Jimmy Dean: Far More Than Just A Country Gentleman

Grand Rants ^ | 06-15-10 | Gerry Ashley

[Stoutcat]

I’m at that awkward age where I’m able to remember what a great country America has been and how the freedom we have here enables anyone to rise from abject poverty to a millionaire if he/she has the right work ethic and the right values. Maybe that’s why it bothers me so to see what political correctness and the attempts by the Obama administration to “fundamentally change America as we know it” have done to us as a culture as well as a country.

And nothing better illustrates those simple, old-fashioned values than the life of a gentleman who passed away this past week-end: country music star and successful businessman Jimmy Dean. Many people remember him for his Jimmy Dean Sausages (and the folksy advertisements he did for the company). Most people my age and older also remember him for his success in the field of country music.

I’ll always remember him for both, but principally as a country gentleman who stood by his word and expected others to do the same. He personified all of the promise that America offers to those who are willing to work for their goals...

[West Texas Chuck]

For those of you that don’t really know Jimmy Dean he was a royal jerk.

OK, it was over a week ago that he died, but that man is from my old home town in Plainview. I never met the man, but I knew a bunch of his kin when I was in school out in the Panhandle. Some of them prolly still live around here in the Metromess, I know they used to. And I've met a bunch of Texans over the years who didn't think he was that bad a guy. All men are jerks, as far as I know. I know I am, sometimes. So backoff Arkie, say nothing but good of the dead.