The irony will be dorksploytation, and I'll be diggin' it wholesale.
Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/28/2011 5:59:34 AM PST by Academiadotorg
At almost any gathering of the self-described intellectual elite, it seems that irrationally celebrating hatred of Sarah Palin is practically mandatory. The 2011 Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention was no different. In his lecture entitled “Hicksploitation: or, the Cultural Emergence of Sarah Palin,” Scott Herring of Indiana U-Bloomington had a lot to say about Sarah Palin. Of course, all of it was negative.
Herring began by describing Palin as the “once and future proponent of faux populist conservatism.” He talked about how Palin has repeatedly said that she is not a hillbilly, and how Palin has stated that the media keeps trying to portray her as one. Herring said that he essentially hoped the media were portraying her as a hillbilly in the “context of the sexual and racial” origins of the term “hillbilly.” He spent the rest of his lecture tying “the Right” to the hillbilly lifestyle—as it is portrayed in 1970’s hillbilly pornography. To back up his point, Herring argued that “hicksploitation” (or the exploitation, sexual and otherwise, of hicks) rose in popularity at the same time that “Christian fundamentalism” spiked—and that therefore, the correlation must imply causation.
To be fair, Herring teaches “Gender Studies” and not logic.
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teaches Gender Studies????
We have between 9-10 percent unemployment and someone is getting paid to teach Gender Studies??
This Country is going down the tubes...........
Guess I missed out on that. I guess if you are a Libtard, and there is nothing to relate Palin to, you have to do is create a comparison.
For example, the way the Libtards worship every lie Obama can tell, is very similar to the 1959 Compton Polo Club's Motto of "Don't tase us, bro".
It’s the best job a libtard can ever hope for besides becoming a journalist. There aren’t too many companies out there looking for that D- in math class.
Scott has issues. But he’s not talking.
Me too! I have no idea what the guy's talking about. Hillbilly pornography? The only thing that readily comes to mind is that infamous scene in "Deliverance".
Now I'm worried, maybe I should have better researched my FR nick. Leave it to a libtard to bring to everyone's attention something that no one knew about just to make the rest of us feel "icky".
If you want to climb the social ladder you have to hate Sarah Palin.
I mean, thier shaky little fragile social ladder that leads to nowhere. Or some kind of fantasy land.
“Hillbilly pornography” ... that was one i hadn’t heard before. i figured, what the hey. so i hit google images, bracing myself for loads of pages of nudity (i was very braced) which normally accompanies any google search with safe search off. anything including the word ‘pornography’ would have to have a massive list of images.
strangely enough, google only had three(3) images. three!! i was truly shocked. so i went to the regular google search, only five(5).
looks like this idiot is making up a phrase and trying to make it stick. additionally, i would guess he is linked to the five(5) pages where the phrase is used.
Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and allegedly planned to mount his own presidential bid for 1936. Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King", proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and hopelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the Federal Reserve System's policies. Charismatic and immensely popular for his programs and willingness to take forceful action, Long was accused by his opponents of dictatorial tendencies for his near-total control of the state government. A leftist populist who fought the rich, he was preparing to challenge FDR's reelection in 1936 in alliance with radio's influential Catholic priest Charles Coughlin, or run for president in 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt was expected to retire. However, Long was assassinated in 1935 by the son of a political enemy. The legacy of Huey Long on the one hand consists of dramatic expansion of the infrastructure of Louisiana, ranging from highways to hospitals to a major state university. On the other hand, his memory is bitterly contested. Ever since his death historians, novelists and his many friends and foes in Louisiana have debated whether or not he was a dictator, democrat, demagogue, messiah or populist--a friend of American values or a fascist enemy of them.[1]
I have been to the city, the mountains and several rodeos but have never heard of Hillbilly porn. Is it kind of like Paris Hilton videos?
bttt
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January 28, 2011
Sarah Palin’s Way Forward
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/sarah_palins_way_forward.html
By J.R. Dunn
Am I the only one here who sees the irony in a MAN who teaches ‘Gender Studies’ attacking a WOMAN?
Indiana University certainly has fallen on hard times.
This quality of academic hearkens back to before the days of IU president Herman B. Wells, when the teachers at IU were unqualified parochial patronage hacks, unfit for latrine assembly, who he chased from the institution like harlots before an honest police officer.
Pity. For a while there it had been a fine school.
It will be a relief when these bloated institutions across the US are finally forced to offer only classes of utility and scholarship to students. Where such coursework as ethnic studies and whatever this insipid pseudo-intellectual purvey have been discarded like used sanitary paper.
To see such persons as this Scott Herring being chastised by a barely English speaking immigrant-citizen over the unsatisfactory quality of his janitorial or food service performance will do much to restore the cosmic balance.
Either that, or he gets thrice-daily visits to The Shaming Stump. Let Goober and Buford give him the re-education program, hillbilly style. He may not ever really embrace his newly conditioned belief structure, but he will know how to "squeal like a pig..." on command.
8^D
I had more Daisy Duke in her, well, Daisy Dukes, in mind for hillbilly porno.
The irony will be dorksploytation, and I'll be diggin' it wholesale.
Does Scott play banjo down by the river?
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