CNN’s ‘Quick Hit’ on ‘Southern Conservatives’ (Implication is That They're Drunks)

NewsBusters.org ^ | 6/15/2007 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

Here’s something a little more light for a Friday afternoon, but demonstrates the mainstream media’s biased view of the world.

Among the "Quick Hits" on CNN’s "American Morning" on Friday was a brief on how the drought in the Southeast is affecting the production of Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennessee. The water levels in the cave spring that supplies the Jack Daniels distillery are "dangerously low" according to the brief by co-host John Roberts.

After giving the brief, Roberts and substitute weather forecaster Reynolds Wolf began the weather report with the following exchange:

JOHN ROBERTS: "Reynolds Wolf is here with a look at the weather forecast, and somebody said to me this morning that that will get Southern conservatives interested in global warming." (Laughs)

REYNOLDS WOLF: "There's no question about it. Absolutely."

I guess the "secret" is out that left-wing media thinks that Southerners are a bunch of hillbilly drunks, and don’t care about climate change like "enlightened" liberals do.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Why? They're pumping prohiition of tobacco, and until recently, the "OMG ITS FOR YOUR HEALTH!!" argument was working. I think people are starting to catch on now, though.

Sorry, I'm not interested in legislating health, only morality.

I am against smoking as a moral vice, not because "it's bad for you." When tobacco was first discovered by Europeans it was considered scandalous and even used by antinomians in their "worship" services as a sort of ritual sin.

[wardaddy]

You can still get honest 90-proof sour mash in a black label, only not from the Jack Daniels distillery.

as I recall in the 70s, the Student Union at LSU had a tap.

As a boy in Jackson MS, we would drive over to PJ's Last Chance right across the old river bridge from Vicksburg and buy all sorts of liquor...at 15

went to NOLA without parents for a football game tween Jackson Prep (me) and Riverside or Sam Barthe....and nobody in the Quarter carded.....nobody.....my junior year

I live about an hour or so from Lynchburg.....very pretty town. Little Richard has retired to a farm there....that seems odd.

[lentulusgracchus]

as I recall in the 70s, the Student Union at LSU had a tap.

Now that you remind me, I think I heard that one. LSU used to like that pose of the roue' sophisticate. Mostly they cultivated it on the advice of their daddies' political counselors, IMHO, since most of them were political sons sent down from the Long Machine parishes to learn how to steal, deflower, and get away with it.

Politics, IOW.

The posture was intended to overawe the country people. Who weren't as overawed as they thought, and mostly followed elections for the entertainment value.

[dixiechick2000]

Well...can’t say that I can add much about the booze.
I do remember going to the quarter where no one was carded, but I didn’t drink. ;o)
WKB will surely have something to add, I bet. lol

I backtracked through the posts, and saw a mention of a Goat.
Now...THAT I know a little bit about.
Had a ‘68...to me the most beautiful car in the world.

[lentulusgracchus]

I thought the '65 and '66 GTO's were prettier. If it were me, I'd want a '65, n/w/s that '64's are supposed to be the rare and pricey ones (someone has one for sale about three miles from my house, but he's a small used-car dealer and his car could well be a tricked-out LeMans instead).

I also liked the '63-'64 Gran Prix models and the '64 Catalina 2+2......Colombian exchange student I knew had a '66 2+2 ragtop with a Hurst floor shifter and a 421 under the hood, got a ride in it one time. Guy must have been a frustrated swordsman, lol......impressive car, though. I mean really. Light blue metallic, forerunner of that "Mediterranean/Caribbean/calypso blue" color that everyone liked later on. White interior and top, very sharp, very clean.

I've been shopping Mustangs (or as I like to call them, Furred Mouse Tangs) and have been very frustrated to note that Ford grew the car 4.5" O/A and 6" on the wheelbase and added 300 pounds, but didn't give the driver even a needed extra inch of legroom, which was what drove me to reject a '99 Mustang last time in favor of a '97 Thunderbird LX (V-6's in both). I need the legroom and Ford won't give. A crummy 42" -- their Mustang customers must all be girls, or short guys needing to compensate! (Tried to get into a Toyota MR-2 over the weekend -- what a joke! It was absolutely tiny inside, smaller than an MG Midget, which I'd ridden in once or twice [had a B Model myself for a while].....I literally couldn't get into it! Designed for pari-mutuel jockeys, "little people", children under 10, and petites demoiselles, emphasis on petite.)

