Posted on 07/09/2020 11:15:33 AM PDT by C19fan
Dukes of Hazzard co-stars John Schneider and Tom Wopat addressed the long-time controversy over the show's iconic General Lee car, saying political correctness has gone too far as protests mount over the Confederate flag that the famed vehicle features prominently on its roof. Both stars defended the customized 1969 Dodge Charger used in the hit action and comedy show about cousins Bo and Luke Duke, former moonshiners who live in rural Georgia.
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I recall one of the more popular country music groups in the early ‘90s was Confederate Railroad. Nobody seemed to make accusations about them being racist or their group’s name having racist connotations.
Anyone who wants The Dukes of Hazzard to be censored is a dipstick.
“I recall one of the more popular country music groups in the early 90s was Confederate Railroad. Nobody seemed to make accusations about them being racist or their groups name having racist connotations.”
Actually, Governor Pritzger took advantage of a virtue-signalling opportunity to cancel an appearance by them at the state fair, IIRC. This was very recently, though.
I remember back in the mid 1990s when the old Nashville Network (TNN) brought back the Dukes of Hazzard show and that was the first time in more than ten years I had watched episodes. And it was done to promote the new show “Prime Time Country” as Tom Wopat was the first host of that program (believe that that show was a replacement for Ralph Emery’s “Nashville Now”). Oddly enough though, Wopat left Prime Time Country not long after it started, but TNN kept showing the Dukes for that few years afterward (until the network went out of business).
There’s a episode of Counting Cars where the customer orders a General Lee clone but opts to have the Stars and Stripes on top instead of the Stars and Bars.
The show sucked in 1979. It had nothing to do with the flag.
My wife and I were laughing about that the other day. We were saying, Damn boy, some old lady yelled at him!
OMG!
The left must be doing the pee dance in their skinny jeans and yoga pants. Just look at all the crimes the General Lee is charged with.
Orange Man Bad....Orange Car worse
Confederate flag on roof
Big honking V8 Detroit Iron...ozone layer and environment killer!
Southron White Boy privilege!
Doubleplus Ungood multiply by, ummm Doubleplus elebenty sumpin'
Well it did replace The Incredible Hulk on the 8:00PM Friday timeslot on CBS in about 1981, lol.
What about Sebastian Gorka? I haven’t seen him on any political shows since he turned snake oil salesman. They must be paying him tons of money.
I was always a Bill Bixby fan from way back. I will never forgive CBS.
Anyone remember the actor’s strike in Hollywood? The Duke boys were a part of it so the Duke “Cousins” were brought in to fill their spot for a couple of months.
I am not an authority on the Dukes of Hazard show, since I only watched it a few times, and briefly then over the years it was on, so someone correct me if I am mistaken (yeah, like that's going to happen on FR. /sarc)
No, the Dukes of Hazard and their car wasn't racist. I always believed, and still do, that the comedy show promoted the mocking and making fun of the South and those who lived there. It generally caricatured the characters as good ol' boys (and girls), hillbillies, rednecks and bumbling idiots and stereotyped anyone from the south as worthy of being ridiculed.
It was just harmless comedy at the expense of Southerners and all in good fun.
They can have General Lee (the car), but they better keep their hands off those Daisy Dukes.
I don’t recall it being an actor’s strike in about 1982. That was when both Tom Wopat and John Schneider quit the show over salary and endorsement money related issues and Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer (RIP) were brought in as “replacement” cousins.
We were figuring the Blue Bloods studio was receiving angry letters. :)
Yeah, it was one of a serious of TV shows set in the South that was born in the Jimmy Carter years. Each show was worse than the other.
Notice how different the take on the South was when Bill Clinton came to the White House and you had such snobby liberal elitist shows like “Designing Women”.
Whoa! Of course criticizing that is off limits by the left
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