[FrankR]

We can look at Maher from several perspectives, but it all comes down to this - he's a comedian.

He's not a journalist, he's not a commentator, and he's not really all that intelligent. He wasn't doing much until he landed the HBO gig so he could cuss at will at degrade women, actually.

Bad attitude tempered with a bit of smartass is his "stock in trade". Add that gigantic honker he's got and he gets laughs from the middle-aged adolescents in our land.

So, I suggest that we here in the South quickly institute a "St. Crackers Day", and invite Maher to be the keynote speaker at the induction ceremony. Maybe we could get him to have a private, one-on-one with the "good ol' boy committee" after the opening ceremonies.

The celestial beauty of being called a "cracker" is, we don't care. We're not thin-skinned and we're not going call a "news conference" and perpetually bemoan that we were "offended" by him at all.

As a part of the left coast crowd he naturally finds himself elevated over all things southern...except maybe southern California. The secret he doesn't know is, most of us "crackers" would take most any Southern state over California any day of the week. It's not rocket science; California slinks further into the abyss everyday, and besides great weather, they have nothing to offer.

So now we have to pick out a color for St. Crackers' Day...I suggest RED (for the sed states, for HOTness, and for if the South is so backwards, then STOP moving down here in droves.)

I may run for president of the "St. Crackers Association"...who knows.

I'll make a campaign promise right now, (clears throat) ON MY FIRST WEEK IN OFFICE I WILL START A CAMPAIGN FOR ALL SOUTHERNERS TO IMMEDIATELY CANCEL HBO, BECAUSE OF BILL MAHER".

Personally, if I made the money Maher is making, I think I would have taken that million bucks he sent to obama and had my nose fixed.

HAPPY ST. CRACKERS DAY

[Yaelle]

Seriously, you are right on about bill maher and the south, but there are probably more good conservative people in CA than in your state. We are drowned out by the limousine libs, illegals, and their ilk, but we are here. CA is even the home of Free Republic. just a little self defense. There are a lot of freepers here in SoCal.

[snippy_about_it]

Bring the crab and we’ll call ourselves crackers! I’m sure I have a plastic bib that says “I’m a cracker” around here somewhere.

[Silentgypsy]

Here are the lyrics to a song done by Josh Thompson:

Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, And you might meet ‘em both if you show up here not welcome son. Our necks are burnt, our roads are dirt and our trucks ain’t clean The dogs run lose, we smoke, we chew and fry everything Out here, way out here
(Chorus) We won’t take a dime if we ain’t earned it When it comes to weight brother we pull our own If it’s our backwoods way of livin’ you’re concerned with You can leave us alone We’re about John Wayne, Johnny Cash and John Deere Way out here
We got a fightin’ side a mile wide but we pray for peace ‘Cause it’s mostly us that end up servin’ overseas If it was up to me I’d love to see this country run Like it used to be, oughta be, just like it’s done.

This says it all.

[Gertie]

He is a “comedian” in the same sense that Jesse, Al and Louie are “Reverends”. If he would have been a female he would have to use “Preparation H” for lipstick.