… they were told “turn the channel!” …
The latest victim of the growing controversy over the Confederate flag is the 1980s TV series “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
A TV Land spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that the network has pulled reruns of the series from its schedule, which had been airing twice a day.
The network declined to comment on why the episodes were removed, but the South-set show has come under fire recently for its use of the Confederate flag, which is emblazoned on the roof of the Duke Boys’ signature 1969 orange Dodge Charger.
Are there any Big Businessmen in The United State who are not Rank Cowards?
It is the Mid-Level and Small Businessmen who are the only ones who are worth spending any time considering as allies in our fight to emerge from under the rubble.
I demand that they ban Hogan’s Heroes. All those Swastikas and Nazi flags are offensive. Every right-thinker agrees that Nazis are bad, right?
Surely someone has an angle on the banning . . .
I’m so old I remember…
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Shut up, oatmeal.
Just because the Dukes claim to be “gool ‘ole boys never meaning no harm” doesn’t mean they aren’t unconsciously creating harm. Because disparate impact.
Also, “boy”? I can’t say for certain that’s a racist dog whistle, but given its proximity to the Stars and Bars on the top of the General Lee, I’m pretty sure a reasonable man, given the right context, could hear it that way and would be perhaps rightfully offended.
Though I’m not sure.
READER POLL!
the mountain may not get them but, the mob certainly will
If they’d had the Stars And Bars on the General Lee no one on the other side of the TV would have known what the hell it was. At best they’d have thought it was a bad try at the Georgia Flag (not, not the one Putin wants in his driveway) buried deep in the guts of flyover country.
And it would be weird anyway since Hazard County was supposed to be in Kentucky, which isn’t Georgia, and since Kentucky never seceded or joined the Confederacy. It DID ask to not be used as a base of operations for the Northern Army so it could avoid combat, which is form of qualified neutrality rather than full loyalty.
Boss Hogg wore white suits on account of how whitey white he was.
I rest my case.
Also #TVLandApprovedShows
I thought the joke with the white suit was that in a land where virtually any quasi-philanthropic business-man, even a non resident, can be deemed a Kentucky Colonel by acclamation of the Governor or Secretary of State, Boss Hogg wasn’t so honored due to his being a crooked kiss ass, a snake, and a rat, yet he still tried to put on airs with a white suit hoping tourists at least would mistake him for a member of that honorable order of service.
Back in the day he ran shine with Jesse before politics and under the table deal cutting turned him into a fake pillar of the community.
The ironic thing about “Hogan’s”, if they ever do sacrifice it to PC, is that Klink, Schultz and Burkhalter were played by Jewish refugees from the Nazis, and Lebeau was played by an genuine Buchenwald alum.
Somewhat related, Werner Klemperer refused to play the part of Colonel Klink unless he was portrayed as a buffoon.
Them there Hogan’s Jews were suffering from that there ‘False Consciousness’.