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Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she sees her sometimes Southern accent as a virtue. "I think America is ready for a multilingual president," Clinton said during a campaign stop at a charter school in Greenville, S.C. The New York senator—who said she's been thinking about critics who've suggested that she tried to put on a fake Southern accent in Selma, Ala.—noted that she's split her life between Arkansas, Illinois and the East Coast. Clinton added a Southern lilt to her voice last week when addressing a civil rights group in New York City headed by the Rev....

HOW bad is Cocke County's lawless reputation? So bad that its tourism and economic development chief, Donald Hurst, likes to kick off out-of-town business meetings with a self-deprecating joke. All of the visiting Cocke County officials, he tells his audience, are right here in the building — so "rest assured, your home is safe." To many Tennesseans, Cocke County is the place their parents warned them about, the butt of hillbilly jokes, the last redoubt of an old, untamed Appalachia. For decades this poor and dramatically beautiful area, north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, was a haven for moonshiners...

PIKEVILLE — Folks in this eastern Kentucky town are demanding an apology from the A&E network after an episode of “City Confidential” that they say was unflattering and unfair. “Obviously, being labeled the town from hell can not be interpreted in any way as positive,” City Manager Donovan Blackburn wrote in a letter to network. Blackburn said local residents cooperated in the production of the documentary show, which revolved around murders committed by a group of occultists, after a producer told them the town would be portrayed positively. A&E had no immediate response to the complaint. A network spokeswoman said...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) - Paul Henning, who created the iconic 1960s TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies" and wrote its theme song, died Friday at the age of 93. Henning, who lived in Toluca Lake, died in a Burbank hospital of natural causes. He had been sick for some time, his daughter Carol said. Henning was born on a farm in Missouri on Sept. 16, 1911 and grew up in Independence. As a teenager, he worked behind the soda fountain at Brown's Drugstore, where he met Harry Truman, who advised the young boy to become a lawyer, his daughter said. He...

Support Georgia's right to have a REAL vote on their state flag... The only vote issued did not include the flag that sparked all the controversay in the first place!. In addition, only 6% of registered voters showed up at the polls, BECAUSE the real Georgia state flag wasn't included in the referendum!! There is currently a bill that has just been filed with the Georgia State House to allow the real flag to be included in a statewide vote, as well as the current flag. No matter your feeling on the flag personally... There SHOULD BE a vote on...

CINCINNATI -- Imagine it's a special day at school, and you're asked to leave because of what you're wearing. That's what happened to a 13-year-old girl at Holy Family Catholic School in Price Hill on the day of her May crowning and graduation pictures, WLWT reported. "I don't think nothing was wrong with the dress," eighth-grader Dannielle Fuqua said. But she was told otherwise because the dress was too revealing, according to the principal. "I was crying until I got home, and I was still crying when I got home," Fuqua said. Added her mother, Kathy Meyer: "They said Dannielle's...

Final 1st 2nd 3rd 4th T Virginia Tech (3) 0 7 0 0 7 West Virginia 14 0 14 0 28 Box Score | Play-by-Play | GameCast Passing: Marshall (W Virginia) 162 yds Receiving: Garvin (W Virginia) 117 yds Rushing: Wilson (W Virginia) 176 yds

The South's unconditional surrender in 1865 apparently was unacceptable to today's Neo-Confederates. They'd like to rewrite history, demonizing Abraham Lincoln and the federal government that forced them to remain in the awful United States against their will. On top of that, now they are opposing the U.S. Navy's plan to bury the crew of the CSS H.L. Hunley under the American flag next year. The Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy vessel. In 1863, it rammed and fatally damaged the Union warship USS Housatonic with a fixed torpedo, but then the manually driven sub sank on its...

Parent gives thumbs-down to play about hillbillies (Eugene-AP) -- Officials at a Eugene-area elementary school reworked a school play after some parents complained that it was insulting to low-income Southern families. The play depicts a family like the one in the TV series about the Beverly Hillbillies. The joke centers on one of the family's 10 children, who becomes a stockbroker and invites some rich people to dinner with a financial scheme in mind. After seeing a rehearsal several weeks ago, parent Nancy Willard objected to use of the word "hillbilly" and to shabby costumes and props that she...

