"Air America Radio: Because the North.... WON!!!"

[codegreen]

damn right!

(edit) holy crap, is it easy to get misunderstood.
i'm not picking on people descended from the South,
i'm friends with several,
i'm in MO, right were the Mason-Dixon line was,
yes, the "Get a Brain, Morans!" guy lives in my county, St. Charles MO.
(i find the irony in that to be dripping right now)
and i look at the above comments as slams against Bush, Delay, Limbaugh, et al.

not at southern liberals. they are cool, everyone's cool, i'm not gloating, AAR isn't gloating, everyone chill out...

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[codegreen]

3. are you being sarcastic?

[VelmaD]

5. I don't think he is...

and I have to agree with him. The South-bashing is OLD. There are plenty of good Southern liberals around here who DON'T fucking deserve it.

[wryter2000]

7. Thank you

Free Republic is based in Fresno, California. That isn't even Southern California. I'm sick to death of South-bashing, and I'm a Yankee

[codegreen]

9. bashing the Confederacy isn't South bashing; it's racist Reb-Rep bashing.

[codegreen]

8. it's not bashing... it's commentary on what the Repugs are really about

Southern liberals wouldn't dislike the Confederacy? i don't get it.

there were people in the South that resisted and didn't agree with it, or slavery

there's no south bashing. i'm in Missouri, my state was split in that war.

i have southern friends. they hate the Confederacy. any liberal would, right?

[VelmaD]

11. Well they didn't say...

the Confederacy lost now did they?

It's a war that NONE of us were here for. People in the North now don't get any brownie points because they were born north of the Mason-Dixon line 150 years after it mattered. It doesn't make them the "winners".

[codegreen]

20. hello? i'm not in the north, i'm on that line, and...

this is about radical Repugs and Rush and all the rest...

and of course none of us were there, and it's not even a big deal to me.

damn, something went on the air i thought was funny.

i posted it in the irreverent DU Lounge.

the 'Get a Brain, Morans!' jerk lives in MY COUNTY.

the silly reminder that 'the north one' isn't about mockery;
it is commentary on the present climate. but it's SILLY, nonetheless

[DarkPhenyx]

15. It's south bashing, pure and simple.

You know it, and we sure as hell know it. It;'s the same bullshit every time. The commetn was "Because the North WON!". You tell me how that isn't South bashing?

[codegreen]

23. no it's not, though i don't think you're willing to accept that.

[DarkPhenyx]

25. Let's see.

"South, we kicked your ass, HA, HA, HA, HA. Now shut the fuck up". No, not South bashng at all. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

[codegreen]

27. you are interpolating what you didn't want to hear into what was said.

[DarkPhenyx]

29. And the jackoffs that keep making these statements...

...need to be aware that they are being heard this way and that they are doing damage to our cause.

[codegreen]

30. okay, so it's not wise or PC; i don't think anyone meant it that way...

i certainly know i didn't.

so, peace? are we cool?

[DarkPhenyx]

31. I don't give a crap about PC.

I am so un-PC it isn't funny. When you start costing me the battle I start getting pissed off.

Yeah, truce if not peace.

[DarkPhenyx]

6. I'll let you in on a secret.

That stupid "we kicked your ass" bullshit gets old really fucking fast. Don't think so? Ask the Germans.

[codegreen]

12. good lord, that's not anywhere near the point i, or the ad, was making

it's about the Repug fascist bastards taking over our airwaves and government in recent years.

being reactionary and offensable about this doesn't make sense to me...

and may i again say, i'm in a partially Confederate state. was split in two, i was taught in school.

[VelmaD]

17. You're fairly new so...

I'm gonna try to be nice and cut you some slack because you may not have been here for some of the more obnoxious South-bashing that has taken place on DU. Just know for future reference that you have stepped into a mine-field.

[codegreen]

22. *shrugs* thanks i guess.

[TiredTexan]

13. I'm from Texas, and I think it's very funny.

It's not about bashing the South, it's about digging the right on it's pandering to rascism.

[DarkPhenyx]

18. So what?

You have a different view. Not everyone is going to feel that way and how does it help us to sit back and constantly piss off, and piss on, a group of voting people we are going to need in a few months. Not smart. These freaking jackoffs on the radio are doing their level best to hand the South to the Republicans again.

[displacedtexan]

28. I'm from Texas, too... and it's about slavery, folks, on many levels.

Had the South won the Civil War, slavery would be alive and well. And we would not be free to speak our minds, either, because the Helmses and the DeLays would see to it.

[arcane1]

19. agreed, although

growing up in the south, I got really tired of the "south will rise again" bullshit really fast, too. They seemed awfully eager to kill their fellow countrymen, again

[DarkPhenyx]

24. And don't think...

...I don't open up with both barrels every time I hear that crap too. I am an equal oppertunity asshole ya know. :)

[arcane1]

26. hehehe... it's the only way to be

:)

[gpandas]

32. WTF? why bash anyone cocerning our nations most terrible times?

please, everyone, let it go.

[arcane1]

33. I'll bash neo-confederates and neo-nazis equally

but only if they come to me first :evilgrin:

[galadrium]

2. AA Radio... because right-wingers need an actual liberal media

[NightTrain]

4. God, that was fucking hilarious!!!

Of course, I say that as a Connecticut Yankee....

[DBoon]

10. Try "Air America Radio: Because Slavery LOST!!!"

Liberalism isn't about geography, it's about human rights

[DarkPhenyx]

21. and the Civil War was not fought over slavery.

so the comment on AAR was doubly stupid.

[DBoon]

34. even if the civil war was not fought over slavery

Slavery still lost!

And we are on the winning side.

Break those chains!

[DarkPhenyx]

35. Here's a thought.

Considering that most people in the South didn't own slaves, how about not being a jackass and trying to rub our noses in it, K?

[DBoon]

36. Jackass???

What kind of response is that?

You think slavery is a good thing?

You think we should forget it existed?

You think we shouldn't be thankful it no longer exists?

If that makes me a "Jackass" then I am proud of it!

Eliminating slavery is an important step in human progress. Saying this makes me a "jackass"? I'd rather be a "jackass" than a defender of the right to buy and sell human beings as property.

[DarkPhenyx]

37. No...

...insisting that the civil war was all about slavery, and that the only important thing in the south was/is slavery makes people a jackass.

[nonconformist]

14. I laughed when I heard it, but my husband groaned

Meh.

[proud patriot]

16. LOL...that's a good one

:D