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"Cooter" Says Fellow Hazzard Castmates Victims of P.C. "Vigilantes" (You ain't gonna believe this)
Internet movie Database ^ | March 16, 2007 | Hildy

Posted on 03/16/2007 1:55:36 PM PDT by Hildy

A performance by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra featuring John Schneider and Tom Wopat, who appeared in the 1979-85 series The Dukes of Hazzard was canceled after complaints that the series had "racist overtones," according to Ben Jones, who played Cooter on the show and later served two terms as a Georgia Congressman.

"What could these politically correct vigilantes possibly be thinking?" Jones said in a statement, in which he called the cancellation "a dangerous affront to the rights of performing artists and their audiences." Jones particularly criticized the NAACP for endorsing the cancellation. "I'm a life member of the NAACP and proud of it," he said. "Denying an artist an opportunity to entertain an audience because of somebody's wrongheaded political viewpoint is just plain un-American. I have fought for equal rights all of my life, and that is why I am speaking out on this."

Schneider and Wopat were to have headlined a PBS special by the Cincinnati Pops on July 14 titled "Patriotic Broadway."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cincinnati; cincinnatipops; dukesofhazzard; johnschneider; tomwopat
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Speechless.
1 posted on 03/16/2007 1:55:39 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy
The only thing even remotely racist about the show was the flag on the General Lee.
2 posted on 03/16/2007 1:57:50 PM PDT by mnehring (Virtus Junxit Mors Non Seperabit)
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To: mnehrling

Dang it, ya'll know they're good ole boys.

Ya know, men with guns and know how to fight.

Real men call their lawyers.


3 posted on 03/16/2007 1:59:49 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Hildy

Cooter 2008!


4 posted on 03/16/2007 2:01:05 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: Hildy
The Left has truly gone mad, especially when they're picking on something as remotely harmless as this.

The NAALCP is well on its way to becoming irrelevant.
5 posted on 03/16/2007 2:01:17 PM PDT by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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To: Hildy

Cooter is such a real life liberal he has no room to criticize people being PC.


6 posted on 03/16/2007 2:02:53 PM PDT by Bogey78O (VDSL2 FTW)
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To: Hildy
Ben Jones has always seemed a pretty straight shooter to me. I agree with him - this is just silly.

Can't say I blame Schneider and Wopat for just sayin' "to hell with it!" though.

7 posted on 03/16/2007 2:03:37 PM PDT by Condor 63
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To: Hildy

WOW! I pretty much thought the show was red, white and blue. Hot girl, good looking manly men, family ties.....pretty slapstick and stuff, but you could watch it with your gramma and not be embarrased, unlike much of TV now.


8 posted on 03/16/2007 2:04:04 PM PDT by trimom
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To: Bogey78O

Agreed. Cooter is right on THIS issue, but he's a lifelong leftist. I suspect he's only even sensitive to this sort of abuse because the victims happen to be old friends of his.


9 posted on 03/16/2007 2:04:32 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Hildy

I guess we will be unable to teach children about President Abraham Lincoln soon.


10 posted on 03/16/2007 2:04:41 PM PDT by SF Republican
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To: Calpernia
No guns. They had compound bows, Oneidas, I think. They couldn't have guns because they got busted running shine. Of course, that never stopped them from having TNT.

This is a ridiculous gesture on the part of the NAALCP. It will probably get them another million in donations.

11 posted on 03/16/2007 2:05:21 PM PDT by sig226 (see my profile for the democrat culture of corruption)
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To: mnehrling
"The only thing even remotely racist about the show was the flag on the General Lee."

This is probably the stupidest statement I have ever read on FreeRepublic. Please tell us what is remotely racist about the flag? It's a freaking FLAG!

12 posted on 03/16/2007 2:05:40 PM PDT by TommyDale (What will Rudy do in the War on Terror? Implement gun control on insurgents and Al Qaeda?)
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To: Hildy
"I'm a life member of the NAACP and proud of it," he said. ... I have fought for equal rights all of my life, and that is why I am speaking out on this."

Ironic, isn't it?

13 posted on 03/16/2007 2:06:29 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: Hildy
Stupid, puerile and boring, Yes

Racist? No way. How?

14 posted on 03/16/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: sig226

New World Men don't use bows either. Except in their hair.


15 posted on 03/16/2007 2:07:19 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Hildy

If memory serves, Ben Jones ran as a Democrat in Virginia for the U.S. House.


16 posted on 03/16/2007 2:07:52 PM PDT by Bob Loblaw
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To: trimom
family ties

One thing that disturbed me about the show was the lack of a family headed by a happily married couple. As far as I recall, the only main character in a marriage is Boss Hogg, and that's a pretty disfunctional marraige at that.

I've noticed a similar pattern for a lot of supposedly "wholesome" shows from the late 1960's and 1970's: lack of a traditional family for the main characters. See also Andy Griffith and the Brady Bunch. Where is Opie's mother? Where are the previous spouses of Mr. and Mrs. Brady? And of course, with the Dukes, where are Bow, Luke and Daisy's parents? Why are they all living with their Uncle? I'm not sure whether this was an attempt by avant guard writers to undermine the traditional family, but it sure is weird.

17 posted on 03/16/2007 2:11:37 PM PDT by curiosity
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To: TommyDale

I got one of those racists Flags on my porch,,,one other problem I got is my dogs name is White Boy,,glad I'm way out here in the sticks..


18 posted on 03/16/2007 2:11:41 PM PDT by silentreignofheroes (When the Last Two Prophets are taken, there will be no Tommorrow!)
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To: T Lady

No, the Left hasn't 'gone mad'......y'all miss the point. Racism is an industry in this country (literally), and it must be kept alive at all costs so that the NAACP, the Sharptons and Jacksons and all of their ilk, the Black Caucus in the House, etc. etc........all have cushy jobs, limousines, expensive suits, invitations to all the right parties, etc. Anyone or anything that can remotely be considered, no matter how ludicrous the 'stretch', as even possibly "racist" in the slightest is a target. Why? Because overt racism is so damned rare any more, this is all they have to resort to. They're digging in the dregs.

Think I'm kidding or just being sarcastic? Think again.


19 posted on 03/16/2007 2:12:20 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Hildy


I think the boys were just grounded
for flyin' without a pilot's license.
20 posted on 03/16/2007 2:12:23 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (*** Hunter Thompson '08! *** A bumper sticker liberals will have to think twice about)
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