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Cooter' from "The Dukes of Hazzard" weighs in on Confederate flag discussion
WVLT ^ | Jun 23, 2015 | Kyle Warnke

Posted on 06/23/2015 9:34:30 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Cooter from the hit TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard", weighed in on the Confederate flag discussion, saying he will not change a thing with his business and will continue to sell Confederate flags.

The story has been trending nation-wide in light of last week's tragedy in Charleston where nine people were shot and killed inside a church. Since the accused killer, Dylan Roof, was allegedly seen on a web page holding a Confederate flag, the debate over the true meaning of the flag has been thrown into question.

Ben Jones, who played 'Cooter' on The Dukes of Hazzard and currently owns Cooter's Place in Gatlinburg, said the flag's original meaning is not one of hatred and supremacy.

"This is an American symbol of independence, of rebellion, yes, but of a spirit also of a nation a country, a region, the south that pulled itself back up from total destruction," Jones said.

Jones then went deeper and said he despises anyone who doesn't see the flag as a positive symbol of American history and uses the flag as a tool of race superiority. He said his stores will continue to sell the Confederate flag, and Confederate flag merchandise, because he knows his stores represent what the flag truly stands for.

"We're not going to change a thing at Cooter's. Ever. We know who we are, we're good people, we're not racist. We love everybody and we see that symbol as very, very positive. And we despise people who don't. I despise people who use those symbols for racist or white supremacist purposes," Jones said.


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To: Berlin_Freeper

21 posted on 06/24/2015 4:10:08 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Heard that in real time. Ben Jones rocked and left the reporterette sputtering


22 posted on 06/24/2015 4:25:15 AM PDT by don-o (I am Kenneth Carlisle - Waco 5/17/15)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I had an orange cat named Cooter back around 1990. Smart, beautiful, and a total love bug.


23 posted on 06/24/2015 4:29:11 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: RginTN
no, its a Confederate symbol of independence. Its an emblem which represents the Conferate States of America not the United States of America.

It is actually the Battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia, specifically General Robert E. Lee.

The Confederacy had three official flags, none of them was the "Stars and bars."

24 posted on 06/24/2015 4:39:45 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playng chess with pigeons.)
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To: RginTN

“no, its a Confederate symbol of independence. Its an emblem which represents the Conferate States of America not the United States of America.”

Seriously?! BS! Nowadays, 99% of the time it is just a symbol of a ‘redneck good ole southern country boy/girl’ thing. All this crap about it is just more attempts to jin up division in this country and take away people’s freedom of speech and expression.


25 posted on 06/24/2015 4:41:13 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Berlin_Freeper

There are a couple of rappers that use the Confederate flag. Google rap and confederate flag.


26 posted on 06/24/2015 4:49:02 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: MagnoliaB
Seriously?! BS! Nowadays, 99% of the time it is just a symbol of a ‘redneck good ole southern country boy/girl’ thing. All this crap about it is just more attempts to jin up division in this country and take away people’s freedom of speech and expression.

The quality of Freepers is down I see.

27 posted on 06/24/2015 4:50:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

28 posted on 06/24/2015 4:51:46 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: OttawaFreeper
"Now, the DVD releases have the later theme plastered onto it because of potential copyright infringement issues with the Bill Haley song. “WKRP in Cincinnati” episodes are now edited for the same reason."

That all come about from the issue of a series being pre full blown digital revolution.

See when Happy Days and WKRP and Northern Exposure first aired the issue of selling Video Tapes etc. of TV series was not a fully developed business model for the networks. So when music rights were negotiated they only worried about "Performance Rights" and using a Mechanical Production inside another Mechanical Production (using a song as part of a movie or TV series Video Tape.) was still not used much and most that were were usually theme songs that the show makers held all the rights to.

Now Performance rights are very straight forward. As long as I pay the fee to a performing rights organization OR directly to the people who hold the performance rights in case the are unaffiliated with a PRO then I can use it for a public performance like a radio Broadcast or a TV show broadcast etc. At least that was how it worked before we got DVR and On Demand. Now the Mechanical Rights must be cleared first.

But see Mechanical Rights are much different. If I hold the mechanical rights to a piece I can stop you from using it in a new Mechanical piece. This was set in stone in the "Sampling law suits"

Now you cannot use a nanosecond of a recording of previous mechanical piece without clearing it first.

So the reason those older shows don't have the mucis in them is either because they don't want it in there OR the people putting out the DVDs etc of the show are not willing to pay the huge fees most of those mechanical Rights holders want

29 posted on 06/24/2015 5:06:37 AM 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: Mad Dawgg

Thanks. I was aware of issues of that nature and certainly I do not dispute the things you discuss. Forgive me, I tend to be something of a TV historian/purist and I prefer shows to be sold or broadcasted in their original format. For example, Paramount Pictures should have (while he was still alive) found a way to have reproduced “Star Trek-The Cage” with Malachi Throne’s original voice as the Keeper when a second colour negative was discovered (Gene Roddenberry gave his one and only full original, colour copy to NBC to chop up to produce “The Menagerie” two parter in which Throne’s voice was changed to the familiar sound), so Trek fans could see “The Cage” as it originally looked and sounded to the first test audiences.


30 posted on 06/24/2015 5:38:02 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I love cooter. :-)


31 posted on 06/24/2015 5:39:33 AM PDT by ItsOurTimeNow (Cleganebowl 2016 - GET HYPE!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We had 10s of thousands die under that flag, it should be respected for the blood that was sacrificed for it.

I hear quotes all the time that the people who died under it, died to defend slavery based on the pronouncements of a few political elites.

The liberals who believe that would have to believe that every wacky thing that a President says is representative of every public employee and everyone in the Military as well.


32 posted on 06/24/2015 5:42:46 AM PDT by dila813
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To: central_va

Seriously. In this country today, most of the youth don’t even know who the vice president is, much less associate the confederate flag with racism. It’s more like....

“Got my rebel flag!....I’m a rebel boy!...And I’m gonna run this truck through a MUD BOG!!!! YEEEEEEHAWWWWW!!!!!! Can you hold ma beer for me?!”


33 posted on 06/24/2015 6:06:50 AM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I think I’m in love.....


34 posted on 06/24/2015 7:13:42 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Luke21

I bet they would run out of “bleeps” if they were to televise Blazing Saddles.


35 posted on 06/24/2015 9:15:31 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: Luke21

#12 You can still watch “Man From Uncle” shows on ME-TV on Sundays. The camera will be looking at the main actor talking then switch over in mid sentence to a shapely women walking by..... Ah the good old days.


36 posted on 06/24/2015 11:17:30 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Now the discussion is complete...


37 posted on 06/24/2015 11:18:19 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: RginTN

I imagine the Brits would be just as disdainful of the American flag if they’d won the war.


38 posted on 06/24/2015 11:19:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: rfreedom4u

Interesting enough, Blazing Saddles was on one of my DirecTv channels a few weeks ago and I recorded it. Ever n* was there. Every single one.


39 posted on 06/24/2015 5:38:54 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

Ever n*


Every near?


40 posted on 06/24/2015 5:40:52 PM PDT by OwenKellogg (CRUZ to Victory! Donate at tedcruz.org)
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