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 ...
Hey, when I was in the Army, my 100% full-blooded Cherokee redneck section chief told me I was a genuine New York City redneck. (I grew up in that particular city.) I certainly took it as a compliment.
I remember once, in Alaska of all places, people talking about where they grew up. They were describing idyllic small towns, etc. and asked me where I grew up. I told them “New York”, they looked dumbfounded. I said, “It’s near an airport, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.”
The Pittsburgh Tribune Review just moved the Mason Dixon Line a few hundred miles north to the Canadian border.
So when are all you racist rednecks in Western Pennsylvania going to vote Murtha out of office?
That’s great news!
: )
Is he really ahead in the polls? You’re kidding!
Yeah, but do you have any good bar-b-que?
“My favorite two endangered species are the Hairy-Chested Nut Scratcher and the Double-Breasted Pushover. Fat Jack doesn’t care about the environment.”
Those may be endangered where you live but here in the Pacific Northwest they’re more common than spotted owls or polar bears. To be fair though, I think they arrived on the axles of U-Haul trailers coming north from California. We really should have fumigated those rigs as the crossed the line.
Yes, they have been converted into wards of the state. Ol’ Mister Pork Barrel brings home the bacon in terms of pork so they have lost all of their personal dignity and just given in to the hand out welfare state. And they will vote still for Murtha and Obama who have publicly called them unsophisticated but useful idiots. Socialism at it's best.
Texas redneck here. I’d be insulted if you called me something else. Murtha, you on the other hand are human excrement.
BWAHAHAHA...my vote for post of the day...
ps...'that thur Bambi chick shures got a purty mowth'...
It was redistricted in time for his last election and Diana Irey made a good show and I hope Bill Russell will leave this creep in the dust.
It's sorta like DC keeps voting in marion barry and others such as conyers, jackson, sharpton.
BTW my tagline is a year or two old and, yes, I am proud to be a Redneck.
Murtha is a dumbed-down Biden (assuming such a thing is possible).
Officially I became a “racist” when I mailed in my ballot on Saturday... /sarc
There are a lot of old people and they don’t vote anything but Democrat no matter what. They don’t pay close attention to what Murtha says in general unless he’s talking about getting more money for them. As long as he says what they want to hear they’ll vote for him. Generational party loyalty is very strong here. Unfortunately.
Well, now think about this...
As men, we’re ALL naturals at the Hairy-Chested Nut-Scratcher thing...
Because when ya got a itch, ya GOTTA scratch...
And it happens at the WORST times too... restaurants...church...at the meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Loyal Order of Elk... you get that twitch... and the wife looks at you and says “Don’t even think about it, bucko...”
And jock itch is THE worst...
But the absolute WORST???? I’ll tell you the worst - When the friggin’ DOG is sitting there, going into the Power Tuck, leg in the air, shinin’ up the ol’ boyos, right in the middle of the wife’s Jewelry Demonstration...!!!
Funnier than hell, watching the reactions...
If the people in his district elect him, they deserve him.
I’ve always wanted to do this. I don’t even know FReeper skeeter, but I’ve always wanted to ping him and say:
“Now, skeeter, we don’t want no trouble here.”
Fear not, Salena, he’ll be calling us Ku Kluxers next. And I fully expect your paper to endorse him anyway. Truly sad.
Maybe he is a racist and that is exactly what he is doing?
Hmmmm...no, he's just stuck on stupid!
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