"NEWT BEATS COOTER is a headline only a Red State reader could love, but that's the way it went down."
LOL!
But Burt is totally miscast as Boss Hogg. The late Sorrell Booke owned that role -- and he ought to have, as hard as he worked to get down a passable South Georgia accent (he was from Brooklyn). He was really great as Boss Hogg. A very solid comic actor.
Burt ought to be playing the boys' Cousin Curtis from over in Troup County. He ought to be driving a black Buick Grand National with a shaker hood. And if they need a new Boss, they ought to get Jerry Reed to come play him (Jerry can play some bad guys!), as the late Boss's lounge-lizardy nephew from Atmore, where he used to be a crooked prison guard before he got caught and pulled four years of his own, back when.
And whiny-ass Leftism or no, Cooter ought to be back with that same accent and the manner that spelled "God, that boy got left behind the door, didn't he?"