Ben Jones, the actor/congressman/souvenir vendor who played Cooter on the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard says that the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard feature film is a "sleazy insult" that "trashed" the original "family-friendly" show with profanity and sexual innuendo.
So let's get this straight: A TV show whose two heroes are jobless, retro-confederate cousins who drive around recklessly all day, evading police and shooting dynamite-tipped arrows, pausing usually only to stop at their favorite bar, is "family-friendly."
Those same people flirting, winking and saying 'sh*t' a few times is sleazy.
So declares a man famous for playing a character whose name is slang for female genitalia.
Gotta love them family values.
On to the next thing . . .
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2 comments:
1. ignore the paris hilton thing. it's a long story involving some moron who was spamming my site.
2. it was Global Research in International Affairs Center.
3. you're absolutely right. i should have mentioned it.
4. i left out the chatham house report because i thought the things that i actually did cite would be more compelling to american readers. the chatham house report is about the uk's policies putting the uk at increased terrorist risk.
coincidentally, it was a radio interview with someone from Chatham House (can't remember his name, but the program was KCRW radio's To The Point) that actually made me jot down the idea for the column in the first place.
5. i not only know of the chatham house report, but i've read it. thrilling stuff!
http://www.riia.org/pdf/research/niis/BPsecurity.pdf
6. Respectfully? More like "sarcastically," but who am I to complain about sarcasm, right?
I read each of the articles you named, along with many others. And I did actually go to the Boston Globe piece from a link in Tom Regan's article. However, I'd already read the Chatham House report and the Terry Neal column quoting Stephen Flynn before I found the Regan piece.
Let's continue this by e-mail. If you want to write a letter expressing your concerns about how my column credits sources, I'll happily run it on this site. It's an important topic.
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