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2013-12-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2013-12-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 I wonder what the functional literacy rate is down in Watts, and why this isn't evidence that Los Angeles is racist.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-12-23 00:35|| 2013-12-23 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Phil has returned :)

Posted by Dale 2013-12-23 01:42|| 2013-12-23 01:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, I don't see any racism. Robertson only said that the blacks he knew who were close to his own class didn't express any particular animosity against whites. If you have any other quote from him, let's see it.

Posted by KBK 2013-12-23 04:20|| 2013-12-23 04:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Hummm... Snowy, who's the Congressperson in his corner of the swamp? Possible Mr. Robertson takes the bit in his teeth, you can't buy the kinda PR this guy is getting.

Posted by Shipman 2013-12-23 05:25|| 2013-12-23 05:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The L.A. Times [in 2006 - Ed.] suspended Pulitzer-winning business columnist Michael Hiltzik without pay, and discontinued both his column and his weblog, in response to the news that Hiltzik used psuedonyms on his blog and elsewhere to comment on Times-related matters, including his own work.

Posted by Beavis 2013-12-23 07:31|| 2013-12-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#6 I LIKE Mr. Robertson. He believes and has good Values. He isn't afraid to stand up for his beliefs against the fascist PC Left, and he is trustworthy and decent.

If I needed a man at my back in a Quang Ngai swamp or up in Quang Tin west of Monkey Mountain in Eye Corps...I would trust Robertson with the second squad and let him do flank.

I think God would be satisfied that Robertson will play on the better team.

I don't have a lot of affection for pinkboys either. Its OK by me they can live and not breed ( they can't ) in California. Dwayne and Bruce can do as they like, as long as they aren't teaching my son in school or telling me how to spend my money.

Free Country is RIGHT., you PC Leftist nazi, and no apologies.

Posted by Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-23 07:33|| 2013-12-23 07:33|| Front Page Top

#7 What we have here is a media clusterduck.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2013-12-23 08:50|| 2013-12-23 08:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Seems to me the pendulum may be starting to swing the other direction.

Posted by Glolump Barnsmell5758 2013-12-23 11:25|| 2013-12-23 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting that he brings up "Beverly Hillbillies".

Any time some anti-Christian bigot jackass like Hiltzik in the entertainment industry spews about how they just respond to the market and have no political or religious axe to grind, I just want to ask them about the Rural Purge (google it for those who don't know what it was).

The ugly truth is that the coastal leftists who control TV programming routinely let their politics determine who goes or stays, and their contempt for all things rural and authentically Christian has been manifest for more than forty years.

A popular show that showed people saying grace to end each episode? That was going to be taken out one way or another, since people of Hiltzik's religious and political persuasion hate Christians and would at minimum disenfranchise them all and probably wipe them out if they could.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-12-23 11:31|| 2013-12-23 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 The only explanation for this article is that Hiltzik is deeply prejudiced against South Asians, and can't stand the fact that one, Piyush Jindal, has become the two-term governor of an American state.

Posted by Matt 2013-12-23 11:38|| 2013-12-23 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Which eleven words? The first sentence of this paragraph has thirteen words, the second, containing Gov. Palin's name, contains fourteen.

The fact that Hiltzik is a business reporter and can't do basic arithmetic makes me wonder about the rest of his articles.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2013-12-23 11:54|| 2013-12-23 11:54|| Front Page Top

#12 Re. Robertson's observation that blacks were happier under segregation - a reasonable observation, and one that says nothing of causation: the implication was that the cure for segregation carried unintended consequences in the breakdown of the family unit and morality, and that those breakdowns have led to decreased happiness bamong blacks, and everyone else.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-12-23 12:18|| 2013-12-23 12:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Ha ha, probably got in a tizzy and got the eleven words right, but went back and added something then forgot to re-sum.

I don't watch the show, as by the genre in general, but I have seen it. There is a lot going on there - they are witty, funny, accomplished, dedicated, and most of all genuine.

The parents and kids can watch it and both be entertained. Urban people can either point and giggle or learn something, Rural people see a good time and even success in Rural culture, there are solid family values to be admired.

I know I'm in a rural setting - it seemed like 1 in 4 Halloween costumes had something to do with the Roberstons, as well as the winning scarecrow. That happened because the Robertsons are genuine, which is more than we should expect from someone who can't re-count the words he just typed.

Beverly Hillbillies. You dork, that is a fish out of water plot, just like Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Trading Places, or Son in Law. Your best choice for your potty break would have been Hee Haw.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-12-23 13:23|| 2013-12-23 13:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Robertson never said that blacks were happier under segregation. Here's the quote:

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. Im with the blacks, because were white trash. Were going across the field.... Theyre singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white peoplenot a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

Where's the racism? Or is it illegal, or at least completely beyond the pale, to mention that there is a black equivalent to Robertson's social stratum?

And I'm willing to bet that a majority of his black acquaintances would agree with his remarks on homosexuality and the bible.

Posted by KBK 2013-12-23 13:38|| 2013-12-23 13:38|| Front Page Top

#15 A different view from The Atlantic.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-12-23 13:44|| 2013-12-23 13:44|| Front Page Top

#16 And while I'm here, I'd like to recommend Fred's book, Phoebe Clayton, as a great example of people from different races and social classes living happily together with mutual love and respect.

Fred, when are you publishing your next one?

Posted by KBK 2013-12-23 13:46|| 2013-12-23 13:46|| Front Page Top

#17 Looking at what is happening in America from down under..the GAP between main stream Americans and their values and the left/media/socialist who think they are informed and elite is becoming so very very evident.

Posted by Sundown 2013-12-23 17:33|| 2013-12-23 17:33|| Front Page Top

#18 urbanist vs non-urbanist. Cuddled in their NIMBY echo chamber cocoon sustained by the energy, food, clean water, and resources they leach off of those they have so much disdain for.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2013-12-23 18:27|| 2013-12-23 18:27|| Front Page Top

#19 I have been to Monroe. I have been to West Monroe. The Ouachita River runs right smack down between the two. The Whites are in one Monroe, the Blacks are on the other side of the river in the other Monroe.

That is just how it is. And no one is complaining about it either in Monroe or in West Monroe.

Posted by Threreling Munster6125 2013-12-23 21:41|| 2013-12-23 21:41|| Front Page Top

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