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Warner Bros. Removing Confederate Flag From ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Car
Screen Crush ^ | 8/27/12 | Mike Sampson

Posted on 08/30/2012 2:37:55 PM PDT by Teflonic

The General Lee – Bo and Luke Duke’s vehicle of choice from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard‘ – is a classic and instantly recognizable Hollywood car. But it’s about to get a little less recognizable as Warner Bros., the studio that owns the theatrical, DVD and licensing rights to ‘The Dukes of Hazzard,’ has decided to remove the confederate flag from all future versions of the car.

The news has reportedly been floating around the hobby community over the past few days as ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ collectors became aware of a new regulation. A collector on HobbyTalk.com was told by a representative at ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ toy company Tomy:

Starting January 1, 2013 all Dukes of Hazzard General Lee vehicles will not be allowed to be produced with the Confederate Flag on the top of the vehicle.

According to the toy rep, the word came directly from Warner Bros. who no longer wants to endorse an item that has the Confederate flag printed on it.

As of now, this directive only expressly includes merchandising but Warner Bros. is developing a new ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ movie with Jody Hill directing and if they’re being this strict about licensing issues, they could very well enforce the same policy with the upcoming film. But what is a ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ property without the General Lee with the flag painted on top?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: boycotttimewarner; confederateflag; dixie; dukesofhazzard; hazzard; hollywood; hollywoodreds; lavendermafia; politicalcorrectness; purge; rebelflag; revisionisthistory; timelieswarnerturner; warnerbrothers; wb; wussification
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To: Teflonic

Joke she would be more appropriate for Godzilla


41 posted on 08/30/2012 3:43:38 PM PDT by katiedidit1
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To: Teflonic; All
When I heard this I thought it was an Onion parody.

Warner Bros. now denies they plan to remove the flag

42 posted on 08/30/2012 3:44:07 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 68 days away.)
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To: Pollster1

OK, the choice of car is...nevermind, I LOVE IT!!! That took some guts.


43 posted on 08/30/2012 3:45:43 PM PDT by CodeToad (Be Prepared...They Are.)
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To: Teflonic

dig, dig, dig There’s that timing again. Ah, who’s racist? (The original show was actually a parody of Southerners to begin with, anyway.
We were just too guileless to see it.)

Bless their hearts.


44 posted on 08/30/2012 3:48:39 PM PDT by KGeorge
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To: max americana
Maybe the General Benedict Arnold..

Or the General Screw Up.


45 posted on 08/30/2012 3:49:06 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: Teflonic

What would ol’ Jack Warner say? Didn’t he back LBJ in 1964?


46 posted on 08/30/2012 3:51:14 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Past is prologue: The American people have again let us down in this election cycle.)
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To: Teflonic

What would ol’ Jack Warner say? Didn’t he back LBJ in 1964?


47 posted on 08/30/2012 3:51:32 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Past is prologue: The American people have again let us down in this election cycle.)
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To: freedumb2003

stupidity at it’s finest.

I have a confedrate flag flying in my front garden and on my car but to remove this is absurd.

The new movie can piss off too as I’m concerned.

What gets me is that the people who are pissed off with the rebel flag are the white elitist liberals.
I go to boxing fights and train fighters and on my vehicle there is a confedrate flag and I take those fighters to their fights and guess what.

None of the blacks have a problem with it infact they get a kick out of it and actually fly the flag, ne actually bought shorts with a flag on it for a fight and the looks he got from some white elitist types was priceless


48 posted on 08/30/2012 3:54:15 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Teflonic

They should keep the Stars and Bars on it and overlay the Jolly Roger on top of that.


49 posted on 08/30/2012 3:55:01 PM PDT by familyop ("Wanna cigarette? You're never too young to start." --Deacon, "Waterworld")
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To: Pollster1

LOL LOL LOL THAT IS FUNNY

after a crap day that made me laugh , truth is that it would not surprise me today.


50 posted on 08/30/2012 3:57:05 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Teflonic
FUWB.
51 posted on 08/30/2012 4:00:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Snickering Hound

someone actually did that to their car???


52 posted on 08/30/2012 4:01:02 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: max americana
Oh lemme guess, they’re gonna fag up the General Lee and put a rainbow flag on top of it.

Nah that would be trademark infringement:

Besides Jeff would throw a hissy fit...

53 posted on 08/30/2012 4:09:24 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Pollster1

Wow, make the best of a bad thing. I’d drive it. In the DOH movie, they don’t notice the flag until they’re stuck on the freeway and one chick says,”Are you guys late for your klan ralley” and a trucker blasts his horn and says the South will rise again. Then they slide out and see the flag. It’s actually pretty funny.

I’d rather see that than the rainbow homo flag.


54 posted on 08/30/2012 4:27:47 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: Molon Labbie
Well, if the libs have their way, the real General Lee, along with other famous Southern general will lumped in with the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and other various and sundry genocidal maniacs.

Well they did take down a stature of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA of all places. Replace it with a stature of the tennis player, Arthur Ashe because they wanted 'diversity'.

55 posted on 08/30/2012 4:28:41 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Molon Labbie
Well, if the libs have their way, the real General Lee, along with other famous Southern general will lumped in with the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and other various and sundry genocidal maniacs.

Well they did take down a stature of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA of all places. Replaced it with a stature of the tennis player, Arthur Ashe because they wanted 'diversity'.

56 posted on 08/30/2012 4:29:08 PM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Teflonic

You take the flag off and you’ve got an orange car. Whoopee.


57 posted on 08/30/2012 4:39:06 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Tallguy
Well they did take down a stature of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA of all places. Replaced it with a stature of the tennis player, Arthur Ashe because they wanted 'diversity'.

No. They didn't take down Lee's statue. They added a statue of Ashe to the other statues that stand on Monument Avenue.

This is something you don't want to be wrong about when it's so easy to get the facts and be right.

58 posted on 08/30/2012 4:44:28 PM PDT by x
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To: al_c

To be fair, General Sherman went through Atlanta a whole lot faster than the Duke boys ever did.


59 posted on 08/30/2012 4:44:34 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Tallguy

I remember that happening or at least the talk of it when I lived in Richmond


60 posted on 08/30/2012 4:55:40 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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