also just to remove the American flag because native Americans feel offended what the genocide that flag represents?
just askin...
& I was wondering about "Hogan's Heroes", does that make light of the Nazis and what about that Mel Brooks thing?
DeleteKind of surprising, NASCAR asking that the rebel flag not be shown. Next
Deletething ya know they will ban Billy Bub Beer.
Why don't we separate the South from the rest of the nation and be done with it? Forced secession call it.
DeleteBB... you ever drink Billy Beer?
ReplyDeleteNo Dave, I've had some microbrews with odd names. In hindsight, though
DeleteI should have bought a case back in the day. Almost as good as Google stock.
A sidelight on the Dukes of Hazzard' - Sorell Booke who played the crooked inept
ReplyDeleteBoss Hogg, was actually quite educated:
"Booke was born in Buffalo, New York, a cousin of Max Yasgur of Woodstock fame. Fluent in five languages including Russian and Japanese, Booke earned degrees from both Columbia and Yale universities. He served in the Korean War as a counterintelligence officer" He died of colorectal cancer at 69, and no, Z-Man,
I'm not pushing colonoscopies.
With such an education how did he wind up on such a show? Translating for the UN didn't interest him?
DeleteSince NASCAR has gone all pc are they gonna go with the rainbow flag instead?
ReplyDeleteBB... "I'm not pushing colonoscopies"
ReplyDeleteGreat line...
BB has alot of good lines lately. The pat m blog is better glanced at than commented at, he encapsulated something I had trouble expressing but there it is.
DeleteReflections on Independence Day in the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteA collection of great quotes and a Happy Independence Day!
DeleteThe Che Guevarra shirt/logo is an emblem of much more real, recent atrocity. The man who brought death and/or misery to hundreds of thousands in Latin America.
ReplyDelete"Dukes" is such an innocuous show.
'Dukes' strikes me as another of the genre "Gone With The Wind", "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" and "In The Heat of the Night" flicks, only for laughs. The flag on the Charger in that instance stood only to identify the rural southern locale. Best left
ReplyDeletealone, IMO.
Speaking of "Gone With the Wind" Lou Lumenick movie critic of the NY Post now wants to ban it. Frankly Lou...
ReplyDeleteSo wonderful when a NEWSPAPER demands censorship, isn't it?
DeleteIMO re: confederate flag, the initial response that it be removed as a state gov't
ReplyDeleteitem flown in public places like capitals and other gov't buildings, made sense in
that it was offensive to blacks in particular and others as well, representing the
dark side of the past, which continued to offend and irritate. That said, its possession, sale and purchase by individuals is a stretch, while banning Dukes,
toys and Gone With The Wind borders on the ridiculous.
Pretty much complete agreement, BB.
DeleteIn the "what goes around" department, Univision, NBC, TelaVision, OraTV, Macy's, ESPN, NASCAR, Serta and the PGA haved dumped Trump. The inventor of
ReplyDelete'You're Fired!' is told "You're Fired!" The trumped-up Trump has been trumped?
Is AAA next? Got my latest magazine issue yesterday and in it they award Trump five stars for his SoHo hotel. Of course that was before his latest quotable.
DeleteThere is and has been far more oppression and slavery under the current stars and stripes than there ever was under the stars and bars.
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