Oh, well. Glad you enjoyed your Goat, which will always be the mini-musclecar benchmark (along with the 4-4-2)......the current pretender being a joke. The Holden Monaro is a nice car on its own terms, but utterly incapable of holding up a Goat badge.

MHO.

[dixiechick2000]

I was 19 when I got my Goat...that’s why it’s the most beautiful car I’d ever seen.
I wasn’t old enough to drive in ‘65. ;o)

It was dark green w/ black interior and a Hurst 4 on the floor.
The last year they made them with the big engine, IIRC.

The 442 was a GREAT car!

“Designed for pari-mutuel jockeys, “little people”, children under 10, and petites demoiselles, emphasis on petite.”

I would be one or more of those. ;o)

You must be a tall feller...the MR2 fits me just fine.
The RX8 is small, too.
I’m driving a Z4, now...the interior is almost as large as the 325.
It is, in fact, on a 325 chassis, but it’s not as long.
That’s ‘cause the trunk is where the back seat should be.

Fun little car...

[Mr. Lucky]

Many was the night in college when General Forrest and his horse galloped down off the Rebel Yell label and crapped in my mouth while I was sleeping.

[mimaw]

That Jon Roberts dip $hit sure look drunk most of the time, is he from the south?

[lentulusgracchus]

I wasn’t old enough to drive in ‘65.

I was, just. Learned the previous year, during summer driving school.

The 442 was a GREAT car!

Tell me about it -- I took a ride in one at homecoming 1966. It was a '67, dark green with black interior like your GTO, and a black vinyl top. Guy I was with had a few socialization problems......he barely spoke to his date during the game, killed most of a quart of Southern Comfort (it was 100 proof back then, not the watered-down girly drink they brew now). By the end of the game he was pretty pizzled, and he drove us back to the house where we'd picked the girls up, we dropped them, and then he said something surly as we backed out of the driveway, clamshell flying (in south Louisiana, vast banks of clamshells serve in lieu of gravel deposits, and they pave roads with them -- white roads, you're in Louisiana).

I saw 85 on the speedometer -- still in second gear -- on the short street where the girls' house was, then he had to pull it down for a T-intersection. We got on the nearby city four-lane, and in about four seconds (so it seemed) I saw 85 again, blasting back up the four-lane to town, and still in second gear. About that time I remembered I'd forgotten to do my laundry back at the dorm -- I always did laundry on Saturday night and twice on Homecoming night </s>, and I made sure he let me out at my dormitory before roaring off to meet his fate somewhere. I never saw that guy again, and funny to say it, but I've never even wondered what happened to him. My date, on the other hand, I have wondered about. (We dated a couple of times and then moved on.)

That was my one exposure to the mighty 4-4-2. It was too much car to be driven like that.

My roommate's car, a couple of years later, was a '62 "bug-eyed" Sprite. He'd get a toot on a Saturday night drinking Colombian aguardiente with his amigos from Cali (yes, Cali) and drive it up and down our broad campus sidewalks with a couple of girls crammed in it with him, laughing and hooting. I could hear him go by the dorm -- glad he had fun while I was studying!!

I’m driving a Z4, now....

I liked the Z3, think any Z3 with a six-banger is a sweet ride (not sure I'd settle for one with a four), and not even necessarily the bigger six. Just six cylinders for a better pull.....didn't care for what they did to (not "with", "to") BMW's styling the year the Z-4 came out. It wasn't just the Z-4, it was pretty much across the whole marque. I think the late-90's 850's were very, very hot, esp with HID headlights installed.....but the M1 was the hottest of all (co-venture with Lamborghini, originally, who later had to drop out). If only they'd put a six in the M1, that would have been a sensational car. Still pretty hot with the four, direct competitor to the very hot Lotus Esprit S1 and S2, its contemporaries.

When you get tired of the Z4, why don't you buy American next time, and trade up to the Ford GT? :o

[dixiechick2000]

"white roads, you're in Louisiana"

I've seen 'em before...used to live in Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. But, I had forgotten about them. Thanks for the memory.

"I made sure he let me out at my dormitory before roaring off to meet his fate somewhere."

