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Mitchell Trio feat. John Denver- "Your Friendly Liberal Neighborhood KKK" 1966 [RITY Archive]
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Posted on 09/24/2026 2:50:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

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Insulting, offensive, sothronophobic, sure. But Bob Denver's in a suit and tie, and the lyrics are clever.
1 posted on 09/24/2026 2:50:57 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

And basically, the KKK is gone woke and changed its name to Antifa, but not its game, pushing bigotry, hatred and violence. So therefore, I say the song is prescient.


2 posted on 09/24/2026 2:52:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Politicians do not tell people the truth. They tell people what they want to hear--Thomas Sowell)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bob = Gilligan’s Island
John = Oh God!


3 posted on 09/24/2026 2:58:13 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

I have enjoyed watching and listening to both often over the years :)


4 posted on 09/24/2026 2:59:44 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Wow, that’s great. I didn’t know about this one, thanks for posting!


5 posted on 09/24/2026 3:32:10 PM PDT by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: PghBaldy

Any relation, I wonder? One played a beatnik and then a goofy first mate on an island. The other was a hippy “folk singer”. Not all that different.


6 posted on 09/24/2026 3:49:49 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Politicians do not tell people the truth. They tell people what they want to hear--Thomas Sowell)
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To: Eleutheria5

Oops. I mixed my Denvers.


7 posted on 09/24/2026 3:50:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Politicians do not tell people the truth. They tell people what they want to hear--Thomas Sowell)
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To: Eleutheria5

Was this about Senator Byrd?


8 posted on 09/24/2026 3:58:02 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Eleutheria5

Insulting? It insults liberals and the KKK.

Do you understand obvious satire?


9 posted on 09/24/2026 4:04:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Eleutheria5
And basically, the KKK is gone woke and changed its name to Antifa,

In many ways. In its heyday, the KKK was the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party. Today, Antifa is the paramilitary arm of the Democrat Party. They both engaged in terrorism to advance the Dem agenda.

10 posted on 09/24/2026 4:18:39 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Eleutheria5

“sothronophobic”

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Learned a new word, thanks.


11 posted on 09/24/2026 4:38:38 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: All

All of the folk singer from the 1960s were closet communists (except the ones who admitted it).


12 posted on 09/24/2026 4:51:16 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Eleutheria5

No relation.

John’s real name was “Henry John Deutschendorf”. I don’t blame him for changing it.

Bob Denver didn’t have to change his name, “Robert Osbourne Denver”.

I didn’t care for the song using the ugly white rural south stereotypes. It didn’t just come across as an anti-KKK song, but a mock the South song.


13 posted on 09/24/2026 4:54:31 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Eleutheria5

Ain’t no Bob Denver involvement I can find.


14 posted on 09/24/2026 6:04:36 PM PDT by AloneInMass (You'd think there would be more similarity between "chain letter" and "chain mail".)
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To: Paal Gulli

What the world needs now
Is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head


15 posted on 09/24/2026 6:07:20 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Dr. Sivana

It didn’t just come across as an anti-KKK song, but a mock the South song.


I prefer Randy Newman’s “Rednecks”, it actually mocks the North, more than the South.


16 posted on 09/24/2026 6:08:25 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Eleutheria5
Not sure if John Denver was on this recording. If you were active in the conservative movement in the early 1960s, you'll get a kick out of this.

Barry's Boys--The Chad Mitchell Trio (1964)

We're the bright young men who want to go back to 1910
We're Barry Boys.
We're the kids with a cause, a government like Grandma's was,
We're Barry's Boys.
We're the new kind of youth at your alma mater,
Back to silver standards and solid Goldwater.
Back to when the poor were poor and rich were rich
And you felt so damn secure just knowing which were which.

We're the kids who agree to be social without security,
We're Barry's boys.
Now his hat's in the ring, where Westbrook Pegler once was king, now he's too left-wing.
So if you don't want to recognize that old Red China,
Or Canada, or Britain, or South Carolina,
You, too can join the crew.
Tippecanoe and Nixon, too.
Back with Barry, back to cash and carry,
Back with Barry's Boys.

We're the kids full of nerve, as long as it's conservative,
We're Barry's Boys.
And we can't comprehend why our parents aren't friendlier to Barry's Boys.
Why, Dad once crusaded for Sacco and Vanzetti,
And now, we're doing the same for John Paul Getty.
Our parents emulated Roosevelt and Farley,
While we just want to grow up like Ev and Charlie.Mbr> There are no college days for Socrates and Plato when you're Barry's Boys.
Just organize parades for the abolishment of NATO and the rest, the entire West
So let's go back to the days when men were men and start the First World War all over again.
That's right, you tell 'em, son,
Isolationism can be fun.
Back with Barry, back to cash & carry,
Back with Barry's Boys!

17 posted on 09/24/2026 6:11:01 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Dr. Sivana

“I didn’t care for the song using the ugly white rural south stereotypes. It didn’t just come across as an anti-KKK song, but a mock the South song.”

But it’s projection down the time stream. Now it’s the Left covering their faces and attacking people, not for being black but for being white in the wrong place at the wrong time, or wearing a red hat. And guess who actually did marry her brother!


18 posted on 09/25/2026 5:57:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Politicians do not tell people the truth. They tell people what they want to hear--Thomas Sowell)
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To: Eleutheria5
And guess who actually did marry her brother!

Great send off!
19 posted on 09/25/2026 7:29:23 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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