REDNECKS!!!
Posted on 10/20/2008 5:59:55 PM PDT by Salena Zito
On the heels of telling the Pittsburgh Tribune Review that racism would play into the vote in Western Pennsylvania for president next month, Rep. Jack Murtha told local Pittsburgh television station WTAE that it's difficult for many in the area to change, saying just five to 10 years ago the entire area was "redneck."
You have to wonder how residents of Pennsylvania like the descriptive phrases that have been piled on in the past few months. First, it was bitter and God and gun clinging, then it was racist, now they are rednecks.
In an interview with reporter David Brown at the Trib today, John McCain took exception to the “good people in Western Pennsylvania’ being framed as racists.
"I'm going to tell people in Western Pennsylvania that I don't believe they are racists, as Congressman Murtha alleges," said McCain, in the interview. He called the comment "disgraceful."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
If Murtha keeps running his mouth like this,he won’t ever be able to appear in public again.(I’ve got to submit my bid for the rotten fruit concession)
maybe murtha is the gift that keeps on giving
Wasn’t that the name of a Pooh book? Ah, that was “Now We Are Six.”
WOW! I hope you folk over there are FIRED up and mad has heck over the REDNECKS slur! WOW! I can’t believe this has NOT blown up in Ozero and Murtha face. AND HE IS LEADING in the polls there?....WOW! ARE people that blind down there?
DadBURN it! “at ‘ere sounds like a compliment! Maybe we oughtter vote fer that feller!
No, y’all are racist rednecks.
I swear he’s trying to give McCain Pennsylvania. Keep running your ugly mouth Jack.
Keep going traitor Murth, its a winning strategy to insult people to get their vote.....what a dork!
yeah...I know.....redneck would be a badge of honor for most of us....and of course, we girls want to be “redneck girls”(hoping someone will key the music)
I think Murtha is trying to sabotage Obama in PA. I hope he is successful and also loses his seat.
A working or middle class voter would have to be truly stupid to vote for Barack Obama. I don’t believe that these voters will benefit from Obama’s planned redistribution of income.
U’all let me know when the meeting is. Over the weekend all I heard from bamma supporters was one of you would hurt him in office and that is a bad thing.
Fact u have been around over 200 years and never hurt any they don’t understand.
My favorite two endangered species are the Hairy-Chested Nut Scratcher and the Double-Breasted Pushover. Fat Jack doesn’t care about the environment.
I wonder how long it will be before they (meaning the Democrats) start calling the rest of flyover country the same.
In an interview with reporter David Brown at the Trib today, John McCain took exception to the “good people in Western Pennsylvania’ being framed as racists.
"I'm going to tell people in Western Pennsylvania that I don't believe they are racists, as Congressman Murtha alleges," said McCain, in the interview. He called the comment "disgraceful."
I wouldn't be surprised at all to hear tomorrow's Pittsburgh speech slightly modified to include the term "rednecks" as well.
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