I had the same thing happen to me, only it was a date who wanted me to go with him to blow out his car. I made him take me home (can't remember the excuse I used...he was drunk as a skunk, tho'). He left my house and not 10 minutes later wrapped himself around a telephone pole after he mowed over a large oak. I heard the sirens as I was getting into bed.

You sure have a lot of good stories. ;o)

I like the Z3, too, but I wanted a new car. The style wasn't really to my taste, but the passenger side air bag can be turned off. That was a big selling point for me, as I have grands. Over time, though, the style has grown on me. And, I absolutely love the run-flat tires, and the short throw on the stick. It's a 6 cylinder...I don't think they make a 4. And, it has a longer wheel base, and is wider, than the 3.

"When you get tired of the Z4, why don't you buy American next time, and trade up to the Ford GT?"

Ummmmm...maybe because it's a tad pricey? I guess I could sell my house and live in it. lol

Awesome car, though...wouldn't mind having it one bit. ;o)

[lentulusgracchus]

I had the same thing happen to me, only it was a date who wanted me to go with him to blow out his car.

Most dangerous ride in the automotive world. That's one for you -- you wouldn't be here if you'd been a go-along gal.

When I was in my first year in Houston, back in 1979-1980, a co-worker named Jaye and her husband took a ride like that with a fellow who'd bought a brand-new BMW 320i. "Blow out his car" means "I want to see how fast it'll go" and that means, usually, the guy is thinking about finding a back-country two-lane he's never seen a cop on and going as fast as he can. But you know those two-lanes aren't engineered like that. The BMW was found a with the speedo stuck on 115. It had gone airborne and left the highway out in the salt marshes east of Houston. Jaye and her husband both died with their friend.

I was a new employee and didn't know her really, so I didn't go, but I understood there was a stout turnout from the office. Very sad story. People need to wait and go on vacation, and take a ride out to Bonneville Salt Flats if they want to, as you say, "blow it out." When I've aired out a car, it's always been on the interstate -- except for the first time, when I learned that lesson myself. The two-lane was well-enough engineered not to shed cars in top gear, but there was a T-intersection at the end of it, at a busy highway. That's where I learned about drum brakes and "brake fade"......fortunately, I found a hole in the cross-traffic and didn't get nailed when I rolled out into the middle of the intersection.....talk about a sinking feeling.....managed not to find the ditch on the other side, either. Lucky me. The car was a nine-passenger '57 Ford Country Sedan with a police engine, the same 312 Interceptor (Carter 4V, 265BHP at around 5500 RPM transmitted through a Turbo-Hydramatic 3-speed AT) that Bob Mitchum drove in Thunder Road. Car must have weighed 3800-4000 pounds, and it turned out to be a bear to stop. But young men aren't thinking about that stuff when they essay to stand on it and find Viking glory at Mach One.

[corlorde]

I guess the "secret" is out that left-wing media thinks that Southerners are a bunch of hillbilly drunks, and don’t care about climate change like "enlightened" liberals do.

I fail to see the problem, lmao.

[LIConFem]

Maker’s Mark for me, when I can stomach whiskey. I seem to be more fond of sour apple martinis these days.

[arderkrag]

Sorry, I'm not interested in legislating health, only morality.

I'm not interested in legislating either.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Sorry, I'm not interested in legislating health, only morality.

I'm not interested in legislating either.

I hope you advocate the decriminalization of theft and murder, since laws against them legislate morality.

Why don't you ask your crazy Birchite chr*stian reconstructionist friend Paul about how much he intends to "let it all hang out?"

[arderkrag]

Wrong. They legislate protection of rights. The fact that they are morally worng is beside the point. People should be able to do what they will short of interference with your rights. Morality is subjective, and should be left out of government.

[dixiechick2000]

Dang! That’s a very sad story. :o( Bonneville Salt Flats would be the perfect place to really open ‘er up.

I’m glad your story ended much better.

As I said, you tell GOOD stories, just like wardaddy. ;o)

BTW, I don’t think I’ve mentioned just how much I like your tagline...lol.

[wardaddy]

stinky is over at wideawkes actually taking what would be a hard line on amnesty there

very unusual....”whatever”

[dixiechick2000]

I know!

I’ve been surprised at how reasonable he’s been.

[lentulusgracchus]

Well, thenk kyew.....I've had a coupla comments about the tag line.....

:)