Give Ronald Schmid this much. If the allegations against him are true, the Streetsboro police chief is thorough and balanced.According to affidavits from two officers and a dispatcher, Schmid referred to African-Americans as ``n------.''He referred to Chinese people as ``c-----.''He referred to women as ``broads.''And he referred to the people of Streetsboro as ``hillbillies.''If this is true, there won't be much argument about what should happen next. Trent Lott set the bar when he lost his position as Senate Republican leader last December after suggesting nostalgia for bygone racial segregation.In basketball terms, Lott's comment would be a long-range jumper that...

---"rural activists"??--- I am not leaving these left-wing radical extremists propaganda methods alone! Just another example of the LEFT's subtle brinwashing techniques...believe it! -=-=-=-=- CBS executives met on Tuesday with rural activists fighting network plans to cast a real-life version of "The Beverly Hillbillies," but there was no indication either side was ready to budge after the talks. The Kentucky-based Center for Rural Strategies has run a series of newspaper ads around the country in recent months condemning the prospective "reality" show as demeaning to rural Americans and calling on CBS to pull the plug on the project. CBS President...

WHITESBURG, Ky. - An Appalachian advocacy group placed ads in some of the country's largest newspapers Tuesday, criticizing a proposed reality TV series it says is demeaning to rural people. AP Photo The CBS show takes the premise of '60s sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies" and places a poor Appalachian family in a Beverly Hills mansion. The Center for Rural Strategies in Whitesburg placed quarter-page ads in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer. "The brass at CBS clearly think it's safe to make fun of and commercialize low-income rural folks," center President Dee Davis said. "We...

Gov. Bob Wise on Monday demanded an apology from the University of Virginia because a pep band lampooned his state's rural image during the halftime show of a college football bowl game. Saturday's Continental Tire Bowl pitted the University of Virginia against West Virginia University. At halftime, Virginia's student-run pep band staged a parody of The Bachelor," with a male Virginia student choosing between two female contestants. The contestant said to be from West Virginia wore blue overalls and pigtails, had a talent for square dancing and declared a dream to move to Beverly Hills, Calif. -- a reference to...

Through lens of TV, movie producers, South looks dumb and dumber Hillbillies of Hazard, Ky., meet the rednecks of Pigeon Creek, Ala. Y'all are practically neighbors in pop culture's piney backwoods.The very real residents of Hazard are not terribly pleased to be among the possibles in the casting process to choose a family for "The Real Beverly Hillbillies," an upcoming CBS reality show that will take a family from the rural South or Appalachia, plunk them down in a la-dee-dah Left Coast mansion and see what happens. Itto spend up to a year in Beverly Hills. (Guess our Georgia rednecks...

I've got a hunch that after all the media announcements about the new CBS "Real Beverly Hillbillies" reality TV show make their rounds, there will be an even larger round of interesting editorials following. I've made a webpage that will try to keep up. Bookmark this page and add a link to your websites & blogs, etc;The Real Beverly Hillbillies

Come listen to a story about a man named Bill Actual news item: CBS plans to resurrect the '60s sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies" as a reality show. Bill Clinton: Hoo doggies! Would you look at this place! I can't believe CBS is going to let us live here a whole year! Now, where do you think they hid the snacks? Hillary Clinton: Bill, please. Don't embarrass me. I know you're disappointed that you didn't get your own talk show, but this was the best offer that came along. If you ever want to have your own library, you'd better make...

CBS is bringing back "The Beverly Hillbillies." This time, however, the family members we laugh at won't be played by Hollywood actors; they'll be real live rubes from the South. After spending decades trying to shed the Bubba image it contracted in the 1960s when its prime-time lineup included a slew of backcountry characters, CBS has decided to embrace once again its biggest hick hit of all. The network already has a crew of casting agents combing "mountainous, rural areas" in Arkansas, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky in search of a "multi-generational family of five or more --...

<p>HOLLYWOOD, California (Reuters) -- CBS is resurrecting "The Beverly Hillbillies" as a reality series, Variety reports.</p> <p>The network will soon begin casting for a weekly half-hour series that will follow the adventures of a rural, lower-middle class family -- yes, there will be a granny -- as they are transplanted from their humble digs to a Beverly Hills mansion. The project is tentatively titled "Real Beverly Hillbillies."</p>